With a little loose time this after noon.......

    I have to check in with my body to know how I, myself feel.

    For empathy:

   I don't feel like I could be the one to say if I am "empathetic" or not . I can't say. Others say of me that I very solution oriented…

I know that. I'm 55y/o & am just starting to self diagnosing (Aspie). Do you also do room clearance? enter a room or go in a (not too crowded) pub & within 5-10 mins either the room is empty or there's a circle of empty chairs around you. My conclusion…

I can certainly sympathise with the problem of repetitive, fixated thinking, as no doubt many other autisic people can. I don't think it's necessarily being autistic per se which makes us this way; rather that, since other people's social behaviours are…

Moggsy & NAS38192...

You are certainly not alone when it comes to being able to handle the bike well but not the daily navigation of the living room furniture (I'm currently nursing a fractured hand after trying to use a step that wasn't there on…

I wish I could tell you what the point is.  However, for some reason, I have always had a burning fight in me that is the thing that probably kept me going, and some unfathomable hope that things will get better at some point.  Having children became the…

Ok, I see what’s happening now. We effectively live in two different worlds and we are therefore talking two different languages. 

Not quite but almost. We effectively live on the same world in two different bodies, and are both writing in English. You…

This breaks my heart. She knows she's different, she has probably experienced a lifetime of miscommunication in her short life and it sounds like she has lost hope. She needs an ADHD friend and/or a dyslexic friend, which might be easier to find than…

Hi JT,

I genuinely didn't care that I didn't fit in.  It certainly helped that I thought I was just a 'unique' NT.

I found that NT's quite enjoyed me NOT fitting in.  I was weird and exotic - socially, in my interests, and in my work…