People say the most infuriating things- I'm just annoyed

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Wait... what?

I can't even... what? That's less infuriating for me to read than just straight-up confusing. It's like saying that playing Super Mario Brothers will make you want to go jump on turtles and dive into pipes. The logic doesn't follow unless you were unable to differentiate between what you were reading and your own reality.

Yeah, some people can buy into stuff about themselves that isn't true, but that's more like horoscopes; which are specifically designed to do that. I'm sure you're wise enough to tell the difference between what's actually useful information and what's someone trying to pull a fast one on you.

You know yourself, you want to know more. That makes perfect sense and seems like a good idea to me.

I just thought of something else interesting about this conversation which to me makes no sense. Now I could be dead wrong about this because I am not really very familiar with that disorder where people find symptoms from researching and put them on to themselves and believe they have them for no other reason than having researched them. I know those people exist but I am not really familiar with how that works.

So here is the interesting part. I can see how this person might have thought of me as a hypochondriac because they have known me all my life and in different times of my life they have heard and seem me complain of Autistic and Misophonic issues. Of course I had no idea what was going on with me at the time and these were strange symptoms that this person had never seen before so of course their first thought would be "hypochondriac" or "attention seeker" or whatever. But as I got older and realized no one was going to listen to me or help me, I stopped asking for help and just kind of learned to cope on my own and basically became a closet Aspie/Misophonic. Now it's not like I am bombarding this person with new info about Autism every five minutes. But like I said in a previous post, I am much more open now about what I go through. But I don't spend my time complaining about my issues. In fact, I have really held back from this person recently until last night.

Now again, I could be wrong, but from what I might imagine, someone who just wants to add symptoms to themselves, in my thought process, would seem to me that they would want to do it for a reason. I can't imagine someone doing that and not announcing it to everyone every time they got a new symptom. I can't logically understand the point of adding symptoms to yourself and doing it in secret. Maybe some people do that, I don't know. I just don't understand what the point of that would be. So for this person to say that I would do that makes no logical sense.

So I was just thinking about that because to me I don't see the logic in it. Maybe one of you can see it and help me understand if I am wrong.

I agree with the person about doing the best I can living instead of researching autism more and more to find traits that match myself. I didn't find there was something wrong or infuriating about the email from the description.

I think an autistic person could ackshuly get lost easily into one thing like researching autism obsessively to find more and more traits that they think fit them, whether the traits fit or not. Autistic brain can have this tendency, I think.

The way to take these kinds of emails or suggestions from family and friends that don't match what one thinks in one's own mind is perhaps best with open mind. I have learned over time that even if close people say things that I initially think are ridiculous, they may have important points that would ackshuly help me, if I didn't reject their ideas right away. Close people usually care enough to tell truths that others don't, so if they care enough to suggest something to me that I might not take well, I should listen a bit and not reject right away.

btbnnyr,
I agree with you in general. There is no argument about the point you make. It's just that in this particular situation the person is completely out of line. I am neither lost nor obsessed in Autism research. I am newly diagnosed, and this whole conversation with this person started because last night we found some articles about a new discovery in Autism. As I read those articles they explained things in my particular life which I have struggled with since I was a tiny kid and have struggled with consistently without ever having been given an explanation or a reason for. This was the person's response to one article presented with one specific topic. I don't spend tons of time researching Autism because I don't have tons of time for that and Autism is not my special interest. But I just got diagnosed this past year. I feel like I should learn something about it and understand what happens to me as it is happening and has happened all my life.

This person is the type of person that never hears anything you actually say. They just respond like this because they are responding to things that they feel in themselves, not hearing what was said. I had another relative respond similarly when I told them about the article. I told that person because that person is a medical doctor and would be interested in at as medical research. Rather than acknowledging that it was a fascinating piece of medical research, the person told me how I should feel about the sports I do and how if this is the case with me I should just be content to be in the sports and not try to become competitive.

I agree with everything you say about living life and not getting bogged down with research and being open to advice. But if the advice is being given by people who are not even listening to what you are saying, then sometimes it's just inappropriate advice. I have a very full life and I do many things. I have many responsibilities and I always have. I don't sit around researching Autism all day. I have only even been on WP a lot in the past few days because I had a bit of a break and I thought to come hang out awhile but after today you won't see me for a while because I am very busy and traveling and I won't have internet anyway. But when I do have some time I really enjoy learning as much as I can about Autism. It's a huge part of who I am, I want to learn all I can learn.

So yes, I agree with what you are saying in general, it's just that in this particular case, that particular advice from that particular person in this specific situation is just wrong, condescending and infuriating. And when you are diagnosed as an "older" adult, you are already living your life. But when you are finding out answers to issues that have plagued you since childhood and still do every day, why would you not find out more about them and share them with the people in your life whom you love?