IsabellaLinton wrote:
Lady Strange wrote:
It would be nice if we could have a place we could all live where we didn't have to try to keep up with everyone else and not have to struggle so much. Like a protected community or something.
I like the idea of not trying to keep up, and not struggling, but the idea of a protected community gives me the creeps. In my ideal world I wouldn't be part of any social community. I'd be away from people in the middle of nowhere and not have to interact at all. I'm pretty sure I put the "aut" in autism, single-handedly.
That's ok. As I was going back over what I wrote I thought "wait hope that didn't come across as cultish", I think I'd like best to only interact with a few people and not super often.
autisticelders wrote:
I think from your recent posts that you are just beginning to understand how autism has worked in your life. I am newly diagnosed at age 68, and will be 70 this year. There is so much to sort out and so many things of the past to see in new ways now I know about autism, my own, and family dynamics, etc because of the way that autism worked all those years without any of us suspecting. It is such a relief to know everything was not "all my fault", but that most of my "failures" were struggles with my autistic neurology. best wishes. lets keep talking!
Yes I have been realizing looking back just how much it has worked in my life. Its like I keep discovering new ways it was there impacting my life when I didn't even realize what was going on. It is nice to know it's not some personal failure going on but quite literally something I could not help or control. Yes thanks for letting me talk, it helps to compare experiences, it is amazing how much it bleeds into every aspect of life.