Do you ever feel like you're trapped inside yourself??

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https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/2 ... -36-stress

I used to feel exactly the same way, especially as a teenager and young-adult. More recently, and thanks to a lot of encouragement from my amazing support network, I've learned to embrace the weirdness that is me. In doing so, I have moved from an unhappy and seemingly-introverted awkward person to being the extroverted awkward person that I think I always was deep down. I'll always be a little different from others, but now I'm in a group of people that values that about me. I'm not perfect, but I feel like the me I am today is the best version of myself so far. I think it really helps that my profession is rampant with successful people on the spectrum. Together we are actually pretty darn good at encouraging one another once we get comfortable.

Anyway, my advice to you is to think about the people and things in your life that bring you contentment. In my case, walking in that direction is what brought me to where I am.

Introvert with positive outlook on life and is a deep thinker. Introvert with a negative, self-pitying, poor me is no good. Medication and therapy can help with the low moods, low self esteem and confidence issues that plague Autistics. Autistics need to open up and become more sociable instead of being socially withdrawn, weird, recluse. No one likes negative silent people that sit in the corner or the weird people that stare and never say a word like we see in the horror movies.

Yes.
Sometimes I think because it's because of trauma. From being too sensitive to certain things and not being able to speak my mind on it. From not being confident.
I broke free of that some when homeless, having my own place, and not being around certain people too much.

Autism is a life long struggle that only people with it can understand how challenging and difficult life can be to constantly struggle to fit in and never be accepted. I have Autism and I am an extreme introvert. My life is not going to change by positive thinking or whatever suggestions people make. Making friends is very hard for us extreme introverts no one accepts people with Autism. I have focused more on fitness: cycling and running for the last 6 years but that does not change anything, no change in being an extreme introvert and I am still Autistic. I have never been accepted by society and will never be accepted by society. I always hated being labeled the freak/weirdo/creep/outcast/loser by randoms and it always upsets me. Every negative opinion gets to me and upsets me and I try to avoid social situations. I hate being misunderstood and not being accepted by society. I have always felt like the entire world has being working against me despite how hard I have tried to fit into society. Life is not fair!

I can totally relate. I'm so used to pretending and trying to appease others I don't even know what the real me is like. It's frustrating.

Being closed off due to disability and inability to talk, no one knows you, people fear the unknown. Typing online is my main communication to the outside world. I have been online posting for 20 years now!

I feel this way, mostly if I'm having some physical symptom of sensory overload (chest pains, muscle pains, stomach pain, headaches) and I'm not able to do much for myself in the moment.

I am a victim of society. I hate the victim blame society that changes nothing and only makes victims like me angrier over time. I am still a victim and my life is not going to change by idiots insulting me.

I feel like deep down inside of me, there is a witty raconteur residing in a body that says, "not so fast."

Why yes, yes I do

I know I am trapped by the world if I am myself.
So I lock myself and look at the world from a distance, it's a softer trap.

Constantly.

I spent many years trying to destroy that part of me that was so different from everyone that I knew. There was absolutely no awareness when I was a child of what this all might mean. There was just something really "wrong" with me and it came close to making me crazy. There seemed to be a chasm between "me" and the world.

Sean

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coming at it with a different tack, I was trapped inside myself in terms of not knowing just how alien I was. I was the thing that wouldn't leave but I didn't know it.