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Can’t speak.

Lellynelly

I am 52 and have been diagnosed very recently. I am still in the process of working out which of my traits are due to autism and which are just me. I am a member of mensa, (although I failed school completely) I am articulate (when writing, not necessarily when speaking) and I have been in my job of supporting teenagers with maths in a complex needs school for 16 years. Yesterday I was very stressed and by the end of the day when someone spoke to me, it’s hard to explain, but I just could not respond. I struggled to process what they were saying and literally just did not know what to say and therefore couldnt speak. I ended up shrugging my shoulders in silence and walking away. This has happened to me many times before when stressed. Can anyone else relate? Is this a nt thing? Or an autistic thing?

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  • I can relate, a bit.  Sounds very much like an autistic thing to me, thinking of many autistic people I know. I imagine an NT thing might be to shout or cry or let it out to the other person.

    With me if I'm put 'on the spot', it's all too much to process and retreating can be the best thing to do. As a child, I'd often mumble or sometimes my response was 'what do you want me to say?' because I really didn't know what someone wanted from me.

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  • I can relate, a bit.  Sounds very much like an autistic thing to me, thinking of many autistic people I know. I imagine an NT thing might be to shout or cry or let it out to the other person.

    With me if I'm put 'on the spot', it's all too much to process and retreating can be the best thing to do. As a child, I'd often mumble or sometimes my response was 'what do you want me to say?' because I really didn't know what someone wanted from me.

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