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It's Wednesday 05/20/2026. Hey, What's Going On! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Lexam@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world

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It's already been a long week. But I'm off call now.

This post is for casual conversation if you don’t feel like making a post of your own.

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did it today. Actual legit assessment with a psychologist.

Still need to finish the at-home portions and wait a few weeks for the results.

Last year, at the behest of some people in my life, I looked around for casual tests. Found this community and embrace-autism. Did pretty much all of their tests and more leaned toward autism than not. I put off getting an actual assessment because I thought I knew myself, I thought I didn't have problems with it.

And now the doubts are surfacing. As I am against reviewing the literature on autism I'm wondering if I'll get diagnosed with social anxiety disorder instead. I'm trying to focus on the relief of having the question answered rather than anything else.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe a helpful anecdote? I went to my last assessment appointment which was supposed to be the results and the assessor was like, "oh, I just have a few more questions..."

Fam, I thought I had failed my autism assessment and I was just a bad person. No, turns out I'm so autism they didn't even need to call my contacts to confirm 😭

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

An odd phenomenon i noticed.

Usually people like to share their hobbies to whoever is willing to listen and especially to people close to them.

What if that doesn't work? Like the complete opposite, trying to hide their hobbies especially from people close to them and really uncomfortable if any questions are asked about it or any comments made to the degree of not actually even engaging in any hobby activities in the fear of getting any attention on it?

I know it's not normal. I just can't figure out what that is or how to fix it?

Or is that too heavy subject for casual conversations?

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Telling people specifics about my hobbies has always been scary. Particularly when it's weird or doesn't fit the way I assume people see me. For me, I ascribe it to social anxiety mostly, esp resulting from a bunch of childhood occurances that made me very insecure about being open about my interests. Probably one of those things that's not directly autism, but commonly happens in autistic people because of the social issues that often comes with.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 points 13 hours ago

That's interesting, thank you for sharing.

So it's more of a correlational relationship rather than causational.

Does it happen with people close to you as well? Like with people who you can trust and logically know wouldn't say anything bad or shame you for any of those hobbies?

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kind of common in Autism. Partially I think it's from wanting to be unseen and partially from the fact many of us are attracted to obscure and non traditional hobbies and we have been judged in our youth causing us to hide instead of showing our accomplishments and hobbies.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

That's interesting. Good to know it's more common, not good that it is more common, just the knowledge of it being common is good. That means there are more people who have dealt with it and maybe gotten better at managing it.

[–] overcast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

nice to see this community being active

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Glad you're getting some rest! We went to Bruce Bringsteen last night. I've never seen him before, and it was an incredible show. He's 76 and he still works his ass off like he's Taylor Swift's age.