this is a brilliant description, thank you

@@pmcguinness3041 Thanks for your kind words. The world is slowly getting better for autistic people because of people like Dr Attwood . And people like you who take the time and make the effort to watch his content, read comments, and contribute your thoughts =)

Very well said. Similar here. Also was found to be highly gifted on the classical IQ test (Stanford Binet) as a child and I was told later that I had traits landing me in the autism spectrum. Later as a teen some teachers wanted me checked. I was interviewed by the counsellor and evaluated for IQ but also checked to see if I was on the autism spectrum. It was decided not to add the label ASD because of the highly gifted IQ, because it was thought that I could manage, but it was noted that it was a borderline decision. Now I can see why I’ve had trouble. I was able to manage for a long time, but eventually the situation has gone into overwhelm. I can see the patterns and in some way it’s reassuring to find ’m not the only one (of course I wouldn’t be but to see there are quite a few people having challenges) and to understand better what was happening. In retrospect I’d say some family members likely would have been evaluated as autistic, had that been common to do. It’s been rough, often as people don’t follow through or don’t really mean what they say when I take them literally, and they often don’t remember either, and think I can’t when in fact I used to remember verbatim, and even now that I’m not doing so well and have been sick, I still remember quite well what has been said, in particular on important matters. It’s hard to plan to do things with others when to me they are frivolous. I guess I’m not picking u0 clues on the lack of sincerity but can’t understand why things are said when not meant, or why somebody who took another person at their word would be considered the one who is wrong. In short, many social challenges. I’ve come near to giving up. Despite supposedly being bright, I’m not bright enough when prolonged situations have built up, and maybe was too much of an idealist, that I believed in people. Regarding IQ, we’d thin’ people with high IQ would be fast. I’ve found it takes me more time to do and figure out things, but when I do the answer tends to be correct. The people in my gifted classes mostly seemed much faster at figuring out problems. Looking at patterns is interesting. That has helped. Overall though I’m now in overwhelm and exhausted.

@UCI-6BulYzBUZeeQKlqYcLjg Jesus - you just told my story verbatim, except that autism wasn't discovered until I was in my late 50s. I'm still wrapping my head around things, but I'm more optomistic about the future than I've ever been, because I know who and what I am now. I'm being as kind as possible to that poor bastard. Myself. ...and anyone I call a freind needs to kind to him too, or they are out of my life. I don't have the energy to deal with angry, resentful, or hateful, judgemental people. I'm lucky at this point in my life not to have to. I'm direct and open, and I need the same from anyone close to me now.

One of my favourite daydreams is to stand on stage at a big Mensa meeting and say ' hands up everyone who is left handed . . . . now everyone who is Autistic' . The results would be interesting.

I'd like to know that too.

@@raven4090 thanks. Mine are stress related seizures. I have a lot of traits, but not meltdowns. Sometimes, I'll do something like break a bone under stress. It's like my bodies way of forcing me to slow down. I've broken all my toes but one at least once.

@@recoveringsoul755 you could have a neurological problem that causes seizures in stressful situations there's different types of medical diagnoses that can explain that but at the same time you also could be a person who is slightly on the spectrum but also has a secondary medical condition that causes you to have to slow down because you will have a seizure epilepsy.

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@@spazioasperger mi ero dimenticata di ringraziare, ora che l'ho riascoltato, colgo l'occasione per farlo, grazie davvero!

Ditto.

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Space Karen 😂😂 😂

What about Greta Thuneberg? When she talks about global warming, she doesn't say anything about China. China is building more and more powerplants that run on coal--- coal being the worst fuel in terms of global warming. She is dishonest.