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Recent content by Anarkitty

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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    There's an underlying assumption here that someone who has not been professionally diagnosed has not been challenged or impaired by it, and that is incorrect. I was born in 1971. I sought help as a teen. The psychiatrist that I saw at that time recognized signs of autism in me in our short...
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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    It's funny how you think an autism diagnosis requires a professional to evaluate a person, and yet you think you can tell me that I'm deceiving myself without knowing me at all. Many people start off self-diagnosed only to get formally diagnosed later on--they weren't deceiving themselves. But...
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    How can you tell when you’re ready for bed?

    It does not make me jittery, but it will prevent me from sleeping, and my behavior on too much caffeine has been compared to that of a person on speed before. :D
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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    I covered that pretty well in my original post. :) And for the record, the professionals would only have the evidence that I gave them. It's not deceitful because I'm not lying. It's not deceitful because I've done my research and done everything I can to understand the condition and the...
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    How can you tell when you’re ready for bed?

    I read that recently, and I still consider it one of the weirder things I've read about ADHD. :-) My ADHD son has trouble sleeping, as well as focusing during the day, so I'm talking to him about trying medication. He's 18, though, so he'll have to make his own decision about it.
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    How can you tell when you’re ready for bed?

    This is major for me. I do not have much screen time in the evenings. Even with f.lux, I find that the things that I do online tend to stimulate my brain and wake me up. I am very sensitive to light, though, so it goes further than just screen time. We live off-grid and have very dim lights in...
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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    How is it deceitful?
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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    I concede your point. :-) Thank you for bringing that up. As someone who does not know much about schizophrenia, I recognize that my understanding of the condition, and how people with schizophrenia view their own minds, is flawed. I accept that it is the knowledge and understanding of the...
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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    I'm sure it's still considered a mental illness here, too, what with the DSM being all about mental disorders. I guess that is actually part of my issue--that the medical professionals are all about considering the pathology of autism while autistic people are arguing that we just think...
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    Why I Feel That Self-Diagnosis Is Valid With ASD

    So I was talking to my autistic son last night. He has not done any reading at all about autism; he's only listened to me talk about it. In addition to being unconvinced that he is autistic (see second sentence), he also mentioned that he feels like calling himself autistic would not be fair to...
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    Evaluation

    @inkfingers, I have no clue. :D I just found it weird that the autistic people in the household were flummoxed while the ADHDers thought it was simple and obvious. I've read that autistic people often have problems connecting multiple examples of the same type. ? I have not previously seen...
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    Hi!

    I like Cynthia Kim's I Think I Might Be Autistic as a starting place, then lots of reading. The thing is, at a certain point, the evidence should become overwhelming. Or you may find that you're an "autistic cousin," someone with many of the traits but not quite autistic. Either way, you'll find...
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    First to arive, first to leave?

    I think it's awesome that you found a church again. :-) I would say that generally, I'm a first to arrive and first to leave kind of person. However, I go into autistic camouflage mode sometimes, and when that happens, I become super social, stay till the end, then go home and cry. I can't...
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    Hi!

    I'm nice and also a people. :D Welcome! I'm new as well, self-diagnosed. Everyone has been kind and supportive here.
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    So I started to post about autism on a homeschooling forum...

    @MeghanWithAnH, thank you! I can understand that. And I had similar experiences with just thinking about some of my problems as character flaws. When I thought of my "Aspie tendencies," those traits weren't even on my radar. Also, I have my own 50 document. I started it while going through I...
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