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Recent content by ASDtropic

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    If you were honest with yourselves, how many of you hate having this condition?

    How do you not hate having autism? I barely had any positive social experience since I was born 32 years ago and countless negative ones. I'm running out of reasons to get out of bed because everything involves people and that's just physically painful to me. We need to mechanically think to...
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    I'm lost. Suggestions?

    Thanks for all of your insights. I've been trying to form some responses, but I kind of dont have much to say other than been there, tried it, hated it. Better to say nothing? Nice observation with regards to me being like a retired person at 65. I've been looking into that and trying to snag...
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    I'm lost. Suggestions?

    Thanks for the replies guys I appreciate you Socialization is weird. It's not that I'm incapable of it completely. It just doesnt go well and I get nothing out of it at all. I have to mask heavily and bring a smile out while I'm feeling tortured inside. I went to a beach with an acquaintance...
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    I'm lost. Suggestions?

    I think something useful is usually accompanied by a lot of forced socialization. This social aspect stops me from traveling, volunteering, starting a business, etc. I am extremely traumatized and very unwilling to deal with it. Not even sure why I'm getting that diagnosis. Maybe there's some...
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    I'm lost. Suggestions?

    I'm 31M. Society traumatizmed me to hell and back until I was 25. Then I made some lucky investments and retired. Very close to zero social interaction between 25 and 31. The problem is that I've ran out of entertainment and interests to explore and I'm feeling extremely restless. Going over my...
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