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20 May 2019, 7:18 pm

I have learned that other autistics view their autism differently and that there are legitimate reasons for this.

I now understand that my and others difficulties are not solely the result of discrimination and the NT world misunderstanding us. While I think discrimination and misunderstanding of the NT world are very important factors, Autism and other lack of skills also are at fault.


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20 May 2019, 7:37 pm

Sometimes reading people's threads I feel like I'm not on the spectrum at all. Sometimes I feel as autistic as hell. Most of all, I realize how different we are even when we are similar. This is super important because the only autistic person I interact with on a regular basis irl is my son. Sometimes I assume I know exactly what he's going through, but we couldn't be more different. I've learned to be a better advocate for him-and myself-in any case.



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20 May 2019, 7:52 pm

When you've seen one autistic person, you've seen ... exactly one autistic person!



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20 May 2019, 8:21 pm

I don't know that I have changed so much as I have learned and discovered a lot about myself that I wasn't really aware of before.



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20 May 2019, 10:00 pm

auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:



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20 May 2019, 10:29 pm

Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:

we're all older than we were.



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21 May 2019, 12:17 am

auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:

we're all older than we were.



Tell me about it. :mrgreen:



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21 May 2019, 12:33 am

MjrMajorMajor wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:

we're all older than we were.



Tell me about it. :mrgreen:

tell me, is it better to grow old, or is it better to be in the benjamin button scenario?



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21 May 2019, 1:32 am

auntblabby wrote:
MjrMajorMajor wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:

we're all older than we were.



Tell me about it. :mrgreen:

tell me, is it better to grow old, or is it better to be in the benjamin button scenario?


Never watched the movie, but I don't think there's any gain either way if you don't include life experience in the mix. :chin:



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21 May 2019, 1:56 am

MjrMajorMajor wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
MjrMajorMajor wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:

we're all older than we were.



Tell me about it. :mrgreen:

tell me, is it better to grow old, or is it better to be in the benjamin button scenario?


Never watched the movie, but I don't think there's any gain either way if you don't include life experience in the mix. :chin:

or the right kind of life experiences.



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21 May 2019, 7:48 am

auntblabby wrote:
MjrMajorMajor wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
mee too. :|


I found I am older than I was 6 years ago.
That's a big change. :mrgreen:

we're all older than we were.



Tell me about it. :mrgreen:

tell me, is it better to grow old, or is it better to be in the benjamin button scenario?


It would have been better if I hadn't been drafted in the first place. 8O



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22 May 2019, 12:49 am

Pepe wrote:
It would have been better if I hadn't been drafted in the first place. 8O

you were drafted into the military?



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23 May 2019, 2:20 pm

I actually first joined this forum back when I was 17 and the depression was kicking in. I actually stopped posting for ten years when I tried to ask for help but nothing worked.



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12 Sep 2019, 5:57 am

I have become far more aware of myself. Wow! It has been quite a journey. A mental adventure if you ask me. It is like it has been a tsunami of unleashing discovery and I am on the whoosh bit that comes inland slowly as I have been the vibrant crest bit.... And maybe where the slowly moving bit stops will be the date of the assessment... By which time I very much doubt that anyone will be able to tell me anything about myself which I didn't already know. But how to survive until then? How to keep my head above the water as I flow slowly to that time?


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12 Sep 2019, 7:44 am

I'm taller.



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12 Sep 2019, 11:26 am

I stopped being obsessed with my putative AS, with the question "do I really have it or not?" to this extent it was when I was in my twenties. I also stopped being obsessed with my growing older (yes, even when I was as young as 18 or 20, I was terrified I was growing old :roll: ).


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