funeralxempire wrote:
skibum wrote:
I don't know if I would say that undiagnosed Autistics are neurotic. I believe that they are frustrated and confused but I don't think they suffer from neurosis. Of course some might, just like there is some neurosis in every part of the population, but I think that most undiagnosed Autistic adults are just suffering from a lifetime of never being able to have their needs acknowledged or met and they are completely misunderstood all the time. This causes immense frustration but I don't think it's diagnosable as neurosis.
So they aren't prone to behaving in unusual or anxious manners? Whether or not it's diagnosable isn't the point because the lay people who interact with them aren't attempting to make formal diagnoses, they're just judging (and remembering) them as neurotic, eccentric weirdos.
That is where you have to be careful. If I am responding to someone treating me badly because he doesn't understand me because he knows nothing about me, that doesn't make me neurotic. It makes me misunderstood. He can believe whatever he wants but that doesn't mean that that is what I actually am. If he treated me as I should be treated, I would respond very differently.
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17 Nov 2020, 7:17 pm
