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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Aspies of the Pacific Northwest....UNITE :D!

helioneironaut
Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 3:47 pm 

Replies: 605
Views: 108,550
equestriatola wrote:

Welcome! :)


Thanks! :]

 Forum: The Haven   Topic: Complicated feelings about interests

helioneironaut
Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 6:12 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 778
You have my empathy too. Tech support has been one of my obsessions since I was a kid, and I wanted to do it as a job when I grew up, but this summer I questioned my interest in it for the first time. I'm sticking to trying to find a tech support job right now because it's practical and the mojo has...

 Forum: The Haven   Topic: Coping with Persistent Misery

helioneironaut
Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 6:03 am 

Replies: 4
Views: 710
God, yes, I chant "I want to die" in my head. I do feel miserable a lot of the time and like nothing is worth doing--like you said, an ordeal--and yet because I live on other people's dime and it's unsatisfactory for both me and them in the long-term, and because I can't just erase the entirety of m...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Aspies of the Pacific Northwest....UNITE :D!

helioneironaut
Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 5:48 am 

Replies: 605
Views: 108,550
Bremerton, WA here.

 Forum: The Haven   Topic: Everything's boring and stupid

helioneironaut
Posted: 13 Nov 2013, 1:22 am 

Replies: 3
Views: 563
Yeah. I don't know what the hell to do with myself besides what I have to do to avoid hurting the people around me. And right now those things are not interesting or easy or even probable.

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Do you always have to repeat yourself?

helioneironaut
Posted: 13 Nov 2013, 1:03 am 

Replies: 29
Views: 17,294
People ask me to repeat myself because I speak too quietly, but they also often ask me to repeat myself because I speak like I'm writing, so to speak--I use more unusual vocabulary and more complex grammatical structures than do the people around me. This happened more when I was younger. More often...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: deadpan vs. meltdown

helioneironaut
Posted: 13 Nov 2013, 12:51 am 

Replies: 3
Views: 723
Definitely happens to me. Dissociation, numbing out.

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Dealing with social withdrawal symptoms after an gathering?

helioneironaut
Posted: 13 Nov 2013, 12:40 am 

Replies: 4
Views: 1,378
I definitely experience this. Generally my response to it is to bury myself in something that usually occupies my whole attention, like reading or gaming and, if necessary, listening to music at the same time, when I can. But it's not always possible to use that kind of coping strategy. e.g., when s...
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