Don't Feel Autistic Enough

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I too have never had a meltdown. I do experience occasional lack of emotional control when I am stressed, and then often want to withdraw.

By some standards, I am a very high achiever. I have no problem with language, metaphor, inference. I have only slightly nonstandard sensory responses, and no stims that I am aware of.

But I have major social anxiety and lack of social skills. I have also been learning about what the psychologists call executive function, which relates together a bunch of persistent issues in my life that I never thought were connected.

Be proud to be what you are, whatever that is.