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Recent content by ShaunG

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    Dealing with gaslighters at work

    Coming at me as in trying to demean/humiliate me in front of others, or otherwise try to target me in a public way. I have symptoms that seem to incite certain personality types. Like having bad eye contact, or being overconfident in things I'm passionate about. Also, it is never folks with...
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    Dealing with gaslighters at work

    It seems to happen about once per job. Happened once each at my last two jobs. And now it's happening again in this one. That would be three times in the last 18 years. Happened all the time in school though, usually from administrators.
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    Dealing with gaslighters at work

    Gaslighting is insidious. The worst gaslighters will get more and more subtle in their gaslighting, but they cannot stop.
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    Dealing with gaslighters at work

    I am on the Autism spectrum. I have had issues over the years with people who target me with gaslighting. I am dealing with one now. I have an accommodation letter at work because I am on the spectrum. Whenever someone comes at me, I go to my superiors and report it. When I suspect I'm...
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    Bullying at School/Work

    I have a situation at my work right now with neurotypicals. Sometimes, for whatever reason, neurotypicals will freak out when I'm talking to them and get upset at what I said. I never understand what I said that upsets them. Well, I was talking to a supervisor the other day about taking a...
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    The "opposite of autism": Williams syndrome

    I am a mental health case manager who works with homeless people and one of my homeless clients has Williams syndrome. He is as described, thought he get's targeted a lot on the street. He has some really severe heart problems. It's impossible not to like him because he's so genuinely friendly.
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    Just Diagnosed

    My black and white thinking tells me that bigotry is bigotry. Shrug?
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    Bullying at School/Work

    I am 61 and some people still think they can bully me.
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    Everytime I ever did this it turned out I was wrong about it, so unless they were bluntly forward towards me I didn't go there. I managed to have girlfriends, but dating was a minefield and I hated it. I have now been with the same woman for 38 years so that part is looong behind me.
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    If I am in a social situation with people from work, meeting at a bar or something, this always happens to me so I try not to go to functions if I can help it. When it does happen, the other person always takes it wildly wrong and personal and it negatively affects the relationship, so I avoid...
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    I have always had this same problem and when I believed a girl liked me, if I went for it they were like, "What are you doing?" so I just let them come on to me first. I am married, but dating was a minefield for me for the very reasons you outlined.
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    Unfortunately my symptoms are too all encompassing and I have never been able to do this. In my life, when I've tried to read people I always get it wrong and it blows up in my face, so I don't go there. I have no control over it. I am beginning to realize that I have very weak personal...
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    It's always a certain type of person that misunderstands me. It's always at work that it happens, and it's people who do everything by the book. I don't really have a working memory so I fly by the seat of my pants and some people can't handle that for whatever reason. Also, I tend to run...
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    That's my description, not my therapist's :).
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    Social Cues are my Achilles heel

    Hello Forum, I am Shaun. I have recently been diagnosed with some autistic features including an inability to perceive social cues. I also have inattentive ADHD. I have always had social problems and have never understood how to act properly in a social setting. Now I know why. Certain...
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