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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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  • I’m not sure where the autistic “community” is. This forum has a community of sorts but I don’t think it’s representative of the wider autistic population as members are overwhelmingly level 1 but not 2 or 3. My personal biggest challenge is that almost everyone here seems to be married, in a relationship and have family. These are all things I’ve never had and would love to have so it’s very invalidating for me, especially when everything I read suggests that the overwhelming majority of autistic people remain single.

    But the forum has provided a useful place exchange information and learn more about autism and it’s nice to have somewhere to chat to people who share some of my life challenges. In my experience almost everyone here has good intentions.

    But ASD is a spectrum condition. We are all different.

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  • I’m not sure where the autistic “community” is. This forum has a community of sorts but I don’t think it’s representative of the wider autistic population as members are overwhelmingly level 1 but not 2 or 3. My personal biggest challenge is that almost everyone here seems to be married, in a relationship and have family. These are all things I’ve never had and would love to have so it’s very invalidating for me, especially when everything I read suggests that the overwhelming majority of autistic people remain single.

    But the forum has provided a useful place exchange information and learn more about autism and it’s nice to have somewhere to chat to people who share some of my life challenges. In my experience almost everyone here has good intentions.

    But ASD is a spectrum condition. We are all different.

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