Published on 12, July, 2020
Just a quick one my Dad phoned me over the weekend have a difficult relationship anyway with him, but he made the comment you will have less bother if you tone down your autistic behaviour.
The funny thing is he has more mental health conditions than me and expects sympathy.
If you are ND my understudying is unless you mask and go around like you have been lobotomised this is not possible and in fact is poor for my long term health.
Your comments would be appreciated I also have anxiety and OCD and do take medication for these conditions to help alleviate the storms.
Thanks and good night
I have never heard something so crazy. You can’t ‘tone down’ autistic behaviour. What does that mean? I don’t what autistic behaviour is. Aren’t you just behaving as yourself rather than it having anything to do with autism? I behave well but that’s because I am well behaved not because I am autistically behaved. Sorry this one kind of threw me off I’ve never heard autism being spoken about in this way before.
I was asked if I could be less weird, this was before diagnosis, I was embarassing apparently, although why was never really made clear. I took great pleasure in tellig this person some years later, that I'm autistic and can't help being weird.
I think the best response to this sort of comment is laughter, the maniacal sort.
I told once one person, why it’s so bothering that I’m a bit weird and do my quirky things (stimming) there was eeeeee silence. Then I added “at least I’m a bit different than others” that person answered to me that I should be like others. When I asked again why, she just left giving me weird glance.
well, best to know sooner than later where one stands. - in this case at some distance.