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ASPartOfMe
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04 Jun 2019, 5:28 pm

Because of constant masking or pretending to be normal, I think dissociative disorders are not uncommon among "milder" autistics.


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04 Jun 2019, 5:41 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
Because of constant masking or pretending to be normal, I think dissociative disorders are not uncommon among "milder" autistics.


The only dissociative disorder I am familiar with is multiple personality disorder...now I am curious to read up on others.


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10 Feb 2024, 4:55 pm

jimmy m wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Impressive, though I appreciate you are using hyperbole...


An Aspies brain is wired differently. We have more interconnects. In a sense we operate using parallel communications where an NT uses serial communications.



Could you explain this more please?


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