ZombieBrideXD wrote:
Ganondox wrote:
ZombieBrideXD wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
I can read body language easily from instinct, make eye contact naturally, do small talk, hold conversations, be tactful at the right times, get jokes and sarcasm, lie, don't have a blank face, don't stim, follow social trends, love company, love being touched, can hold down a romantic relationship, can express my feelings well, have ToM, and a few more things.
But I still qualify as ASD because I used to have outbursts before I went on antidepressants, have weird obsessions with certain people, get easily anxious at work, can be flexible in routine sometimes but other times sudden change can make me have an anxiety attack, don't make friends as good as the average NT, anticipate sudden loud noise, be quite odd in personality, and a few more things.
But I have always been highly anxious, with typical social anxiety too, and attention issues.
No offense but how exactly do you qualify for ASD...?
Everything about her is inline with ASD. Social problems, check. Obsession, check. Sensory problems, check. Yeah, there is more to ASD than that oversimplification, but what more are you looking for?
Actually according to the information she gives, there are as many social problems as a non-autistic person, I. Fact she has Better social skills than my non-autistic cousin who has social anxiety.
An anticipation to a sudden loud noise is fairly typical and not at all a sensory sensitivity, a sensory sensitivity is more than just not liking loud noises, it's not being able to HANDLE loud sounds, bright lights and so on.
Obsessions with people are not exclusive to autism, in fact it's quite common in NON autistic people, I know many non-autistics who become obsessed with friends, romantic interests or even enemies.
No information she gave warrants autism at all. I'm not saying she isn't autistic but it seems that if what she's saying is true and if her childhood behaviours were no different then I would say that she may not be autistic.
It's someone describing herself in a post, you can't measure our severe any of the traits are because people generally aren't the best judge of that in themselves. All the traits can possibly be the result of autism and all the areas are covered, it's just a question of WHY and then severity. So yes, according to the information she gives it could just be all the problems of a non-autistic person, but it could also be the problems of an autistic person. So she might not be autistic, but it's not saying she doesn't qualify either.
EDIT: I only read the second part of her post, missed the first paragraph somehow. That's a bit more contradictory, but still completely possible. I can do basically all those things as well, though I couldn't do some of them in the past, which is the important part.
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24 Apr 2016, 3:45 pm
