Getting assessed soon
Theres definitely something different about me. I seem to go wrong socially but I don't know what it is I do. I find it hard to answer the questionnaires the Doctors provided for me as I'm not very introspective for me. My mum and sister are adamant I have autism. On about 5 occasions I've been asked if I had autism also. My only doubt lies in the fact I wasn't this way all my life. I didn't talk until about 5. I made a lot of friends in primary and secondary school. I wonder if it's possible I regressed? I don't think I showed obvious signs when I was younger after the age of 5. I made friends easily was pretty successful with women and with jobs. But not now. When I was about 20 something slightly bad happened but nothing traumatic and I completely shut down and hardly said a word for about a year. I experienced some psychotic symptoms in that time. I had some delusion of reference. To cut a long story short I felt I was getting instructions on call or duty to do something on Facebook. I missed one message but got the 2nd one. After that I seemed to get my voice back but I felt for a long time because I missed the first one I didn't fully get back to myself. Sounds crazy I know but I believed it for a long time. I've seen been diagnosed with bipolar. I know my autism (if I even have it) isn't serious but I lack a lot of confidence now. My family say I always had the signs but I don't believe there were obvious signs of if when I was younger. I'm worried my questionnaire won't be accurate because I'm basically going on what my family say on it. From what I've said does autism sound feasible?
Yeah I guess. But after that I'd say autism wasn't OBVIOUS. Until age 20. My problem is I communicate with my family a lot differently than I do other people. I talk at my family rather than to them. I talk about my problems too and im way too negative. With others I at least try to hide my low self esteem and put a bit of a mask on but I don't seem to get many people to like me
I wouldn't use friends as a child as reason to doubt autism. Making friends as a child is easy and requires very little social skills.
When I was 8 years old, my family moved to a new neighbor hood. My dad got tired of me being in the way while they were unpacking, and he told me to go outside and make some friends. I remember going out to the end of the driveway and stood there for a few minutes before kids started greeting me. By the end of the day, I had a half dozen new friends.
As an adult, standing at the end of the drive way, people will just look at you as a weirdo and avoid you.
If it helps, I had lots of child hood friends, and didn't start "speaking" until I was 4. I could talk but preferred to use gestures and sound effects to communicate.
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When I was 8 years old, my family moved to a new neighbor hood. My dad got tired of me being in the way while they were unpacking, and he told me to go outside and make some friends. I remember going out to the end of the driveway and stood there for a few minutes before kids started greeting me. By the end of the day, I had a half dozen new friends.
As an adult, standing at the end of the drive way, people will just look at you as a weirdo and avoid you.
If it helps, I had lots of child hood friends, and didn't start "speaking" until I was 4. I could talk but preferred to use gestures and sound effects to communicate.
Yeah but I was quite popular in my teens room unless I just learned to manage
When I was 8 years old, my family moved to a new neighbor hood. My dad got tired of me being in the way while they were unpacking, and he told me to go outside and make some friends. I remember going out to the end of the driveway and stood there for a few minutes before kids started greeting me. By the end of the day, I had a half dozen new friends.
As an adult, standing at the end of the drive way, people will just look at you as a weirdo and avoid you.
If it helps, I had lots of child hood friends, and didn't start "speaking" until I was 4. I could talk but preferred to use gestures and sound effects to communicate.
Yeah but I was quite popular in my teens room unless I just learned to manage
I was so popular in high school that I was the one who threw our senior skip day party. And what a party it was.
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