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Recent content by dylan_gnome

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    sleeping over at friends houses

    does anyone else struggle with sleepovers? i am 22 and whenever i have the opportunity to spend the night with a friend, i either sleep horribly, don’t sleep, or end up going home to sleep in my own bed. i don’t seem to struggle in hotels, and i never had an issue when i was at sleep-away camp...
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    Trying to get myself out of a “food loop”

    yeah i had to ask my therapist if it was a thing or if it was just me lmao
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    Trying to get myself out of a “food loop”

    Lucky (or not) for me, I get the same things every time, and its things they don’t discontinue :sweatsmile:
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    Trying to get myself out of a “food loop”

    Not sure if this is the best board to post this in but it didn’t seem like it really fit in any of the others. For the past few weeks I’ve found myself stuck in what I call a “food loop” where I only want to eat one type of food, or food from a specific restaurant. This month it’s Taco Bell...
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    Do you ever worry people will think you're hitting on them when you're not?

    I didn’t used to, until some friends in school started teasing me because I was “totally flirting with (our friend)!! do you like him???” which resulted in extreme confusion on my part because I thought I was just being friendly. This happened multiple times and to this day I do not know how to...
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    Enjoying the weekend

    Enjoying the weekend
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    Are you a literal?

    When I was a kid my parents always used to tell me “Don’t take everything so literally!” and my siblings would ask me “God, Dylan, why are you so literal!” when I didn’t understand a teasing joke. They didn’t and still don’t know that I am autistic, but it hurt a lot when they said those things...
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    "Hyper" emotional?

    I know I have empathy and the capacity for empathy, but only when other’s emotions are very obvious. Personally, I am hyper-emotional in that I tend to over-react to a lot of things that do not need that level of reaction
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    Substance misuse

    Is this already a long term issue for you or is it recent? Could you replace your go-to alcoholic beverage with a non-alcoholic variation? I recently was drinking a lot due to stress, and since my go-to was spiked seltzer, I swapped them out for non-alcoholic seltzers, and it helped cut my...
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    Hi

    Hello everyone! I’m Dylan and I was just officially diagnosed with Autism about a month ago at age 22. It feels great to finally have answers to a lot of the questions I had and a reason I do some of the things I do. I have a therapist that I see once a week, but I wanted a place where I...
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