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Do You Think Mountain Goat Is On The Autistic Spectrum?
Yes. 88%  88%  [ 29 ]
No. 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 33

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21 Sep 2019, 4:09 pm

To be fair on other people not offering help. When I knew nothing about autism, which was only a few months ago... and I came across someone who was said to be autistic and noticeably autistic, I would not know how to help them. Put it this way. I didn't understand myself let alone anyone else, and I masked soo well that I never knew I could even have a similar condition. I had been so conditioned to fit in as normal over the years that I never would have ever thought I would be finding all this out now.
So, with me not knowing how to help someone with autism (Is funny when I hear carers of autistic people finding they have autism late in life, but I understand now how it is possible)...
But consider a typical NT. We can't blame them through not understanding as how can one understand thinking in a different way... As every person can't really know the next ones thoughts except for God...


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21 Sep 2019, 4:12 pm

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How can I have gone so far in life and not know?

That was exactly my thought when a psychologist first asked whether I thought I might be autistic. I'd gone there just expecting to be referred for counselling for my depression (for about the fourth or fifth time!), and it was totally unexpected. No-one had ever mentioned autism before, and at that time, I still believed all the stereotypes about it only being a childhood thing, always without speech, etc. - how on earth could I have possibly missed something like that!?


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21 Sep 2019, 4:25 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
To be fair on other people not offering help. When I knew nothing about autism, which was only a few months ago... and I came across someone who was said to be autistic and noticeably autistic, I would not know how to help them. Put it this way. I didn't understand myself let alone anyone else, and I masked soo well that I never knew I could even have a similar condition. I had been so conditioned to fit in as normal over the years that I never would have ever thought I would be finding all this out now.
So, with me not knowing how to help someone with autism (Is funny when I hear carers of autistic people finding they have autism late in life, but I understand now how it is possible)...
But consider a typical NT. We can't blame them through not understanding as how can one understand thinking in a different way... As every person can't really know the next ones thoughts except for God...


Exactly. Since my diagnosis, I've learned to understand how I fell through the cracks. If I didn't know or tell people about all my issues, how could I expect them to know? There were visual signs like my stimming or BFRB, but I don't think most people know about stimming or the fact it's related to autism. I forgive those who didn't help because they didn't know. I wish the doctors and psychologists had been more observant, but there's another thread devoted to that topic in relation to women's health care.


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21 Sep 2019, 4:38 pm

They say that women with autism are hard to detect because they are expert at masking... But I think if most women would have a degree in masking I'd have a doctorate in it! Haha.


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21 Sep 2019, 4:40 pm

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They say that women with autism are hard to detect because they are expert at masking... But I think if most women would have a degree in masking I'd have a doctorate in it! Haha.


I think that's true to an extent about women, but I also think it's blatant sexism from the medical community. Our attempts at getting help are completely undermined, dismissed and trivialised.


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21 Sep 2019, 4:47 pm

I fully understand. I took masking to another level where even I did not know I was doing it. I hated acting in drama... But it was because I was acting in real life by putting on a whole different "Me", that I always felt "If only they knew the real me inside..." so acting was taking me further away from me... which I hated. I was also shy... Which didn't help.


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21 Sep 2019, 4:57 pm

Something else I must mention. Once I started finding out what autistic traits actually are, and realizing I personally understood what they are.. I then started questioning what an NT is. I then thought to myself "Have I actually just needed to ask that question? What's wrong with me?" Haha! I did actually have those thoughts!


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21 Sep 2019, 5:01 pm

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Something else I must mention. Once I started finding out what autistic traits actually are, and realizing I personally understood what they are.. I then started questioning what an NT is. I then thought to myself "Have I actually just needed to ask that question? What's wrong with me?" Haha! I did actually have those thoughts!


I still don't really know what an NT is. I know they're "not like me", and they seem to represent the opposite of everything I know and feel, but I can't put myself in their shoes or conceptualise them in a meaningful way.

Similarly, I have synaesthesia; I have no idea what it would be like to live without it. I thought that everyone saw numbers, letters and words in colour, or used their senses in the ways that I do. I can't fathom life or learning in any other way.


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21 Sep 2019, 5:42 pm

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Mountain Goat wrote:
Something else I must mention. Once I started finding out what autistic traits actually are, and realizing I personally understood what they are.. I then started questioning what an NT is. I then thought to myself "Have I actually just needed to ask that question? What's wrong with me?" Haha! I did actually have those thoughts!


I still don't really know what an NT is. I know they're "not like me", and they seem to represent the opposite of everything I know and feel, but I can't put myself in their shoes or conceptualise them in a meaningful way.

Similarly, I have synaesthesia; I have no idea what it would be like to live without it. I thought that everyone saw numbers, letters and words in colour, or used their senses in the ways that I do. I can't fathom life or learning in any other way.

Hard to picture that as i dont think I do that, despite having a very visual mind.

Where rhe shock came is that chart. It shows there is very little NT in me. That came as a shock.


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22 Sep 2019, 10:39 am

I can hardly believe it last night. I am like that man who wanted to know what happened to the sun at night so he went up a hill and it dawmed on him!

Now I know what those things are all about that some of you have put at the bottom as a signature. Uhmmm. I could put them..


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22 Sep 2019, 10:49 am

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I am like that man who wanted to know what happened to the sun at night so he went up a hill and it dawmed on him!


"I see!", said the blind man to the deaf man, as he picked up his hammer and saw! ^ :wink:


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22 Sep 2019, 10:52 am

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Mountain Goat wrote:
I am like that man who wanted to know what happened to the sun at night so he went up a hill and it dawmed on him!


"I see!", said the blind man to the deaf man, as he picked up his hammer and saw! ^ :wink:


Eh? That makes as much sense as a man who is classed as a raging apathetic. :lol:


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22 Sep 2019, 11:22 am

It feels like yesterday was a dream and I will wake up as an NT.

I came on this site asking what autism is and now I am asking what NT is? Haha. I have to laugh! I am funny. :D


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23 Sep 2019, 4:53 am

You can fix your signature. A few typos there.

I voted 'yes' by the way. :wink:



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23 Sep 2019, 5:07 am

Spelling? Oh.... I've seen one!


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23 Sep 2019, 5:30 pm

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I diagnose you with-----Mountain Goat-itis :wink:


Never was there a more apt diagnosis :lol: !

As for the Empathy Quotient Test, I am seriously left scratching my head on this one ... MG and I have been discussing how incredulous we are over the outcome ...

On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20. 0-32 = You have a lower than average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately...