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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Do any of you feel it's hard to please people?

Gebodragon
Posted: 16 Nov 2021, 9:28 am 

Replies: 4
Views: 911
I think the best thing is to get over the feeling that you have to please other people. There will always be people in your life--maybe family, or partners, or close friends--whose opinions will matter more to you than others, but in the end, it is yourself whose happiness you are responsible for, a...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: On your really bad days…

Gebodragon
Posted: 16 Nov 2021, 9:22 am 

Replies: 18
Views: 1,339
Finally getting diagnosed has helped me immensely, and reading books or watching videos or listening to podcasts by other autistic people has as well. It helps me learn new ways of coping that I might not have discovered on my own, and helps me to feel less alone. Beyond that, I have found that payi...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Back After A Long Absence, and Finally Certain

Gebodragon
Posted: 15 Nov 2021, 6:45 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 1,121
Thanks, everyone, for welcoming me back. I'm often more lurker than poster online, but I hope to change that here, as I am definitely eager for interaction with other folks like me.

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Back After A Long Absence, and Finally Certain

Gebodragon
Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 9:59 am 

Replies: 6
Views: 1,121
Hi, everyone, I joined WP back in 2012, posted just a couple of times, and then disappeared until now. It was in 2012 that I began to seriously suspect that I was on the spectrum. I did a lot of reading and research, and took every online assessment test I could find, which all confirmed my suspicio...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: A history of isolation

Gebodragon
Posted: 05 May 2012, 8:41 am 

Replies: 19
Views: 4,060
When I was in therapy, my therapist at first tried to push me to socialize more, but eventually she accepted that I really preferred being alone and stopped pushing me. I'm in my fifties and when I was younger I did make more of an effort to be social, not because I wanted to but because other peopl...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Therapy without a diagnosis

Gebodragon
Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 8:57 am 

Replies: 21
Views: 3,626
Thanks for the welcome. :) I have very mixed feelings right now about all those years of therapy. You're right, the support was something I desperately needed, and she gave me that, and I know that she did help me to process a lot of the dysfunction and trauma from my childhood (emotional and sexual...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Therapy without a diagnosis

Gebodragon
Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 10:51 am 

Replies: 21
Views: 3,626
I'm pretty new to the forums (been lurking and reading for a week or two) and just saw this thread. I am in a somewhat similar situation. I'm 56 and self-diagnosed after stumbling on some info about Asperger's in children and realizing how much it described how I was as a young child, based on my ve...
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