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Recent content by Apleba

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    Support Animals

    Well I personally think about a support dog to alleviate my anxiety, help me out during the meltdowns and to hopefully reduce therapy sessions and med intake as a result. But I'm not familiar with how support animals differ from non-support animals (I know they are especially trained, but don't...
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    Support Animals

    Hello, I was contemplating about a support animal. Anyone has one? How does it concretely differ in your everyday from having a regular pet? Was it hard to get one?
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    Yeast, Gluten and Autism

    I have a bad gluten and lactose allergy, I am also intolerant to many other foods (I got tested). I never connected this to my mental performance. However, when you think about it, it is quite obvious that it affects your mental capabilities and health, the same as it affects your other physical...
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    PhD studies: difficulties, opportunities, facilitation

    Thank you for your comment! I am not aware of any organization for people with illness at my university, however, there is an option to ask for facilitation. I clearly feel that I am struggling with certain things, but I am not able to clearly state which facilitation/help I would need. In a...
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    PhD studies: difficulties, opportunities, facilitation

    I am doing a PhD. I could describe it as receiving challenges of a student and of an employee at the same time. So, I think not only PhDs, but also employees and students could help me out with my question - do you use any facilitation to make your professional life easier (gadgets, assistive...
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    Do you ever feel anxiety and dread about seeing a new movie?

    I repeatedly watch the same movies or series and I am anxious about starting new ones.
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    Autism vs social anxiety & OCD?

    I agree. Also, you can be prescribed medicines for anxiety and OCD, while I haven't heard about any medication prescribed specifically for autism, only therapy. Of course, just saying that autism is a neuro-diversity type and anxiety and OCD are disorders cannot help you decide which one you...
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    What things do you have trouble doing?

    1 Constant anxiety 2 Social anxiety 3 Starting things (procrastination) 4 Continuing with things that I find boring or stopped for some reason - going back to no. 3. 5 Making phone calls as well - a huge problem 6 Expressing my thoughts verbally 7 Expressing my opinion Many other detailed things.
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    Starting a Series Over Again and Seeing How Much it Has Improved Over Time

    The X Files.
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    Adult Diagnosis Questions

    Hi! I have all those symptoms, except of ADHD. I was tested for that, but the outcome was that I have a different kind of attention problems, which led to searching about autism (which is said to cause attention and concentration difficulties as well) and receiving diagnosis at the age of 26. I...
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    To mask or to embrace your autism...

    Mask, except with the selected people, which are not many. If I have a couple of drinks, I sometimes want to act more the way I am and tell people why I am acting the way I am acting, but I never do. The angry voice of masking doesn't allow me to, because masking if familiar and safe, and...
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    Your personal experiences with executive dysfunction

    That is really helpful that you mention it. I was puzzled how to call it as I have it as well and it severely interferes with my main occupations. It is not only embarrassing, it can ruin many possibilities, especially having in mind that we are capable of thinking and understanding those...
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    Diagnosed...Now What?

    Hi all, Just want to share this because I imagine many of you have gone though a similar stage, and many may still go. I have been recently diagnosed. The very first days I felt weird - happy but also confused. Then I started to think whom I should tell. I realized I am too anxious to tell...
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    Best ways to deal with general and social anxiety.

    It used to help me to divide the time into small units. If I would feel anxious about something, I would try to feel my feet on the ground and realize that I am here, at this moment, and everything at this moment is good. Life is made out of these moments,which, whenever you contemplate them...
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    Is online interaction draining for you?

    I voted 'always'. While face-to-face communication is exhausting, scary and causes huge anxiety, online communication is less 'scary', but very draining as well in other ways. I have OCD tendencies, so every email or post that I write, I read millions of times, and it also causes anxiety because...
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