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Dampening OCD
I am realising that the coping mechanism of dampening inputs, goes beyond lessening autistic responses. I don’t know if my OCD is a part of the autism, but the dampening helps it enormously. Just like regular people stop hearing repetitive … Continue reading
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Late Diagnosis
Tom Cutler was diagnosed late, like me. And unlike most medical diagnoses, it was good news, it solved the why. A couple of excerpts from his excellent article, all of which I relate to: During one pub lunch, after I’d … Continue reading
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Internal Inconsistencies
When watching movie/TV, and I am engaged, I can easily suspend belief with the most ridiculous scenarios. But the internal logic needs to work. When it doesn’t I can rattle off my issues with it as a list at the … Continue reading
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Routine and Home vs Travel and Work
It is 5am and I was just explaining this to someone, in a dream. In the dream I had fled from something wrong in my life, and ended up in a commune. I knew two people there, a boss and … Continue reading
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I Get Angry
Everybody gets angry sometimes. It is a human trait we all have, and it is widely disliked and discouraged. I would guess even the Dalai Lama gets angry sometimes, but he internalises it, and smiles. I never display anger, but … Continue reading
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Think Too Much, Feel Too Much
This isn’t news to me. I have been saying this for years. Autism is a response to thinking and feeling more than neuro-typical folk. It is a defence mechanism. While we might appear to have the least empathy, ultimately we … Continue reading
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The Woodcutter
I have no idea which book/movie/whatever inspired it, but I had a teen fantasy about being a woodcutter. It was my way of working out the simplest world that would make me feel complete and happy – the opposite of … Continue reading
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The Extrovert Aspy
Copy and pasting this in full, it is that good, found here: One of the central characteristics of autism in DSM 5 is a deficit in social communication and social interaction. The social and interpersonal aspects of life are a … Continue reading
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Suicide
People on the Autism Spectrum are substantially more likely to consider suicide and also to do it (from memory it is 6x more and 2x more). This makes sense when you consider my 4 word summary of people with Asperger’s … Continue reading
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Non-Verbal
Supposedly 80% of communication is non-verbal. I know that, without a doubt, when you remove seeing the person who is talking from the equation, I struggle. Don’t get me wrong – I get less information non-verbally, socially, than neuro-typical folk. … Continue reading
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