You Know You’re Autistic When…

[Lilacleia16]

...when sports get you made fun of for being uncoordinated and clumsy.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you ask for a copy of your doctor reports and see that they have listed Loneliness as one of your symptoms.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you can't seem to hold a job more than 3 months.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you never outgrew the teenager response to lock yourself away in your room.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you have to ask yourself what toys you would have liked as a kid and can only ever remember liking one or two toys.

 

[tree]

Or to use the term that is out of fashion:
https://www.autismforums.com/threads/you-may-be-an-aspie-if.11701/

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when a change in routine makes your brain feel physically heavy and your eyes get sad without your permission no matter how hard you try to mask. Or you meltdown once you have masked it so long you can't take it anymore.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...like a toddler, when your biggest support people leave, or break up with you then you have a meltdown.

 

[Greening]

I did not know at the time, at all, but when I look back at how I managed to hit myself in the back of the head in a way that made me fall over, when we had javelin throw in school, it probably confirms my diagnosis of autism, received many, many years later.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you prefer parallel play instead of face to face play

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you spent hours as a kid lining up books in your bookcase by size and color and getting frustrated when you can't do both.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you visualize having a friend that would just lay next to you while you both stare at the ceiling fan.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when being cold or having cold weather makes you have a meltdown.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you have a hard time not seeing yourself as bad and call yourself names like brat, big ol baby, or lazy.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when hide and seek is still a game you play as an adult but it has gotten a lot more dangerous and risky to the point that you even get lost and your significant other has to send out a search party to find you.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you keep getting schooled that you don't have to overshare everything in your whole life story with everyone because its simply not safe.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you are a copy cat.

 

[Meowser18]

...when you have no idea why you try so hard but still have very few if any friends.

This one really resonates with me! Always felt like an unwanted outsider that was just tolerated never acccepted.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you were either called either too loud or too quiet as a child and then again as an adult.

 

[Lilacleia16]

...when you have a speech impediment like stuttering.