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    when to tell someone tell you have aspergers

    Simple: unless it's obvious and they suspect or can tell DONT'T. you will live to regret it so very badly. Just trust me on this. Whatever it is that you have that shows as symptoms can be explained as something else: ocd, trauma, visual problems, hearing problems
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    Is it a normal thing for autism vocational programs to use physical punishment?

    It is not made up and I have no reason to lie. The statute of limitations is past. Nothing I could do
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    Is it a normal thing for autism vocational programs to use physical punishment?

    I am in a different ohase of my life now. Inesvaped that and went bac wvhool. I live in the US. I do financial risk advisory. I help big companies understand their potential risks and what can be done to reduce them and how to insure risks and that kind of thing. I work with a lot of the...
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    Is it a normal thing for autism vocational programs to use physical punishment?

    I related in another threat that I feel my diagnosis with autism was more harmful than helpful. I was subject to a lot of heartache after I was daignosed, which resulted in just a lot of trauma. I just want to know how common this experience is, and if this is at all okay: After being told I...
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    I appreciate your response, but my response is that it should not matter because we should all be treated with dignity and self-worth. Nobody should be put into therapies or educational situations they object to. Whether or not I am "Almost autistic" or "Autistic but only barely" does noit...
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    Does anyone here think they're more self-sufficient than most NTs?

    Yes, but mostly to prove it to myself. I am deeply ashamed of my autistic diagnosis and because of this I am always self-concious about needing others to help me through life. The autism diagnosis has come to dominate my life, as well as the number of times I was brow-beat and berated over...
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    Extreme humiliation from how I look in public and extreme compensation

    When I was first diagnosed with autism I was told a lot (talked at) that autistics do not have good hygeine, do not know how to dress and do not understand how others perceive them. One of the "therapists" who In was first assigned to was really one who loved to berate me about everything I...
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    I think the big thing that hurts is that I feel so pressured to avoid anything that could be associated with being autistic because it makes me hate myself to think that I could be. You're correct, it's not shameful or filthy to be autistic. I wish I could stop thinking it is. I went into...
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    Therapists scare me
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    Nah... I'm broadly autistic. I love obsessing on historical and scientific things. I get fxated. I am so broadly autistic. I love taking things apart. There's just no denying that I have these traits. I just... I hardcore hate myself for having them. And the thing is, when something...
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    The best answer is I am borderline and potentially "broadly autism phenotype" or "non disabling autism" I mean, I freely admit that I have a lot of those personality traits we associate with the Tim Burton/Dan Akroyd/Bill Gates types. I wish I could just... you know... I wish I could embrace...
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    Structure: What does your daily routine look like?

    Since being diagnosed as autistic and realizing that autistics tend to be routine-based people I have made profound efforts to never have a routine. I plan nothing. Everything is spur of the moment and I force myself to do the most uncomfortably unusual things all the time. This is exhausting...
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    What are your controversial opinions regarding the autism spectrum?

    There is a saying "I am autistic not weird" and even a website "autistic not weird." I hate this mentality. It's so horrible. Stop acting like weirdness is a bad thing. Weird just means different, and being "normal" means being extremely generic and boring. Weird Al is weird. Do you see a...
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    The most exhausting part of my life is the drive and obsession to do every non-autistic thing I can think of to the extreme. After a weekend of extreme partying, I fly to europe and back, ride the subway all day, go to the most stimulating places, eat food I have never eaten before etc. I...
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    My diagnosis ruined much of my life and I don't know what to do....

    And I want to add this: Some people are autistic and proud. I have even heard of people celebrating their diagnosis as like a rebirth. I have heard people say that it improved their lives dramatically. If that is you, I am happy for you. The thing is autistics tend to be the people who...
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