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Recent content by Cloudy Stuart

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    Seeking help with understanding depression

    My best friend has a history of depression and it was explained to her that depression is partly a physical condition. She was told that the stomach is unable to absorb vital chemicals that are required for brain function. Whether the stomach problem is an underlying cause or whether it is just...
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    (30M) I'm relatively ugly and I'd like some advice

    I would say you have a studious face, some one who asks questions a lot. You don't look ugly. I have often thought that what is admirable in people is their character. To be of good character is a valuable thing and it often shines further than appearances.
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    Hello

    Hi. Welcome.
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    Sound Sensitivities

    I am sound sensitive. I cannot easily describe the sorts of sounds but they are always full sounds. When there are loud full sounds I find I cannot think of anything at all and quite often I cannot move. I feel trapped. If I put my hands over my ears I can recover. The paralysis during full...
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    It’s over I’m d I f f e r e n T and so r u

    This is why I write comedies. You can either laugh or cry and I think I have cried enough. With me I have the added difficulty of being accident prone. I made a video recently about two of my crazy books and the editing turned out like a sinking ship. But I just set it free on YouTube, like a...
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    Fully Exhausted My Romantic Partner

    I felt trapped in a situation once where I felt powerless. I phoned help-lines. In the U.K. there are organisations such as The Samaritans, who are not just there for life or death critical emergencies but can also give people advice who feel trapped or powerless. In my area (and possibly there...
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    Story writer

    Thank you Garnetflower. I am thinking that 'The Prince Of Chance' (the craziness of my real life) is going to be read more than any story I have ever imagined. But an autobiography is still writing even so. Writing is such a hard thing to do. It is made easier when I find others are also on this...
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    I feel lonely?

    "i mean autistic people are "old soul"" I feel that. When I meet people who are on the spectrum I feel much safer straight away.
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    I feel lonely?

    You describe it very well. Unfortunately I cannot find an answer either. Below is a cartoon I made to try to help non-autistic people understand how hard interacting is for people on the spectrum. It was going to be for World Autism Day but I missed the deadline.
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    Photographs of where I used to walk

    Thank you Luca and Susan LR, I am a carer for my mother who is 88 years old now and cannot get out very much. When I am taking her out in her wheelchair I often look for small things. I visited her and took her out today. I lived some distance by bus. The Snowdrops and some crocuses were out...
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    Photographs of where I used to walk

    Here are some photographs of where I used to walk. I use photographs to help me start stories. I don't often paint from photographs, I paint from memory but with my imagination adding the new moods and forms. Since I moved home I have not yet found the right places to walk but I have plenty of...
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    Should i try to get diagnosed?

    I second what Shamar said. There is a kind of a riddle around the process of diagnosis. I would say the riddle solves itself as a situation where you can trust medicine and you can trust yourself and then much of the anxiety and doubt fades away. I would say also that I was able to adapt better...
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    Should i try to get diagnosed?

    It is natural to worry. I worry about all kind of things. I used to worry that nobody thought about me. Then I worried that lots of people were thinking about me. I think ultimately there will one day be people who will feel they have a duty to look after us (my 88 year old mother is in that...
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    Should i try to get diagnosed?

    As Outdated says, this may be different from country to country. Although I was diagnosed quite late at age thirty seven I am now in my 60s. There is no indication that I am being treated differently except in one respect. I live in the U.K. and since I entered my sixties I have noticed that...
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    Story writer

    Ah. Chatgpt has explained that the Amazon rules are that a person writing a review must have spent $50 in the past year to be able to leave a review on a book. It said many people who do not use Amazon often will find their review does not go forward to the site. This seems unfair because people...
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