Might girls be successful to camouflage the disorder?

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yetanother
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15 May 2015, 8:53 pm

Hi,

I have some titles to ask, or talk about.

1)

I have read a part in an article which mentions that girls might be successful on camouflaging the Asperger disorder.

Might this be possible?

2)

Also i remember, most possibly, in a forum post, a diagnosed girl thinks that she had performed in her social life until she is diagnosed.

The "perform" verb blink a light about my suffering in social life.

I can not ask NT friends if they are think, calculate what they say in every conversation, can not produce daily materials to make communication pretend to go on naturally. If there are some Asperger here, what do you think on this performance topic?

2.1)

A psychiatrist and a psychologist who works together those i have seen a while ago think that i seem as an OCD while admitting the Autism diagnosis needs an expertise. Also i have read, even after an expert analyse, you might think oppose to the result? Is it such invisible, then possibility of (1) reinforces.

3)

It is too hard to admit that i have socially negative intelligence, and also hard to admit to seek a cool label not to accept that negative social intelligence handicap. :?

Might i be a narcissist? :|



cavernio
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15 May 2015, 10:11 pm

1. It's definitely been a thing that I've read multiple places where girls have it but have better masks than boys. I ponder this about myself for myself too.

2. 'Calculating' is what my probably ASD partner does. He has described what he does at length, and it is not unconscious or natural to him at all.

2.1 OCD would only relate in regards to repetitive behaviors and getting upset when your routine gets interrupted, but OCD does not explain communication difficulties or social difficulties. (I really struggle with the separation of communication v social here, as all socialness relies on communication. Anyways, that's not the topic right now)

3. I have struggled for 15 years with trying to find wtf I'm supposed to do with my life. I inevitably fail at everything I try, none of it works or fits. One day I will feel fine, the next I am incapable of functioning, not being able to bring myself to get food or sometimes even go to the bathroom until it gets super urgent. I am going to ask for disability next dr visit I have. I -still- have not come to terms with this.

4. You might be a narcissist, this post isn't reflective of that though.


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