I laugh really hard around my mom, who is the is the funniest woman in the world. Around other people, I just kind of smile and giggle, since I've let out that hard laugh before and other people saw it as awkward.
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Given a “tentative” diagnosis as a child as I needed services at school for what was later correctly discovered to be a major anxiety disorder.
This misdiagnosis caused me significant stress, which lessened upon finding out the truth about myself from my current and past long-term therapists - that I am an anxious and highly sensitive person but do not have an autism spectrum disorder.
My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I’m no longer involved with the ASD world.
09 Nov 2011, 9:42 pm
