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Tell us you were late-diagnosed/discovered as autistic without telling us directly (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tell us that you discovered you were autistic as an adult without directly telling us that. Imply it by sharing personal experiences.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not diagnosed, only lately suspecting, but well, one experience that stuck with me, was on a communications training at my workplace, which is an IT company, so the participants were a whole sack of nerds.

The trainer gave us instructions to stand in a line next to each other, she'd read forms of communication and we should take a step forward, if we did not like that form of communcation.

So, "e-mail" → 3 people take a step forward,
"phone call" → 7 people take a step forward etc..

At the end of it, I turned around to see where the others ended up and realized I had walked almost twice as far as everyone else. And I felt like I was rather conservative about it, too...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I don't like communicating through e-mails, phone calls, video calls, group calls, group video calls, and I feel awkward in a group chat like Slack. I dread group meetings, I get nervous one-on-one in the open office and during private conversations in a separate room. I can't hold a presentation for a group, or for a single person. I also get anxious when writing replies to text messages and end up with a wall of text, I then have to spend up to an hour editing it down to not sound insane, seriously considering every single sentence and whether I can comfortably leave that information out. Oh, and snail mail and fax are ridiculous. "Talking it out over lunch" makes me distracted as I worry about eating incorrectly.

But I am comfortable posting anonymously on a forum..?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

lol thats a good one 😆