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Describe life with autism in photo or meme or short paragraph.

[In Rod Serling voice]
Picture if you will a room made to hold 20 people filled with 100 nameless, faceless people yelling at the top of their lungs with a filing cabinet in the corner. Now imagine yourself trying to get to that cabinet to retrieve vital information you need to relay to someone immediately.
You have just entered the Aspie Zone.
 
Socialising like:



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My thoughts are a delicate bubble.

When you speak, you ''pop" the bubble and all the thoughts disappear,never to return.

It's why I sometimes get annoyed.

Especially if it's something like
''are you warm enough?"

YOU POPPED MY THOUGHT BUBBLE FOR THAT?
 
I compartmentalize my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. What I mean by that is, when I type them out (cause typing them out is easier cause it's easier for me to compartmentalize. If I write down things, I have to have several different notebooks and 20 different colored gel pens), I put journal entries in categories, highlight and use different colors to indicate a significant feeling or thought, or memory. I have to write EVERYTHING down too. even the seemingly insignificant. Because almost every word has significance to me.
 
Fridgemagnetman said:
My thoughts are a delicate bubble.

When you speak, you ''pop" the bubble and all the thoughts disappear,never to return.

It's why I sometimes get annoyed.

Especially if it's something like
''are you warm enough?"

YOU POPPED MY THOUGHT BUBBLE FOR THAT?
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This is so right on I had to say more than just rate it. Even with people I love it is hard to converse ... because my thoughts are a bubble...
 
I constantly feel like an outsider in conversations and social interactions. Everything is forced and confusing, and I'm trying really hard to make things flow smoothly, all the while feeling like I'm communicating with an alien species. And then, after I've managed to create small-talk, my brain decides to take a nap, and I'm running on an empty battery. I have to conserve my strength so that I can recharge at home, and then go out into the world and repeat this cycle all over again. And sometimes I don't recharge my batteries on time, and I run out of fuel, and I have a meltdown at the most inconvenient time, and it's really embarrassing and annoying...
 
Coming home from work/school/wherever every day feels so freaking amazingly relieving and wonderful. Walking in the door and seeing your stuff and your pets and your bed, you think, "I have never needed anything more in my entire life right now." And having to leave all of that for even just an hour can feel like torture.
 
You may look like you're in your own world (and often, you are!) and not aware of what's around you, but sometimes you are too aware and observant of every little thing.

Because of your tendency to stay for extended periods of time in your inner world, reflecting deeply about a lot of stuff, especially significant, weighty stuff, you realize that the best conversations you ever have with anyone about anything are with yourself. :cool::D
 
You know that weird feeling you get when you walk into a room and then forget why you had just gone in there, and what you were planning to do? That's also how I feel when I'm suddenly in a place surrounded by lots of people that I'm supposed to socialize with and act like I'm enjoying their company.:confused:
 
This is how my autism looks this week. I have a list of things I need to do. I'm working on Item #1, but I keep having to wait to get new information. I can't move onto Item #2 because Item #1 is major and time sensitive, and if I move onto Item #2, I won't be able to return to Item #1 when I get the information I need. So I'm sitting and waiting and posting messages because I simply cannot move back and forth between Item #1 and Item #2.
 
Peter Morrison said:
I wish I had a picture that represented how I see this, but I don't know how the image would be arranged. I see ASD as having an unbreakable glass wall travel with you everywhere. Sometimes you notice it is there, and other times you ignore it because you are so used to it. It's not a glass box, it is just a wall, slightly taller and slightly wider than your own body. You can't control its position in relation to yourself. It chooses its own position. You my think you have access to things around you, but the wall makes real interaction in certain directions impossible. It functions like the well-known "baggage" that therapists talk about. It goes with you everywhere and you must accept its existence, though it inhibits your movements. The rest of the world can't see the glass wall, so they can't detect anything that indicates how impaired you are.
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Hey Peter, I found it. I found the picture. :)
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