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Recent content by lisatomic

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    Obsessive compulsive personality disorder... and unspecified anxiety disorder?

    I finally went to a psychiatrist today! I told him mainly about anxiety (mostly related to noise, interruptions), social problems, and loneliness. I mentioned suspecting ASD. He said I don't seem "classically" autistic, that my communication skills are too good I think. He agreed I don't have...
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    Facial expressions

    Haha, can you get them to explain this magic?! Every time I ask people to explain something that they take for granted, they get very annoyed with me! (Example: What do you mean exactly when you say you feel sad? How do you *know* when you're sad? What is it like? How do you feel it in your...
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    Comment by 'lisatomic' in 'Intro Post - Diagnosis'

    Hi Henry, thank you for sharing your diagnosis story! I also majored in biochemistry and molecular bio as an undergrad :) Good luck to you, it is a very interesting subject!
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    Facial expressions

    Ooh I have learned something about how to detect boredom! Or if not boredom, when people want to be done talking with you. Two things: 1) They often point their feet in the direction they want to go. So if they aren't pointing at you, but down the hallway, they want to keep going on their way...
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    How can you tell if someone doesn't understand what you're saying?

    Haha, yes! I will look for this dog-like behavior! And nice pickup on the irony factor :)
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    How can you tell if someone doesn't understand what you're saying?

    Recently one of my negative reviews at work (in the context of an annual review) was that multiple people apparently reported that I am not very good at adjusting the "level" of what I'm talking about to suit different listeners-- that these people have had multiple experiences talking to me...
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    Progress on hacking shutdowns

    I wonder if you have ever tried an autoimmune protocol (AIP) diet. I have used this in the past for ulcerative colitis and it immediately stops all my intestinal problems and dramatically reduces my anxiety. It is VERY difficult to stay on in the long term though, IMO. I will try the nicotine...
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    I Have Been Talking to a Girl From School on Discord, and I Told Her That I Have Feelings For Her...

    Congratulations, Joshua! That is very exciting :) I couldn’t see the screenshots, but since it wasn’t in your text, I just wanted to caution just in case (since this sounds very new to you) that it usually takes an explicit conversation about being boyfriend/girlfriend before you can call her...
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    Is it possible to be autistic, and score very highly on face-voice emotion reading tests?

    Agreed-- for some of the test questions I covered the words so I couldn't see the choices before watching the video. My thought process watching was like: "ok that's a bad face... wait why did she just-- oh ok I think she doesn't like something". Then would look at the choices and see a couple...
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    Is it possible to be autistic, and score very highly on face-voice emotion reading tests?

    Yes, I am not sure how well I knew these things before explicitly learning them either! Maybe ironically, my dissertation research focused on how people talk to one another face-to-face when learning science together-- and my current job involves analyzing a lot of such conversations on video...
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    Is it possible to be autistic, and score very highly on face-voice emotion reading tests?

    Hi everyone! I am preparing for a meeting with a psychiatrist, where I would like to discuss a possible ASD diagnosis. I've suspected I am autistic for over a decade due to both childhood and current issues, and am currently experiencing higher-than-normal anxiety and depression, so am finally...
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    Empathy - Do you feel it?

    This is such an interesting topic to me. Several years ago I was obsessed with this idea of empathy, because I also had serious doubts that it really exists in the way that people talk about it (as a defining human characteristic, but also talked about like it's a superpower). I think there...
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    Questions about seeking a therapist

    Hi everyone! I have been experiencing a lot of stress and anxiety recently, and am thinking of seeing a therapist. I'm not sure whether to say that I've long suspected that I'm on the spectrum, or whether I'm better off just telling them specific problems I'm having. My fear with telling them...
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