Discovering your traits

I often wonder if your body is an eco system of sorts that grew from almost nothing on a certain "diet" , then changing the fundamentals of what it's consuming is likely to have the same effect as global warming does have to coral reeds.

That's my excuse for putting salt on and in stuff, having too much butter, always fancying things how they "used to be" 

Hi CatWomen

Sorry but only just read this post properly. My father survived and is still very much alive after his brush with death. Just thought I needed to let you know. I don’t take things in too well sometimes and missed that. 

I don’t drink much at all. I’ve never been able to handle it very well to be honest, I never seemed to be able to get on the same level as the others and I paid heavily for trying the next day. I could easily be throwing up until I was empty and beyond the day after. Sorry that was a bit gross. 
On the relationship part thanks for your comment but it is a struggle for me and I suppose my wife would say the same. I still have a hard time understanding things and my partner is probably tired of having to explain her mood or intentions some times as I tend to assume the opposite to what it is exactly. It gets me into trouble on a daily basis but I guess when you have functioned like that for so long it’s hard to find a way round it. Having said that I do spend a huge amount of time on my own, I work for myself and alone which suits me perfectly. I love it when the house is empty also as I quite like my own company and I can just kick back and chill. 

I’m might have a bit more on there in a few weeks… it seems to be growing more and more!

This list needs to be shared as widely as possible within the NAS and with NHS Professionals 

On the subject of sulking, sulking is loud, having space is quiet, sulkers make sure everyone in the house (and probably half the street) know they're off on one, sulkers have auras like battering rams, its very passive aggressive. Sulkers attempt to silently bully someone into giving up whatever it is thats caused the sulk. It dosen't have to anything major or that important in the general scheme of things, having seen a full grown adult man go into a full on lie down angry sulk because I asked a window cleaner to call, was a complete eye opener and thought I'd seen it all when it came to sulkers.

I really struggle with the social side of life, I never used to as a teen and younger woman, but as a child and now as an older woman I do, I think as a child I just didn't know what to do, so I watched, tried to copy and got it wrong repeatedly. As a young woman I fell out with so many friendship groups, over things I still don't really understand, probably one of those NT things that you have to be NT to get? Now I'm at the point where I don't really care anymore, I have a few acquaintances, but no real friends and thats about the level I want to keep it at, I just don't have the emotional energy to throw into the bottomless pit that is friendship. I have learnt how I'm really bad at picking friends and have learned some of the danger signs of needy people who will drop me at a momments notice as soon as someone better comes along, as yet I've not learned how to make healthy friendships, maybe I never will.

Conversatoins move so quickly, rarely stayiing with one subject for long and most of the subjects I find pretty boring, about soaps, sport and other things I have no knowlege or interest in, especially when the alcohol flows. No longer being able to drink alcohol really impacts my social life, drunks are so boring to be around. I also realised that alcohol made my going over every conversation in my head and imaginging the worst possible interpretations was made far worse by being hung over.

I think it's amazing that anyone can be in a relationship for 27 years whatever their neurology!

If you are....in that sense.....then rest assured, you are not alone!  I worked in both Kwik Save and Gateway....when I was uoofth.......and my mum (coz that was who did the shopping in them-there-days).....did all our shopping therein.

Personally, I (as an autist) feel confused by the fact that we should (allegedly) have minimal fat intake........when our brains are made of the stuff?!?!.........I want my fatty-matter to be sustained>?!

....possibly better for me....although I make up for any loss of those things....with increased butter intake (and double cream).......and if you are wondering.....no......I'm not at all, out of shape....for my age.....I just adapt for the times!   I wish I could do that compensation in a social sense vis-a-vis lack of 'face-to-face' and 'paper'......but it appears not......there, I remain lost in the "tasteless void" of fb-tik-inst-snap-gram-shite-ballaux-tok-tele."

Woe is me.

Loads of the food stuff from the 80s has either been banned or made healthy to the point of tasteless. 

I'm probably on shaky ground saying all those chemicals, fats, salts and other stuff ever did me any harm

....I think my 50+ yr old tastebuds can detect the loss of salt, sugar and zebra in my food these days......fyi.

Said the rainbow trout!

It's worth looking at the spiky profile and autism spectrum pictures and diagrams online.

A lot of the autistic traits are experienced at different levels by different autistic people, hence it's a spectrum, a cocktail of traits which can vary from one to another, but the pattern overall is that they have them and some are to the extremes. Neuro typical people generally are exactly that, a fairly typical flat line down the graphs centre.

A lot of the things you've got on your list sound very much like you are, but I wouldn't want to try and convince you either way, that's upto you. Diagnosis may well be worth it, it's a step on a journey to finding some understanding.

Glad you found this place and fins you can talk about things here, it's half the battle, having people to offload stuff onto.

Take care!

They took all the shite out that made em taste good! Or the more likely option is that childhood tastebuds are not as refined. 

Dude.....I think that both Zebras and horses....generally, ended up at the glue factory, when we had finished being "vibrant"....or in a Lion's belly.

But DON'T get me started, on a man being eaten by a lion, and vice a versa !

Thank you for this insightful summary.

Truly frigging 'orrible........and yet, they were the height of "normal - progressive - suburban eating" in the early 1980's !

I do wonder how much rules / regulations / take-overs........change a brand/product over time?

Were they really THAT disgusting when I was a youngster?!

I guess the moral of the story is to make sure we don't hide being zebras or we might end up mistaken as horses and end up in a pancake, most likely made with  with flour and eggs.

I've always found them a delectable delight. NOT!

Guess what.....I found some of these recently, in a supermarket ?!  Who knew ?!  They still exist ?!

I cooked them for myself and a good friend recently......we were both APPALLED by the experience.

They'd all be thinking "these zebras are a bit weird"