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Being part of the autistic community

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It's far more stress inducing and hard to cope with than being part of the severe mental illness and the high IQ communities.

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  • Hard for me to comment on any of these three communities that you mention, because I am not part of any of them.

    I am merely a part of this particular forum community here - and frustration is the main emotion that it induces within me these days.

    The first 12-18 months of me becoming accepted and integrated into this forum community felt connective and reassuring - I discovered that "me" was not as "otherly" as I had once thought - because other people kindly shared their personal thoughts and experiences of the world around them, as autistic people.  I discovered overwhelming criss-crosses of common ground.....and this made me happy.

    I was eventually able to connect directly with some people who valued the mutual ability to discuss ANYTHING without fear or favour, safe in the knowledge of our shared autistic challenges, although the precise colour, volume and tone of those challenges are often very different.

    Personally, I feel that being autistic makes membership of any "shared community" VERY hard, whether that be an "autistic community" or any other type of community that you care to mention.

    It is interesting to see that you feel the "autistic community" is harder for you than the other two that you mention.  Thanks for sharing that.  I love to learn.

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  • Hard for me to comment on any of these three communities that you mention, because I am not part of any of them.

    I am merely a part of this particular forum community here - and frustration is the main emotion that it induces within me these days.

    The first 12-18 months of me becoming accepted and integrated into this forum community felt connective and reassuring - I discovered that "me" was not as "otherly" as I had once thought - because other people kindly shared their personal thoughts and experiences of the world around them, as autistic people.  I discovered overwhelming criss-crosses of common ground.....and this made me happy.

    I was eventually able to connect directly with some people who valued the mutual ability to discuss ANYTHING without fear or favour, safe in the knowledge of our shared autistic challenges, although the precise colour, volume and tone of those challenges are often very different.

    Personally, I feel that being autistic makes membership of any "shared community" VERY hard, whether that be an "autistic community" or any other type of community that you care to mention.

    It is interesting to see that you feel the "autistic community" is harder for you than the other two that you mention.  Thanks for sharing that.  I love to learn.

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