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When your 'thing' is technology (computers/coding/hosting/fixing electronics) they tend not to label you as much as ask you for help with their tech.
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My favourite response to this when is:
"Oh yeah? So what does autism look like? Go on, do your best impression. I want to see."
I have a neuromild friend who, when I am on a rant because the world works the wrong way, or explaining something in detail that the milds probably don't care about, very politely holds up a little sign for me.
It's like, "Hey friend, this is a 'tism."
They've never stopped me, never cut me off, never sighed in exasperation that the autistic guy is at it again. Just a little note that whatever I'm on about is neurospicier than the milds generally like.
They specifically say train not model of train so I can only assume it is literally every individual train.
I've often been told I'm too nOrMaL to be autistic but never that I don't look autistic. Have you all been told the latter? I see so many memes about that.
I'm autistic enough to fuck me over but not autistic enough to get any real benefit.
Normie here. Those two phrases can mean the same thing. There's a lot of body language processing and behavior processing that all gets lumped into someones "look", if they say "you're too normal" it means the same thing as "you don't look autistic".
You could probably get nitty gritty and find that someone who is more familiar with you might be more likely to say "you're too normal" because they are basing it off of more than just appearances, but in the long run it's all just based on observations anyway and certain cultures might lean toward one phrase over the other.
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I'm not necessarily autistic, but when I tell people I'm neurodivergent, they're like "yup" 😓
I’m not autistic, but if there’s an odd number of steps I have to go up them twice to make them even
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I mask a lot better when I'm not depressed. (I'm horribly depressed.)
That said I still mask as second nature pretty well as I consistently get the "I wouldn't have guessed you were autistic." response from people a lot. I generally love socializing and I'm pretty good at it from experience and the topic of "people" being an on and off special interest.
Me I guess? I mean even I didnt know I was on the spectrum until I was 36.
Beat 48 😉
(it's not a competition though, just having fun.)
60! Just now talking the time to figure out what it all means.
Nice and congrats!
May I ask on which country? I'm currently trying to get diagnosed in Germany and its really impossible so far.
I'm in the US. Not a formal diagnosis, but tested on embrace autism, and a few other sites. I'm the multiple retakes I get very close to the same results. I've talked with my wife (surprising to her the many things I do and things that she had no idea about) and son, and I've talked with a counselor (going regularly now). For me, I don't see the value of a neuro psych eval.
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I somehow managed to avoid it my entire miserable life. But then I caught the autism from my daughter at age 41.
Ha. Joke’s on you, everything I do is an autism. Plus I’m a lady. Checkmate redpillers.
I don't know how well received 'Love on the Spectrum' is in the community but I have to say it was mesmerizing when the one lady was on a date with the DJ guy and they we listing off song after song and the key it was in.
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I hate the train meme for its accuracy... I dispise trains but I ended up working on the railway anyway.
Who hates trains!? Before you worked on the railway, I mean.
Car and oil companies?
Hey, my country has decided giant corporations are people, and profits are speech. STOP OPPRESSING THEM!
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Growing up in the 80s made me ridiculously good at masking.
Which is to my detriment now that more resources are available. Unmasking in front of neurotypicals is quite difficult for me.
In the post about the new convert your colleagues to your faith in the breakroom memo by the Trump regime, I offered an example of what my spiritual workmates might encounter if they raised the topic of Jesus, several paragraphs about the cosmic horror of reality.
The main thrust is that all spirit, whether another subatomic factor, or a manifold like gravity, is transparent to to the standard model of particle physics. It's also transparent to relativity, but we expect that.
And that includes human souls, ghosts, afterlife.
My point was I've thought about and researched existential philosophy at length, possibly to suggest I'm ASD (disclosure: I'm diagnosed), and my evangelical rivals may as well be walking into the Total Perspective Vortex.
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I! AM! A SURGEON!
Only from a distance. Ok I wear a big floppy hat so even from a distance!
I compiled a list of 4000 color names and their rgb values.
When 32-bit color depth came out, a magazine reported a request by a non-computer person to create a list of all the colors. Just all of them. The response was something like
00 00 00 Black
00 00 01 Still black
00 00 02 Nope, still black
00 00 03 More black
...
So a list of 4000 colors, named, might actually be useful at least to give someone a scope of color depth.
That's just fantastic!
I have the kind of AuDHD which almost completely disappears with the right dose of alcohodderall. In fact I can be downright witty and gregarious when that equilibrium kicks in just right, so the true awkwardness is reserved for those who exist in those unfortunate, but necessary windows of sobriety.
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