Since recently discovering I most certainly am on the spectrum I realized how wrong everything I was doing was. It's like a veil was lifted. How I had to constantly fake enthusiasm, how much my girlfriend was enabling my childish behavior when it's just going to make it worse. Made me believe that's how everyone is. I didn't know, I thought I could just be the special man that has a child inside him type. I realized how much pain I was putting myself through trying to be normal. I don't want to seem like a whiner, I know people have worse autism and things like Retts but this is unimaginable torment that I only feel while melting down. I feel like a machine.