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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you stop over-analyzing situations? |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2024, 5:44 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,699
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| I’m 52 and just diagnosed a month ago. I learned over the years, actually with the help of OCD podcasts, to not, or stop engaging with repetitive thoughts. It’s something that takes practice. Especially when you have been doing it your whole life like me. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Just got officially diagnosed |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2024, 11:17 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,982
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| Finally. I'm 52 years old and I have been struggling my whole life. I am glad I had all the right circumstances occur for me to be mostly functional in life and get to this point. On the test that measures the degree of masking a person does, I scored very highly. That's definitely been what's got m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Paranoia/ Intrusive Thoughts |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2022, 9:44 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,666
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| So, when I'm stressed I'm always worried people are talking about me especially at work. I talked to my therapist today and she said the paranoia are intrusive thoughts that come because I'm in a negative space and my imagination is messing me and I need to tell myself a different story when that h... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Looking for connection with older Aspies |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2022, 8:01 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,341
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| I am 50 and have been undiagnosed my whole life and have only recently come to terms with the fact that I’m autistic. I have problems with regulation and masking and poor communications. I am on federal disability because I had cancer that was supposed to kill me but didn’t, but they gave me permane... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Dealing with frustration without shutting down |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 02 Aug 2022, 5:19 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 861
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| I am frustrated all the time; it’s practically a career. I sometimes have to take between 2-8 hours of meditating and seclusion to avoid a complete meltdown. My communication with my wife is poor I have realized and that is a lot of my problem. It’s nothing that she’s done it’s just because of my po... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: i need masking tips |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2022, 9:46 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 510
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| i haven't been around people that isn't my family for two years because i've been doing online school and haven't talked to anyone, but in about 2 weeks i have to go back to real life school around people again and just being around people gives me such bad anxiety that i feel dizzy and like i'm no... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you prefer to use self checkout? |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2022, 8:10 pm
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,797
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| Not really. I feel like I should be getting a discount for doing someone else’s job |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What reasons you had to initially deny you might be ASD |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2022, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 68
Views: 4,335
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| Mostly it was the people who were around me at the time that made me doubt what was right in front of me! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Guerilla Stimming Movement? |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2022, 7:58 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 933
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| This just seems like nonsense. Why would you want to do this? It would make autistic people seem annoying if anything! Also, I really don’t want to draw attention to myself, ever! I hope that you are aware that you are responding to posts made eight years ago. Yup. I am aware Just wanted to make cl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Guerilla Stimming Movement? |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2022, 6:28 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 933
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| This just seems like nonsense. Why would you want to do this? It would make autistic people seem annoying if anything! Also, I really don’t want to draw attention to myself, ever! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger Syndrome's symptom of repetitive behavior |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 3:48 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 401
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| I Am a runner. I like to run the same ways over and over. Some of it is because I can directly compare the times to see how I’m improving over time but some of it is comforting as well. There’ll be days when I’ll think about running differently and I start getting anxious and I have to tell myself t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Insomnia from overstimulation |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 8:28 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 560
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| I have a bedtime/sleep routine that allows for time to fall asleep plus 8 hours. It takes time, but I fall asleep fairly quickly now. I need darkness, quiet (some people need white-noise). I generally listen to about 20 minutes of audio (the same 3 tracks) I'm so familiar with it that it lulls me t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: concentric thinking |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 7:43 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,086
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| Oh man. All the time. I will have like a short practice conversation in my head but just keep repeating it over and over. It really serves to overstimulate me mentally and if I can’t get hold of it I will have insomnia and my mental state will just completely deteriorate. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Insomnia from overstimulation |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 7:27 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 560
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| All my life I’ve had trouble getting to sleep because my brain just would not turn off. Once I knew I was autistic it made sense that I would get chronically overstimulated during the day and just never take the time to try and wind things down. I starting to get the hang of it but there can still b... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Noticing discrepancies in my wife’s behavior |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2022, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 624
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| Not sure what to make of this and maybe I’m just being paranoid. My wife seems to expect me to act much differently than she acts towards me. She is on a business trip now and barely communicates with me. However I know if the roles were reversed she would be expecting more of me then just three tex... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being drained by talkative people |
| MBlokzyl |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2022, 7:32 am
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Replies: 53
Views: 1,657
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| Yes. Always. My mother in law drones on and on never letting you speak. And if you do get to say something she doesn’t even listen and just goes back to rehashing stories she’s already told me ten times |
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