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Aet1985

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I was wondering is it possible, that besides Aspergers I can have other mental health or brain damage? I ask because I scare myself at times. I am 39 now and growing up at times I would ''Space Out'' or get so focused and ''Super Lost'' in thought, forget where I was or what I was doing. I knew what was going around me, but didn't really care, seemed focused on my schedule or what I was doing, couldn't really ''connect''. I am still that way just with ''Adult'' issues, I prefer solitude with a female friend, and dog. I don't like ''social scene'' or living in the suburbs, get stressed with a lot ''going on'' have to move slower. I never felt ''connected'' to the NT Life, I don't know how the other guys can take on so much.
 
Aet1985 said:
I was wondering is it possible, that besides Aspergers I can have other mental health or brain damage?
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Certainly possible but not something any of us here could diagnose.

Aet1985 said:
at times I would ''Space Out'' or get so focused and ''Super Lost'' in thought, forget where I was or what I was doing. I knew what was going around me, but didn't really care, seemed focused on my schedule or what I was doing, couldn't really ''connect''.
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This sounds like normal hyperfocus, normal for many autistic people anyway. If I'm focused on something I'm doing then the rest of the world fades away in to the background and becomes irrelevant. And interrupting me when I'm focused like that disorients me and it takes me a few moments to bring the real world back in to focus again.
 
Aet1985 said:
I was wondering is it possible, that besides Aspergers I can have other mental health or brain damage? I ask because I scare myself at times. I am 39 now and growing up at times I would ''Space Out'' or get so focused and ''Super Lost'' in thought, forget where I was or what I was doing. I knew what was going around me, but didn't really care, seemed focused on my schedule or what I was doing, couldn't really ''connect''. I am still that way just with ''Adult'' issues, I prefer solitude with a female friend, and dog. I don't like ''social scene'' or living in the suburbs, get stressed with a lot ''going on'' have to move slower. I never felt ''connected'' to the NT Life, I don't know how the other guys can take on so much.
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Congratulations! You're a perfectly normal autistic. ;)
 
Sounds familiar--we tend to get engrossed in things we are doing. I like that about my life. Not brain damage, just different ways of thinking and of preoccupations.
 
Not being able to feel really connected with others and the world is how I would describe it. It isn't brain damage. Sounds like the typical way we think and feel.
When I'm hyper focused I hate being interrupted. I am glad I can be this engrossed.

I feel very connected to a slower paced world of nature and animals.
The busy world surrounded by people and noise is what I can't feel a connection with.
 
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