Serious question. How many people here are legitimately autistic and how severe is it/how severely does it affect you?
>>29868139
Im not autistic at all but it still affects me
>>29868174
Quit being an abstruse faggot
>>29868139
I honestly don't know. Maybe it's just a combination of other mental illnesses, being unattractive and lacking experiences.
ive been suicidal, diagnosd with depression and anxiety, i think im autism too. desu other than virgin no gf ever at 28 its ok. i can hold down jobs and keep a few friends. parents love me even though i fail most things i try. i think a lot of it handicapped is self invented. and i say that as a true fuck up
>>29868396
Talk about it?
I honestly think i have some sort of light undiagnosed autism.
Either that or i am literally the most socially retarded/awkward a person can be.
>>29868417
I know I have some REAL trouble with empathy (I'm not a jerk though, I sympathize...) and socializing in general. People pretty much assume I have asperger's or something (even though it's been merged into autism now?), and it makes sense. It does affect me; people know I'm not normal.
But it's odd. I don't know if it's autism. Sometimes it just feels like I have some mental blockages of some kind. I could be paying more attention to people's body language, I could be making eye contact more correctly, I could let them into my head and try to get into theirs, but I can't allow it. Usually it really seems like I couldn't manage it, but sometimes I seem to do it right without even paying attention. Alcohol makes it pretty different too. I have no idea if this makes sense.
Maybe it could be some affective/emotional disorder coupled with paranoia and asociality. It ends up looking a lot like autism though.
>>29868450
/Asperger/ here sound about right
i am /Asperger/ fag
its the lighter area of the spectrum
and it affects me socially and mentally
i cant socialise with anyone who i dont know at all like i rather be inside then out talking to people
and i am very emotional weak like i can cry if yelled at by some people
but i also get disablility pay and thats pretty sweet
>>29869590
im /Asperger/ and im very the same im a pathological liar and i same have very little empathy for most things like at my mums funeral i only cried a bit but when my cat almost died i was balling my eyes out
>>29869590
You're a sperg, Harry
I did MDMA some months ago and the feeling was nothing short of magical. I had already had a basic grasp of body language and conversational skills then, but on it I could read everything. I felt accordingly. I knew what and how to ask and everybody who met me at work that day came away happy
Now all I'm taking is a bunch of herbal extracts and nutrients, and maybe an occasional bit of noopept or aniracetam. And you know what I notice? I don't feel exactly like I did on ecstasy those days, but the way the knowledge springs to me? How my latent sense of psuedoempathy surges to action without explicit summon, thriving now even in the day-to-day cutthroat atmosphere of a waiting job? The thought sends a tear to my eye still
>>29868139
I've got moderate Asperger's. It affects me quite a bit. I would prefer to be normal.
>>29871112
>tfw I have an legit aspie cousin and I might have the tism myself
>tfw creepy rapist monotone
>tfw I like sports stats too much
I still have a job so I am not NEET and I only watch anime on the weekends
Parent of autistic child here.
> my child has a very specific stim
He had first choice of bedrooms when we moved, it did impact what apartments I considered.
>he's pretty socially awkward
His main issues is that he's very vulgar, doesn't always "read" his audience well.
>tries to be a class clown or funny
Sometimes he's witty well beyond his age, other times his lack of comedic timing is cringe-worthy.
>very articulate, passionate
Sometimes this is really amazing for a boy his age, other times he's ranting for 12 hours about his friend's "shocking display of cowardice" and a "fundamental lack of devotion" by not playing an RPG this week.
> general cute things when he was little - stacking, piling, etc.
> general cute things now - braiding his hair into "superbraid" (a massive braid of all his hair sticking out in the front of his head) is one of his stims. He's so nonchalant about it.
> eccentricities? autism? both?
He has this "special sit" where he sort of spread eagles, makes a frog leg shape and then bounces off the floor while he watches the TV.
When he was still a toddler, he was walking ahead of me, and some teenager asked him if he was "too cool to walk with mommy" and he responded by saying, "I am nothing, I simply do things."
He hates being touched and has control issues. This made detangling his hair fucking impossible at times. He gets really uncomfortable when I nuzzle into his neck and screams that he loves me, but I need to let go.
I think it's a lot harder for him to make friends because children his age don't understand that weird/funny =/ bad. Sometimes kids would bully him because his reactions are bizarre and loud. He always got along way better with his older brothers friends, and as he's getting older making friends is easier. I think as he gets older (1) kids get into more niche interests, so he has a commonality with others and (2) he memorises physical movements and cues, so he's getting more practice.
