Published on 12, July, 2020
Sadly there isn't enough support, but the ideas here are all good. Also, you could try having a chat to your GP to see what there is in your area. In mine Mind run a course for the newly diagnosed.
Your sentence: "I feel I can't learn to be like them…
I can totally relate to this. It’s like I am no longer able to tolerate ‘passing’, just to please others, so this question has come up for me recently.
I love what you said about the fact that, if you didn’t get hired on the basis of…
I seriously wrote a long theoretical post in which I stated that the term, "I love you," has lost all meaning: https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/31637/a-clash-of-cultures-why-nts-and-autistic-people-sometimes-have-difficulty…
Really interesting topic, you have a knack for them!
love that KB song and video btw, she had so many good ones.
Not sure if I’m doing the topic ‘right’ but when you talked of changing or sustaining moods, I’m not sure that I’m very good with the former…
I am an autistic male and i can inform you somethings are not as simple as they seem. Your trying to put meaning behind his action without actually know the thought process behind it and your own interpretation of his behaviour could be wrong despite…
Hello 808
I'm so sorry this reply has turned out far to longwinded and probably not to the point. But I will post it anyway, you never know there might be one useful sentence :-)
I am curious how in UK having the diagnosis on paper will affect you…
Hello, I am interested in learning more about a woman with PDA and have some questions.
I have previously dated this woman, starting from July and taking a break for a couple of months. We started seeing each other again from February.
I really want to…
It's not an easy thing to distinguish. Looking back so much of what I thought was anxiety was actually sensory overload. I'm not sure if I would have been able to identify that at the time, even if I had known then that I'm autistic. Sometimes you will…
Hello Ultramarine :-)
I would say that having ASD is the true cause behind me having made multiple mistakes socially and with my career. Post diagnosis and looking back at my life history I can see how ASD explains so much of why I kept getting things…
This will be about the autistic spectrum and NPD but I gotta spit first, sorry. I am in my sixties and sick and freakin tired of being beaten by those who are less able, less intelligent, less sensitive and altogether less brilliant than me MY WHOLE LIFE…