Hi All
Now I've had a formal diagnosis of Autism with final testing/report to be done in August, I decided to tell a couple of friends outside my own family. Both were surprised and both independently said "oh, but I thought people with autism were high intelligent and really creative".
I am neither intelligent (I did scrape through with some o levels - but really basic C grades and not many), I am not at all creative (despite trying various things over my lifetime) nor can I sing in tune - nor apparently hum in tune according to my family.
So what do I say to people when they say that ... because I'm not sure I'll tell anyone else that I'm autistic at this rate. And why am not clever or creative !!!!! When my friend said that to me the other day I felt I'd even failed at being autistic !
And really sorry for posting this - I do feel bad when people have such serious issues they face in life that I'm asking such a silly question, it feels wrong but then I've nowhere else to ask the question!! So sorry !!!
