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Coxhere

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Hi Folks. I am new here. I have become interested in Aspies because I have just a few days ago became friends with one. I've known little to nothing about them. I've watched several YouTubes that describe the Aspie symptoms that exhibit as both opportunities and challenges. While watching, I see that I have several of the symptoms. I have Post Traumatic Stress and Major Depressive Disorder (PTSD and MDD). I also have OCD symptoms but have never been diagnosed with this disorder by mental health professionals. I'm here to learn more in order to be both supportive to my new friend and to myself. Thank you for teaching me. . . .
 
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Welcome. I am sure you will learn a lot here. My social blindness when much younger left me socially isolated and I little recognized the hurt that I carried from that and a few years ago was diagnosed as ASD when I sought help for intrusive thoughts. For that, I've been going through Cognitive Processing Therapy to rewrite my inner dialogue, confronting the negative ideas about myself that I internalized. I was fortunate to find a therapist who deals with both ASD and PTSD. It was not easy but I have been helped immeasurably.
 
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@Gerald Wilgus Does it seem like obvious causes for potentially having PTSD or even cPTSD tend to be ignored as such if an ASD diagnosis is already present? Basically like, new symptoms that developed later due to culmnative traumas are written off as just more evidence of ASD and the traumatic experiences not taken seriously because you're autistic?
 
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@Gerald Wilgus Does it seem like obvious causes for potentially having PTSD or even cPTSD tend to be ignored as such if an ASD diagnosis is already present? Basically like, new symptoms that developed later due to culmnative traumas are written off as just more evidence of ASD and the traumatic experiences not taken seriously because you're autistic?find
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I was fortunate. With my spouse suspecting I have ASD, (she supervised a school district's special education program) I was fortunate. I have a good relationship with my primary care physician and discussed this with him, he was able to find a good therapist who dealt with both ASD and PTSD. I am open about a lot of my life and this was an instance where, doing so, I received appropriate help.

The journey was hard because doing the work I did not enjoy seeing the ways I lacked agency and hurt myself.
 
Welcome to the forum. I only discovered this forum after trying to understand a friend that l had recently met. The more l read stories of those kind enough to share their inner dialogs, l recognized myself and the friend at the same time. Now l see that l gravitate towards others with ASD, and recognized two of my prior bosses were also ASD.
 
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Welcome to the forum. I only discovered this forum after trying to understand a friend that l had recently met. The more l read stories of those kind enough to share their inner dialogs, l recognized myself and the friend at the same time. Now l see that l gravitate towards others with ASD, and recognized two of my prior bosses were also ASD.
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Takes one to know one, seen the same thing.
 
Welcome to the forums, @Coxhere.

There is a wealth of useful information here in the form of lived experiences of autistic folk. We are all so different and yet united by threads of common experiences and perspectives. I hope you have a good experience here.
 
Thank you so very much for your response. I'm thinking that I'll learn a lot by going to the blogs that speak specifically regarding Aspies and Aspie experiences.
 
The blogs are pretty dead, many of us are not very active just watch others like myself from the sidelines. LIke in the real world sit back watch say nothing. In the real world I'm a quiet loner likes to work alone keep to myself. In actual fact, an extravert, with a very active mind, loves to talk after I get to know you. When working the sales reps and tech reps just loved going to the lab to chat with me no small talk just business. In many ways I am very typical, we are not NT's. My avatar on the side tells the story if you can read it
 
Best way to get into this forum what are you interested in or want to know, go to search put in key word if it's what your looking for add to thread works like a charm If you hit a nerve place lights up.
 
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The blogs are pretty dead, many of us are not very active just watch others like myself from the sidelines. LIke in the real world sit back watch say nothing. In the real world I'm a quiet loner likes to work alone keep to myself. In actual fact, an extravert, with a very active mind, loves to talk after I get to know you. When working the sales reps and tech reps just loved going to the lab to chat with me no small talk just business. In many ways I am very typical, we are not NT's. My avatar on the side tells the story if you can read it
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I couldn't read your avatar because my eyesight isn't very good plus it would tell me that it's not available for me to see when I attempted to magnify it. Sorry. However, I very much appreciate your efforts in responding to what I wrote. Thank you, Ronald.
 
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Best way to get into this forum what are you interested in or want to know, go to search put in key word if it's what your looking for add to thread works like a charm If you hit a nerve place lights up.
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Thank you, Ronald. I can tell that you care about others. I find autismforums.com a wee bit hard to figure out. Getting oriented to new situations can be difficult for me but I will keep trying to figure out what all's here. If I make mistakes and "get into trouble" it won't be because it's intentional. I just don't yet know how to "fit in," a common trait of Aspies.
 
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