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Recent content by AniGa

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    Questionable Experience with Diagnosing Doctor - What Now?

    Okay... would you suggest demanding an opinion from a second doctor at the same institution, or rather go to a different institution entirely? PS: Fun fact... this was at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, which is supposedly a pretty major institution. That's where I had that...
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    Questionable Experience with Diagnosing Doctor - What Now?

    Alright. So, I don't really know where to start and how to keep this short, so I shall organize this as best I can linearly. My Symptoms: - No empathy or sympathy for any living person, even if I actively try (sole and absolute exception being one friend of mine whom I love dearly); read, I...
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    How do y'all handle death from someone close to you?

    Good question... ... last time I had to deal with someone's death, I still felt something for people. I don't anymore (aside from one person), so I'm not actually sure how I would react; any answer I could give would be assumptions based on introspection, not actual experience. So... hm. I...
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    Poor Memory

    Personally, my long-term memory is brilliant, but my short-term memory is really awful. Greets, AG
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    Is this common among those with Autism?

    I personally feel absolutely zero empathy or sympathy for any person out there, only mysteriously excluding one friend of mine, whom I love with all my heart - the complete opposite extreme. But aside from her, the only way I appreciate people is on a purely intellectual basis. This wasn't...
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    Small talk?

    Hm. I just answer honestly (or as honestly as I see fit depending on who asks me) to "How are you?", and I myself only ask it when I actually want to know - otherwise I just don't ask. No logical reason for me to care how others interpret my asking or not asking, after all. And no matter whether...
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    Sense of Humour?

    Pff. Watch me care. As long as the joke is good and makes people laugh, the joke is fair game. ... not to mention exaggerated political correctness is quite the cancer on society. Everyone's being so touchy and easily offended these days... Greets, AG
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    Sense of Humour?

    A sense of humor is something I sorta just have. Though, curiously, as my issues with autism (specifically the disappearing of my sympathy and empathy, and my brain totally being taken over by logic) increased, my humor grew more and more cynical. I have a strong case of black humor these days...
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    Do people talk to you like you are a baby/idiot?

    Not at all. It's more the other way around - my thoughts are dominated by logic and rationality, meaning I often see things more clearly than others, and I am very used to this by now and expect it most of the time. And because I hate when people fail to see reason or follow my train of...
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    Wall of Text Incoming

    Most of the time I just straight-up didn't write down the process of getting to the result. It was basically that I had my own methods of doing certain things in math that made more sense to me, and had trouble doing it the way that was asked of me. And yes, most of the time I was able to...
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    Weird things you did when you were little

    I did the whisper-repeating too. I also "flapped/waved" my hands excessively when I got excited... that technically never actually stopped, but I learned to reduce it to a much more subtle clenching, "tangling-up" and tensing up of my fingers. My mum also says that, as a baby and even as a...
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    Wall of Text Incoming

    Hey there. So, guess I'll just make this short and sweet: I'm from Germany, I'm twenty-six, and I'm currently awaiting my autism diagnosis next month. Okay, now for the less short part. The thread title warned you, so don't blame me. Kinda had trouble with this stuff my whole life, but funny...
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