I am interested to discuss what coping strategies you have learnt (or unlearnt) since discovering you are autistic/have an ASC.
I am in a period of trying to 'unlearn' (apologies if this is not a word...I'm tired to check right now) a specific strategy that has enabled me to get by in the world. That is, pretending to be someone different to what I am, the person I want to be. I am finding that by letting myself be myself, that I am starting to connect a little more with a few other people (albeit with many mistakes along the way and starting to feel like I have 'regressed' from my previous 'false self' that uses learned phrases to a point where I now feel barely capable of talking in a full sentence, but I think it's the best way and why should I feel ashamed of trying to be myself).
So if anyone would like to share their strategies for coping, both useful and otherwise, please do.
I hope this makes sense.
