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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic families and autistic individuals in NT families |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:39 pm
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Replies: 3
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| The only autistic I know in my family was my paternal cousin's son and that distant cousin in my maternal side somewhere. A few ND cousins here and there... Like no more than 3. Said cousins likely have ND relatives themselves because those stuff mainly came from in-laws. Neurodivergence or/and ment... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2025, 3:40 pm
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Replies: 48,302
Views: 1,563,165
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| Maybe it's one of the effects of my wish to never spiral. For me to catch myself from stress induced inanity, snacks was one of the few avenues I knew. And I'm talking about decades of ingained habit since childhood. Stuff I rely on comfort to a point it has recklessly gotten me broke a few times no... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2025, 3:25 pm
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| Nothing much. Just a weird week of losing cravings for sugary stuff all the sudden. Don't know how much of this is hormones being utterly confusing as usual or a delayed subconscious calling. It's day 6. Just as stressed out if not more, but zero urge to snuck and binge. Usually if I am this stresse... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Masking = not masking!? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2025, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 853
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| I can distinguish the two terms of the same looking outcomes. I translate very, very often -- which is why I hate words and wording and get very disappointed very often. But not mask. I don't need to put a smile to convey happiness, not put a smile to pretend I'm fine, nor had to do so to express am... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What do you hate the most about having autism/aspergers ? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2025, 11:32 pm
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Replies: 222
Views: 25,154
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| Mine is just a matter of profile preference. Not cognitive, but emotional. I never like the fact that I did not get the type of autism with alexithymia, preferably that has little to no affective empathy to put up and regulate -- since there's no strong enough executive function to compensate into c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you "feel" loved by another? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2025, 10:14 pm
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Replies: 61
Views: 9,459
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| Yes. And it's more subtle. It's safer in a higher way that had nothing to do with familiarity, but of understanding, inclusion and acceptance. Quieter. Compared to, say, attachment. Which is somewhat suffocating and unnecessarily reenacting. Familiar at best, no matter how dysfunctional. Sometimes p... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2025, 4:28 am
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Replies: 48,302
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Another stupid cycle.
Another age old unwanted internal processing to kill.
Another stormy season. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you feel like a burden? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2025, 9:51 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,752
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| Looking back -- I had developed hyperindependence. I feel more disappointment towards anyone than shame towards myself. It makes being dependent or relying on anyone feels like a gamble. An unpredictable variant. I have zero trust on. A shaky foundation to ever put any intent on. I just want to be r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Do You Enjoy Most About Being Autistic |
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Posted: 08 Jun 2025, 9:56 pm
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Replies: 85
Views: 10,940
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| Being an admin to an operating system that does not think for me. But then, I've yet to be competent enough to handle it elegantly, however. Not everyone can use the autism toolkit to deep dive into being a human and humanity. I may be one of those end users who just happened to want the challenge. ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2025, 7:26 am
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Replies: 48,302
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I look at my room...
... And it's not pet friendly.
Yep, I won't be trying and getting any cat anytime soon. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What if God was one of us? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2025, 7:23 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,515
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If I found God is one of us, whether in context that God is one of us as mortals living amongst this physical world, or one of us as in another Autistic -- I wouldn't be so hung up on it. 
If it happened to be me... The world's doomed then and I wouldn't be thinking too much over it. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Say Something Random: psychological Conditions Version |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2025, 1:32 am
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Replies: 1,073
Views: 147,122
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| Emotions doesn't help me learn. This isn't some weird sentiment, this was just a fact of life for me. It could explain why I didn't started fawning. Why pain doesn't make me stop nor it actually lasts right after. Didn't matter of it's positive or negative. Solving said emotions actually did. No mat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: run outta spoons when forced to multitask |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2025, 5:22 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,971
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| I try just not to. Only attempting to figure how to rapid process switching back and forth. That itself is a drainer; to having to pivot or transition. Tried to figure to not need to pivot a lot. By registering a new task as a part of the current one. Or, use one task to take break from another, lik... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Say Something Random: psychological Conditions Version |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2025, 3:43 pm
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Replies: 1,073
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| My triggers My responsibility And I agreed. And I kept telling myself this. Except: I was a child. Like since 6 or something. Only multiplied many things. To a point it literally took me like what, lol, 24 years to actually do it? And there was no guidance whatsoever either. No therapy, no answers ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: what do you think about limits of psychology and masking? |
| Edna3362 |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2025, 12:22 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,469
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| It's just something of a no-brainer to me. That I simply knew there are limits to language itself. Tho, in my own case, language itself had always been limiting. That me being different meant I do not have the same processes -- that in my own frustration, the norm is that people cannot describe thes... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What if God was one of us? |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2025, 9:20 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,515
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| I won't be surprised if it was all of us. |
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