Aspergers is SO hard to identify in women..!! We can act and wear so many masks and just appear simply odd or completely normal to others while we're struggling and have NO idea what is happening around and simply not understanding the norms... The social intuition is simply gone, it doesn't exist, and this is hard... hence we just copy what others do and hope for the best. As adults things get less awkward as we learned so much and gained so much experience but some things simply start falling into their places, but being put into new situations... I feel then exactly like i did years ago - a complete alien, lost, and awkward. If I hadn't worked in call centres or in big open offices, or simply was pushed into having so many meetings, I wouldn't have gained so much experience and picked up the new "masks". But still, if I get upset, even on meetings i have my outbursts and seem very "unprofessional" so I often have to apologize... Also still often i display way differently from what I feel.
Yeah, exactly. No condition should ever become a "trend" and nobody should ever pretend to have it to be "cool" or for attentionI hate it when people make fun of conditions or even worse, pretend to have it. It's those kind of people I avoid at all costs.
YES. It's the worst.Apparently DID, Tourette's, ADHD are now a trend.....
Especially as someone who has tics, classifies for Tourette's and possibly ADHD.....
I love that people who actually have these conditions are open about them. I HATE that people think they're ''cool" and start faking it...and then it becomes a trend
Same, I hate attention, hate being open about my emotions, and hate the fact that people want me to be.I personally don't want attention, when you have tics, you never get good attention
I'm fine with being open about my emotions, people say I have 'no filter' (again pointing towards autism/adhd), but if you tic in public, people think you're 'acting out'.
I guess I just avoid people in general, so I don't talk and don't really want to. Few people know anything about my emotions, so I just keep it that way.
Same, but I still have no filter lol, and sometimes I vent too much by mistake, so I've learned to adapt to it.
Well you're free to vent here all you want
It's ok. I'm one of the few people who really likes hearing people vent, for hours if they want to.Yup
I dont relly want to vent, it just slips out sometimes
Receiving accurate diagnosis can be daunting and yes, medical/insurance conglomerates have vested interests medicating vs cognitive therapy where applicable.
Byproduct of coming out is my filter not as robust as it used to be haha!
My filter is NOT ROBUST AT ALL
