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Recent content by JuliaCee

  1. J

    Was your social anxiety with you since birth?

    You make a good point biblophile. Sometimes it's hard to know if it's the ASD or conditioning that contributes to the social anxiety. I suspect it's both, and maybe a few more factors as well. Usually it's a combination and interaction of factors that go into making us who we are, or contribute...
  2. J

    Was your social anxiety with you since birth?

  3. J

    "I'm worried about you."

    I went through a period of time several years ago when an acquaintance was so "worried" about me, she shared her worries with several others, including people whom I knew professionally. The potential impact on my business was scary, and it didn't do a lot for my social anxiety either...
  4. J

    If you could remove one fragment of Asd what would it be?

    At this point in my life, I wouldn't want to change anything. There are a few physical issues that I might like to change, but they're muscular and I'm not sure whether they are correlated with ASD or not. But as far as any kind of cure... I wouldn't want to speak for everyone on the spectrum...
  5. J

    Does anyone else feel like they are constantly putting on an act?

    Putting on an act is one way that a lot of us manage to cope in a NT world. It's really kind of a skill, and to some extent even NT people have to put on various acts. Please don't judge yourself about this. It helps to find congenial environments (like this forum), where we can let down the...
  6. J

    Was your social anxiety with you since birth?

    Oh yes, from the time I can remember, I was anxious and uncomfortable around other children. Adults were not so scary, but now that I am one, I am about as anxious around adults as I have always been around people my own age and younger. It helps that I know now some of the reasons why, but it...
  7. J

    Military

    Good point - there is nothing on paper regarding my diagnosis. I suspected it, ran it by a therapist I was seeing for depression, and he confirmed it after I described my behavior as a child. As an adult, there was little need to have it documented. As a child, it likely would have been helpful...
  8. J

    It's been a month. I now know the worst part of being an Aspie.

    Oh yes, been there. And it's scary and yet an act of bravery to risk loving again. Ironic, isn't it, that some NTs think we are relatively emotionless? Reminds me of one of the Star Trek movies in which a Vulcan (maybe Spock) explains that their logical approach evolved as a way to protect...
  9. J

    Help with Referral Form

    That's probably true for most humans - we do consult each other a lot to look for new angles to solving a problem. Maybe we Aspies tend to do less of that networking, end up putting more pressure to figure out things on our own, and then give ourselves a hard time when we don't think of everything.
  10. J

    Help with Referral Form

    I consider my confusion with such instructions to be a part of taking things literally, and so part of my Aspergers. Oh yes, so many of us are like that. But on the other hand, we are not the ones likely to miss important details. That's why so many Aspies are great at jobs in which things...
  11. J

    I'm Obsessed With Yugoslavia and the Wars

    Those of us who tend to have obsessions have the potential to accomplish so much with them. I have gone through a string of obsessions since early childhood, a lot of them, like yours, historical or ancestral in nature, and they really have provided a lot of material that enriches my career and...
  12. J

    How Aspies find comfort

    Chamomile tea Reading a magazine Petting my cats Getting engrossed in a project for fun
  13. J

    Most Aspie-friendly places to visit or live?

    I spent several years in Athens, GA, US, home to a large university, and found it to be a the most hospitable environment I have lived in so far. Unfortunately, I now live in a small town in which I stand out as positively peculiar. Were it not for the fact that I teach in a nearby university...
  14. J

    Newbie.

    Introduction (at least a start) -- I'm JuliaCee, grew up feeling really different and didn't know why, and then found out as an adult that there are other people who are different in similar ways as me. Thanks for the welcomes.
  15. J

    Newbie.

    Not sure how this page works yet - just joined.
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