Diagnosis!

Thanks AWTY. It's very strange about the thread on WP - there's somebody on there in UK, your age, who writes extremly similarly to you - because of the trouble with posting on that forum I didn't, and now I'll probably never find that thread again as I can;t remember what it's called or the user name!  I'd never normally make such an assumption, but I felt really sure if must be the same person.

By IBS, you mean irritable bowel syndrome?  I think I have that. Sometimes I'm fine for days (rarely as long as weeks) but other times I go through periods of one thing or another - usually bloating combined with extreme tiredness.  I thought I had ME but looked it up, felt doubtful, then spotted the 'similar symptoms' section, checked that and IBS fitted perfectly.  Apparently, allergies / sensitivities / immune system disorders are more common among people on the spectrum than the general population (not sure where I got this from so it may not have any truth in it, but I don't usually bother to remember things that don't seem worth remembering).

I tend to be pedantic but not deliberately - it is simply because of my literal interpretation of the words other people use. Whenever anyone uses the phrase 'mid-morning' I have to question when they mean: if morning starts right after midnight, mid-morning is 6am, but to me, that's very early morning. Or if it starts at 6am, mid-morning is 9am. But people usually seem to mean around 10.30 or 11-ish, which to me is late morning. It would be easier if people just said a time!

Thanks AWTY. It's very strange about the thread on WP - there's somebody on there in UK, your age, who writes extremly similarly to you - because of the trouble with posting on that forum I didn't, and now I'll probably never find that thread again as I can;t remember what it's called or the user name!  I'd never normally make such an assumption, but I felt really sure if must be the same person.

By IBS, you mean irritable bowel syndrome?  I think I have that. Sometimes I'm fine for days (rarely as long as weeks) but other times I go through periods of one thing or another - usually bloating combined with extreme tiredness.  I thought I had ME but looked it up, felt doubtful, then spotted the 'similar symptoms' section, checked that and IBS fitted perfectly.  Apparently, allergies / sensitivities / immune system disorders are more common among people on the spectrum than the general population (not sure where I got this from so it may not have any truth in it, but I don't usually bother to remember things that don't seem worth remembering).

I tend to be pedantic but not deliberately - it is simply because of my literal interpretation of the words other people use. Whenever anyone uses the phrase 'mid-morning' I have to question when they mean: if morning starts right after midnight, mid-morning is 6am, but to me, that's very early morning. Or if it starts at 6am, mid-morning is 9am. But people usually seem to mean around 10.30 or 11-ish, which to me is late morning. It would be easier if people just said a time!