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Darialan
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21 Jul 2013, 5:19 pm

I'm in a psych rehab group and we went to a park with a pool for picnic with another psych rehab group from a county over that's not far from us. There's is a little bigger. I started not so great. I haven't had my sleep test yet, but I'm 100% positive I have sleep apnea, so at first I have my head layed down on the picnic table while we are trying to do sort of game that's supposed to get the two groups to communicate, but I was determined not to stay that way, so I stood up slapped my face on both few times to wake myself up and I'm like "is there any caffeine? I really need it." After a couple of diet colas I was a little better. My social problems still limited me when doing it, but I did hear from a few people. But this gets WAY BETTER!

Thursday was great! And it was a milestone in my communication skills. Yes I am awkward, but I see based on what happened today that that is okay. I approached a girl not much younger than me that I was attracted to and talked. Turns out she's spoken for, but as she said it's still good to meet new people and talk. Great how she responded to me. My confidence has boosted.



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21 Jul 2013, 5:59 pm

way to go! :)



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21 Jul 2013, 7:26 pm

That's awesome!!



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21 Jul 2013, 8:07 pm

Yay you!


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25 Jul 2013, 1:08 am

That is fantastic, however only do as much socialising as you can handle in my opinion, it does work for me and i have had to go back to that principle in this case. In the long term it will get increase your capabilities every time you work on it. SO HAVE A CRACK!! !! !! !



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25 Jul 2013, 8:01 pm

Great to see you're developing some social confidence: keep up the good work :)


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Given a “tentative” diagnosis as a child as I needed services at school for what was later correctly discovered to be a major anxiety disorder.

This misdiagnosis caused me significant stress, which lessened upon finding out the truth about myself from my current and past long-term therapists - that I am an anxious and highly sensitive person but do not have an autism spectrum disorder.

My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

I’m no longer involved with the ASD world.