Published on 12, July, 2020
Just a place for anyone to be silly, playful and whimsical.
Pikl said:I'm not allowed to tell them
Why is that?
If it gets out to the parents, because of stigma, they may remove their children, and my boss has a business to run.
That's crazy. What do they think you are, an axe murderer?
She could be onto something there. I think I would be more confident if I could stim.
I can only understand neurotypical people if they are pleasant to me. Otherwise, I'm lost and bewildered.
Pikl said:I think trying to hide that I'm different makes me appear weird in a different way.
Oh yeah. My wife thinks that I would appear less weird if I had the confident not to mask with people.
If someone starts on a topic that interests me, then I will be extremely talkative. To the point where I follow people so I can keep talking. It's embarrassing to realise later that they were likely trying to get away from me.
I tend to prefer my own company. Without the confidence boost of an interesting topic, I feel very awkward. I think trying to hide that I'm different makes me appear weird in a different way.
That would have been me too, although my parents were more encouraging of something like that.
I think I've forgotten more than I ever knew to begin with.
Funny how kids know more than adults.
I remember being quite young, we were visiting family on Boxing Day, there was a quiz on tv, I was laying on the floor with cousins, children didn’t get chairs, I was told to shut up, I was shouting out the quiz answers” be quiet, what can you know?” Only actually all the right answers!
I wasn't told that bluntly, but I learnt early on that my desire to talk about "serious" things wasn't reciprocated other people and as I have never been good at small talk, I just stopped talking. And haven't re-started.
I was a 7yr old that really wanted to discuss concepts and ideas, I was always told "shut up talking nonsense" by my mum.
That sounds similar to when I've a decision to make: always too many possible options to consider.
Fairly sure he’s got ADHD or autism or both.
I just witnessed my nephew this very evening get told -albeit in a jokey way - to ‘shut up’ as he was spouting fact after fact in an unending stream of words. I was being overwhelmed by several inputs going on at once (how visits home tend to go) none of which I can tune out to foreground only one. So I was grateful when he went silent for a bit, but felt bad too that he’d been made to feel like he was being too much just by talking how he talks. And I know how that feels.
I have far too many conversations going on in my head at once that I forget to provide vital info
I'm forever doing that. My mum did too.
I didn't supply enough data
Oh gosh yes
In our first year or so of life, we were encouraged to talk all the time, once we learned to talk, we were told to shut up for the rest of our childhood.
No, I made assumptions based on incomplete data!
Sorry, I didn't explain properly, I seem to think people should mind read.