Any literally autistic people here?
How's living in a world designed by, and for neurotypicals treating you?
Oh, and state you sexuality. I'm bi.
Hello
I am diagnosed with asperger syndrome
Sometimes I think that autism is actually an incredibly common diagnosis and not an indication of significant differences, because so many people seem to have autism.
>>5314501
About 1% here in the UK.
I certainly feel significantly different, I never had a romantic relationship, I've never had any close friends, or indeed any friends for the last six years, I don't understand many social conventions, or common viewpoints, I can't wear a great deal of clothing because the fabric is too rough, I'm very uncoordinated, I still can't even tie shoelaces. Oh, and I've been told I have unusual mannerisms.
>>5314520
I am also all of those things, except I managed to learn how to tie my shoes by struggling for a while at age 19, and I have a good friend in the head of the chess club (I very much enjoy chess). There are some other people who come to the chess club regularly too, but I think of them more as acquaintances rather than friends.
But I don't know that I've met someone who DOESN'T feel significantly different, and who DOESN'T have difficulty understanding a lot of social conventions.
If you understand the concept of nuerotypicals then you really aren't autistic.
Autism is the disease that DFAB tumblrinas flocks to because you can't really prove someone has it or doesn't and therefor you can score mad tumblr cred for being "disabled." Just like gender disphoria, you can't prove I don't have it so treat me special.
>>5314555
I feel that this is a low quality post that contributes little to the discussion.
>>5314555
Um, I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist, not myself, and it was them who asked me to undergo diagnosis.
>>5314549
Well, I don't just feel significantly different, I'm confirmed as being significantly different by several psychiatrists. I imagine others feeling different is more due to them wanting to be different, wanting to be special, than actually being different. Not that they should desire such a thing, being different is awful.
>>5314585
I don't like this sort of elitism I frequently see in the autistic community. I feel like I'm witnessing people compete to be the one true different individual, and everyone else is just making a mistake to think they could possibly be as different as they are.
>>5314592
I don't think I'm being elitist, after all I just stated that being different is generally awful. As I said the only reason I know I'm different is because I have professional justification, these people who "feel" there is something different, read special, about them, have no such justification. They are just as silly as those people who self-diagnose with autism, because they read an internet pamphlet. Of course if they get some kind of expert justification that there really is something dysfunctional about them, they can be justified. Also it's important to distinguish between mundane differences, and clinical ones, everyone has mundane differences, but a difference is only clinical if it causes serious dysfunction.
>>5314585
>I'm confirmed as being significantly different by several psychiatrists
I dont personally know you so I can't speak for your case specifically but this autism, ADD and whatever else mild diagnosis seems like shrinks just pandering to victimhood complex. I'm different because X or Y and therefore I dont need to meet societal expectations or standards or whatever else I'm struggling with for whatever reason. I've seen a kid get diagnosed with ADHD even though their 'overactivity' and acting out in school was caused by unstable family, and I had a friend in high school who had pretty severe ADHD, it's not the same thing...
>>5314610
>after all I just stated that being different is generally awful
The more awful your life is the more 'privilege points™' you'll get on tumblr and at a certain threshold you can say or do no wrong in SJW circles. That's why so many people self-diagnose with autism, dysphoria and whatnot over there
>>5314631
Well, I never asked to be diagnosed, I actually refused to undergo diagnosis initially, about a year later I had a relapse of depression, and diagnosis was once again suggested. I was going to refuse again, but my mother insisted I do it.
>>5314644
Hmm, well I never visit tumblr, but yes I do disapprove of any kind of self-diagnosis.
>>5314655
Good to know.
Hiya.
Asperger's Syndrome here, too.
Personally, I don't see Asperger's as a mental illness. Just a different mindset than what's expected by society as "the norm" with its own set of tradeoffs compared to that norm.
Main upside: The Spock-like logical aspect allows me to separate emotion (and subsequently bias) from most situations better than most people, essentially the neutral perspective that's so important in moderator positions in negotiations/arguments. Of course, like everyone else, the closer the situation in question is to my core being, the harder it is to separate emotion from proper analysis, unfortunately.
Main downside: Communication with "normal" mindsets can easily go awry, and shyness due to repeated failures at this tends to inhibit further attempts.
The fact that people have to point out in here that they weren't self-diagnosed shows how deplorably-uneducated and ignorant some people are. It's the same mindset as "tits or gtfo" when a girl speaks up in an MMO, or anytime Donald Trump opens his mouth. (Yes, I said it.) They're all assholes automatically assume everyone else is lying until they prove otherwise, and often, no amount of proof ever convinces them anyway.
>>5319147
OK, goons. Here's your tumblr snowflake to attack.
>>5319147
Thanks for sharing!
autisitic fag here.
this neurotypical world is not that easy, but that's life. and I'm a boylover.
I have autism spectrum disorder (formerly ppnos, and diagnoses all over the place.) i also have tourettes, social anxiety, general anxiety, and OCD tendencies
from what ive noticed, other autists don't seem to care about getting better at social interaction.... although i can say it gets harder for me every day. but i get triggered when i see people who treat every internet forum like a god damn school paper with needlessly 'proper' grammar (see >>5319147). it just makes you look like an ingenuine tryhard. there is a branch of linguistics that deals with how one presents oneself through communication over the internet and text... simple things like punctuation can convey things like anger or sadness. i think its really cool that emojis can be considered punctuation too!!! and one got in the oxford dictionary!! aight thats off topic
i like girls and boys but i just want to be a sexless machine and upload myself to the singularity. if youve read Asimov's the last question, that's my goal
also FUCK yuppies and FUCK neurotypicals. other autists in this thread, i recommend drugs; namely alcohol, pot, LSD, cough syrup, and benadryl. benadryl optional. check out the deliriant board on 420chan because its basically entirely about benadryl. that shit will fuck you up
I like how articulate all the posts are in this thread thus far. Truly, this is a thread filled with autists.
>>5320368
As was the point, I suppose.
This thread taught me that there is a specific and generalizable way that autistic people type. Huh.
>>5320456
It's funny because it's a stereotype that's very true. I have aspergers and often find myself typing like other posters in this thread.
I'm a weird loser with no life, I guess I'm bisexual and I wish I was a girl but at the end of the day I'm an undesirable kissless virgin autistic
>>5320456
What do you mean by the way they type?
Asperger's diagnosed as early teen. was delayed because both parents studied psychology and worked with children with autism for a period of time. whether on purpose or accident they raised me in an environment a child with Asperger should be raised with how to teach me and everything. This pushed the diagnosis to ADD at first but it came back to Asperger as a teen.
As with how things are Different. For me i have basically been raised in a house hold that taught me to manage my symptoms, although after high school i hit an autistic burnout phase where my symptoms got very bad. What i have noticed from NTs though is that i have to be more aware, certain aspects of social interactions are inherit, when i find myself possibly having trouble or at the least having to think them though. Of course i also find myself able to have the inherit knowledge else where, and thats usually where the interests, obsessions and such would come into play for autistic. Autism is such a big topic right now and that is a bit of a worry. I see a ton of girls especially now coming out with saying they are on the spectrum and it is worrying. most are self diagnosed, and its even going to the point where i knew a transfat FAAB non binary tumbrina. Pink hair, always wore dresses, heavy makeup and long painted nails. Would put a bowtie on over the dress and say she was masc. She would go to sex clubs and fetish parties every weekend. Total social butterfly that needs to make everything about her, and of course self diagnosed autistic.
As for sexuality/gender i am Mtf trans, not crazy actually even though i will be called that. i do have lots of social issues but its more introverted not overly outspoken. I am also bi but almost asexual in terms of how sexual. I dont know if its being trans as this was before and after HRT, but i can have romantic interest in a person and become attached if i like them enough but sex is something i more do for my partner.
Fucking limit, Fucking wall of tex
>>5314493
S-Sometimes I think I might be an autist. Because when I googled behaviors of mine my family sometimes points out, autism came up in all the searches... it's a wee bit scary, but my boyfriend is autistic, and he makes me feel better about it.
Ah but, then again, seeing autistic folk generally getting shit on makes me go into fear mode part 2.
>>5320638
How's you boyfriend?
>>5320764
I meant how is YOUR boyfriend, of course.
Hey fellow autists I need your help
>Diagnosed aspergers
>Never fit in
>No gf ever
>Few friends
>Always had AGP tier fantasies, never thought much of it
>Go on antidepressants because depressed at not fitting in
>Wipes interest in women completely
>Whatever I was beta anyway
>Unfortunately this has turned the AGP into full on trans feelings
>Think about it and realize that my autism wouldn't be so much of a problem if I was a girl
>Being quiet, passive and liking bright things becomes a good thing
What do you guys think? I had always thought life as a woman would be easier on my autism but doing so would make me a transbian. Now I'm actually happy to date men so I could be a normal straight woman. I know it sounds like a cop out but being an autistic male is true suffering.
>>5320884
I have been their mate.
I was planing on going on mones and not even cutting off my dick like a idiot just so i could be treated like a girl.
Then my bf was an asshole to me and it kind of broke me
I said fuck this wanting to be treated like a man shit and said fuck it i am a man and i gotta be able to carry my own god damn self and deal with my own shit.
I was diagnosed with aspegers when i was like 14 or 15 btw mate.
And simply its not worth it because all you are doing is becoming something else in order to escape who you really are. Like i am guessing you have had the same of experience of staying up to 2am-5am just thinking about shit cuz welcome to Aspergers and no matter how hard you try you will never escape that.
Try to use your ability to just invest your life into something to your advantage because not many people have the ability to do that so just say fuck it and do what you love.
>>5320979
wanting to be treated like a girl*
same bloke form >>5320979
Also you guys who worry about being unable to "fix" your social issues which you can but it all depends upon what you deeply love and enjoy. Like mine is philosophy right and yeah i know its stupid but it helps me understand people and understand a lot of things around and sure i am not right about a lot of things or correct upon my perspective of things.
But like when i tell people i have Asperger they genuinely do not think i have it and are quite shocked when they hear me say that i have it which i find a bit strange because i just see it as part as of who i am. Out of all the social skills to build on the big ones are confidence and comedy. These 2 things are the bread and butter of society and you have to be able to admit to yourself that you are good and with this confidence depression won't set in so hard because you know you are going to be able to fix yourself. And don't have fear as anyone with Asperger we fear so many things we are genuinely really scared people and not scared of shit like pain or death or any really basic human function but the fear of failure the fear of fucking up.
And we beat ourselves over fucking up and we kick ourselves for it or just shut down from it and you need to learn to build up to not fear yourselves or other's. You need to let yourself fuck up before you can be able to not fear things. Like when i was 14-16 i had no friends and no one was friends with me ( i was in hs btw ) and the way i made friends was being funny and being sarcastic and not taking everything so serious and being able to laugh at myself and others and people were happy to be around me because i did not have this fear of fucking up and i was ok with myself.
Tldr: Don't take yourself so fucking seriously because no one else is.
>>5320287
>typing in a proper grammatical way is ingenuine tryhard
Only if you actually have to try hard to obey basic grammar rules. It's sad how this seems to be correlated to schoolwork, as in "pff lol loser we don't need no school no more so why you type so professional and concise arsehole roflmlao" That's just sad. There's also a branch of linguistics that deals with ebonics, but I don't see you presentin yoself lyke a getto-ass gangsta thug. Idiot.
I have atypical autism, just recently found out that I'm gay(im 25, sad really)...
I'm not autistic enough for people to notice but I'm sometimes very introverted.
How fucked am I? Will I ever get a bf or sex with a well endowed man?
I have autism and I HATE the word neurotypical and I LOATHE the idea that I'm just different and I don't need to be cured and that I'm just SOOPER SPESHUL
I would want a cure but also I know it wouldn't do much good at this point because after years of being rejected and shamelessly bullied for being an autist I have ridiculous social anxiety and bpd so i'm fucked in other ways now
>>5321059
I'm sorry anon, but none of us will have sex with anyone under any circumstances.
>>5321074
OP here, I'm certainly with you that a cure would be desirable. However I doubt such a thing will be available within our lifetimes.
>>5320979
Thanks m8. I know it sounds like a total escapist fantasy but I do think I have some legit dysphoria. I totally hate my stubble, having short hair depresses me the AGP of course, and I exfoliate my skin like crazy. I understand what your saying though, if it's just to be treated differently it's not worth it but with me it's kinda 50/50
>Try to use your ability to just invest your life into something to your advantage
Yep I'm crazy idea king. Currently working on petrol delivery drone idea. Everyone laughs at me but they will see.
>>5321059
size queen
>>5322299
I can't help it, straight porn made me hunt for the biggest dicks, I always hated women size queens, kinda ironic that I end up being a size queen.
>>5322339
But if your man's dick is big it won't fit in you. I've had that problem.
>>5322357
I'm not very big, I bet most men are big guys for me, and that's all that matters.
What are some home items that I can use to explore my boypussy? I've tried shit, but I didn't use good lube so I didn't get anything but my fingers in.
>>5322387
um carrots?
I'm pretty autistic but it's okay because I only occasionally cry about it...
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What are the benefits to getting diagnosed by a medical professional? I heard it's about $1000..do I get SSI benefits, a handicapped parking pass, any cool drugs? Are there any actual benefits?
>>5322660
I got
>£1000 a month autism quid
>Council flat
Do it.
>Go to 4chan
>Hey are there any autists here?
>Go to the American south
>Hey are there any cousin fuckers here?
I don't know what you all being retarded has to do with /lgbt/ but you can all go back to tumblr and /r9k/
>>5322707
Maybe because it's harder for us to get dicks than for you filthy soulless normies. REEEEEEEEE
I bet you hang around fag hags!!!! REEEEEEE
>>5322707
No need to be mean.
>>5322660
autism is a developmental disorder, there aren't really drugs for it, just therapy and autismbux
My psychologist spent a good 2-3 years trying to diagnose if I was autistic or not, which he concluded I was not. Although I am not autistic, I 'sympathize' with autists, like I 'understand' that they have a harder time than most and so on, although it's like a categorization for me, like hard science.
I do identify with some individual traits of autism, like low emotional sympathy and understanding.
>>5314493
I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was 6 years old I'm three years delayed and then I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder seven years later
>>5325324
>doesn't know the difference between empathy and sympathy
Confirmed for millennial
Sup? I have Assburgers, and I'm gay.
>>5330562
Not much...
>>5330317
That's technically true.
Autistic faggot reporting in. It's a lonely world.
