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What is it like living with Aspergers and autism? I was planning to stay off Twitter for a while, but I thought to myself that I need to elaborate how something very difficult and so misunderstood affects me on a daily basis and wanted to share...
so that anybody visiting my profile can understand what it feels like under recent encouragement. And so that anybody who I have unintentionally offended can be less judgmental, as I have found over the past week or so people have been very uncaring and prejudicial. So here goes:
I struggle with social interaction so I don& #39;t always find it easy looking people in the eye or speak coherently. I& #39;m introverted and prefer my privacy. I am very easily sensitive and blow up a lot, even over small things. I hate routines being changed or if there are sudden...
changes of plans. I am a very picky eater and have a thing about textures and flavour combinations. I did struggle in school with some subjects, especially maths and science. Everyday tasks aren& #39;t easy and some of the movements in my hands and arms can be weak. I can lash out...
namely verbally, and this has happened a lot on Twitter. I take things very personally, when I feel that somebody is misunderstood I defend them very passionately and have been very offended when I have been accused here of being a bot. I hate being shouted at and have sensory...
problems, being sensitive to sudden loud noises. I can have difficulty concentrating. I did and still do have an obsession with not eating much and thinking I need to lose weight constantly. I have quite a lot of difficulty going to sleep and am unsettled during the night...
which is why I have erratic mood swings, something that has happened a lot on Twitter where I have very strong views and word them too forcefully. Meaning that people take them the wrong way and get confrontational, which gets me very upset and it has meant I have had to...
put an end to conversations where I start to feel uncomfortable. This happened last week and the person I was talking to became very rude and said something very offensive to me. I do not ever intend to upset anyone and get upset when I do, nothing I have ever said anywhere...
has been said with intentional malice. People seem to think that I am a horrible person and I have been accused of being a bot and an account for a PR crisis management agency when I tried to clear up misconceptions when someone who had done such a good cause got vilified...
for things said in the past. Something that I have felt was the right thing to do, as people do need to get the message that the person that was being discredited is not as bad as he has been made out to be. The accounts I have mentioned in this thread said things that upset...
