Learning/unlearning coping strategies

Interesting comments Longman, thank you.  Would you be able to clarify the following point:

 Another area of this was trying to keep within a very narrow path to avoid conflicts, which meant if something went wrong I'd have a terrible wobble and mess up for ages, until I got bacjk to that narrow and restrictive path.

I am not sure I understand what this means.  Can you give more details or an example?

With awareness of autism, I am now recognising so many incredibly basic mistakes that I make, including literal understanding, using incorrect grammar and made up words, talking as I wish to rather than inhibiting my utterances to try to fit with general conversation, but actually have stopped being so hard on myself for being me.  However I realise that due to this my difficulties may be beginning to be more noticable, and colleagues have begun making comments that suggest that they recognise my difficulties.  This makes me worried re. being 'found out' at work, as I am in a job that relies on good communication.  However at last I can start to find out who I am really, rather than the false one that I had used to cover up myself.

I enjoy being able to express these difficulties in the knowledge that people won't be trying to shut me up on this forum  

Have you found that you improve in your ability to communicate through realising 'errors'?  I am hoping that this will happen to me, ie. rather than carry on making the same 'mistakes' that I will learn how I 'should' (in the NT world that we need to operate) communicate.  Please appreciate that I am using inverted commas not because I am suggesting that autistic communication is inferior but rather viewed as such by the general population.  I understand that many aspects will continue, and don't wish to change again, but I wonder with regards to grammatical mistakes, ability to understand what people are saying (eg. learning to be less literal) etc. and also executive functionning, as if it is possible to develop these areas then life in an NT world would be easier.

Also, does anyone have experience they can discuss on here, of using an advanced echolalia as an adult?  I have recently realised that I quote people in the exact words, sometimes back to that same person, without realising.  I also repeat myself using the same words that I used previously, to the same person when on a topic.  This scared me to realise my inability to communicate in these cases and also that I had subconsciously memorised what another person said.

I have highlighted the questions so that you can hopefully see if this interests you before having to read the text.

Interesting comments Longman, thank you.  Would you be able to clarify the following point:

 Another area of this was trying to keep within a very narrow path to avoid conflicts, which meant if something went wrong I'd have a terrible wobble and mess up for ages, until I got bacjk to that narrow and restrictive path.

I am not sure I understand what this means.  Can you give more details or an example?

With awareness of autism, I am now recognising so many incredibly basic mistakes that I make, including literal understanding, using incorrect grammar and made up words, talking as I wish to rather than inhibiting my utterances to try to fit with general conversation, but actually have stopped being so hard on myself for being me.  However I realise that due to this my difficulties may be beginning to be more noticable, and colleagues have begun making comments that suggest that they recognise my difficulties.  This makes me worried re. being 'found out' at work, as I am in a job that relies on good communication.  However at last I can start to find out who I am really, rather than the false one that I had used to cover up myself.

I enjoy being able to express these difficulties in the knowledge that people won't be trying to shut me up on this forum  

Have you found that you improve in your ability to communicate through realising 'errors'?  I am hoping that this will happen to me, ie. rather than carry on making the same 'mistakes' that I will learn how I 'should' (in the NT world that we need to operate) communicate.  Please appreciate that I am using inverted commas not because I am suggesting that autistic communication is inferior but rather viewed as such by the general population.  I understand that many aspects will continue, and don't wish to change again, but I wonder with regards to grammatical mistakes, ability to understand what people are saying (eg. learning to be less literal) etc. and also executive functionning, as if it is possible to develop these areas then life in an NT world would be easier.

Also, does anyone have experience they can discuss on here, of using an advanced echolalia as an adult?  I have recently realised that I quote people in the exact words, sometimes back to that same person, without realising.  I also repeat myself using the same words that I used previously, to the same person when on a topic.  This scared me to realise my inability to communicate in these cases and also that I had subconsciously memorised what another person said.

I have highlighted the questions so that you can hopefully see if this interests you before having to read the text.