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Recent content by Ocean Swell

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    Are there any completer finishers here?

    The latter.
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    Do you try to hack your ASD/ADHD?

    My idea of hacks may be different. Some good. Some, definitely not good. I didn’t know about the spectrum and have used drugs in ways that altered my mind and personality. Alcohol was definitely a bad choice. Not entirely without benefit, but never the outcome I desired. Marijuana helped me in...
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    Are there any completer finishers here?

    Perfecting anything sounds unattainable to me.
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    Are there any completer finishers here?

    I struggle to finish what I start. I don’t think I fully followed through on a task until I was 23 or 24. For me there is no such thing as finishing really. There are just rough drafts. Ideas and tasks are always growing. Most of what I finish, I actually consider incomplete, and have come to...
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    Affective Deficit Disorder

    I believe this topic is termed correctly. Who has the experience of learning of their Autism from their relationship. I now comprehend that my lady has developed conditions associated with Affective or Affection Deficit Disorder because of the lack of sufficient emotional connection as a result...
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    Awaiting diagnosis. Feeling broken and insecure

    Diagnosis is a difficult topic. I wanted to pursue it, but the task of proving to someone, behind all my coping mechanisms, I’m on the spectrum, didn’t seem worth it. Also a therapist I was seeing helped me see that a diagnosis can not do much other than validate what I now already know. In...
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