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ImAnAspie
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19 Mar 2014, 5:35 pm

This morning, I was talking with my boss. I'd just had 2 days of sick with a splitting migraine. As I was telling him about it, I became acutely aware of 2 of my Aspergian traits that work well together at working against me. They are:

1) difficulty in making eye contact;
2) why use 10 words to explain something when you can use 40 or 50;

Both of these work together to make it look like I'm lying and the more you become aware of it, the worse it gets. In the end, I feel like I'm in quicksand just waiting for someone to throw me a rope - so I can hang myself.

Has anyone else experienced this?


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19 Mar 2014, 6:03 pm

Yes, with non empathetic people who don't know me well, I can pretty much identify, within the moment, when they become my enemies due to a misunderstanding.



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19 Mar 2014, 6:13 pm

ImAnAspie wrote:
This morning, I was talking with my boss. I'd just had 2 days of sick with a splitting migraine. As I was telling him about it, I became acutely aware of 2 of my Aspergian traits that work well together at working against me. They are:

1) difficulty in making eye contact;
2) why use 10 words to explain something when you can use 40 or 50;

Both of these work together to make it look like I'm lying and the more you become aware of it, the worse it gets. In the end, I feel like I'm in quicksand just waiting for someone to throw me a rope - so I can hang myself.

Has anyone else experienced this?


Holy cow I can completely relate to this!