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dianthus
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29 May 2016, 10:40 pm

Not knowing what to say, or just not having anything to say. Like when someone talks to me it really doesn't even occur to me at first that I should respond, let alone having anything come to mind to actually say to them.



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29 May 2016, 10:53 pm

dianthus wrote:
Not knowing what to say, or just not having anything to say. Like when someone talks to me it really doesn't even occur to me at first that I should respond, let alone having anything come to mind to actually say to them.

Oh yeah, my brother gets annoyed at me because of that kind of thing on a regular basis. My friend also got a bit annoyed because of that and after explaining why I did that (he already knew about my diagnosis) we came up with a more autism-friendly way for me to communicate to him that I heard what he said. He is a great friend.


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30 May 2016, 1:12 am

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I've been following your posts for a while and i have to say you don't strike me as an aspie. You are too aware of what others may feel to be an aspie. You get nonverbal cues, it's just the social anxiety that holds you back from acting properly i guess.


In some ways she reminds me of myself, but I know there is more to it than how I would describe myself or how she would describe herself, it's impossible to tell from an online forum. You also strike me as someone with a fairly rigid idea of autism, like someone needs to have very specific social problems; it doesn't work that way.


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