• Maybe back after some time away

    I have had a bit of time away from the forum lately due to several reasons which I’ll detail below, but the point of this post is to try and get myself active here again. If I don’t, I’m worried I will lose the ability to post here when I need to. It…

  • RE: Lack of post diagnostic adult assessment as standard practice (legal obligation) and support post diagnosis

    benefits are all massively increasing... probably calculated by in line with inflation... but remember thats still a increase as this welfare system isnt a normal thing, in any other country you dont get any money if you dont work. and it isnt designed…

  • RE: Aspergers & Hygiene - advice please

    Yes indeed!

    agreed with all you said.@Trogluddite.

    plus sensory issues, hot cold the subtle variations between air temperature and shower water may as well be to one extreme to the other, the water hitting my head like needles from the shower head burns…

  • RE: Guidance needed for relationship with autistic partner

    This is pretty much my standard answer to these - it seems most high-functioning aspie/autie blokes will end up in this situation eventually.

    We mask - we learn at an early age that we don't fit in so we create a persona that allows us to hide in plain…

  • RE: How much of your personality have you had to surrender, to fit into Nt societies conception of ,what a human being should be?

    I feel the same man.

    I don't know if you are au fait with Aldous. Huxley and/or Octave Mirbeau? But they have some good quotes on this kind of thing. Alienation etc


    I feel like most people have their dreams beaten out of them from a very young age. 

  • Work Meetings Stress

    Hi, it's been awhile since I was last here.

    My work has been going nicely, I work in an office with three others which is stressful as they make small task and one girl keeps having loud phone calls with her friends several times a day.

    But I'm coping…

  • RE: Social Skills - What do you think?

    Someone (NT)  told me once that in order to talk to me he had to 'come into my head' - this was a revelation to me, on questioning he revealed that NT's create some sort of shared mental space hovering over their heads in which they converse. Who knew…

  • Famous scientist convinced me to take a break

    When I say that I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being rather weak in the head, and able to work no more…

  • RE: Bullies from the past.

    Those of you who engage in "forum warfare", (myself even, when I get sucked into it, however briefly) are not improving this place for everyone, no matter how good our intentions may be.

    Ultimately the report function exists to…

  • RE: I need severe help badly but I don't know what to do

    Cameron i was bullied all my life for being different didnt know how to socialize was called a freak weak was clumsy people at school made me fall over deliberately spit in my hair throw stuff push Slight smile i got intrusive thoughts of burning the school down…