Verdandi
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15 Apr 2011, 11:43 am
kfisherx wrote:
Uh congrats I guess.. 
You were always "official" in my books.
I have NO PROBLEM being rude to those people who knock on my door to teach me about their God. None whatsoever.... It is almost a sport in fact and I wear my "crazy" mask just fine for that event.... Last ones I had spun their tires to get off my property they were so frightened.... (Think 2nd Hand Lions Here folks...)
Funny thing they never come back.
You were always "official" in my books.I have NO PROBLEM being rude to those people who knock on my door to teach me about their God. None whatsoever.... It is almost a sport in fact and I wear my "crazy" mask just fine for that event.... Last ones I had spun their tires to get off my property they were so frightened.... (Think 2nd Hand Lions Here folks...)
Funny thing they never come back.
I've always had the impression you were more outgoing than I am.
Thank you, means a lot.
If I didn't need to document diagnoses and medical treatment, it would have been a lot less important. I stopped qualifying "I think I have it" awhile ago, because it felt like equivocating over something dead obvious to me - and now two medical professionals who agree that it is dead obvious, so I guess my assessment was correct. 
bumble wrote:
Before you were diagnosed how where you sure you had it? Is it worth bringing the possibility up with a therapist or is it better to wait and see if they suggest it?
I brought it up briefly to my therapist, and then she kept bringing it back up and talking about what she saw and asking me questions about it.
Being sure I had it was a lot of work - when I first thought I had it, it was from reading blogs by autistic people (like anbuend's) and finding a lot things that resonated and felt familiar, going into denial for three years, and then being put into a situation where it became so obvious I had to look at it. In this case, constant sensory overload causing more shutdowns than I usually experience, and reading Pensieve's description of shutdowns at the same time, and then working backwards from there to identify everything else because I felt normal to myself.
So really, the only reason I thought I had it was due to exposure to other autistic people.
Surreal wrote:
Well, if that was YOUR experience, I'd HATE to see what a diagnostician would say about me! Is there a category BEYOND "extremely rigid"? Oppositional-Defiant, perhaps?
And yeah, I do NOT like unannounced visitors or even when the folks have had people come in to repair something and I find out at the last minute (or even days before
). I tend to go somewhere where they can't see me and I literally stop doing anything I was doing when they enter. I hate to even have to say anything to them. For some reason, I start having mild anxiety issues; my ONLY thought is that I wish they'd just GO AWAY!
If it's somebody I have asked to come over for some reason, that's different. It's always somebody I know!
And yeah, I do NOT like unannounced visitors or even when the folks have had people come in to repair something and I find out at the last minute (or even days before
). I tend to go somewhere where they can't see me and I literally stop doing anything I was doing when they enter. I hate to even have to say anything to them. For some reason, I start having mild anxiety issues; my ONLY thought is that I wish they'd just GO AWAY!If it's somebody I have asked to come over for some reason, that's different. It's always somebody I know!
Well, like I said, it was a mild example. I mean, I didn't even think I had a routine before December. Just because I did the same thing every day and got angry at people who interrupted it doesn't mean I have a routine. Right?
15 Apr 2011, 1:52 pm
15 Apr 2011, 2:01 pm
Hi, congratulations!
From your previous posts, I was fairly certain that you had it as well. It seems that it was "official" from the start!
Also...
@kfisherx: You're my new hero! I would have loved to have been witness to such a scene.
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15 Apr 2011, 2:26 pm
Surreal wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
If you're the only one who got angry as a result of anything related to your routine(s) then I must be a FRIGGIN' basket case! MY routines make OTHER PEOPLE angry!
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I mean, I didn't even think I had a routine before December. Just because I did the same thing every day and got angry at people who interrupted it doesn't mean I have a routine. Right?
If you're the only one who got angry as a result of anything related to your routine(s) then I must be a FRIGGIN' basket case! MY routines make OTHER PEOPLE angry!
Haha, no, other people get angry at me, too. These days everything's pretty much expected so it happens a lot less, though. Most of the worst strife was 3-4 years ago, with a bit of a flare up last August.
But yeah, if what I said was extreme, I have no idea how she would have described with all of those details.
syrella wrote:
From your previous posts, I was fairly certain that you had it as well. It seems that it was "official" from the start!
I get this a lot. Thanks.
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