Neurodiversity

[Girl_On_Fire]

Originally Posted by Bit

[SIZE=3][COLOR=teal]"North" seems to default to wherever I'm facing at the moment;

Yes!! That's the way I read maps too. Where I'm facing is "North" to me, even though I know that's not true.

I also have the staring thing. I need to stare off into space to deal with sensory overload at least 5 times a day. I may not do it for long but it's how I "rest" in between "takes" of life. My ex didn't understand this for a very long time. I'd just power down and hy'd ask what hy'd done wrong or what my problem was and I was like, "I'm resting. This is how I rest." And I'd keep starting blankly with my mouth slightly open. I know what's going on around me most of the time, I just need to tune out a bit so I can keep going all day. I got sick of explaining all the time after we'd been together for years. Some people, I guess, simply cannot or will not accept neurodiverse people.

[Bit]

Yanno, you're scaring me here girlfriend... *very wry smile* I "zone out" which is pretty much what you just described, staring (mouth closed in my case) with my eyes unfocused because it's just too much... and yes, I can talk while I do it but I really don't wish to have to actually look at anything... or anyone.

(And yes I deleted my post so I could go back and get yours to quote because I have this GENIUS for not quoting someone and then I turn the page, and it happened AGAIN... aaarrrggghhh, lol!)

Originally Posted by Girl_On_Fire

Yes!! That's the way I read maps too. Where I'm facing is "North" to me, even though I know that's not true.

I also have the staring thing. I need to stare off into space to deal with sensory overload at least 5 times a day. I may not do it for long but it's how I "rest" in between "takes" of life. My ex didn't understand this for a very long time. I'd just power down and hy'd ask what hy'd done wrong or what my problem was and I was like, "I'm resting. This is how I rest." And I'd keep starting blankly with my mouth slightly open. I know what's going on around me most of the time, I just need to tune out a bit so I can keep going all day. I got sick of explaining all the time after we'd been together for years. Some people, I guess, simply cannot or will not accept neurodiverse people.

[Girl_On_Fire]

Anybody else walk on their tip-toes as children?

[Ursy]

Originally Posted by Girl_On_Fire

Anybody else walk on their tip-toes as children?

Yes! My mother thought I was going to be a ballerina. She signed me up for ballet classes. I only went to one. Lol. Poor mum.

[Bit]

That one doesn't apply to me... I would have fallen over, even then, lol... no sense of balance at all!

[Girl_On_Fire]

Yeah, I don't have much balance either. I trip over air too. lol! But yes, I definitely walked on my tip-toes all the time. I didn't even know that was an Aspie trait until I talked to another Aspie. I've learned more from talking to other Aspies than anything I've learned from books.

Speaking of books though, has anyone read, "Pretending to Be Normal" by Liane Holliday Willey and Tony Attwood? When I read it, it changed my life. It literally describes the way I view the world. I was 100% convinced after that.

[Girl_On_Fire]

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[Ursy]

Originally Posted by Girl_On_Fire

Yeah, I don't have much balance either. I trip over air too. lol! But yes, I definitely walked on my tip-toes all the time. I didn't even know that was an Aspie trait until I talked to another Aspie. I've learned more from talking to other Aspies than anything I've learned from books.

Speaking of books though, has anyone read, "Pretending to Be Normal" by Liane Holliday Willey and Tony Attwood? When I read it, it changed my life. It literally describes the way I view the world. I was 100% convinced after that.

I read it a long, long time ago. I think it was really good, from memory. But I don't have much of a memory anymore. I used to have a fabulous memory, but I got misdiagnosed as bipolar a few years ago (before I realized I was Aspie) and spent a few months on Lithium, and I think my brain has never been the same since.

I'm pretty clumsy too. I "fall off my shoes" quite regularly, even ones that are only a couple of inches high :/

My ankles are really paying for that, now that I'm getting older.