A TBI mimicking autism.

Post Reply New Topic

I previously posted a slightly less accurate statement that I have aspergers. There are clear aspergers or autism traits, but I don't show many of the clearer signs which so many in the community display. I won't self diagnose online, besides the head injury I had in a cross walk in first grade, that Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) mimics austism or aspergers in some ways. Not sure why, but mom never took me in for a brain scan. I'm not religious or spiritual, but since a young age (after the TBI), my mother, a constant church going piano player always said I had a supreme ability to meditate. As I still don't meditate today, and can extrapolate back that i never did meditate, I can only assume, my desire to find peace and quiet, a puzzle piece my mother always reminded me of, which didn't fit as I wasn't religious or spiritual, that piece of the puzzle fits beautifully after my full Neo-exam. My executive functioning areas of my brain get overloaded too quickly due to the injury, and finding peace and quiet was my only source of rejuvination. My religious church going mom stood so proud over her only son since he could meditate so well since a young age. Funny thing in retrospect. How people mislabel people. To this day I can too easily get overloaded and need to find a quiet place. Not to meditate, just to find silence. Thanks for reading.

I welcome you here at Wrong Planet, whether you are aspie or whether you have similar traits for a different reason. Either way, we can potentially learn from each other.

I can remember being in second grade and going through rolls of coins from the bank looking for wheat pennies and older nickels. It was really like a centering exercise. I also like to use paper or cloth in my hands as I imagine sports or action scenes. I still sometimes privately do this as an adult. Yes, it's embarrassing, so be it. It helps me kind of decompress and re-center myself.