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Recent content by tmponze

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    Was your social anxiety with you since birth?

    I didn't experience it as a kid, but around 13 or 14 I did. I was told when I was diagnosed that this was normal because people with ASD have a delayed realization that our peers are judging us based on our behavior, and it usually happens around early to middle teens while with most NT people...
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    If you could remove one fragment of Asd what would it be?

    I would get rid of lack of social skills, because having nothing but failed relationships is no fun.
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    Obsessions that change a lot

    I tend to have long standing obsessions along with minor ones every now and then. I've always been obsessed history and the polar regions, but I tend to find some odd thing like ugly fish coming in now and then. As far as obessesive behaviors, one of the worst is things being organized in...
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    Hello

    I'm 40 years old and officially diagnosed at 35. Horribly embarassed by it but I live in the US. I've been in the loop of 'something wrong with me' and 'it's your fault' since childhood and my social and work life has suffered from it but I've taken life skills classes and keep working to...
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