just so you can understand, when i was a kid i had a lot of meltdowns and selective mutism or would straigh just not talk and avoid everything and everyone and just sit in my room wanting to cry and hit everything, but i would always get called stupid or get spanked, so i started to just teach myse
What I mean by that is, when I see someone talk about liking one of my interests, I’ll feel upset.
For example, my special interest is an actor and he’s quite popular, especially right now since he just starred in a fantastic movie.
I feel irrationally frustrated when I see people who “don’t lik
My auditory processing disorder has been out of control ever since I had a head injury a few years ago. I can't afford a brain scan to see what's wrong in there. Even with health insurance it's $3,000 and that's what I make in a month.
My auditory processing disorder used to be a lot more manageabl
I have been learning about autism in women, and I’m not sure where I stand. I know that it’s harder to tell in women because of masking, and I always thought that I was perhaps too extroverted to have it.
But honestly, I find that my closest relationships always suffer. I always end up being blinds
Hey folks!
Would love to have a space to openly talk about hyper fixation and the toll it can take on our mental health!
This past week I started a hyper fixation on a character from a video game I had been playing. I feel like the hyper fixation came out out of nowhere and hit me like a truck.
Hello!
I just found out some reactions I have might be misophobia and/or SEES (sharp edge eye syndrome) and I wanted to know if anyone else her struggle with it too since it's a sensory thing :)
So for me, I get this discomfort in my eyes (sometimes forhead too) and urge to put pressure on my ey
For context I'm a 21M and I have a few female friends of the same age but they always refer to me as a boy but when they refer to other guys my age they refer to them as men. They also talk to me in a slow cutsie voice rather like how you would talk to a little boy or a pet but will talk differently
Anyone else always have part of a song repeating in their head?
I think it's one of the most annoying things about watching insta reels (i know I need to stop haha). Because so many people use the same songs, then they're just in my brain for the rest of the day.
Right now it's
"AND WHEN I'M BAC
I have a long history of a self harm problem, and I’m trying to stop it. I’m coming to realize that extinction might not be a realistic goal for me right now, so I’m looking for good alternatives. Currently I have a spiky stress ball like the one pictured, but the spikes aren’t really that spiky and
Hi! I just made a new subreddit for neurodivergent and disabled people to talk about hygiene and skincare. Shaming isn't allowed, and it's intended to be a safe place for all support needs of autism as well as for AuDHD and other neurodi
So I am a 21NB who potnetially has autism and is studying psychology. My older brother 25M is nonverbal autistic/adhd with special needs. He's self injurious (Slapping himself, pinching himself) and we can't find a way to stop that and will often throw or hide things and we haven't found anyway to s
Hi! I(19F) have been struggling lately after pressure from my family and people around me to get a job. To start this id like to say that I’m not diagnosed with autism but am waiting to be evaluated and I’ve found that I struggle with the same things that a lot of neurodivergent adults do. Here’s t
Hey everyone 👋
I'm a parent of an autistic son and I've spent years watching him struggle with things that seem simple but really aren't — remembering to brush his teeth before work, knowing when to start getting ready so he isn't late, breaking down a task without feeling overwhelmed.
I trie
Well I guess it’s that time again, I was doing fine and well at my latest job. I felt like. I’m a financial administrator. It’s my third finance job, and the third with a year contract. I like it and I thought I was good at it, but I get slipped up by the details and not being able to prioritise any
I'm a teenager who, overall, tends to be very emotionally unstable. I don't even particularly like school - I'm clever and I like a few lessons but overall hate it a lot of the time. I have about 5 friends, but I struggle with actually finding the time/effort/confidence to hang out outside of school
I think I’m going through burnout again from working. I work from home in healthcare and it’s so taxing on my brain . It’s a production job that I’m definitely not meeting and I need the money to afford life. But I just find myself so burnt out. Some days I even go nonverbal for the rest of the nigh
I don't understand what is wrong with me but it's ruining all my life goals. Here is is. Sorry it's quite long but I don't know what else to say, anything shorter can't capture my feelings.
I feel like this is related to being neurodivergent, or at least I hope, since that may give me a clear pa
I'll start off with saying I'm not diagnosed as of now. I plan on seeing a psychiatrist hopefully soon to get a full evaluation done to rule out other possibilities as well and hopefully get answers. However, with autism it's not really something you can take medications for, like you would with ADH
I used to wish during most of my life to find my group of people to find the place where I could fit in I could be happy I could feel loved and I could give love. In fact I traveled on the road for so long going from here to there being nomadic just wanting to find that and finally after years of re
So I was only able to get 10 mins in at the grocery store today and I only got drinks and cleaning supplies and toiletries. I don’t have food but that’s fine. I need to pay my bills more. I apologize for my pathetic post and I won’t make anymore posts like that in the future.
I made this animated explainer about pathological demand avoidance… which I didn’t even have language for until recently.
I was diagnosed with autism as an adult and learning about things like this has reframed so much of my life. For a long time I thought I was just self-sabotaging or stubborn (I
I had a conversation with my dad tonight.
He was talking to me about a variety of topics that I was annoyed, upset and angry about. Before he went to get my mom, he told me I need to do better at being specific. He'll ask me why I'm upset or angry about things, and says I give him very general inf
Emotional regulation.
First ill just ask my mainquestion: what should one do if obsessed with something they can't interact with?
I'm extremely obsessed with driving but don't have a license and need to wait for about 2 months to get the drivinglessons.
Its been occupying my mind for the recent c
Hi sorry no better title in mind lol
I'm an older brother to a highly-functioning autistic (I think it's called) brother, and I would never replace him for a different brother ever. Just asking when we grow up, how would he be? Would he probably need some guidance? Should I let him live under my r
I need a good set of quality headphones for 24/7 use for a 17-year-old autistic teenager.
I live in South Africa, specifically the Western Cape. My budget range is R200-R1000 (10-60 USD)
Headphones need to be:
-Noise Canceling/soundproof
-Easy to clean the padded muffs
-Comfortable to
20F I realised recently that me being very very funny with new typical people had the effect that they wouldn’t be able to humanise me or see me in positions where I might be upset so I started to actually tweak out in front of them so that they could get a good balance or stop myself from saying to
No es un dato clínico, es una señal cultural
Hay momentos en que una frase, aparentemente técnica, revela algo mucho más grande que el caso al que intenta describir.
La reciente formalización de Hernán Meneses Laal, imputado por el asesinato de una inspectora en el Instituto Obispo Lazaeta de Cal
I’m 21M and have recently been diagnosed but have also suspected.
Now to the issue—for my entire life, I have lived with either a roommate or my parents. This often lead to either correction of my behavior by the people around me or self correction. But for the past year, I’ve been living by myself
The first assessment I did, the doctor told me that "while I fit the criteria that it's not affecting my life enough to qualify for a diagnosis". I strongly disagree but I have a really hard time discussing my issues to actually express how much it is negatively impacting my life. I have requested a
Hi, I was recently diagnosed with flat feet. I'd had a lot of foot pain since I started working at age 18 and late last year at 21, I was diagnosed with flat feet. I went to a podiatrist who basically said "yeah, you've had flat feet probably all your life". I insisted that I didn't and told him how
Hello everyone,
I'll be getting a diagnoses soon, either ASD or ADHD (potentially both.) Long story short, I tried every method to get to uni (it takes 5 hours one way from my town, and if I go to another town, it's two hours to uni, which is still far and my body can't handle it with the stress of
Ive seen people mention this in their fight against ADHD executive dysfunction, but this specific case seems ro be more physical than a mental block: sometimes I wear my hair in 2 boxer braids. However I absolutely can NOT stop doing a braid partway through, tie it off where it is, go do whatever in
So, for tomorrow, we have to wear a blue accessory or clothes.
First of all, trying to convince the school authorities otherwise isn't possible at this point.
Second of all, if I don't wear something blue as well, I might be seen as "inconsiderate".
It is worth mentioning my classmates do often u
So recently I read a post on here which made me think "hang on that is me exactly". I'm middle aged. I would have thought that anything that could be diagnosed would have been already, not that I ever go to the doctor or seek diagnosis. Then I read a few more posts and I'm like......holy hell in a h
i feel so behind in life right now. i was diagnosed almost a year ago but i’ve know since i was a teen i had autism as do my family.
i want to set up a plan to get started on a path to feeling better, but i don’t know where to even start.
for the last few years i don’t feel like i’ve made any cons
Please
please be nice im having a hard time wording this :(
i lost my stable job back in march of last year because of wrongful termination. and while that is a whole other story, i've been trying to find a job and keep the job. it's hard. none of these jobs i apply to sound interesting or worth my time s
I don’t want to do this. If there truly is no other way to live than I don’t want to keep living. I don’t want to spend 50 years sitting at a desk staring at numbers to retire and be unfit to fully enjoy life. I don’t want to be homeless. I don’t want to be someone who goes out constantly and has fu
Hi, throw away account as I am not sure they are on reddit. Also sorry if this is not in the right flair as I wasn't sure if this was more friendships or communication. However I think it fits mostly in communication as that is where this went wrong.
I have friend (F22) with autism and they kee
I have been picking at my skin, face, lips, the inside of my cheeks and nails for as long as I can remember, and I would really like to stop.
I also twirl my hair a lot, and pick at anything I am holding, which doesn’t harm me but can be annoying because of how others perceive it or because I make
I interviewed to direct an autistic play for a theater company this upcoming theater season. I did not know there would be an in-person artist retreat where I would need to physically stay somewhere else and use a shared bathroom and with staff/other artists/strangers. I am feeling very overwhelmed.
I recently lost a friendship of almost four months due to some people framing me by creating a fake message of me saying that the person I hung out with and I were "dating" even though we aren't. She then got mad at me after seeing the fake screenshot and thought I was telling people that we were "d
Some background:
I have some privacy issues due to not having any personal space as a child, and getting in trouble for personal feelings. The big example is my mom once read a diary entry about men that didn't make me feel safe (men I had previously trusted that attacked women I knew) and she y
Why do I always see Facebook mum’s saying autism isn’t a disability it’s a different ability or its a super power when in reality it isn’t if you can get called retarded and then that person who did would be at risk of a hate crime for disability it is 100% a disability (some things are a disability
I’am a (m) 24 years old athletic I did plumbing school so where i’am from, it’s 1.5 years of school after 4year apprenticeship I did the school part have my apprentices card but during school my teammate did almost all the work . So when I finished school got a job was panicking with basic skills s
Hello all
So about 6 months ago my family and I moved from the house we had lived in for years to a new house. Also around this time I started graduate school and even since we moved my concentration has been getting worse and worse. Just recently my concentration has been deteriorating faster I am
So to start this off, ive been struggling for a while, I dont push fast enough for my job, ive gotten 2 conversations about it next step is a write up and ive been actively dealing with mental health issue like disassociating, lack of time awareness, and just huge stress. I am just starting to feel
good evening. I am feeling pretty drab and soulless currently as everything in my life and what fearmongering has affected me outrageously & makes me feel like I’ll never meant to be loved. An autistic gay black man who is the most skirmish and most jittery and anxious person in here with no purpose
I work at a McDonald’s and I was talking with this one coworker and they asked if I smoked weed. I said I quit and they mentioned that this might be why I have anger issues. I mentioned that one thing about weed that affected me was how it basically makes me drop the mask and stim.
Later she asked
I just recently have realized I am autistic and finally got some noise cancelling headphones, but I haven't found them helpful because the sound of my footsteps is overwhelmingly distracting. Has anyone else experienced this? What are other options for dealing with noisy environments?
