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anxiety of performance

  1. Professor Lupin

    'Twas the '80s, baby—so fast forward.

    It's probably not surprising that, as a child of the 1980s, I was never diagnosed as a child or teen. It took me 30+ more years to actively seek out someone who would evaluate me as an adult (a pain in the neck in my rural area), and that only after the separation from my spouse and years of...
  2. OddlyGodly

    How Do You Stop Caring What People Think?

    For most of my life I have been very aware of my awkwardness and my inability to fit in which at first led to terrible decisions but has, of course, also lead to my diagnosis. I feel better about who I am and most people in my life that matter know I'm autistic and most had speculated even...
  3. A

    how to manage the stress ?

    Since the beginning, I have a lot of stress issues, but since a few years, it's came to a all new level. It take mainly the form of an anxiety of performance which is really problematic for my studies. Does any of you have advice or anything to help me on this ?
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