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    hi everyone!!!!

    I hate New York and I'm hoping to move South or out west someday!!
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    my experience with self diagnosis and childhood emotional neglect, and why those things correlate.

    it gives me so much love and hope that others like me exist and are still going strong and are valid and loved as well
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    my experience with self diagnosis and childhood emotional neglect, and why those things correlate.

    my parents said stuff like that all the time to me, and so did a lot of my peers in school. I just didn't understand what they were saying because I was always just being me. to this day my mother verbally abuses me and shouts at me to "grow up" because I can't work a regular job like retail or...
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    my experience with self diagnosis and childhood emotional neglect, and why those things correlate.

    I am starting a 7-10 week testing and therapy on January 16th to determine a diagnosis for me. The testing will be specifically for autism spectrum disorders so I hope that I can receive the most proper diagnosis possible.
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    my experience with self diagnosis and childhood emotional neglect, and why those things correlate.

    Thank you so much for sharing your experience!! I am glad that someone else agrees with me about self diagnosis with proper research done. I've spent the last 3 years researching autism spectrum disorders and I'm confident I'm on the spectrum, high functioning of course. so high functioning that...
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    my experience with self diagnosis and childhood emotional neglect, and why those things correlate.

    some people can never imagine why i would accuse my parents of childhood and teenage emotional neglect. unless you had a dysfunctional family growing up and constantly lived in hard times, you would never be able to know the neglect that some of us experience as children. i was never physically...
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    • Forum: Help and Support
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    hi everyone!!!!

    hello everyone! i am new to this site and would like to find other people to talk to and share my experiences and feelings, especially for people who haven't been diagnosed and want to feel validation and not feel so alone. so, about me. i just recently turned 20, i am a female and i was born...
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    • adult asperger's diagnosis asperger's asperger's adult evaluation awaiting diagnosis diagnosis introduction undiagnosed
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    • Forum: Introduce Yourself
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