cactuarjon
22-01-18, 12:32
The list just keeps growing. But here's a few aspie symptoms that I fully identify with -
restless leg syndrome. Had this since I was a kid
nervous laugh - again, as long as i can remember, my only ticket for dealing with conversations when i really can't comprehend what's going on. Not the best when someone tells you about their dying granddad.
Complete avoidance of conflict - very real.
phone conversation phobia
skin picking (a form of stim maybe?)
teeth grinding (again, a stim?)
slow processing - I can find a relevant response to a conversation days later, much slower at tasks than those around me. Can still be processing the first sentence of someones conversation an hour later, completely missing the rest of what they had to say.
Memory issues - forgetting everything from where I put my keys/phone, forgetting to reply to emails/texts, forgetting to pay bills ect (the list goes on)
Take things literally. Someone said to me online other day they live down the road from me. I literally thought he knew exactly where i lived... but then realised they actually meant they live in a neighbouring town.
Don't like people touching me, always awkward when other people want hugs and i am extremely sensitive down my right side and cant even touch myself properly without flinching/spasming
Im 32, male and I sleep with cuddly toys (although, i prefer to call them 'plushies' ;) )
I have very particualr ways of doing things and very reluctant to do them any other way, as well as having routines that I will religiously follow
Change is difficult.
It takes me years to build myself up to go get a haircut
I can't stop obsessing about it. And i'm doing so because i'm on a waiting list for an assessment and the waiting is just agony (not a patient person by all means)
I guess I'm looking for people to agree with me... but I doubt that would achieve anything. Perhaps a peace of mind, or reassurance? I don't know. Just worried the assessment will come out negative and I fear that it just is anxiety and nothing else at the end of the day and I'll be stuck in a never ending loop of trying to fix it and never getting anywhere :( Without an answer to all my problems, I feel so unstable. There has to be an underlying reason for my anxieties in the first place. I don't in any way associate with NT's... it's like they're a whole different breed.
restless leg syndrome. Had this since I was a kid
nervous laugh - again, as long as i can remember, my only ticket for dealing with conversations when i really can't comprehend what's going on. Not the best when someone tells you about their dying granddad.
Complete avoidance of conflict - very real.
phone conversation phobia
skin picking (a form of stim maybe?)
teeth grinding (again, a stim?)
slow processing - I can find a relevant response to a conversation days later, much slower at tasks than those around me. Can still be processing the first sentence of someones conversation an hour later, completely missing the rest of what they had to say.
Memory issues - forgetting everything from where I put my keys/phone, forgetting to reply to emails/texts, forgetting to pay bills ect (the list goes on)
Take things literally. Someone said to me online other day they live down the road from me. I literally thought he knew exactly where i lived... but then realised they actually meant they live in a neighbouring town.
Don't like people touching me, always awkward when other people want hugs and i am extremely sensitive down my right side and cant even touch myself properly without flinching/spasming
Im 32, male and I sleep with cuddly toys (although, i prefer to call them 'plushies' ;) )
I have very particualr ways of doing things and very reluctant to do them any other way, as well as having routines that I will religiously follow
Change is difficult.
It takes me years to build myself up to go get a haircut
I can't stop obsessing about it. And i'm doing so because i'm on a waiting list for an assessment and the waiting is just agony (not a patient person by all means)
I guess I'm looking for people to agree with me... but I doubt that would achieve anything. Perhaps a peace of mind, or reassurance? I don't know. Just worried the assessment will come out negative and I fear that it just is anxiety and nothing else at the end of the day and I'll be stuck in a never ending loop of trying to fix it and never getting anywhere :( Without an answer to all my problems, I feel so unstable. There has to be an underlying reason for my anxieties in the first place. I don't in any way associate with NT's... it's like they're a whole different breed.