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high fuctioning autism

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    Currently undergoing diagnostics and unsure how to act.

    Hello, I’m 23, and have been in and out of therapy for years now for depression, anxiety, and related complications. My therapist now believes I might have high functioning autism. I’ve had my own suspicions about this for some time, but now that a professional has also reached that...
  2. C

    Aspie always wants to wear glasses

    My 12 year old son is high functioning. A year ago I got him glasses to diminish the blue light from screens (since he spends so much time on them.) Ever since then, he refuses to take them off at all. If I take them away for a few minutes he gets a headache and hides his face. I know he’s...
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    What happens after a GP referral?

    After over a year of going back to the GP, he has finally agreed to refer me properly to the organisation that I asked for but now I cant stop thinking about what's next. Hes put me on medication to try and slow me down because we dont know what's going on in my head right now but I dont stop...
  4. S

    Why am I angry at my past?

    Hi, I've recently come to terms and some sort of acceptance of myself having autism but over the last 3 years since I found out and started to learn and understand myself I've started to become angry with how I was treated as a child. Dont be mistaken, I wasn't abused or anything but there was...
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    Does anyone hide their Autism?

    This may be a strange question to some and maybe not others but I've only come to terms, acceptance and acknowledgement of my autism within the last 3 years. Its feels like the more I look into autism and really start to understand it, I am noticing things about myself I didn't before. It feels...
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    What is an Aspie?

    Just to make it clear, I'm not asking what the word "Aspie" is, I'm an Aspie myself, I just have only come to terms and acceptence of it about 2 years ago. I was just wondering, what do you guys all see as a universal Aspie? Because it annoys me that when I tell people I am as a respond to "why...
  7. Caitlin D

    Hi Everyone

    My name is Caitlin. My young daughter is in the process of being diagnosed. I have just created a blog about her. I hope to connect, and I hope to learn. Happy Monday, Caitlin
  8. Clay Major

    A Discussion Regarding Terminology

    Asperger's VS High-Functioning Autism An Inquiry Into Terminology Forgive me for my ignorance within this post/thread. Being a individual born in the year 2000, I never quite understood the historical context of certain terminologies regarding the spectrum and it's respective communities. For...
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