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Hello everyone. Early stages,wanting diagnosis and second visit to GP.

steven
over 9 years ago

Hello everyone my names Steven and i'm 29, i'll try to be as consise and as accurate as i can be and i'd appreciate any feed back, Thank you.

I had trouble being in School as a Child. In Primery School was branded as lasy up until Yr6 where i ended up attending some sort of centre out of School, i can't remember much of this or the feeling though i can remember the inside of my Headmasters Car whom took me there. I now know that his car at the time was a 1st model of the Rover 400 and since i have been able to identify the Stain Glass windows that i remember from that centre in can now identfy the location of this this centre as a result of passing by inprevious years.

At Secondry School i had much the same troubles and from Yr7 to Yr9 i'd moved 2 Schools. I never had any Friends and wasnt able to make any, my interest in certern subjects was quielled by peoples bulling and teachers lach of ability to see or identifiy how interested i was and most were messing about.

From leaving School i went to College and up on Leaning that they were just Teaching me at level 1 after 2 years i left feeling that this was a waste of time and they had let me down, I was under the impession that i was studing level2 after an early departure from School.

From then age of 18 i got my first job at 21 after being unemployed. My first Job was at Tesco on nights filling shelves and doing odd warehouse work while the shop was closed, after 2.5 years i left Tesco. After which i picked up a job as a Maintenance man at McDonalds near my home, id been a customer after each shift at Tesco for 2 years.

My Maintenace job by the end i was responsable of repairs to the fabric of the Building 'more than ican explain here' and contractors for specilist jobs.

I ordered the stock which was around £50,000 a month and orded the operational supplies with a budget of £800 per month though i could achive this easly in £650 per month with strict and reasonable controls and accurate proscedures    

After this i started and finished my Taxi Liesence, as i thought i could learn at College and do this as its flexible.

I want to go to college to do Enginnering but worry abut my ability to be able to finish it.

Lately i have no idea whats happend or me or how to explain it, i use to be able to analise things and explain it in a logical context.

Now i feel confused, working on the Taxi 'which has been a year and a half' i have no idea how to process this. it feels like to much has happened i have non idea what to make of it. 

I use to be able to put everything into order and now it feels like so much has happend i have no idea what to make of it. 

I use to be able to anilise peoples behviour now it feels that its moving to fast for me to anilize.

Any questions Pleas ask as it helps me as much as you thanks Steven...

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  • over 9 years ago

    steven said:

    It was just a 1 hour 10 minutes consultation, most of the questions he asked me i said 'i don't know'. But that may not be the case i just didn't have chance to think about the questions, so broad, in what context? when? i don't know how i feel, i think i'm content?

    I can't do this quote stuff. My reply to first paragraph starts here:-

    I find that I prepare for any conversation/consultation of this type. If things stray away from what I have prepared, I too find it difficult to respond. I need to think in a non stressful environment (alone) to formulate an answer, in many instances. The only way that I have found to deal with this, is to write to the person (eg doctor) afterwards, to add all my additional thoughts, once I have had time to think. My verbal reasoning just goes in to slow motion, at times off stress

    and ends here

    Steven again:-

    I'm really quite confused People ask me how i am and i don't know, i don't think i have many feelings that others do, i can be angry, abit happy and confused and thats it, most of this is based on other people being able to describe these and me being able to realise the context.

    There is a name for this condition. It is ALEXITHYMIA, that is emotional blindness. We have all the emotions that other people have, but we cannot put them into words, in many instances. We feel, but cannot express it.

    At one time, autisic people were thought to have little or no emotions, but that was incorrect, we just cannot share them with others in the same way as NT people can.

    Appologies for messing up the quote, I cannot work out how to reply to 2 paragraphs in one reply, so ended up with a reply in the middle of the quote. I hope you get the gist.

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  • over 9 years ago

    steven said:

    It was just a 1 hour 10 minutes consultation, most of the questions he asked me i said 'i don't know'. But that may not be the case i just didn't have chance to think about the questions, so broad, in what context? when? i don't know how i feel, i think i'm content?

    I can't do this quote stuff. My reply to first paragraph starts here:-

    I find that I prepare for any conversation/consultation of this type. If things stray away from what I have prepared, I too find it difficult to respond. I need to think in a non stressful environment (alone) to formulate an answer, in many instances. The only way that I have found to deal with this, is to write to the person (eg doctor) afterwards, to add all my additional thoughts, once I have had time to think. My verbal reasoning just goes in to slow motion, at times off stress

    and ends here

    Steven again:-

    I'm really quite confused People ask me how i am and i don't know, i don't think i have many feelings that others do, i can be angry, abit happy and confused and thats it, most of this is based on other people being able to describe these and me being able to realise the context.

    There is a name for this condition. It is ALEXITHYMIA, that is emotional blindness. We have all the emotions that other people have, but we cannot put them into words, in many instances. We feel, but cannot express it.

    At one time, autisic people were thought to have little or no emotions, but that was incorrect, we just cannot share them with others in the same way as NT people can.

    Appologies for messing up the quote, I cannot work out how to reply to 2 paragraphs in one reply, so ended up with a reply in the middle of the quote. I hope you get the gist.

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