You Know You’re Autistic When…

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..when you HAVE to finish your project or the world will end and you wake up and immediately go to your passions/ projects. You hate changing your focus.

 

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...when you need sameness to function and react negatively to the slightest change or transition. Changes in plans can wreck your entire day.

 

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...when you can only have planned spontaneity and planned relaxation times or you will just lay in bed all day.

 

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...when you go on obsessive diets for a month or longer like just sushi.

 

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...when you follow the same turtle trail of places you go everyday and traveling to new places is terrifying.

 

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...when you flap your arms like a penguin when you get excited, pace, or fidget a lot.

 

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...when your biggest psychological question is, "How do two people bond?"

 

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...when you compartmentalize friends to places.

 

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...when you go an extended amount of time not talking to friends and then pick up where you left off years later.

 

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...when you easily become obsessed with a best friend or lover.

 

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...when you have one-sided conversations.

 

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...when you seem self absorbed.

 

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...when its hard to listen because you are focused on what your face is doing, copying their face, what tones of voice might mean and how to copy their tone, and then also what they are saying, all while having a brain with a slower processing time because you have to translate pictures in your head into words and translate their words into pictures (if you are right brain autistic).

 

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...when you follow specific rules to look normal.

 

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...when you can't function in groups.

 

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...when making and keeping friends seems to be an impossible task.

 

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...when you would rather be by yourself if you can't be with your favorite person.

 

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...when eye contact hurts your heart.

 

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...when you laugh at funerals, church or when its too quiet.

 

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...when you practice facial expressions in the mirror.