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This isn‘t exactly the response I got. Mine was more like “but you‘re nothing like Rainman.” 🤦🏼‍♀️ If one more person compares me to Rainman, I‘m going to lose it. Congratulations Captain Obvious, I‘m not a man with amazing visual mathematics skills. That first one should have been pretty damn obvious, I think the second is also obvious, but what do I know. 100%, my family believes I‘m not autistic.

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julesG Yepp. Got similar responses. Plus, I can't have MS since I'm not bound to a wheelchair. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 1y

kspenmoll As you know, Autism manifests itself differently in women & often is not recognized until later in life. And it certainly is a wide spectrum. My son‘s a text book case- was reading at three( road signs first), could get us from A to Z on any road that he had traveled on once before, social skills & motor issues a big clue. He is the most caring, kind,present, marvelous son who has found his freedom in releasing himself from a goal of “fitting in”. 1y

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quietlycuriouskate So, there I was, hugely relieved (albeit shocked at nearly 50) to discover there's a reason for my lifelong difficulties and I'm not just freakishly inept and my husband actually said, "you don't have to be this way, though: brains can change." ? 1y

GingerAntics @julesG oh FFS that is NOT how that works. It‘s MS that puts people in wheelchairs (if you have the right kind, apparently the other kind doesn‘t), not the wheelchair giving people MS! FOR. THE. LOVE!!! 🤬🥃 🤦🏼‍♀️ 1y

GingerAntics @kspenmoll LOVE your son for finding himself in giving up fitting in. I have a lot of those symptoms actually. For the longest time I joked that if I had been born 10-15 years later, I would have been diagnosed with autism. Never thought I‘d be diagnosed at 36. 1y

GingerAntics @kathedron OH FFS NO THEY CANNOT!!! Yes, brains can rewire themselves after injury, even rather severe injury. In that sense, they are very plastic and amazing. They can‘t just magically change their own chemistry, and autism is not just in the brain!!! I would have threatened him with divorce papers. Like Quan said “none of all this nonsense matters. If it helps you understand yourself and helps you feel understood and seen… (edited) 1y

GingerAntics @kathedron … that‘s all that matters.” You seriously are amazing to not have slapped him upside the head and left him for that. “Sure you are inherently this way, but you can choose to change the core of your being if you want to enough.” 🤬🥃🤬 He‘s one of those geniuses that thinks you can make yourself not clinically depressed or clinically anxious just by thinking happy thoughts, isn‘t he? I can‘t even with this crap! Big hugs!!! 1y

GingerAntics @kathedron you are an amazingly, beautiful, wonderfully autistic person. Why would you ever want to give up all the plus sides just to make other people happy? 🤬 that. 1y

GingerAntics @julesG @kspenmoll @kathedron here I was, afraid to “come out autistic” to people and of course I would find my people on Litsy! (I have to admit, I‘ve found some people on IG, too.) I love this all so much!!! I love all of you so much, too!!! 🧡🧡🧡 1y

quietlycuriouskate @GingerAntics Thing is, he's prone to depression so he knows how bloody hard it is. I get that he doesn't want me to limit my options by adopting a label but he fails to see how, in this case, it can actually be liberating. God knows I'm exhausted trying to teach myself to act NT my whole life! What riles me is, he'd NEVER say, "you don't have to be queer: brains can change" but my ND status is a whole other story. 1y

quietlycuriouskate Once again, the Litsy community proves itself to be somewhere I feel safe showing up as my real self. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ❤️ 1y

GingerAntics @kathedron okay, so there is room for some redemption there. Hm. It‘s frustrating that his depression technically labels him as neurodivergent as well. It seems odd he would so easily dismiss someone else‘s ND status. Oh I hate having to fake being NT. I recently read about autistic burnout and it is such a good description. Sometimes, I just need time and space to nap and be ND to the fullest. 1y

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