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Recent content by Running Girl

  1. Running Girl

    Aspiescentral poll: The results!

    Conversely, I wonder if I am the oldest. I dont feel old, but I do play the "I'm old" card if I think it will be beneficial. After all, I'm old and earned it.
  2. Running Girl

    Hello

    I'm on the autism spectrum and my husband is too. I diagnosed him in the early 2000's but called it aspergers when that was more of a thing. He's like Sheldon Cooper so it wasnt too difficult to put 2 and 2 together. His (our mutual) psychiatrist agreed with me. So did my husband. A few years...
  3. Running Girl

    When you feel your life start to improve?

    Running, spring weather, cats, retirement, 12- step meetings, science fiction, eating low-carb!
  4. Running Girl

    Please Stand By

    I love it too.
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    Time travel

    I'd do this: Refuse to go to camp at age 9 ( bullied for being a little chubby which resulted in food and body obsession and eating disorders.) Go to AA and/or NA and STAY Instead of leaving for years. Nothing to be gained from relapse! Put every extra dollar into Amazon stock when Amazon...
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    I don't know what career I should pursue after graduating college (TW: suicidal thoughts).

    For me, finding work that avoids my weaknesses (bad at socializing and small talk, EFD so bad at multi- tasking and remembering multiple step procedures, sensitive to noise) and plays to my strengths ( creativity, perseverance, works well alone, like being in nature) . When I was in my 20's I...
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    My diagnosis. TW: mention of a past attempt of suicide.

    It was a relief for me too, to finally understand what's always been wrong with me. I agree that self care is super important. Sadly, many people misunderstand, judge, and interpret both my choices and sometimes my behavior in the worst possible light. I still have to do what works for me.
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    A medical theory my dad put past me.

    I think in order to answer this usefully I'd need to know how bad your OSA is. Mine was mild and I tortured myself trying to use the damn machine until the stress and insomnia due to not being able to sleep with "that thing" on my face led me to drive the wrong way on an interstate exit ramp...
  9. Running Girl

    Second guessing everything you say

    Second guessing puts me in a terrible head. I'd rather avoid contact altogether than have conversations only to get stuck in second guessing hell afterwards. Well that explains why I'm so avoidant!
  10. Running Girl

    Craving recognition, then hating the praise?

    I get a lot of positive attention for art (I'm in an art class currently), or for poetry I've read publicly (absolutely a performance) or even "telling my. Story" in a 12 step program. I can work an audience. What I cant do well is have conversations. So after the performance (whatever it...
  11. Running Girl

    The really bad advice thread

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    Anyone want to take a crack at dream interpretation?

    Ok so the university library is a place of vast knowledge. You utilize it to do good/undo bad. But you are alone in all of this. Well, people on the spectrum (me for example) use facts and knowledge to contribute to the world, while still being mostly alone.
  13. Running Girl

    Just To Start Things Off (calling all girls)

    I think there may be a need for a females only forum just cause we present differently and are so often misdiagnosed, even by our selves! A psychiatrist proposed I was aspergers a good 10 years before I accepted that I even might be ( which actually made me correctly diagnosed but the different...
  14. Running Girl

    Confused Loneliness

    Susan nailed it; The Aspie Conundrum.
  15. Running Girl

    Criticism, Nitpickiness and Sensitive Soul - How to cope with the constant assault

    I feel you! Internalizing the criticism is a very hard habit to break. Feeling unlikable can throw me into suicidal ideation in a heartbeat! I lean towards self care and being kind to myself as the primary "treatment " for feeling crappy and unloveable. Works until I get lonely or start...
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