Do you ever get 'glimpses'?

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03 Jan 2012, 5:27 am

I get this whenever I enter a conversation, which I guess makes me lucky. Occasionally I'll make a stupid remark which will embarrass me afterwards, but generally speaking, I've perfected this art for most of my mandatory social situations.

Of course, I always feel very fake when I do this, so I don't bother when I'm with people I'm actually comfortable with.

I should also note that I don't pretend to me NT or anything, I just sort of end up mimicking the socialising style of the person/people I'm talking to.

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03 Jan 2012, 6:32 am

Sometimes, but usually when I'm tweaking the dosage on a med or something. I had almost 3 months of perfect functionality once under the influence of Topamax, I quit a terrible job I'd been stuck at for 3+ years, got a better job, and took some classes I'd been meaning to before beginning the inevitable slide back to depression and torpor that always seems to follow an initially promising med with me. I also can temporarily "cure" most of my social issues with a definitely off-label combination of Tylenol 3 and clonazepam, but because of the risk of liver damage I only take that stuff when I've got a migraine; the effect on my social issues is a silver lining to my pain management strategy.

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03 Jan 2012, 10:34 am

SomethingWitty wrote:

Do you ever get brief glimpses when you suddenly transcend your autism/aspergers?
Like when you can be spontaneous in a conversation, joke around and generally seem neurotypical.
And how long do these glimpses last?
When im feeling good, I can seem neurotypical for about a week if I immerse myself in social situations but unfortunately this usually leads to a meltdown. :cry:

Thanks in advance for any responses

No. None that I can remember anyways.

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03 Jan 2012, 2:19 pm

I do get these random transcendent glimpses, and afterwards I always feel like, "Why can't I be like that all the time socially?" It would never last a week or anything for me, though.

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03 Jan 2012, 6:23 pm

I generally appear neurotypical when I am in a comfortable or familiar situation. If I know the people around me, and the conversation is about something that interests me I usually appear completely normal. The same is true when I am in an obviously non-threatening situation, like when I am relating to children. If I am not in a comfortable or familiar situation, though, I don't do well at all. I will either excuse myself if I think it is appropriate, or escape into my own version of reality while doing my best to pretend to be attentive. Fortunately I have never had meltdowns. - LJS

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03 Jan 2012, 7:28 pm

I very often pass as NT, but everyone thinks I'm a witty pervert. I've learned that if I use my quick wit and blurted out inappropriate things, people won't care (or tell the difference) when I didn't realize something was inappropriate. My blunt honesty comes off as joking insults. It really really works for me.

Example with Preston, a coworker in his late 40s
Preston: I don't see anything wrong with dating younger women.
Me: Are you a pedo?
Preston: It goes both ways. Younger women like older men because we're smoother, know how to treat a lady, and more experienced in the bedroom
Me: Maybe they like older men because when your pot belly gets big enough to block the view of your dick and you start needing viagra, you have to learn how to talk about something other than how you'll ravaged her with your tiny member.

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03 Jan 2012, 8:40 pm

Surfman wrote:

I think all of us can fire on all cylinders, or feel top of the the world, but am wary if this implies lack of autistic programming

Rather then amelioration of the symptoms while a specimen expresses in their best manner and in good heart

Tony Attwood says aspergers sufferers mainly suffer other people, to themselves they are happy enough

historically by my dim reckoning, the times I seemed less aspie, were bereft of the usual daily grind, and had an extra or wild card aspect like travelling or extreme fitness.

The procreative urge within may allow for temporal reduction of the autistic expression, as in a subconscious attempt to allow mating to occur. A critical moment indeed for the dna

I think I love you.

There have been times - long times - where I was essentially existing as an autistic exists, and I'm not on the AS spectrum.

These glimpses into autism often made me feel rather pathetic, less then myself, lost and depressed. But I'm glad I experienced them, and I still am experiencing them, it's the nature of my current diagnoses, It gives me insight.

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03 Jan 2012, 9:27 pm

I totally have 'glimpes'. It's like your brain goes on auto pilot and you're totally in the moment and on auto-pilot and a real human being rather than being a self-conscious nervous freak. Do like.

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