Just a place for anyone to be silly, playful and whimsical.
Just a place for anyone to be silly, playful and whimsical.
I'm not allowed to tell them
Why is that?
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 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 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 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 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.
She could be onto something there. I think I would be more confident if I could stim.
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 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.
