I have severe Autism, I dont know what to do

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Im ret*d, straight up, problem is, no one knows, well, some suspect. I dont talk to anyone anymore really. I cant socialize. All I ever think about is money, and how badly I want it, so I can get by.

If you had severe autism you wouldn't have been able to write and post this thread.

Most people judge severity levels by your appearance. If people don't realize it then you aren't in anyway severe. Otherwise, severity labels are meaningless because there isn´t as of yet any official criterion-- just how people view you.

Yeah, and you wouldn't be so aware of your problems if you were severe. I've worked with individuals who actually are severe, and there's no way they would know how to post on this forum, let alone know WHAT to post.

Sounds like there are a lot of stereotypes running around this forum. Oh well. I don't have the energy or the words to refute what a couple people have said here, except that they're wrong. Not only in their conception as to what people labeled severe can understand and do, but also in their conception that there is currently an easy way to determine what 'severe' means (so I'd also disagree with the original poster, but only because he believes in the notion of 'severe autism' being an actual measurable thing). See other threads on this topic for multiple people (including, often, me) giving a lot more information on why this sort of idea is inaccurate.

QFT. This user has a questionable post history.

QFT again.

Everyone talks about mild/moderate/severe, and I don't know how I'm supposed to tell them that their concept of it is wrong. On the other hand, some things about the divide make sense to me. I don't know if it was something that has been ingrained into my brain from birth by my amazing parents who like to put things into categories. I try not to. However, separating Asperger's from autism is the exact same thing - putting autistic people into categories. The HFA/AS border is a mess, so why not just let go of the labels and see it as one spectrum altogether? That makes much more sense to me, because some people with a clinically significant speech delay still get diagnosed with AS and vice versa.

I have a friend who has been diagnosed with Asperger's, and she says that the kids who have been labelled with autism scare her and she doesn't get them. Every time I refer to myself as autistic, she says, but you're not autistic, you're an Aspie. And I say back to her that even though I am verbal, my patterns of thinking are very much similar to someone with ASD who does not have the same verbal and conceptual abilities as me. I don't know... I get other people on the spectrum, non-verbal or not, to some extent or another, depending on whether they are more rigid/logical or more emotional (I don't relate to the more emotional people with ASD as much as I do to the more logical ones). But my point is, I generally feel more comfortable and relaxed with people anywhere on the spectrum than I generally do with those without an ASD. She's the opposite, and I don't understand it. She doesn't see herself in them at all, and yet she's on the spectrum herself and sees some parts of herself in me. I guess the current DSM criteria make it possible for two people on the spectrum to have symptoms that are completely different in nature.

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That´s very strange. Why would they scare her? I think that sounds rude...

I know. I actually felt offended, to be honest. When I worked with ASD kids, I could see that they were very sensitive to everything that was being said about them, because I feel myself through them so much.

Maybe she had a bad experience with one of them? :shrugs:

Maybe. I'm going to see her tomorrow and ask her, as well as show her my mild/moderate/severe thread. I am very curious about what she'll have to say about it. Unfortunately, she's not as passionate about thinking about these aspects of autism as I am.

I've overheard NT people say things like "I don't want to be mean but their rocking back and forth creeps me out." The lack of knowledge about ASD's saddens me. I don't think someone who understood such a behaviour would find it creepy. It's odd that someone with asperger's wouldn't identify with someone with more "severe" autism, especially.

You said in another thread that you lost your friends because of FINDING OUT that you MIGHT be autistic and you based this on how quiet and shy you were. You also claimed that you are 23. Now, personally, I define severity in personal needs, but people would know if there was a problem if you were severely autistic (whether people mistake it for a mental health problem or they recognise that it's autism). So, I take everything back - you're just a troll.

Haven't you just post a thread to say that you were not autistic at all ?

Perhaps you are a compulsive liar.

What to do? topic

In the other thread you tell us you do not "have autism."

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