Autism shame?

Don't be embarrassed about blowing your own trumpet. How can people know you can play it if you do not blow it. Head back, chest out a walk with pride.

LEFTY's RULE.

www.thefamouspeople.com/left-handed.php

My dad used to beat me to try to be right handed. My mum was not having any of it so mainly left handed but can write right handed, badly.

Wolseley1800 said:

Normally they will have used you because you have the abilities that they don't, this was probable why they bullied you - jealously. 

Absolutely - I'm a chartered engineer - without blowing my own trumpet, I have done things and am capable of things that most people can't imagine - but my enthusiasm, drive and attention to detail can be seen as quite naive and 'users' seem to see me a mile away.

My abilities got me to the top but left me wide open to abuse - and I was mercilessly abused for many years.

BTW - I'm a 'lefty' too.

Plastic, Wolseley1800

just agree with Wolseley  last comments, now i have to go out into the rain .

my dad could write with both hands because he was left handed and was forced to write with his right hand.   entertaining when i saw him perform this feat but kinda shocking.

Can he use the 'Format' tab for the options.

This is why good friends are important.

You can not choose family or workmates but you can choose friends.

What you need to workout is why these people did what they did. Normally they will have used you because you have the abilities that they don't, this was probable why they bullied you - jealously. 

I can see those sort of things in my life and where I went wrong. But that's then not now because they are also why I am where I am now and now is important. Your past made you the Geek you are today.

The way I look at it is like this:-

My bullies are a waste of space, they play sport but I am an Engineer. NOBODY today can do anything without engineering. It was Engineers who sent man to the moon, help surgeons do tricky heart & brain operations, give us the ability to converse through the ether and is the backbone of modern life. The bullies could not do what they do if it was not for people like us. 

Yes it is Asperger's that lets us do this. We do not get tied down with peerism or social conformity.

Be proud of who you are and what you do.

I was diagnosed last year and I'm 61. I also am Dyslexic and left-handed. . Plus born and bred in Yorkshire so there is no real hope for me.

DC uses a tablet

I got diagnosed because of the increasing number of problems my Asperger's was causing - I'd reached the limits of my masking.      Since then, the more I understand about myself, the more ashamed and disgusted I am with my Aspergers.       I can now see and feel when people have been / are using and manipulating and bullying me.    I've been treated shockingly over the years by people I had to trust - mainly in the workplace.

It's that sudden realisation that I'm a joke that hits really hard.       I absolutely understand why there are so many Asperger's suicides.   

Forgot, for MACs use the command key ( if my memory is right, if not it will be 'Control') instead of the Ctrl.

Some short cut keys for you if you use a PC/Laptop or MAC. Press them together.

PC/Laptop

Ctrl and B keys turn Bold on and off

Ctrl and U keys turn Underline on and off

Ctrl and I keys turn on Italics on and off

You can use combinations of these keys: Like this or even Like this

There are more and you can google them. Enjoy.

(...I cannot use Boldface Type like Mr Adie is using, so I have to use ** instead to highlight, My devices are more than 5 Years old.)

Vinylsandshells said:

I didn’t really care when I got my diagnosis. It was what it was, and I lived with it.

Greetings. I suggest that You just carry on like that. (The quote, there.)

My post is... Imagine being given a "diagnosis" of being HUMAN: and lumped that in with Negative aspects such as pollution, genocide, or using two legs which is slower than four... instead of being lumped in with imagination, intelligence, logic, alternate comprehension, superior Wit... (or whatever Your own strengths are).

What I try to say is - if finding "negatives" which make oneself uncomfortable, then they are attacks and so notice them yet do very much also *Ignore* them. Autism has its *strengths* -of course!- ...so do not dwell upon "shame" or other negatives, for it means that those who say this at You are attempting to enforce that Emotion. Enforce instead a lack of negativity, for You are who You are, and work upon Your own versions of Strength, Honesty, Truth, Goodness, and Right. Others may try to weaken you that to gain such attributes to strengthen themselves, so do not let them.

Also, The "Media" is *not You, personally*. And it mostly is not written by Autistic Persons, so in most situations they have no idea of what they proclaim... (just like being an "Ethnic Minority" or Wheelchair bound, or any of the other multitude of restrictions imposed by what is called "Normal" Society.) It is largely written by those with no concept of being anything but themselves and what is acceptable to them. It is a valid point of view, but it is Theirs and does not have to be Yours.

(...To close this Post - I do not much recall having written anything quite like this before, so I Post it & kind of wonder how anyone else reacts to it. Please do not hate Me too much anyone, ok...!)

hi welcome to this forum

i love your name very poetic,  vinyl, sand, shells.  did u just pick it out of the air ?

i dont think your mum would be ashamed of you. Has she said that ?

I have never heard of a Autism Workbook 

can you describe it to me in more detail How was it created ?

u have been given a life like everyone else just with a wave of autism like loads of people in here.  join us here.

I want u to stay on this forum  more and start to interact with others here ---- u will make friends and learn stuff

please add details to your profile......

  like ur favorite music, color, art, hobbies, books, games so other people can connect with you

add your general location like north england , south wales, very tip of scotland