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Autistic adult...i seem to be creating a character that isnt mine

NowWhat?

Due to my limitation(i have no savant abilities that i know of)....i am 99.99% at odds with myself and quite disappointed....I guess all the acting ive had to do all my life to even begin to feel like i am "someone" hasnt helped as you can only act so far before being found out ,not only by other...but by yourself..

How do peple here stop this?  or get use to being "whoever" we are?  I havent a real clue as to who i am at times..

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  • Hi! I do think that it’s reasonably common for Autistic people to struggle with a sense  of ‘who’ they are. I don’t know if this is because we tend to view the component parts of things (ie the different things that make up who we are such as occupation, hobbies, roles in life etc) as opposed to as a whole?

    You are you. It makes me sad that so many of us few the need to act in order to fit in. Despite all the acting that you feel that you have had to do. ‘You’ are still in there :-) What type of things do you do? What are your hobbies? What are your life roles? These things all form parts of the jigsaw of you. 

    What I would say, is that my sense of self has got better with age. I’m 40 now and I have a much better idea of who I am and what I am about than I did when I was 20.

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  • Hi! I do think that it’s reasonably common for Autistic people to struggle with a sense  of ‘who’ they are. I don’t know if this is because we tend to view the component parts of things (ie the different things that make up who we are such as occupation, hobbies, roles in life etc) as opposed to as a whole?

    You are you. It makes me sad that so many of us few the need to act in order to fit in. Despite all the acting that you feel that you have had to do. ‘You’ are still in there :-) What type of things do you do? What are your hobbies? What are your life roles? These things all form parts of the jigsaw of you. 

    What I would say, is that my sense of self has got better with age. I’m 40 now and I have a much better idea of who I am and what I am about than I did when I was 20.

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