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Do you ever get days when you feel even more autistic?

Rocinante

I am currently having a period of a few days when I'm feeling even more autistic than normal.

Like, small talk seems even more exhausting than normal, I'm feeling more disconnected from other people, even people I am normally more comfortable with, and just generally feeling discontent (feeling content is what I call in myself what other people might call happiness I think).

I'm feeling like I'm being misunderstood and also that I am misunderstanding people more than normal.

I'm feeling more unsettled than usual.

I've had this before for varying lengths of time.

I just wondered if anyone else feels like this sometimes? 

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  • Without wishing to be too blasé about it - every day since I was diagnosed. 

    I've been trying recently to put energy accounting into practice. I run a TTRPG group on a Monday. So, I do not socialise even with family or with friends on a Sunday or a Monday. I do a little social media stuff like forums and the like on a Sunday, but limit the time. 

    It's after I socialise or have to talk to a doctor, or basically anyone outside of the normal day-to-day that I struggle the most. My threshold for dealing with people in general is rock flaming bottom right now.

    I've noticed that the more fatigued I feel (mentally), the more I struggle with 'appropriate communication'. I as a rule don't lie or engage in the social niceties most days. I'm usually tactful enough to have some form of filter there, but on days when the fatigue is present, the filter drops and I become incredibly, likely offensively blunt. 

    I also have noticed days on which I don't talk, largely because I put myself into a routine which doesn't require me to. If I'm anywhere near people I'll have earphones on and music playing so that I don't have to engage.

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  • Without wishing to be too blasé about it - every day since I was diagnosed. 

    I've been trying recently to put energy accounting into practice. I run a TTRPG group on a Monday. So, I do not socialise even with family or with friends on a Sunday or a Monday. I do a little social media stuff like forums and the like on a Sunday, but limit the time. 

    It's after I socialise or have to talk to a doctor, or basically anyone outside of the normal day-to-day that I struggle the most. My threshold for dealing with people in general is rock flaming bottom right now.

    I've noticed that the more fatigued I feel (mentally), the more I struggle with 'appropriate communication'. I as a rule don't lie or engage in the social niceties most days. I'm usually tactful enough to have some form of filter there, but on days when the fatigue is present, the filter drops and I become incredibly, likely offensively blunt. 

    I also have noticed days on which I don't talk, largely because I put myself into a routine which doesn't require me to. If I'm anywhere near people I'll have earphones on and music playing so that I don't have to engage.

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