• RE: Dispiriting day...

    Yeah, great advice. Since starting my book, I have purposely stopped reading books in my ‘niche’ because I want to get the book out of me and onto paper (in rough form)  before reading other books. I didn’t want to risk being influenced by…

  • RE: Cassandro in knots: sleep, procrastination, life purpose etc

    Now, to put another monkey wrench in which goes against your brain wiring.. are you able to seperate and simplify what you are wanting to achieve? The image you post is very telling re your brain wiring in that I perceive it as the view that everything…

  • RE: Adult Meltdowns

    Yeah, I've experienced a lot of meltdowns, especially over the past year or so: too many problems to deal with, and particularly those caused by people who are supposed to be helping, such as various medical departments, the DWP and so on; I'm sure plenty…

  • RE: What emotion do you experience the most

    I know everyones road map to a healthy frame of mind isn't the same. But I know what worked for me was having someone I could confide in who was %100 non judgemental, I went through a string of mainstream therapists and not all of what they said worked…

  • RE: Football (Why?)

    technically they didnt want whats best for britain though, they openly stated they hate britain and want to see it burned down. they wave the EU flag while burning the british flag, they topple british culture and history and hate it. dare i say most…

  • Advice on mentioning diagnosis at work

    It’s been a few weeks since I got my diagnosis of Level One and I’m pondering how to best make it known to the colleagues in my department that I am autistic. I know there’s no necessity to do so, but I think I’d benefit from the awareness. This is because…

  • RE: Married in silence

    We are often eternal children inside - just wanting a nice, simple life filled with fun and novelty and we don't tend to change very much - it's one of our traits.     As we get older, the world gets so much more complex that we don't want to interact…

  • Aspies with NT partners

    Hi folks

    I've seen tons of threads on here from people with partners with AS, looking for advice - usually along the lines of not getting anything back from their partner and wanting to know if it's because he/she doesn't give a damn, or because the AS…

  • RE: Service dog?

    Hi NAS I don't think he was inferring that you could not/ should not be commenting on this forum site... : )  I don't see why someone's personal, physical location should be any issue at all, especially if it is simply 'forum fellowship' that…

  • RE: Are you conscious of how you come across to others?

    I can present as suave and refined but it costs me. I learn by imitation. I will afterwards feel that the people who had seen me as such will expect it next time I see them and I may end up avoiding them for all that.

    I constantly monitor how I'm doing…