Neurodiversity

Bit · 11-19-2012, 08:26 PM

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

Girl_On_Fire · 11-20-2012, 08:11 PM

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 · 11-26-2012, 07:34 PM

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Ursy · 11-26-2012, 07:51 PM

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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.

Girl_On_Fire · 11-26-2012, 08:17 PM

Does anyone here sigh a lot? I do it all the time and it's a self-comfort thing but people are always mistaking it for being irritated or subtly trying to display displeasure and I don't even realize I do it until somebody points it out.

Ursy · 11-26-2012, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Girl_On_Fire

Does anyone here sigh a lot? I do it all the time and it's a self-comfort thing but people are always mistaking it for being irritated or subtly trying to display displeasure and I don't even realize I do it until somebody points it out.

I probably do. I think it's a form of stimming. I also make random noises, sometimes to ward off unpleasant thoughts, but mostly when I know nobody else is around.

Venus007 · 11-27-2012, 03:44 PM

I sigh a lot. For me it resets me, like "okay, done with this, on to the next"
it also comforts me in a way, I rub my forehead or my first 3 fingers together when I am alone but in public it is usually a sigh.

Girl_On_Fire · 11-27-2012, 08:02 PM

I rub my forehead too. Hmmmm....

11-19-2012, 08:26 PM	#1
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11-26-2012, 08:17 PM	#5
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11-27-2012, 03:44 PM	#7
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11-27-2012, 08:02 PM	#8
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