• Autism in women - newly diagnosed and feeling like an imposter

    I had thought about autism in myself for a long time before I was diagnosed - I picked up a book at work in 2017 called Aspie girls, and thought " oh my god this is me".

    Fast forward 6 years, and since then my 11 year old child has been diagnosed…

  • RE: Sleep advice

    We take him to bed at 5 but only because if we took him up any later we wouldn't get out of his room till 12pm some nights 

    This will have become his new routine so it is reinforcing the late sleeping unfortunately.

    I would consider getting…

  • RE: Severe pain related to ASD

    The trouble with accurate pain diagnosis is that it can be difficult to describe. My mother has something similar, but getting any kind of useful description out of her is impossible as she doesn't really have the vocabulary to describe it. For ages…

  • Exhausted From Life

    I'm exhausted. Life is hard, feel burnout and like everything's getting on top of me. There's so much going on all the time. My Dad is ill. My Mum is ill. My brother has just moved out, the change is a lot for me to deal with.

    I love music…

  • RE: Past Child Abuse / rape

    Roy I'm so sorry to read what you've been through and how it's left you feeling like this. I was abused for most of my childhood, I understand how you feel, the pain that almost burns deep in to your soul and that self blame which is never justified.…

  • RE: Drug Therapy

    Well I have it on good authority that society wasn't always so loud, fast paced, and concerned with punishing micro behaviours. I'm pretty sure I could have lived a decent enough life living in a small group of hunter gatherers. Until a wild animal or…

  • RE: Contradictions within Autism

    finding similarity and common ground as connection.

    Talk about internal conflict!

    Not being able to find connection and common ground has been my life's biggest nemesis. Up to this late time in my life, I still haven't figured out if…

  • RE: Any doctors here?

    Guybrush mentioned that a couple of posts up, but it may be less effective.

    We are now just under five full days from the point of exposure, so the need to test is getting less urgent now. When I was following the clinical data closely when it started…

  • I need some advice please

    Hi,

    I suspect I'm Autistic. Everything clicks and there's a lot I could go into. 

    I had a breakdown in April and have been off work since. I have no idea how I'm going to be able to handle it again. And I generally am not sure what to do?

  • RE: What book are you reading now?

    It really does tell a story of how someone with a fleeting interest, and a heap of cash, can do more damage than good. A lot of the performers careers were ruined. The investment got a few people very rich, very quick. Some others got short term big paydays…