Labels

when i first admitted to myself i am autistic ,it totally knocked me for six [i don't like this phrase but can't think of how to describe it.] everything i thought about that had happened to me had changed, the reasons i reacted were different and the fact that half the people around me are autistic changed why they had done stuff to me .so everything has changed . Reading about things like  Alexithymia and ptsd have changed the way that i look at both myself and events that have happened to me.

I have always known i am different ,and when asked about my children have always said i don't know what normal is ,The way i have always looked at it is people are all different ,some good some bad ,its all a bit blurry really .

What do you do if you don't feel anything ,just go along and do what you think you should ,try to do the right thing .

The point is putting labels on things ,is it good ? ,it's changed the way i think about the past and myself , but it's made me realize how little i now about what is going on around me and how wrong i am when trying to guess .I suppose like a blind person trying to describe a picture  . 

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  • I'm not very good at words ,but i think what i'm saying is do you think that the labels are society trying to get back to something more organized ,when the country was more regulated and structured ,we only labeled the extreme ,know family and religion and class have started eroding ,is the increased us of labels an attempt to provide stucture. That simon cohan baron seems to be saying the same thing , there have always been autism it is just more visible ,i.e. it's society that has  changed not me