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"Autistic" things you do.

Pixel
10 months ago

What "autistic" things do you find yourselves doing? I do a lot of different things which I know a neurotypical wouldn't think twice about.

One of them is making sure everything in my house is straight, so the chairs, my books and DVDs on the shelf, pictures hanging on the wall and plenty more than that.

Recently I was doing up an MG Maestro and had noticed the offside headlight wasn't seated properly and was facing a little to the side. This bothered me so much, playing at the back of my mind until finally I went out and straightened it because I couldn't cope with it not being right.

I feel like I was actually approaching a meltdown, that's how much this sort of thing bothers me.

Am I alone in being this way?

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  • 9 months ago

    There’s probably a few autistic things I do but didn’t realise until going through diagnosis. One is that when I’m watching TV alone I often have my hands up at shoulder height doing odd things with my fingers.

    I didn’t realise what I was doing until I saw some YouTube videos of young autistic children. Guess I learned to hide it when very young.

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  • 9 months ago

    There’s probably a few autistic things I do but didn’t realise until going through diagnosis. One is that when I’m watching TV alone I often have my hands up at shoulder height doing odd things with my fingers.

    I didn’t realise what I was doing until I saw some YouTube videos of young autistic children. Guess I learned to hide it when very young.

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