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Pokelover14
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20 May 2012, 11:30 pm

I can't handle change. I have melted down numerous amounts of times due to change


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21 May 2012, 12:57 am

enrico_dandolo wrote:
I'm fine with change when I agree with it, which generally means that I like change when I decide it. Someone else's changes on someone else's schedule? Not so.

This too. Same here.



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21 May 2012, 2:00 am

I think that for me, change is less static. I mean, I can do change as long as it is planned. For instance, I moved to another country to study somewhe I had never been and live completely different. But it was planned. Yesterday I had a meltdown because one of my housemates ate the food I had bought for wednesday evening, so now I have to change my plans.

Like most people here, it is the unexpected change that gets me.


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21 May 2012, 3:42 am

Bifford wrote:
I was diagnosed with ASD by my shrink, but I don't see myself in all the symptoms I read on Wikipedia. Yes, the social and communication difficulties are there, but I have no problems dealing with change (quite the opposite, my parents were frustrated that I didn't structure my daily life at all) and I have no obsessive interests. Do I have ASD or some similar disorder instead?


I hate change when there is no reason to change.
You mentioned Wikipedia; they recently changed the search box from the left hand side of the page and put it on the right hand side.

WHY???????????????????????????????????????????????

Why didn't they just leave it where it was?