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Hello! I'm new here...

Eryberrie

Hello! I'm a 30 year old woman and am awaiting a diagnosis of ASD. I'm new here and would like to meet and talk to people about experiences, esp how I deal with social situations and try and deal with the frustration of living in a world where I feel like an alien.

It seems as if everyone else in the world have a 'telepathic network' going on and I'm not part of it.  It's like there is a code and it's such hard work trying to get by in any social situation.  Family, work, school, college, extra curricular clubs, groups, etc.

I don't want to start waffling and ranting about myself because I do enough of that in life!  Please say hello if you like,

E

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  • Yeah, it's strange because socialising at work is harder than the job. It's the single most hardest thing I have to do in a day. There are people at work who do try and understand. 

    Problem is with people with an ASD, we become experts in masking it and training ourselves to be 'normal' that we kind of lose a sense of self.

    My theory is that the non-autistic person is born with a manual. They just have to learn it and apply it.  The autistic person is born without the manual and is fed bits and pieces of it at a time. It's like a PC that has a perfectly fine hardrive but the software is all over the shot. We receive bits of this manual and sort it out into a kind of order all on our own. Not only do we have to filter through it, we have to learn it like an academic study...

    Hope this makes sense!

    E x

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  • Yeah, it's strange because socialising at work is harder than the job. It's the single most hardest thing I have to do in a day. There are people at work who do try and understand. 

    Problem is with people with an ASD, we become experts in masking it and training ourselves to be 'normal' that we kind of lose a sense of self.

    My theory is that the non-autistic person is born with a manual. They just have to learn it and apply it.  The autistic person is born without the manual and is fed bits and pieces of it at a time. It's like a PC that has a perfectly fine hardrive but the software is all over the shot. We receive bits of this manual and sort it out into a kind of order all on our own. Not only do we have to filter through it, we have to learn it like an academic study...

    Hope this makes sense!

    E x

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