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Everyone's a little bit autistic...

Joe

At the moment this expression really annoys me, together with "we're all on the spectrum". I don't know if everyone is or I just happen to know a lot of people that are.  I can't suddenly tell if someone is autistic due to my own diagnosis.   I'm fairly newly diagnosed and didn't say anything until I was, because I wasn't sure if people would believe me. 

This expression really bugs me as I feel like it's people not listening to or belittling my lived experience.  I want to challenge it but I don't know how other just cutting people off giving me negative energy, any ideas?

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  • I had the same response from someone recently, I had got to know the person quite well, I don’t normally share anything about me with the muggles. I got the exact response you mentioned, I really wanted to actually slap him, obviously I wouldn’t. The final remark was the,” you don’t look autistic.” There seems to be this view at the moment, autism is trendy and some sort of excuse for different behaviour. I would love them to live inside my head for just one day, it isn’t trendy, some days it’s a living hell.

  • in reply to Roy

    I find "my head gets a bit busy at times too" to be particularly frustrating. When everything you hear is turned into video images, the constant conversations with yourself, and automatically running multiple scenarios at the same time. Add in a song, analysing what youre saying to others and what tbeyre saying to you, whilst going over previous conversations to fact check. And of course thinking about what you need to be doing as well as what you are doing. My head feels more than a little busy. I wish there was a way to just make it stop.

  • in reply to Pikl
    Pikl said:
    I wish there was a way to just make it stop.

    Cannabis works for me. Especially at "bedtime" when I'm not tired and the endless noise in my head won't let me sleep. I also find it makes me less intense, which helps a lot in social situations.

    Having said that, I'm currently not smoking, as an experiment. It seems to be going ok, but I'm sleeping longer and feeling less rested which makes me think my brains still going whilst the lights are out Rolling eyesRolling eyes

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  • in reply to Pikl
    Pikl said:
    I wish there was a way to just make it stop.

    Cannabis works for me. Especially at "bedtime" when I'm not tired and the endless noise in my head won't let me sleep. I also find it makes me less intense, which helps a lot in social situations.

    Having said that, I'm currently not smoking, as an experiment. It seems to be going ok, but I'm sleeping longer and feeling less rested which makes me think my brains still going whilst the lights are out Rolling eyesRolling eyes

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  • in reply to Alice

    Before my diagnosis just after Covid, I’d been supporting the Irish truth and patriot movement, as an Irish Catholic Patriot during Covid back home from here in the U.K. as ‘I’d not been able to go home to family in Ireland, having been made redundant from my last supermarket job after 17 years in Sept 2019 - I’m still helping the movement when I get home from work, but during times of stress, I had taught myself to pray the Rosary in both Latin and in my native Irish Gaelic language, as I’m immensely proud of my Irish heritage, culture and traditions, so much worth preserving for future generations