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Purplemoon2008

Does anyone else write a msg or email to someone send it and then obsess wheather what you have written in it makes sense? I do this and then I'm fixated on going back to the msg over and over not being able to work it out or not as it just looks like words.Sorry if this sounds weird I'm just wondering if this is a typical autistic thing? 

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  • This happens to me as well. When I was working as a personal assistant for a firm I had to do a lot of writing and sending, and I would spend a lot of time reading through what I had written because it didn’t look right or sound right in my head. I think I used to annoy the others in the office as I would be proof checking but when I did I read it aloud trying to whisper but obviously I wasn’t whispering.

    I was the same at school in this way, did my bit of writing and homework and then worried obsessively in case it was wrong and didn’t look good.

    My way of making this a little less annoying was to write it out in first in Word and then check through it before sending. It helped a bit. I was able to get to a point where I could send things and not obsess check them after sending.

    I’ve always over analysed things and my own writing is one of the things I obsess and over analyse most.

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  • This happens to me as well. When I was working as a personal assistant for a firm I had to do a lot of writing and sending, and I would spend a lot of time reading through what I had written because it didn’t look right or sound right in my head. I think I used to annoy the others in the office as I would be proof checking but when I did I read it aloud trying to whisper but obviously I wasn’t whispering.

    I was the same at school in this way, did my bit of writing and homework and then worried obsessively in case it was wrong and didn’t look good.

    My way of making this a little less annoying was to write it out in first in Word and then check through it before sending. It helped a bit. I was able to get to a point where I could send things and not obsess check them after sending.

    I’ve always over analysed things and my own writing is one of the things I obsess and over analyse most.

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