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Recent content by AHClemist

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    What was the last movie you purchased?

    Doc Strange. I would buy more, but unfortunately it's hard to get the english version digitally, where I live and I'm not sure how much longer DVDs and such will be a thing.
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    Social Withdrawal

    I've been thinking about this recently. I'm not sad when I'm on my own, I prefer not having anyone in the viscinity to worry about, but it does get to me when I'm reminded that this is somehow considered faulty. I can get along with most people, one-on-one, but I get lost in a group. I'm not...
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    Black and white thinking

    Oh the deep-dives I have taken because I can't seem to remember anything until I've learned every detail about it. o_O
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    Talking about 'feelings'

    I think it's more about feeling useless. I learned, that my feelings are a burden to others. It was either implied, that I just want attention (which was bad) or they were ignored. So being distracted or stopped in my tracks by an emotion makes me feel like I failed at being logical and...
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    Black and white thinking

    I think @Autistamatic made a good point (not sure how this link thing works). Every single bit of data is analyzed with the intent to find the "right" answer. Everything else is "wrong". If one datapoint changes, there's a different right answer. The answer changes with the details, and every...
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    Talking about 'feelings'

    Somehow I learned, that my feelings are a burden to others, especially sadness and fear. They make people around me uncomfortable, which feels unsafe to me. Anger is not really something I feel. I get the closest when I find things to be unfair for other people or especially for animals. So...
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    Talking about 'feelings'

    I've started doing the mood diary thing on my own. Though I also have a short version, where I rate my mood on a scale of -5 to +5. I'm trying to see if it is hormone-related, since the amplitude of my feelings seems to have increased and I don't rally like that. I would rather feel "neutral"...
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    Talking about 'feelings'

    That way of experssing feelings makes sense to me. There's always more bundled up in the way a person feels than just one emotion. I like telling/writing a story that results in a similar feeling in the other person, rather than directly naming what I feel. I have gotten better at that too, though.
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    have you ever written journal entries? what a about planner?

    I've been jounaling for three years now. Mostly because I need to write down and think about what I feel in order to understand it. It helped me learn a lot about myself. For me it's more like I'm collecting data on my current status and then analyzing it. I also write down little daydreams and...
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    Should I be smarter?

    that's how I feel much of the time. It's as if I either know something, because I read it before or I don't in which case my brain refuses to puzzle the answer together and just stands there like a deer in the headlights. I also suck at picking out relevant details when given reading material, I...
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    Masking

    Agree. I'm running into a bit of trouble now, that I'm supposed to be an independent adult because I always based my decisions on what I'm supposed to want to do, not what I actually want to do. So now I'm working on trying to find out what it is I want. I do the memorizing facial experessions...
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    Masking

    does it make you feel gross even when they don't look back? Just asking out of curiosity.
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    Nerd Mode, activate!

    I love how much traction this post got! My parents actually used to call me "Miss Professor" when I was little. At that time, they were completely unaware of the ASD cliché that phase has become. I used to take it as a compliment. Still do. For me, it doesn't only happen when I get to talk...
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    Nerd Mode, activate!

    Do any of you drastically change the way you speak when someone asks you about something you are interested in? I've noticed I will change my tone of voice and style of speaking to something much more presentation-like rather than the usual conversation style. The last time I actually gave a...
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    I'm New! Diagnosed at 19...

    Hi there! Welcome. The first three paragraphes could have been written by me, though I think you expressed it much better. I never really hit that "emotional puperty" during my teenage years. Everybody loved how well behaved I was. Nobody ever bothered to question why. Did your family ever...
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