Hate the saying"Were all a bit autistic"

Some people who arent austitic in work say "we're all a bit autistic arent we" and the only difference between you and me is you have a diagnosis. Really makes me angry as they think just because soSmirk things that annoy them makes them autistic. I asked them how they deal with these annoying things and the said they just forget about it. Things that might annoy them will create severe emotional sSmirkess and anxiety, effects me socially and in some cases cause me to self harm, I can't just forget about it. It's obvious that a lot people don't understand what its really like to be autistic or theSmirkjust don't care and try and fob it off as something silly to just get over it Smirk 

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  • I agree. A single conflict causes me deep, damaging, loop thoughts, sometimes it's so stressful,  that I bang my head of a wall to reduce the stress, then I get headaches.  But I always hear, that im just obsessing and have to chill out. To me it sounds like as if I got an electric shock and then I he: chill out! Everything is fine!

    Conflicts are rare in my life, because I usually don't recognise on time, that someone was an a**hole to me, or I don't even know about it till someone else tells me "hey, they bullied or abused you, how can you let them treat you like that?" Etc. I'm usually a peaceful person living in my own world.

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  • I agree. A single conflict causes me deep, damaging, loop thoughts, sometimes it's so stressful,  that I bang my head of a wall to reduce the stress, then I get headaches.  But I always hear, that im just obsessing and have to chill out. To me it sounds like as if I got an electric shock and then I he: chill out! Everything is fine!

    Conflicts are rare in my life, because I usually don't recognise on time, that someone was an a**hole to me, or I don't even know about it till someone else tells me "hey, they bullied or abused you, how can you let them treat you like that?" Etc. I'm usually a peaceful person living in my own world.

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