Aspergers/Autism

Arctos

Arctos

I suspect I have it: sometimes, I am more interested in chemicals than in people, and my circle of friends is very small.

I don't see any problem with it, though: everybody is different.
 
amateur alchemist

amateur alchemist

I suspect I'm on the scale, though have no interest in getting diagnosed. I Instinctively developed 'mindfulness' as a way of existing in the 'real world'. Remember the world we live in isn't entirely natural. I have spent a good number of years exploring my perception of the world and it all about the natural world contrasting with this idea of modern life and the environment we inhabit. I have explored this mainly through visual art, but also literature.
I love being in big cities amongst it's craziness and in the wilderness (barely present in this country), simply for their contrast.
I really struggle with people, well at least 99.9% of them.
Overthinking is a bit of problem too, this position as techie, has forced me to be a little more decisive, because thinking time is quite often not an option.
Better go my agar is beginning to burn
 
Igor

Igor

My daughter is ASD...but it's funny...the more I talk about her symptoms, people are saying "her, or you?" 45 years, and it's occured to me they have a point... :laughing:

My ex - "really? you've just realised?"

Yes, yes I have. I've always been called eccentric. I'm just me, doing things my way. But managing daughter, is like a journey into myself. Fascinating.
 
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Puds

Igor said:
My daughter is ASD...but it's funny...the more I talk about her symptoms, people are saying "her, or you?" 45 years, and it's occured to me they have a point... :laughing:

My ex - "really? you've just realised?"

Yes, yes I have. I've always been called eccentric. I'm just me, doing things my way. But managing daughter, is like a journey into myself. Fascinating.
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My sons want to have me tested.
I've got to 60 without being diagnosed, I'm not going to start labelling myself now.
Won't make me go out or like the human race more I think a lot is family traits, my Mum used to say the sayings should be, " A friend in need is a friend indeed a bloody nuisance" ( explains a lot about my childhood:laughing:) and " A problem shared is a problem halved doubled" !
Both my parents had 'butterfly minds', it was a bit chaotic, mum would redecorate while we were at school, even down to taking carpet up & replacing with some mad design thing.
Both parents started jobs randomly - even in the middle of dinner my Dad decided the ceiling needed painting & got paint & climbed on table to start it while we were still eating, while still in his city suit! :laughing:
I swore I wouldn't be the same...but I am. Oh well.
There's a whole range of 'eccentrics', so what? Makes life more interesting.
 
Igor

Igor

Puds said:
My sons want to have me tested.
I've got to 60 without being diagnosed, I'm not going to start labelling myself now.
Won't make me go out or like the human race more I think a lot is family traits, my Mum used to say the sayings should be, " A friend in need is a friend indeed a bloody nuisance" ( explains a lot about my childhood:laughing:) and " A problem shared is a problem halved doubled" !
Both my parents had 'butterfly minds', it was a bit chaotic, mum would redecorate while we were at school, even down to taking carpet up & replacing with some mad design thing.
Both parents started jobs randomly - even in the middle of dinner my Dad decided the ceiling needed painting & got paint & climbed on table to start it while we were still eating, while still in his city suit! :laughing:
I swore I wouldn't be the same...but I am. Oh well.
There's a whole range of 'eccentrics', so what? Makes life more interesting.
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One of my doctors irritated me...I asked if there was a test for dyscalculia, as it's common with CP and and I'm erratically good with figures.

"Your label is CP. You don't need another."

I looked at him..."My label is Karl, or Dad. My CONDITION is CP, which is an umbrella term depending on the sections of the brain affected. My sense of humour isn't affected. You, Sir..can F*ck off.."

and I changed doctor.

Git.
 
amateur alchemist

amateur alchemist

Puds said:
I've just been told here we aren't allowed to name any condition. Everyone has to be called Neurodiverse.
i.e.; " You can't say Autism anymore..."
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Did some neuromonoteous person decide that.
Please forgive me if that doesn't make sense - I felt compelled to say something regardless of if it makes sense or not- I don't know??? it's Friday afternoon
Yeah!
 
Emma

Emma

Puds said:
I've just been told here we aren't allowed to name any condition. Everyone has to be called Neurodiverse.
i.e.; " You can't say Autism anymore..."
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Lol what? I'll identify as whatever I bloody well please thanks. :laughing:

ND is such a broad term that it's entirely useless as a descriptor when it comes to things like accommodations, and treating autism as some sort of un-nameable Voldemort-Syndrome just stigmatises it more.

What clown thought that rule up, Puds?
 
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Puds

Emma said:
Lol what? I'll identify as whatever I bloody well please thanks. :laughing:

ND is such a broad term that it's entirely useless as a descriptor when it comes to things like accommodations, and treating autism as some sort of un-nameable Voldemort-Syndrome just stigmatises it more.

What clown thought that rule up, Puds?
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Exactly what I thought! How can you 'lump' everyone together.
One of the teachers said that's the directive now
 
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Puds

I understand insulting/ offensive terms, but when you are suddenly confronted by things that you "can't" say, it gets very silly.
Often this " you can't say that" is said in a shocked manner preceded by a gasp as though you have said something dreadful.
 
Bi-ologist

Bi-ologist

Katescience said:
It seems like we are very similar! Since thinking I am autistic, it is so hard to know what s that, what is OCD, what is anxiety and everything! It all feels so messy at the minute! It is nice to talk to people who have been through similar though
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Throw ADHD in the mix and it just becomes a weird neurodivergent soup with overlapping and often contradictory symptoms!
 
Bi-ologist

Bi-ologist

Not diagnosed but ADHD & Autism (agreed by various friends who do have that diagnosis)

- you know how its hard to read tone in a text message etc? I've never felt that cause that's just me all the time, tone is no harder to read in a text than in an irl conversation
- I get stressed if things aren't done *right*. Often to other peoples annoyance
- Struggle with social situations / am socially awkward, come across bossy sometimes, I don't notice, I just want to get things done!
- My jokes don't land and I can't tell when other people are joking, especially when being jokingly mean (my type of humour but I do get worried I've actually offended)
- Less work relevant but getting intensely interested in a thing for varying lengths of time, from a week to several months at a time

Can't think of anything else right now
 
Nick Mitchener

Nick Mitchener

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My partner has done all the online stuff they sent him, now waiting for a response, told it takes 2 years. he gets sensory overload, has been known to pull his jumper over his head as a way of cutting himself off.
 
Igor

Igor

I avoid stressful things...like dealing with DWP (don't get me started). I overanalyse things into a doom spiral, I have to do things to MY specification and satisfaction, and I'm a hard taskmaster, even when I know it's unnecessary. I'm very much a "get in, get it done, get out" guy...I don't do slow. I procratinate, and distract myself into things to avoid doing something else.

I worry all the time about being judged for things, even when part of me knows nobody cares.

I often can't find my words, and develop slight temporary aphasia..that might be the CP, but it's bad when I'm stressed/tired...my kids are excellent at dealing with that. "Right, when we get back from TKD, I need you to put your...your...your...fsck it, word....things, you wear them...".."Clothes".."thank you, yes. Clothes. in the washer, please. Also remind me I need to get some...argh..some..damn..car..juice?".."Diesel?".."that's the one.."
 
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