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A persistent feeling of unreality

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I’m nearly 56 but as a teenager I suddenly had a shocking sense of revelation that I was completely alone and everything I was perceiving was fabricated by my mind.  I became obsessed about shaking the torment of the thought to no avail.  I was never able to fully shake that sensation of disconnection from ‘All’.  I’m not sure what all of this is about and I wonder what a more enlightened self might say that to other teenagers out there going through similar exclusions from Life as experienced.  In some sense I died to my entire past up to that point.

One attribute of the sensation was that I suddenly could no longer trust that things existed beyond the walls of a room, people I had known no longer had lives independent of my mind.

I am aware of the implications for danger to others as a logical outcome of this insane thinking.   

Is this feeling connected with Autism? 

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  • Sounds like dissociation, have you explained this doctor? When I feel this sensation coming on I do something that involves the senses, like smell something, touch something, pet the dogs, make a coffee etc.. and tell myself that I’m here and safe. It’s a weird sensation and can for autistics be part of the traits. Your not alone.

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  • Sounds like dissociation, have you explained this doctor? When I feel this sensation coming on I do something that involves the senses, like smell something, touch something, pet the dogs, make a coffee etc.. and tell myself that I’m here and safe. It’s a weird sensation and can for autistics be part of the traits. Your not alone.

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