Hello all
I'm Ollie or graf, call me whatever you prefer.
I've been struggling with many of the major symptoms of ASP for a good thirty years, though I'm yet to be officially diagnosed. Hopefully this month this will change as I'm planning to speak to a professional about my issues, sensitivity to noise, uneasiness in crowds, general lack of interest in social... anything really.
I've been lurking around here for a few weeks, looking into some other sources around the internet for a couple months, but I've had the "gut feeling" that I'm in the spectrum for a long while. I thought I'd just easily handle myself just "knowing" and then reacting accordingly to whatever happens but that changed after a couple of particularly stressful weeks destabilised my temperament and I blew the lid at my mother a couple of days ago, she was quiet upset and that further made me upset. I've apologised and it's all good now, but I see now that I should seek some professional help to better cope with whatever stressful situations arise in the future, especially since normally I'm a very agreeable person.
Aside from assistance from psychologists I thought that I'd join this forum since I've connected with a lot of what is written here, far more than with any other person that I know personally, so here I am, glad to be around so many people who share so many of my traits.
See you around.
09 Jul 2023, 5:08 pm
