Things people just don't understand about Asperger's

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- You can still have verbal communication difficulties. It can be difficult to put your thoughts in order and describe your emotions.

- Obsessions can rule your life. To the point where for some people you can not see a life beyond them and don't care about anything else.

- Social problems are only one small aspect of this disorder, other symptoms can be much more severe and distressing. However ''society'' just like to focus on the social aspect.

- It can be difficult to read your own emotions, not just other people's.

- Recognizing faces of other people you've only met 2, 3 times before can be difficult. However people expect you to remember them. Most NT's have no idea ''facial blindness'' is an ASD symptom.

So true!

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Last edited by ZachGoodwin on 13 Jan 2018, 2:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yet NTs can't be bothered to remember my name. I find NTs to be hypocrites when it comes to remembering names. Sometimes people address me by names that start with the same letter as my name. I have tried correcting them, but after awhile, I give up.

The face blindness thing is really annoying. I can walk past people I've seen for years, even family members. Very embarrassing. The not being able to talk in necessarily clear sentences is even worse.

How much pre-emptive planning and organising goes into every day, especially when it comes to social occasions. People think I'm a lot more laid back than I really am.

People get pissed at me for this.

Because that's all they see from the outside.

NT's just have no clue unless they are parenting a child with Asperger's or direct family member with it..

Agree with finding it difficult to know how you feel. You have to really work at it, and still it’s tough.

^ wow, been a while since I last saw that meme!

I have trouble identifying emotions and tend to focus on solving problems, but that does not mean I don't feel anything at all. I do feel, but I can't describe.

Yep i have trouble reafing my own emotions and i get caught up too much eith stuff that interests me that it dominates my life and most of the stuff i cant relate to others and yh there are most crippling impairments with Aspurgurs like empathy, relating to others, expreasing emotion, controlling emotion and also i find that i become extremely ttired doing tasks that i find too mundane, unengaging or require alot of effort. I have such low tolerence for so many subjects at school and im not going to get started on lights!

Pretty much bang on.

I've had this very same problem with many NTs. I believe it has something to do with spite because it seems like many NTs prefer you kiss their ass or something to that effect before they even call you by your name. It's insanely rude and very condescending.

I've suspected that many NTs have simply clued into the fact (amazingly) that I might be mentally disabled and use the opportunity to further their own ego at my expense. I've encountered this situation many a time with them.

So is mental multi task -- not only emotions and thoughts, but also taking account of the sensory info, accounts of past and present info, and more or less at the mercy of either certainty or unpredictability of the future. Just self regulation overall, if not only or also the aptitude.


The question is that if said obsessions are more of a 'need' that is to make sense of things for the sake of assurance and certainty -- Than an intense 'want' that the mind couldn't let go for no reason.


Oh, yes! YesYesyesyes.


What are the odds that an autistic also has alexithymia? And what are the odds that this had something to do with the complexity of the culture and it's subtile reading?


Or asociality. Or lack of eye contact and never bothering with the face. Or bad visual memory. What are the odds that an autistic also has prosopagnosia or visual processing or memory issues?


Anyway, long story short -- I agree.