How to live as an asperger and have a happy life ?

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When I was 13 years old I was running a dating agency between grammar school girls and grammar school boys as the schools were about a mile apart, for 2 Cigarettes per date; and couldn’t ‘give a monkeys’ as to its morality.

By 15½ however I had changed, and decided to kill my memory of who I was as I had died and came back to life every time I tried to consciously kill myself, over 2,200 times (est) between age 3½ days old and 15½ years.

This wasn’t unusual apart from the number of times I tried: because approx. two thirds of us die before attaining adulthood, mostly by suicide or reckless endangerment see https://binged.it/2vYC47L, http://bit.ly/1JqH7hw, and http://bit.ly/1KuwoBj.

I can teach you how to avoid and prevent suicide ideations if they try to creep up on you from behind and poison your mind by biting you in the bum with its poison fangs, Check with your adult carer and PM me for details if you feel the need to begin taking proper precautions now. I’ve been coaching and counselling other auties and aspies in this since mastering it myself by age 50. I don’t charge fees because I never had to pay to learn how, so I don’t ask anyone else to. I’ve been banned from websites for this, when advertisers on them object to my doing it for free.

I consider these to be day-to-day tips that helped me a lot in the past with work, socialising and general living.

1) Make time for your special interests. They will keep you sane. Though, don't overdo it.
2) Find new things to do. It'll broaden your social circles without you realising.
3) While it's difficult, take time to listen to your peers and your family. That doesn't mean you have to agree with them, or heed their advice. But at least consider their words and their thoughts to build on your own. Through this you can find comfort in trying to apply reason as well as logic, and being a better person for doing so.
4) At work, make time for social activities but don't feel you have to attend each one. You don't have to say much, or do much, but be there and blend in and experience what's going on. Avoid talking work and politics if you can outside of work. Not only will it stress you out, but those around you. Work isn't always pleasant for Aspies, so if you're not managing a project or people consider each moment you aren't working an opportunity to not talk or worry about it.
5) Consider hygiene at most times. Always have clean clothes ready to wear, too. If you have sensory issues, OCD, or are self conscious about your peers this will alleviate a lot of those problems for you.
6) It's OK to have vices such as drinking, smoking, partying, concerts etc. Just don't let them become your coping mechanisms. They should be treats to look forward to, not a means to an end.
7) Learn to cook and enjoy a variety of meals and appetisers. This will significantly improve your budget and health. More money and better health tends to do wonders
Your likes/dislikes and opinions can change over time. Rather than build bonds over your hobbies and current political views, seek to find those with little bits of common ground such as work, or a pastime, that have the potential to develop greater qualities within your friendship such as loyalty, trust and humour.

I hope in your coming years, you find the happiness you seek!

Most if not all of the ploys you use to cloak symptoms you aren’t comfortable with are forms of denial. We are hyper-sensitive. About 25-30 times as sensitive as neurotypicals and we feel about 10 times as many senses as they do. It’s little wonder that’s the hardest part of having ASD for you. It manifested in my childhood by making me die and come back to life more than 2,200 times (est) from a couple of minutes at a time to a couple of days (about 48 hours max).

I’m 72 years old now, so I managed to attain my biblically promised three score years and ten, and feel I’m a walking, talking, thinking, miracle, to have done so. But it’s not all down to me. I’ve had secret, invisible, guides and mentors since very little, and talk to them each day; and I use a few guided meditation recordings with their aid, to repair bits of my body and brain that are getting dry and crinkly from old age. And I don’t complain, as having ASD has been a great white knuckle ride. But I have a few physical injuries from it that give me jip. My hip and lower spine ball and socket joints have lost their crowns, and give me much pain when I have spasms. And only strong painkillers distract me from that. Sometimes I scream the plaster off the walls and ceilings I'm in so much pain and it makes my wife, daughter, and grandkids laugh, which distracts me enough from the pain for it to tolerable. Don’t get me wrong. Having such hypersensitivity has its advantages. Lovemaking has taken on new dimensions for my wife and me. Our sensitivities have become so intense they have me gripping the headboard of my bed with my teeth and my wife dies from oxygen starvation from holding her breath too long. But its only for a couple of minutes at a time, before coming back to life, and asking me for a cup of tea and a biscuit. She was my teenage sweetheart but she’s 71 now to my 72, and we are having more fun now being married than when we were 16 and 17 respectively and still courting. So don’t let anyone tell you its no fun growing old!

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Maybe it's the dad in me but I'm not sure your subject matter is appropriate in this forum ^^^^^ far better in the adult discussions IMO

I've just come back after having second thoughts to edit my last post and toned it down a lot. Getting content right is difficult in public websites like this. But we are exclusively autie/aspie aware and sensory overloads into meltdowns are commonplace to us, so in my view, nothing that has anything to do with autie/aspie hypersensitivity is anything like sacrosanct. Nothing I said before the edit would have been banned in Yahoo Answers, where I did my research for the appendix of FAQs in my trilogy and compendium of memoirs of my life and work. Nor would it have been banned in quora. The youngest person who has contributed to this thread is 13. I've been coaching and counselling youngsters as young as 12 for the past 20+ years and I've found them more mature than their parents imagine them to be. There's nothing I've written here in wrongplanet that I wouldn't have been happy my two grandchildren, aged 8 and 9, reading. Many people complain about the political correctness of my discussing suicide and mental health issues in public forums, but then reinforce stigmas about issues that arise in love and marriage. And that amounts to having double standards, and I don't have double standards. That's duplicity.

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I appreciate it

Thanks Ferris . I looked at the post after it had been edited, thanks to you! There are some things I'd rather not know.......

Yeah, 4 X's from the judges.

Awesome reference!

Had to be done

And that 13 year old has the last word! Thankyou Stampy!

Thank you!

Yup, it really had to . AGT is awesome!

Hey Stampy, how was your day?

I just re-read the rules and see that the only rule I broke was discussing excretory function - so I humbly apologise to you all for that - I can't promise I won't do it again as when discussing health issues What You See Is What You Get - and I don't see what is offensive about the excretory function - doesn't anyone realise that when somebody suicides they evacuate the bladder and the bowel as well as the lungs and the brain

It was pretty good until now LOL. How was yours?