Has anyone here "grown out" of their autism?Any advice?

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It's weird that, isn't it?

I relate to your 'moments' but in reverse, because I have moments where I suddenly seem acutely autistic.
For instance, I have someone coming to stay with my partner and I for a couple of nights, family. When I get asked to do things with people, I have this moment of...not panic, but this horrible sinking feeling that seems to preceed panic, and the last thing in the world I want is to have them come over. It's social avoidance and fear of breaking structure.

But then other times I'm 100% totally fine with it, and I can even look forward to it.

I guess the sinking feeling happens because I know that at any point in time I can seemingly fall into this...pit of tiredness, not wanting to socialize, having every small task (including recreational things) seem arduous at any point in time for seemingly no reason at all.

I call them mood swings, but when I'm down functioning takes so much effort. It's mental and there are emotions involved, but I've been depressed too and it's not the same.



Another thing though, I too have seemed to have undergone some sort of slow-growing process of self-realization that I didn't have before, that is absolutely still on-going, where I realize things about myself that I didn't realize before. It's like...I wasn't ignoring myself, but I also wasn't applying concepts that I use to describe things around me to myself at all.

The other user hit the nail on the head when he said things seem much quiter now.

Sadly I'm not growing out if it because I didn't make it to that normal feeling and my math skills have regressed back to when I first gained the clarity.

My spelling has improved slightly which is nice,I guess.

But I wish I could go back in a way , when I thought I was crazy I had hope . But I see autism/aspergers is much more than just being crazy , its a fundamental difference in your cognitive ability.

The werid thing is when I get these moments of lucidness ,I see how my mind distorts reality and I think it might even distort the way I see and hear things .

The best way to describe it ,is like that one twilight zone episode where the guy has "forgetten" how to talk correctly .But instead of being conpletetly different words they're similar ones.

No, I have not, but I change as a person with age. As time goes on, life's experieces changed me. I guess I am slower than most people with learning from them. I still as always have the mind of a child and an adult at the same time. I have the behaviour of an autistic person but have been taken advantage and used by some people because they see me as naïve. This has made me very wary and now I have stopped trusting people so much and I am nowhere near naïve.

Realizes how bad we got it compared to normal folks ,trying to find a way to end it

Have you even been tested or does anyone else in your family have celiac disease sAMY?

The celiac forums were full of people whose 'brain fog' from gluten was extremely severe, and it would return if they ever messed up their diet. Also a few people who reported visual and auditory distortions that disappeared once they finally stopped eating gluten.

I think we “adjust” which makes it feel like we are outgrowing. But deep down at 42, I'm still the same dude.

So it turns out I confused acceptance of my disability with "growing out" of it.

Because when I began to accept it I noticed all the things I did /

In addition to being autistic I'm also gay, and because both of those issues cost me immeasurable torment, I've learned to hide them. Sometimes you can tell I'm on the spectrum or gay but most of the time you can't. I've had a lot of years to practice looking normal, not to mentioning drinking like a fish to better assimilate into society.

We grow into Aspergers rather than out of it.

Aspergers is a state of being that will never go away. We who are Aspies learn how to be who we are and as a result we might sense we are'growing out of it' but we are essentially the same person. No matter how far I progress I find something happens that brings me back to reality and reminds me of my Aspie nature. Its never a shock are a matter of being upset I just generally end up smiling to myself and reminding myself of who I am.

I outgrew a lot of my autistic traits. I'm not sure if I was ever truly autistic to begin with. I think I just have ADHD with a few autistic traits. It's easy to get that stuff mixed up in kids.

I've obtained pretty good social skills and have learned to manage my sensory issues.

But a lot of my symptoms are getting worse, I think due to other lifestyle effects or being compounded by my depression.