How many b/ros actually have autism? I have pretty severe Asperger's.
>>687607666
im convinced i do too , i show all signs
>>687607666
Went to a therapist, wondering if I have asperger's. His opinion was that it was unlikely but that I share very similar characteristics to a high functioning aspie.
>>687607666
I was formally diagnosed, but I'm pretty far in the denial closet. Also,
>Asperger's
No such thing anymore. We're all ASD now. Welcome to the club.
>>687607666
I was told by a government psychologist that I had adult autism
not sure if that's the same as normal autism
Dunno. Is not being able to sleep because of constant thinking a sign of autism?
I'm pretty fucked up about it. My girlfriend doesn't understand that I don't get normal things. I don't laugh sometimes even if something is really funny. I don't smile sometimes. I forget to manage my vocal inflection when I'm concentrating on something and it makes it sound like I'm pissed. She gets upset when I don't notice when she's upset. I just honestly can't fucking tell. I don't understand what's not normal too do. The other night she was in my room and very upset. I kept asking what I could do to help, anything at all. She didn't know and I starting having a minor panic attack but I knew there wasn't anything I could do so I went and got food and told her I'd be in the living room if she needed me. I ate all my food and came back and she was sobbing. She wasn't convinced I cared or that I had tried to make her feel better because I didn't take any physical action, and I couldn't convince her I had zero idea going to get food would make her worse or what I was suppose to do and eating helps with panic attacks. She sort of accepts it but doesn't understand. I would do ANYTHING to make this girl happy. I fucking love her. But I just don't know what to do. Like, ever. And it sucks. I've been in the dumps and was hoping to find someone who could relate. I've pretty much mastered normal social skills, to the point where most people don't notice anything or maybe think I'm a bit odd, but when it comes to serious shit, stuff I'm not use too, I'm like a drunk 5 year old. This is OP btw.
>>687608797
I don't think so.
>>687607666
Are you diagnosed OP? Also, being socially awkward is not the same as having autism or aspie I work with kids that have severe autism, and you guys are way better off than them (also, all people ar on the spectrum). Go out and be social, instead of selfdiagnosing yourselfs in front of the computerscreen. Just a tip
>>687609424
Do you ever get the feeling that only you realize that something is not real? And no matter who you tell about it, they just act like you are joking. Like insurance or money. Not real.
>>687609665
These kids can´t talk, they can´t go to the toilet themselves, they can´t make food, they can´t follow rules, they bang their heads against the wall, they attack other kids, etc. do you do this op?
>>687607666
Any twirling, flapping etc?
chris???
>>687609906
Bro, it´s pretty real to go the store and buy yourself some food for money, or drive to your work with a car. In reality, money is real. As a concept, oh well, money is pretty fucked up, but still real.
>>687607666
I have this painting hanging in my house
>>687609665
My parents are super conservative and my parents are just convinced I don't try and won't take me to get diagnosed.
>>687610301
Hm. What symptoms do you show? I work with autism and have friends with asperger´s
>>687609906
And love. Like, bitch it's just a chemical reaction in your brain. I have a policy that it someone asks me for money I'll never deny,them because I refuse to covet a piece of paper. Reality isn't even real. The only thing real is perception. Those leaves aren't green. Its just our brains interpreting light rays being reflected in the narrow part of the spectrum we can detect. What the fuck even is green? There's zero way to prove green to me is green to you.
>>687610552
Wow. We all know this, anon, why dwell on it?
>>687607666
That a Sir Frank Dicksee painting?
>>687608433
is that like adult swim?
i love that show
>>687609965
I didn't go to the bathroom by myself until the first grade, my brother had to help me. I was verbal but I spoke in incomplete sentences and noises and didn't understand why people didn't understand me. I wet the bed until I was 12 and didn't tie my own shoes until I was about 10.
>>687609965
Oh, and I hit myself a lot. But not in public.
>>687610720
Hm, sounds more like it. What about now? How old are you, and how does your diagnosis work against you in your daily life at this moment in time?
>>687609986
Idk what that is.
>>687610767
Yeah, usually hitting yourself is a form for selftherapy because of the frustration in your mind. Happens a lot at work with the children too
I'm not diagnosed with autism nor aspergers but I'm very likely somewhere on the very high-functioning end of the spectrum
you guys should all join "military intelligence" ull fit right in
>>687610824
19. I still have problems doing normal tasks. I mostly understand friendly conversations as I have learned how they work in school, but other than that I have zero fucking clue as to how interactions work. I literally don't know how to talk to my parents. I'm no sure how describe it. I literally don't know how to open up, carry, or close a conversation with my own family members. I don't get how to say bye to people. I usually just walk away from conversations when the other person is distracted. When somebody calls out my name in public I usually ignore them,because I don't know the normal way to respond. I can pay for gas, buy food, etc. but I know I'm not doing it the correct way. I have things I obsess about for months at a time. They occupy 90% of my thoughts. The way it hinders me the most is the I've mostly lost the urge to learn how to,be normal. It all seems so fake to,me,anyways. I've become extremely antisocial. I only talk to,my girlfriend and the people I smoke weed with. And I have no desire to change that.
No, I'm normal, not retarded.
>>687610946
My girlfriend hates it but it's literally the only thing that can make me feel better after I accidentally hurt her. Frustration is my least favorite emotion. By far.
All self-diagnosed people here, fuck off.
If you think you have the signs of autism, visit a psychologist and get it checked.
>>687611585
Go fuck yourself. People on the high end spectrum of autism have significantly above average IQs. Educate yourself.
>>687607666
I have PDD-NOS. It's not that severe though, I just have bad social skills. Nothing out of the ordinary.
>>687611681
I'm saving up money once I get out of summer school so I can.
>>687611543
Hey man. No worries, I can try to lighten up your day. There are no correct or wrong ways to talk to people, so a lot your anxiety is just in your head (yeah, it´s probably harder than how I describe it, but trying to give you a new perspective :)). If you feel like you don´t know how to say something, own it, in a way. Ask your close ones how to carry a conversation better, ask your close friends if they can help you with bettering your social skills, ask your GF if she can help you too. Also, you have a GF and close friends, a lot of people don´t.
I´m not the same as you, I know how to socialize, I know the cues, the game, I guess. But! I feel very antisocial from time to time, so socializing isn´t always fun to me. Just work on it, ask for advice from people you trust. Don´t be afraid to ask for help! You need someone to lean on, homie. We´re all different. No problem.
>>687611749
Not everyone. Also, they can have specialized interests which limit their IQ to only one subjectmatter.
>>687610001
I'm sure not. But tell me about him, I'm curious.
>>687609424
Feel ya, probably getting a divorce soon. I love my wife but she's kind of on the opposite end of emotionality to me. She thinks I'm cold, I just don't get it, I can't process her emotionality.
>>687611859
Thanks bro. I do this sometimes. Two coping mechanisms I use is purposefully talking odd and trying to make it funny and acting like the other person is the weird one.
>>687612167
If you love her it's worth it to stay. You just gave to talk things out. The only thing that makes it work with my gf is we talk at length anytime either of us get hurt.
>>687612311
Yup! Self irony is a good one, make it funny. A lot of people on this board have the victim mentality, but hey man, you see things in a different light, might as well use that light for yourself!
I've got Asperger's too.
>>687611966
I meant IQ as determined by IQ tests. I good portion of the questions are basically riddles that require unusual thinking. But yeah I get the special knowledge thing. I can tell you SO FUCKINF MUCH about sharks from when I was obsessed with then as a kid.
>>687607666
>666
I have Aspergers but it's subtle and I mostly come off as shy and a bit awkward. It took a therapist with 30 years experience working with autism to finally pick it up. Pretty sure it runs in my family too. My dad is on the spectrum and my nephew is a full blown autist who's pretty much existing on another fucking planet and can barely communicate.
>>687612688
Yeah man. also, nice infinity dubs!
>>687612744
This. Have a buddy who´s aspergers and a god on guitar. Also work with kids that live in their own bubble, all the time :p
>>687612452
Eh, it's not just that. She's a recovering heroin addict, we both thought she was farther along in her recovery than she actually was when she got married. Things have been bad, extremely unhealthy for the both of us. She had a really shitty upbringing that causes her a lot of problems despite going to therapy once a week. Whole thing has been kind of a shitshow. We're basically at two different stages of life right now. We have talked endlessly without much fruit.
literally couldnt think of an easier population control then anyone whos ever been diagnosed or given a diagnosis of this shit
seriously kill yourselves
at the least reevaluate ur lives
ur sucking up resources
meanwhile kids are starving
>>687612744
I'm pretty sure my dad has asperger's too. He has all the same tells I do. I didn't notice it until I started studying autism and realized all lot of the things I do aren't normal. Then I noticed he did them too.
>>687607666
im shit at socializing.
i think i may have some kind of minor autism.
I might have aspergers, among other things. I don't read people very well by nature.
However, since I'm older now, and I read people using logic, nobody knows that I'm secretly autistic.
>>687613073
bet u didnt know ur thoughts can be read via electromagnetics nigger.science
there is literally nothing wrong with having autism
>>687612865
Oh, gotcha. You can talk a relationship through a lot of things, but being in two different places mentally is hard to recover from. Too bad man. I wish you the best.
Since y'all autistic, show me your collections (of anything) autists love collecting.
>>687613212
triggered autistic kid. knew id get at least 1
>>687612945
*you're
>>687613038
Then you´re probably just shit at socializing. Sorry to break it to you anon. Go work on it, it´ll become better. Remember how you learned to ride the bicycle? You´ll get it eventually
>>687612859
*shreds* I've been playing guitar for seven years now. Its one of the only obsessions that's been with me most of my life.
I'm probably autistic but i refuse to get tested. Fuck living with a label.
>>687613201
They don't even need something so sophisticated if they want to learn how you think. But most of us don't need to be worried, unless you're doing something seriously dodgy.
>>687612945
And what do you contribute to society?
>>687613550
Amazing! Use it for something cool. I put my friend to tasks in the music world (I produce music), and I guess it gives him better self esteem about his hobby. Try finding someone to play with if you´re interested!
>>687613272
I didn't know autists collected things. I've never really collected anything. Other than letters from colleges. But that's too remind myself I could have had a better life if I wasn't such a fucking autismo.
>>687613648
my massive DICK
nah jks i go around marking people for eviseration. i do it for free. its my pleassure.
marked.
>>687612859
I wish I had some great skills. I'm good at pretty much anything I put effort into but nothing really stands out that I'm exceptional at. I have an amazing long term memory and I can easily recall and visualize events, places, smells, people and what they were wearing from decades ago and even when I was very young, but I have terrible concentration so it's difficult to see how I can put that to practical use.
>>687613020
I only found out about my dad a while ago. My sister and I were talking about our difficult relationships with him and apparently his parents took him to see a specialist when he was young because he was having trouble with school and social situations. It explains a lot, he doesn't get nuances or sarcasm and everything has to be direct and obvious or he just doesn't "get it".
>>687607666
Dunno, but people suddenly thought I'm one despite the fact that I wasn't.
I am introverted and kept only a handful of friends back then and wasn't really into knowing every person out in the crowd (yet the strangers expect me to act like I'm close with them like with people I know).
its in the drugs just about anything produced in a factory/chemical will make you retarded compared to eating natural, taking natural drugs( cannabis) rather then death dealing retarding energy drinks, cigs, soda, alcho
>>687613665
I've tried so fucking hard. I live in rural Missouri and I can't stand country. I was in a blue grass band for a while. I get lots of bites, as people think I'm quite talented, but none of it really pans out. I hate it. Music is my absolute passion.
>>687613797
A, sorry to hear anon. Can´t really help you find something to be passionate about, it kind of just happens. Hope you find something that can catch your concentration, maybe writing, since you´re so good at visualizing?
>>687613272
I have gathered a shit ton of useless information about history, specially asia history.
S-still counts?
>>687613922
What about making a solo project? Putting your effort into making pieces of music, maybe learning how to make beats from scratch could be interesting for you? Then you can put your guitarskills into context and make whole songs of it by yourself :)
>>687613915
It's my personal opinion that high spectrum autism is the next natural step in evolution. There is zero proof (to my knowledge) that autism can be caused by anything other than an aged father. Usually around 40.
>>687613774
Well...! Ur an fagot!
>>687614070
I started too and I fucking cracked my laptop screen. My families poor as fuck and I don't have a job right now to get it fixed. I think I was doing okay, as I understand music pretty darn well.
>>687613929
I'm looking into a computer programming course and I could definitely see my memory being useful there. I took a 2 day html course and hated it so that makes me worry a little. That said, only one person passed the test at the end and we got together and made the instructor take it too - he failed. It was a pretty shitty course.
>>687614440
Ah, fuck anon. Keep hanging on, you´ll get another laptop later. I can tell you as a singer/songwriter for several years, that starting to make beats helped my songwriter ability immensely. Also, it helps me get other good instrumentalists in to make something cool as a collab. (I know that´s not your field, but hey, if you find someone who´s in the same boat as you and is a god at fiddle, you could prob make something fucking cool!!)
OP here, I think the main reason I want to share this is to brag but what ever. Having this amount of autism and shit (I'm also unattractive) and I've still bedded 6 girls and I'm only 19. Three of them were virgins.
>>687614511
Damn, sounds like a bad time. Try finding someone who´s way better than you so you can learn at a more rapid speed :)
>>687614648
Ain´t nothing to brag about, OP. Just deal with it and live life on your conditions :)
>>687614582
Thanks man. Links to your music?
>>687614511
OP here. I'm also interest in software engineering. I'm hoping I can turn it into an obsesstion so I can learn it super fast. There's so many coding languages that if you hate one, you can investigate another. I recommend teaching yourself. That way you can find what you like.
>>687614268
>mental illness
>next step in human evolution
>semantically dystopic language with inverse meaning
shutup faggot, go step infront of traffic (litearlly)
AH is not impressed with your faggatory (nor i, we confirmed via telekinesis)
>>687607666
High functioning aspergers, confirmed.
IQ of 168, problems applying it. I was IQ tested upon diagnosis.
I have trouble speaking, expressing feelings.
But I have a job, a roof over my head, and a partner who loves me.
>>687614750
No links anon, I did a lot of live concerts when I was about 15-20, now I´m 22 and still working on music while working. Work takes a lot of time from music, so can´t really go too deep right now. Also, it´s norwegian, so sorry anon :((
>>687614268
I could see it being a possible evolutionary step, but probably not "the" evolutionary step. Humans are very social creatures and autism can be a significant barrier to that. Less socializing means less chance for creating families and offspring. Survival of the fittest and all that.
>>687614982
It's cool man. I'm just always super interested in music I haven't heard.
>>687607666
Sup guys. Give me your symptoms. Say if you have one of them or not.
Stereotypy
>can you think about other people before acting
>do you do repetitive things like: stacking, repetitive movement, ritualistic behavior etc.
>resistance to change
>restricted behavior
>obsession to the exclusion of everything else
>collecting things
Communication
>is body language hard for you?
>can you read people's faces?
>can you empathize with other people?
Empathy is being able to imagine what other people feel when talking to someone or doing something with someone as relatively quick as a neurotypical person. Or, not doing much effort at all to empathize. But being able to empathize
>>687615011
I think there would be issues, but I dunno. Maybe I just believe it so I don't feel like I have a handicap.
>>687607666
my bro is pretty severe aspie (formally diagnosed), I still don't really understand it he's a great dude and really funny - just seems sheltered, cynical and doesn't like to share his good qualities with people he doesn't know.
>>687615239
I have all of the communication ones. I hate change. A lot. A whole lot. Even minor change. Like people rearranging my video games or magic cards. Even though they're not in order. I obsess hardcore. I'm not sure what you mean by restricted behavior.
>>687615473
Sorry. I guess I was being redundant
>>687615275
Have you ever seen the movie They Live? I imagine having asperger's as similar to that. I don't really hate everyone, but I have a certain disdain that they all don't seem to see everything that's happening around them. And how they cling to these weird actions and thing as if there's a reason too. It really makes you feel excluded from people. Which can lead to feelings of resentment.
>>687615596
Also, I have empathy hardcore in some instances but in others I just don't even consider putting myself in another's shoes. If I see or hear someone in a bad situation, I might as well be too because I can so perfectly imagine everything they feel. But almost paradoxically I have trouble imagining how people feel in social situations. Like the whole deal with my gf and the food. I never thought too think of it from her point of view. Obviously someone leaving after I said I was upset would hurt me. I just hasn't considered that. It's odd.
egocentrisms the worst one short of imminant and immidiate retaliation via eviersating force of DEATH and DSTRUCTION.
get the fuck off my planet go colonise the sun
>>687614936
A means to provide for yourself and someone you love. Who could want more? I envy you anon. I deeply hope to develop a means to provide for myself.
>>687608797
Nah that's just overthinking
Well anons OP has to get ready for school. I deeply thank all of you. My day started off pretty well. I'll try to hop back on before I head to school. You all deserve a medal for being such cool cats. Have good days anons!
I am but a simple ADD child, no autism to be found.
>>687616428
Awesome OP! Have a good one
>>687607666
Almost everyone here is autistic
>>687615677
Nah I haven't seen it, but shit that's a pretty easy to understand way of putting it - I assume it's much more complicated feelings than that. Thanks though man definitely helps me appreciate it a bit better, he considers me his best friend and he would tell me how it feels if he could put it into words.
>>687607666
Aspergers here too.
>>687607666
i have had people tell me they thought they might have aspergers because of lack of ability to sympathize with people on an emotional level. honestly i dont really know what that means but i still say "im pretty sure you do" and provide stupid bullshit examples for purpose of mind fuck.
>>687609424
Protip for you, when women are upset they don't want a solution to the problem, they just want someone to listen to them and comfort them. Hug them, tell them they'll be ok, how it sounds really hard etc.
gl
>>687610552
Look into vipassana
>>687612865
Therapy is good, tell her to ask her therapist about Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy or some other new age therapy which incorporates buddhist practices such as mindfulness, vipassana/samatha meditation, cultivating compassion etc.
I used to be a heroin addict, etc.
I wish I had autism, that would explain a lot
>>687616132
You'll get there anon. I promise.
Take small steps towards your goal and you will achieve it. Then you will look back and feel great about yourself for doing so.
>>687607666
Assburgerfag reporting in from Sweden.
I get money from government, use said money to pay rent at home and buy weed with rest. Never leave my room apart from appointments and buying weed.
Age 22, full time NEET
