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Do You Find It Useful To Write To Yourself?

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When I write to myself (normally about technical matters,) it helps me to understand and appreciate how differently my mind works, and how difficult it must be for someone "normal" to understand what I am trying to explain to them.......because I find it hard to use concise phrases and unobscured terms to express myself - even to myself?!

Personally, I do better at explaining myself verbally....but I certainly know that this is not common amongst autists?

How do you, most successfully, communicate complex things to other people.....and how can you know the answer to that question?

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  • Last year before my diagnosis I started to make videos talking about my thoughts / experiences with autism and the way that it impacts me. I'm not sure I ever planned to share them but save them on my phone for me to refer back to. 

    I just watched a couple of them from last year and realised that the things I was struggling with then I am still struggling with. I just made one about how I now understand that as a child I'd cry every night and not be able to calm myself down to sleep and now I realise those were meltdowns. 

    When I want to communicate with other people about how autism impacts my life I usually share a video of an autistic content creator talking about their experience, and when it's the same as my experience, I'll send it to my mum or partner. I find that I am unable to word things the way that would make sense and this has helped so far.

    I think I am lucky that I don't need to communicate complex things for work, etc. 

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  • Last year before my diagnosis I started to make videos talking about my thoughts / experiences with autism and the way that it impacts me. I'm not sure I ever planned to share them but save them on my phone for me to refer back to. 

    I just watched a couple of them from last year and realised that the things I was struggling with then I am still struggling with. I just made one about how I now understand that as a child I'd cry every night and not be able to calm myself down to sleep and now I realise those were meltdowns. 

    When I want to communicate with other people about how autism impacts my life I usually share a video of an autistic content creator talking about their experience, and when it's the same as my experience, I'll send it to my mum or partner. I find that I am unable to word things the way that would make sense and this has helped so far.

    I think I am lucky that I don't need to communicate complex things for work, etc. 

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