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For those diagnosed, what level are you?

Shardovan

...if you're comfortable saying. 

It occurred to me after just reading another post that maybe my Level One makes some off the things I say on here seem a bit OTT (it doesn't feel that way though!) if the majority are L2 or whatever and have more 'right' (stupid thinking I know) than me to be saying anything. What percentages/ratios predominate on here in terms of all this?

Paranoid thinking maybe, it gets the better of me sometimes. I just got a weird feeling of embarrassment that I may have presumed I belong somewhere I don't. I think it will pass, and thanks for undertanding my posting this even though I can sense it's (I think?) a bit skewed, having come up as a sudden fear that seems to be demanding early closure/external invalidation. My usual issue!

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  • I agree with many of the others here.  I wasn't given a level, although I suspect I would be Level One as well.  But that doesn't mean I don't struggle with many things.  The best analogy I heard (I think it was in Sara Gibbs' autism memoir Drama Queen) is that for NTs, life is like walking on a treadmill going at a slow speed, but for those on the spectrum, it's like running on a treadmill that's going at a sprint -- but still being expected to keep up with the NTs, without showing any extra effort.  I wonder if the only difference between autism levels is just how fast that treadmill is going.

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  • I agree with many of the others here.  I wasn't given a level, although I suspect I would be Level One as well.  But that doesn't mean I don't struggle with many things.  The best analogy I heard (I think it was in Sara Gibbs' autism memoir Drama Queen) is that for NTs, life is like walking on a treadmill going at a slow speed, but for those on the spectrum, it's like running on a treadmill that's going at a sprint -- but still being expected to keep up with the NTs, without showing any extra effort.  I wonder if the only difference between autism levels is just how fast that treadmill is going.

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