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Jakki
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13 Aug 2023, 8:56 am

Pretty much agrees entirely with what " We the People wrote" above And observed this phenomina early on with my younger peers .. And did try to escape their influences by my late teens , early twenties .
It was much to my betterment in life . And allowed for addtional expansion of knowledge with much less to no prejudice on my personal observations of life . 8O


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13 Aug 2023, 9:44 am

ezbzbfcg2 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
you seem to have nutshelled it perfectly. all i can say is just the commentary on each of your points which is just nibbling 'round the edges of what you said. i am sensitive to extremes in temperature more than most of the NTs i've met, as well as loud sharp sounds which i can't stand. squeaks and rattles drives me batty more than they did my sister who was more NT than me.


May I ask, when were you formally diagnosed? What age, and how did it come about?

I can tolerate tags on shirts now, but I remember as a child, I'd insist my mother cut the tags off my shirts with a pair of scissors. She thought I was being difficult, I remember I really couldn't stand the feeling of a tag just below the nape of my neck. It wasn't painful, but rather very irritatingly noticeable. I couldn't tolerate it.

-- Textile sensitivity to tags


My mother was a prolific seamstress, always at her sewing machine when I was growing up. When she bought clothes for me, first thing she did when she got home was cut off the tags. I don't recall if she automatically did this or if I requested it. I DO remember that, as I got older in childhood, I'd make sure she did it or ask her to cut them off; when I was older like teens I'd always bring clothes to her to cut the tags; she always happily did it. Eventually I began doing it myself because when she cut them, there was always some tag still in there, and I needed to cut them down to the nub as far as possible. Just the IDEA of even a little bit of that white poking out from the seam was unacceptable. I can spend quite a bit of time "working on" a single tag with a toenail clippers, getting every last bit of it, short of tearing the seam.



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13 Aug 2023, 9:58 am

Jakki wrote:
Pretty much agrees entirely with what " We the People wrote" above And observed this phenomina early on with my younger peers .. And did try to escape their influences by my late teens , early twenties .
It was much to my betterment in life . And allowed for addtional expansion of knowledge with much less to no prejudice on my personal observations of life . 8O


Hey Jakki, I like the way you spell your name. "Jackie" is almost always the way, and it's boring to look at, really boring. Different ways to spell names is a lifelong special interest. Of course there's not a whole lot of ways to spell "Jackie" (Jaki, Jakie, Jakky, Jakke, Jakkey, Jakkie, Jakkee, Jacci, Jaccie, Jackeigh), but there are other names for which there's a TON of permutations. For example, there are over 1,100 ways to spell "Clarice." Thank you for letting me info dump!

So for the OP, info dumping is a classic autistic trait. Do you find yourself pouring on thick some facts about a big interest of yours to someone whom you know is probably not interested, but you do it anyways?



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