• RE: Trick or treating: seriously scared

    I completely agree and sympathise with people resenting the intrusion into the privacy and sanctuary of their homes... and I agree that there is something particularly 'crossing a line' about this whole idea... and particularly the bizarre notion that…

  • From doubt, to being convinced and back again! Non-diagnosed adult.

    I'm male, 40 years old and to the outside world (or most of it) I seem like your pretty standard adult. 

    I hold down a full-time, rather demanding and complex job. 
    I support a family, pay my bills and get on with my life. 

    The reality is much different…

  • How can my parents help me?

    I’m 20 year old female with autism. I only found out about it when I was really struggling at university and I went for an adhd assessment. The doctor said I had adhd AND autism which explained a lot!

    my parents took it well but it did bring up…

  • RE: Spoke my mind

    I usually tell people I have ASD and it gives me foot in mouth syndrome and the reason my mouth is so big is because once I've put one foot in my mouth, I use the other to try and dislodge the first. Unless I've really offended someone, people usually…

  • RE: Are there things you just 'don't get' in life? (as in understand the rules of)

    follow everyone up and take communion. 

    If it happened 500 years ago, and they knew, every other elderly lady would drop dead on spot in shock, and the other half would start inciting the mob to stone you to death, or burn at stake LOL

    In childhood, on…

  • RE: Encountered with a dog

    An aunt of mine had two incredibly friendly and affectionate dogs (different cross-breeds). One was a medium-sized female and the other a small male. As far as I know, their diet was the same. The female didn't seem to have a noticeable doggy odour, but…

  • RE: What are you doing for Christmas?

    For well over a decade, it became the tradition that my son and I would travel approximately 75 miles with my parents, to spend Christmas Day with members of my mother's family. It was the only time I got to see them, and I mostly enjoyed it because the…

  • RE: Conspiracy theories

    Come to that, 1 and 2 shouldn't have collapsed at all, either.  Even a fully-laden passenger airliner striking structures of their size and strength would be the equivalent of a high-velocity rifle bullet being fired into a fence post.  It might do…
  • RE: Contamination Fixation...How Do I Help My Son?

    I can relate to this and from around age 10 or so I started to pay attention to it. At first I would hate to even do things like sit on a bus seat and would need a shower afterwards to feel clean. As I got older it got better so it basically doesn't impact…

  • RE: Nobody listens to me

    Good morning and welcome to the forum.

    Slightly off topic....this is long

    This what happened in 2020 before COVID was declared:

    Used to have a meeting before started at the library where used to volunteer (now gone to pot); this unfortunate day it…