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Hi, new here. Central FL

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magicspiritbliss

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. I do not know for sure that I am but from what I have seen on YouTube &in books I feel I am not so wrong and why I feel out of place a lot of the time. I would like to meet with other aspies so that I could feel understood. Are there in person groups for us?
 
Welcome, @magicspiritbliss

I get how confusing it can be when you find out you are on the spectrum. What is it? A disease? A mental sickness? No. It's a neurological condition. We are wired differently from neurotypicals or NTs.

The hardest things are around executive funtioning and socail skills for us.

If you ever talk to anyone and they say something you don't get. It could be sarcastic, a joke, or a turn of phrase. Or if people seem to move on from things faster than you do. As any autistic person has to focus on one detail at a time. By the time we are done, a NT will have well beyond moved on from it.

If people have told you that you are 'just lazy' 'not trying hard enough' or use unhelpful advice like 'suck it up' when you fall short. It's because NTs see us as having 'whiny excuses' for things we actually are incapable of doing. Some of us can still thrive from this. But others... not so much. As it is insultingly dismissive of problems we actually are having.

Certain sounds, lights, or other distractions can overwhelm us. Though everyone is unique in this regard. I personally find people who eat with thier mouth open and fire alarms rather obnoxious and overly disruptive.

Crowded places and areas with a large number of people tend to be a big overwhelming factor for alot of us.

Sometimes certain things beyond people and environmental distractions can affect us. Like my fear of going down escalators. Something about going down on them just makes me freak the heck out. But oddly not when going up on them.

in anycase. I hope you find the answers you are looking for. We have plenty of threads you can look at and even useful site resources to look into that may help give you a better idea.
 
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magicspiritbliss said:
. I do not know for sure that I am but from what I have seen on YouTube &in books I feel I am not so wrong and why I feel out of place a lot of the time. I would like to meet with other aspies so that I could feel understood. Are there in person groups for us?
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Check out “The articulate autistic” on YouTube. She quickly describes what goes on inside her own head. Not any official diagnosis but it’s enlightening if you find yourself connecting with her stories.
 
Great summary, many of use have savant like abilities thing we can do easily that stun NT's I have done stuff in a few hours that they cannot comprehend how I did it just see it in my head put it together example walk through process once see all the details put together a comprehensive control plan completely detailed reaction plans procedures, work instructions for every job, in a matter of hours. just a good memory familiarity with the process and know the details, cannot understand how the NT's cannot see this just a logical progression.
 
Ronald Zeeman said:
Great summary, many of use have savant like abilities thing we can do easily that stun NT's I have done stuff in a few hours that they cannot comprehend how I did it just see it in my head put it together example walk through process once see all the details put together a comprehensive control plan completely detailed reaction plans procedures, work instructions for every job, in a matter of hours. just a good memory familiarity with the process and know the details, cannot understand how the NT's cannot see this just a logical progression
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Welcome. I am about 2-1/2 hours south of Orlando, in the swamps and woods. There's others of us from around the state. If you hang around, you will meet them.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
Welcome. I am about 2-1/2 hours south of Orlando, in the swamps and woods. There's others of us from around the state. If you hang around, you will meet them.
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It could be fun to get us all together for coffee or something. If we could coordinate such a meeting. I met a fellow autist from Reddit at Universal Studios a while back.
 
AspieChris said:
Check out “The articulate autistic” on YouTube. She quickly describes what goes on inside her own head. Not any official diagnosis but it’s enlightening if you find yourself connecting with her stories.
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I love the info she shares. I am going to check out DBT AND CBT therapy. I need so much help sometimes on social situations. I am at a point in my life where I have a career and am successful but need to alleviate the social suffering.
 
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Jumpinbare said:
It could be fun to get us all together for coffee or something. If we could coordinate such a meeting. I met a fellow autist from Reddit at Universal Studios a while back.
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I love this idea.i will be in Orlando with my hubbie and teen son for a dungeons and dragons convention in Septemeber.i will not play the entire 3 days so I will have time to meet up
 
magicspiritbliss said:
I love this idea.i will be in Orlando with my hubbie and teen son for a dungeons and dragons convention in Septemeber.i will not play the entire 3 days so I will have time to meet up
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A potential target time and place. I'm retired, so my schedule is pretty open. What dates is the d&d convention?
 
I’m available, being retired and nothing I know of for that time. But I do worry if there are too many of us all at one time. The only time I met someone IRL, it was 1:1.
 
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