Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi,
I live up north, though originally from down south. I'm newly diagnosed (yesterday) and just received my report. The report seems accurate and I'm not surprised or in disagreement with any of it. The recommendations though just seem to be a bit generic, I think I was hoping for something more personalised, so I'm wondering what other people did post-diagnosis?
Should I work on non-verbal communication and socio-emotional reciprocity or not? I know since the pandemic I've struggled to put the mask back on, so I just want to be free of all of that now.....
I also do some poetry/spoken word - here's something I wrote yesterday called 'Diagnosis':
And suddenly I wasn't on the waiting list anymoreAnd it's not like someone switched the light on and I could seeIt's more that someone switched the light offThe one in the back of the roomThat had been flickering and buzzingAnnoying and distracting meWhilst I wondered why no-one else seemed able to see or hear itWhy no-one else was bothered by itIt was goneAnd I was free just to be who I amJust to be me
Hi there. I just wanted to echo Shardovan's sentiments about your wonderful poem.
And I was free just to be who I am
Just to be me
This has me very puzzled. Why would you say something so needlessly confrontational to Sparkly when she’s simply being characteristically welcoming and complimentary to make a new person feel at home? What talons? How do they need to be retracted? You’ve been supportive of other people in other threads today, one arguably blunt (if presumably jokey) comment to someone else aside. You’re clearly capable of great empathy, pleasant engagement and seeing things from another’s point of view most of the time so I hope you can see that an apology might not go amiss here. I think you’d feel better for it, I know I would if I’d said that!
I agree. Thank you.
Report away, I've done nothing wrong. I wish you well and hope you can find peace, it's hard enough in this life.
And now I really will say no more on the matter.
Sparkly has no need of fake accounts. She's an open book, and wears her heart on her sleeve.
Maybe what's private should stay private. Unless spoken of much less aggressively and in attempt to work though upset with support, as a certain other person has done with great dignity. Bridges don't get mended through public hostility. I'll say no more on what is, as you've now clarified, a private matter. But you nevertheless have put something concerning and cryptic on here. I wish you both well.
You don't have the benefit of access to my private messages, thats why.