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    Growing up with emotionally unstable parents

    Wow, Ed. Really well explained. I can totally relate to at least 2/3rds of these points. Dad left Mum when I was 2yo - 2 loud and aggressive years. By the time I was 7 my brother - 2 years older- and I saw a lot more of Dad. Mum was always deeply depressed from issues with her cruel mother...
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    Coming out about my autism

    Show him this site. For those who don't understand yet, browsing the posts on this site is increasingly informative. Good luck, what ever you decide.
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    Hi, I’m Rodafina

    This is a remarkable post. Hi Rodafina :) Your words reach out to me here, as they aptly describe my deal with drugs and addiction. I'm so happy for you to have realised your misunderstanding re sobriety and to have found a renewed interest, as you put it. I once 'knew', 100% & irrevocably, that...
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    Not getting diagnosed due to masking?

    You're spot on. Knowing that you are right (& ASD), all that remains is to try again. You have to keep on trying until you are honest with your doctor. Worst case is you will be visibly distressed, maybe even crying, with the excruciating effort to open up. So even if you don't get there, any...
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    Brilliant Aspie son won't do simple homework

    Just a couple of thinking points... If you are angry, he knows it whether you hide it or not. He understands the flaw in logic you have pointed out - he is stuck on a different point, one which means a great deal to him, one he wants you to know without having to tell you. Maybe he has decided...
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    Can it be?

    That was a little overwhelming, but we're all different.......... There are alot of fleeting friendships in this world, Aspie or not. I think if a person can call four people throughout there lives a genuine friend then that person is lucky. 3 people to socialise with is plenty. Plus you've made...
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    Did you have an IEP/ILP in school?

    I'm an Australian who finished public high school in 97. There was no recognition that I existed. Grown ups would either notice nothing and assume I was fine, or notice some effort in my thinking and speaking and assume I was lying or otherwise up to no good. Either way whatever was always my...
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    Can it be?

    Can it be? Yes. Yes it can. Even when it seems impossible. There are so many here with good advice that I won't labour to add to it. I would simply ask () that you know the answer is yes.
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    Am I the only one who likes English/Scottish ballads?

    I love all historical and cultural things English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.... Very much including the folk music. I also really love the Edinburgh tattoo, and anything with bagpipes. I truly wish that all Celtic lore, music and language included, from throughout the millenia past could be...
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    Male aspies and masking

    So many opportunities pass me by because I hesitate and see the opportunities taken by others around me instead. I've never been able to reach out and take what I've worked hard to deserve. I have worked hard enough for 25 years to deserve some escape from working to survive, and in my head the...
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    Male aspies and masking

    Cheers for relating this. Escotalorpram is one I've been on. I was two courses in toward a business degree with exams coming up. I had sought help specifically for my attention issues, with a diagnosis from a leading psychologist from the Hunter Valley so long it has an index, and as result I...
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    Male aspies and masking

    It's difficult to say. On a bad day it can take me 3hours to make a cup of coffee in the morning. I walk in circles with my mind flipping from thought to thought, never completing any, then I get distracted by something else I wanted to do at some stage in the last 2 years.... On an average day...
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    Male aspies and masking

    There are a lot of underachievers of our aspie ilk. This is really quite sad. I believe myself to be an extravert that never was. Introverted by the condition. I have come to understand, in my capacity as a tour guide (and, auld-lang-syne, as a tennis coach) that I am quite gifted at explaining...
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    Male aspies and masking

    If I'm remembering correctly - I overheard this 25 years ago - EQ stand for Emotional Quotient. I am under the impression that they now call this Emotional Intelligence and is known now to be an implicit part of one's IQ. Incidentally I just want to throw out there that in my own case, my...
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    A question of philosophy

    .... and the meek shall inherit the world.....
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