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How old is everyone and how does aspergers effect you day to day?

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Just wondering how aspergers or other autisim diabilities effects everypne as well.

So yeah, I'm 22 and found out that I had aspergers a few months ago. I notice it's effecting my everyday life but the thing is I think it's not the "main" thing what's effecting my daily life apart from the communication side and the expressing emotions. But I have OCD linked with aspergers and this is what's effecting my daily life. With all the rituals because of my anxiety, thinking of colours, bright lines of light going in a certain direction, having to look left for a colour that feels "right" and then right for a colour that feels "right" and certain colours means bad things are going to happen, I get easily annoyed and irratated at home etc etc.

Also, when I'm out every Saturday with my friends, I find it very difficult to think of new subjects to talk about so I repeat the same subjects over and over again, I get bored easily because we don't do anything interesting quite a lot of the time, I prefer spending time on my own instead of being with other people, I collect Blu Rays, games, I keep receipts of everything I buy so I know the exact time and date I bought it. Also I started to do this thing where whenever I start watching a movie on Blu Ray, I write on a peice of paper the exact time I started watching the movie, the date I watched the movie and the time I finished watching the movie and I write any other relevant details on it as well.

I find it really difficult to think of subjects to talk about and to speak to someone I don't know very well and I have only 3 close frienda which are not that close because I only see them once a week. Sometimes, I just get a bit depressed because I have no close friends that are girls and I really want to go clubbing to meet new people but I find it extremely difficult and uncomfortable when I went last time and it caused a lot of anxiety. I feel lonely but I enjoy doing everything I like on my own at the same time. It's just so complex with these disabilities.I feel like noone can understand me and I can't even understand myself at times.

When communicating, I find it difficult to say what I wanted to say, like I think of something, then the words come out differently to what I meant, This only happens when I'm speaking to people that I don't know very well. And before I say anything to someone, I always think really hard about the outcome and I think, probably it's not good to say this, or they'll find it boring, rudem, offensive etc etc or they don't want to speak to me!

I think this probably is why I tend to withdraw myself from everyone even my family because I spend all my time in my room on video games and the computer doing the same thing for a long period of time on my days off work and after work everyday. I feel less stressed at work!

And yeah, this is another problem I just realised about myself, when I try to get to a point or just a simple question to describe what I mean, I end up going into way more detail than required to describe what I really want the answers to be from someone else. I need things spoken / explained to me and presented to me as clear as possible and in the appropiate and easiest language for me to understand otherwise I get confused.

Does the aspergers effect anyone else in a simular way?

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  • If I can comment on red it might help (possibly someone else with more direct knowledge of the psychology of colours could come in on this).

    Red is usually chosen as an attention getter or STOP signal because our eyes see it differently from other colours. For most people red stands out in 3-D, with other colours in the background, as if it was closer to you than everything else.

    However from an autistic spectrum viewpoint red is likely to have adverse effects. It may tend to dominate the field of view, and feel like it is invading or threatening.

    I'm not sure why this happens. In our natural (or artificial - domestic) surroundings red light is usually absorbed by surfaces, and green and blue light reflected. This is especially so with vegetation because it is mainly the red light that is used in photosynthesis and thus it is absorbed by plants. What is then reflected back in a mix of green and blue, particularly the former, hence grass appears green. When leaves die in the autumn they stop absorbing red light, and it is reflected back, hence why leaves change to yellow, brown and red.

    So it might be that red is unusual in our day to day surroundings, and more disturbing as a consequence. However there does also seem to be a real optical shift that gives the impression it is nearer than other colours. It sometimes floats and drifts especially if red lights are viewed from a vehicle at night.

    There are many things about the autistic spectrum, affecting the day-to-day lives of individuals, that don't get studied. But colour optics and colour perception is studied by scientists in a number of fields, and they might be persuaded to explore any difference in reaction experienced by people on the autistic spectrum.

    Pilots neded to respond accurately to colours, especially as green red and amber are warnings, so normally a colour blind pilot might have to be grounded. But I bet no-one has looked at whether pilots with (unknown) autistic spectrum status might have adverse colour responses.

    This is really important stuff.

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  • If I can comment on red it might help (possibly someone else with more direct knowledge of the psychology of colours could come in on this).

    Red is usually chosen as an attention getter or STOP signal because our eyes see it differently from other colours. For most people red stands out in 3-D, with other colours in the background, as if it was closer to you than everything else.

    However from an autistic spectrum viewpoint red is likely to have adverse effects. It may tend to dominate the field of view, and feel like it is invading or threatening.

    I'm not sure why this happens. In our natural (or artificial - domestic) surroundings red light is usually absorbed by surfaces, and green and blue light reflected. This is especially so with vegetation because it is mainly the red light that is used in photosynthesis and thus it is absorbed by plants. What is then reflected back in a mix of green and blue, particularly the former, hence grass appears green. When leaves die in the autumn they stop absorbing red light, and it is reflected back, hence why leaves change to yellow, brown and red.

    So it might be that red is unusual in our day to day surroundings, and more disturbing as a consequence. However there does also seem to be a real optical shift that gives the impression it is nearer than other colours. It sometimes floats and drifts especially if red lights are viewed from a vehicle at night.

    There are many things about the autistic spectrum, affecting the day-to-day lives of individuals, that don't get studied. But colour optics and colour perception is studied by scientists in a number of fields, and they might be persuaded to explore any difference in reaction experienced by people on the autistic spectrum.

    Pilots neded to respond accurately to colours, especially as green red and amber are warnings, so normally a colour blind pilot might have to be grounded. But I bet no-one has looked at whether pilots with (unknown) autistic spectrum status might have adverse colour responses.

    This is really important stuff.

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