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Standing up to people

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Is it an autistic thing to find it so hard to stand up to people? If something happens I'll either be too scared to say something or not sure what's appropriate behaviour in said situation. After days or weeks of agonising I then am hard on myself for not saying or doing something 

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  • Yes absolutely. I feel that almost the bravest thing I've ever done was to tell our neighbour that I could hear his radio too much; it took a long time for me to get to this point (being annoyed about it on several occasions over months) and when it came to me thinking "I *have* to do something about this as it's impacting on my life and isn't fair" my heart rate must have been upwards of 120 for 15 minutes before and after.

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  • Yes absolutely. I feel that almost the bravest thing I've ever done was to tell our neighbour that I could hear his radio too much; it took a long time for me to get to this point (being annoyed about it on several occasions over months) and when it came to me thinking "I *have* to do something about this as it's impacting on my life and isn't fair" my heart rate must have been upwards of 120 for 15 minutes before and after.

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