Of course, I'm friggin hilarious
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I do, and my therapist thinks it comes from toxic shame, not autism related...
Anyway, even if my brain tells me that those people over there surely are laughing at me, I'm trying to convince myself of the opposite. They most probably don't give a shit about me :)
I mean, I don't think it's the autism for me. I think it's the small, safe amount of paranoia I keep about a lot of things around me that might cause that very rarely.
Keep in mind how much you pay attention to people when you're laughing.
Most people don't give a fuck about what you're doing. They are in their own world, stay in yours and nothing phases you.
I think feeling at the center of negative attention is kinda totally regular for autists?
Since we can not read social cues and everything well we have to process everything and of course it evaluates on us.
For me I've gone so far to isolate from this that I might not recognize even if you are addressing me.
Hahaha, no we're not. That's ridiculous
A great companion to RSD
I have a funny anecdote.
I don’t have autism but depression strongly tied with social interactions and how I’m perceived. Also being bullied a lot didn’t help regarding being paranoid about people laughing at me cause it was true in school and high school.
Well, while at university I was seeing a psychiatrist cause depression and told her that I also felt like shit because I felt that everyone was making fun of me.
She quickly jumped and asked “Do you hear voices too?” completely preoccupied.😅
I had to assure her that no, I did not hear voices.
That would require me paying attention now, but 14 y.o. me was this way.
Between “it’s none of your business what others think of you” and realizing other people are also pretty much only interested in their own lives on a day-to-day level it’s helped my psyche quite a bit.
Not saying everyone can do that of course, but it’s my own experience at least.
I'm the opposite of this but this is my gf to a T.