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Recent content by MTA-P

  1. M

    A better autism test

    No wonder it came from Western Australia, then. Sounds like you just described Perth.
  2. M

    A better autism test

    Nice save.
  3. M

    A better autism test

    "My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it"
  4. M

    A better autism test

    Love it. Those anecdotes are really relatable. So is that thing about dinner parties, that was always a sticking point for me. Advise that I received was to think of the questions as asking about other peoples' perceptions of you. So it's not "do you have social difficulties?", it's "would...
  5. M

    A better autism test

    Not to get too far off on a tangent, but America has had the metric system since 1975, they just didn't make the conversion mandatory. Meanwhile the English still have this weird attachment to imperial; bringing back imperial was one of the promises of brexit, and the govt held consultations on...
  6. M

    A better autism test

    You might be joking there, but that's what my wife (who is on the spectrum) says. She says alistic people don't go around self-diagnosing. I just have a lot of questions, because I am so on the borderline. P.S.: NT and ND?
  7. M

    A better autism test

    No need to apologise.
  8. M

    A better autism test

    Can you say why those things bother you? Like I say, they always imply that there is no reason, we just don't like deviation from what we expect. Bad punctuation mildly annoys me, and I guess that's just because it's wrong. Then again, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...
  9. M

    A better autism test

    This attitude is a little triggering to me. I take it you're English, as in from the U.K., so you'd actually have some authority that some of the people I have dealt with. I am in New Zealand, where we typically, historically follow U.K. English, but we're far enough from England that we don't...
  10. M

    A better autism test

    Interesting... How do you cope with American spelling? I'm pedantic about it too. But I always put that down to being a little neurotic. Like, American spelling is meant to be simpler, they wanted to simplify the language. So I can imagine that someone being careless could slip into American...
  11. M

    A better autism test

    I am trying a self-diagnosis on for size, to see if it fits. It was an odd fit at first, not quite right, but I think I am wearing it in. The more I look into it through the lens of believing I am on the spectrum, the more it feels right. However It never would've felt right if I'd just read...
  12. M

    What would a diagnosis mean to me?

    That is the question, isn't it... 'what's the beneft of the label?' It does sound like you're experiencing some anxiety about the label, like too many labels would make you a hypochondriac, or someone with an irrational need to pathologise and label normal human experiences. I've gone through...
  13. M

    What would a diagnosis mean to me?

    P.s. By the way..., before I was diagnosed with ADHD, I was always careful to call it ADD, as I am not hyperactive either. The psychiatrist who diagnosed me said that they don't use the term 'ADD'; he said that it's just one condition called ADHD, and there's an understanding that not everyone...
  14. M

    What would a diagnosis mean to me?

    I hate how that works... people start seeing you as the one who makes mistakes, and all of a sudden, everything that goes wrong in your presence is your fault. It's just a cognitive bias that we're too blinkered to fix. And of course neurodiverse people make a lot of mistakes in a neurotypical...
  15. M

    What would a diagnosis mean to me?

    Here's what I hate... I ask people to treat me like they would anyone else. But what they hear is "treat me harshly", when what I mean is "cut me the same slack you would anyone else". When neurotypical people make mistakes, forget things, or turn up late, everyone just shrugs and ignores it...
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