Highs and Lows

Yep - me too,  My wife thought I might be bipolar before diagnosis of autism.

Seems many traits are similar and there are plenty of examples of misdiagnosis.  Not clear how much evidence their is of autistic and bipolar co-existing...

I figure that for me the experience of being autistic can be so sh.. that you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I am lead to believe the solution is to seek to be on a more "level" status...

Maybe something in that however I admit to liking that feeling of being high even tho' it regularly lead one into situations where the autism really works against one socially and cue a downer... 

Phased said:

I am lead to believe the solution is to seek to be on a more "level" status...

This is something I try but I find very hard. I work in a very busy job especially this time of year so I find the ADHD side of me is fully unleashed being in a hectic workplace. This, plus the masking of my autistic side leads to exhaustion and irritation amd as soon as I get home I want to cry. 

you have my empathy on that BlondeRagdoll 

from what I can make of it the approach I get from local autism services is that they say to me, yes that is correct when I and others say something like this - then they give a link to some on-line leaflet that affirms it again

then maybe some link to a service that they can apply for where the waiting list is a year long

this bearing in mind that autism doesn't do filling in forms and asking for help very well it seems...

Emotional regulation is acknowledged as a problem however society continues to inflict the causes on us 

So your job gets very busy this time of year - why doesn't society smooth the work out over the whole year - I suspect that for them it is just the "pick me up" they need around about now.  You and I can both get really stuck in any time of year but really we can both just go steady at a good reasonable rate if our stimulus/attention is maintained at a reasonable level...?

I said to my wife last night about this more level status thing... that I enjoy the highs however I hate the crashes - she gave the neurotypical logic of well then don't go so high...

Hmmm... 

you have my empathy on that BlondeRagdoll 

from what I can make of it the approach I get from local autism services is that they say to me, yes that is correct when I and others say something like this - then they give a link to some on-line leaflet that affirms it again

then maybe some link to a service that they can apply for where the waiting list is a year long

this bearing in mind that autism doesn't do filling in forms and asking for help very well it seems...

Emotional regulation is acknowledged as a problem however society continues to inflict the causes on us 

So your job gets very busy this time of year - why doesn't society smooth the work out over the whole year - I suspect that for them it is just the "pick me up" they need around about now.  You and I can both get really stuck in any time of year but really we can both just go steady at a good reasonable rate if our stimulus/attention is maintained at a reasonable level...?

I said to my wife last night about this more level status thing... that I enjoy the highs however I hate the crashes - she gave the neurotypical logic of well then don't go so high...

Hmmm...