Called lazy and "only think of myself?"

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zeldapsychology
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08 May 2015, 8:16 am

I get told this A LOT! I was wondering if it was common among other Aspies. I have as I'd call rare OCD cleaning days (run around clean clean clean) (no offense to OCD suffers it's just my made up term.) Other times I don't "feel" like cleaning much some days. I started a new anxiety pill in February and for 2 weeks I was in SOCIAL OVERDRIVE OCD CLEAN OMG OMG! Such as oh no what if this isn't clean or this why am I wasting time playing a game for 2hrs. (when I had just planned a quick 30min. mission). I should make sure this/this is clean so mom is happy when she gets home from working all day SOCIAL OVERLOAD!

Now despite upping the 10mg up to 15mg 3x's a day (from seeing my doctor in April.) I don't feel that affect (thankfully) IMO. I HATED Social overdrive. But opposite is no drive don't feel like cleaning. It seems boring to me. :-(

Anyone relate somewhat? Thanks.



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08 May 2015, 8:29 am

No, I don't because the title and the social overload and the cleaning are all 3 separate things in my head and you've made them 1.


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08 May 2015, 12:24 pm

Very common for people to think Autistic people are lazy, selfish, rude and other negative things. Autism is an invisible condition so people see the outside presentation, not the internal cause.


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