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Did your speech change after diagnosis?

StressedPenguin

I was diagnosed in June. My whole life suddenly made sense. My problems have not disappeared, but I feel I am better at voicing my needs. Now my partner is complaining that I have become more autistic. I guess its true. He also says my speech has changed. I have noticed that I bother less spending energy on intonation. Especially when I don't have enough energy. I just say what I want to say, monotonous, as fast as I need to. I feel like I should be allowed .... does it make sense? But I think it bothers him. I also got the feeling that he thinks I am making it up or copying it. Today he said - you have started to speak like the people we have seen on Love on the Spectrum. Well, surprise, I am autistic. But according to him I sounded less like that before. It may be true, indeed. Any experiences?
(BTW: Do neurotypicals not spend energy on intonation? How does that work? Is it somehow 'natural' to them?)

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  • I did not change my speech after diagnosis, but I did change it at some point during my early adulthood, when I realised that I was putting too much effort on it.

    Since you commented about SMS, I will add that a few times I was told that removing WhatsApp was selfish, and I thought they were wrong.

    But I took an intermediate path. I offered the closest people the chance to contact me through Signal, and I only use WhatsApp once every two weeks.

    This made a big positive difference for me.

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  • I did not change my speech after diagnosis, but I did change it at some point during my early adulthood, when I realised that I was putting too much effort on it.

    Since you commented about SMS, I will add that a few times I was told that removing WhatsApp was selfish, and I thought they were wrong.

    But I took an intermediate path. I offered the closest people the chance to contact me through Signal, and I only use WhatsApp once every two weeks.

    This made a big positive difference for me.

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