How do all you cope with long periods of isolation?

[Misty Avich]

I really relate to you on that, I was absolutely nothing to them. I was just the ‘special’ (their words, not mine) one they could get free laughs out of, punched me, kicked me, made my life miserable. I don’t really think I ever really recovered from that ostracisation.

It is hard to recover from, also being the only one diagnosed with an ASD in the family and probably all my close relatives being NTs doesn't help. Well my sister has some odd traits but I think it's just learning difficulties, not Asperger's. And even if she did have ASD traits, she still doesn't have all the severe anxiety and ADHD on top of it, and she seemed to have more friends than I did.
So while most people on the spectrum have parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, pets, and everybody else in their family with autism, I feel my ASD wasn't meant to be, that I was born an NT but something happened to my brain when I was 4, maybe I bumped my head or *cough-vaccine-cough* or anything like that.

 

[Chimorin]

It is hard to recover from, also being the only one diagnosed with an ASD in the family and probably all my close relatives being NTs doesn't help. Well my sister has some odd traits but I think it's just learning difficulties, not Asperger's. And even if she did have ASD traits, she still doesn't have all the severe anxiety and ADHD on top of it, and she seemed to have more friends than I did.
So while most people on the spectrum have parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, pets, and everybody else in their family with autism, I feel my ASD wasn't meant to be, that I was born an NT but something happened to my brain when I was 4, maybe I bumped my head or *cough-vaccine-cough* or anything like that.

I get you there, I wonder if some of my head injuries at a young age might have been to blame too. Ah well I guess, your played good cards and bad cards to be blunt.

 

[vergil96]

True, I’m just so burnt out these days I can barely hold a conversation without shutting down now lol, just so tired.

Internet communities? Related to interests?

I started taking a language course and met some nice people. Maybe you can also start a hobby group etc, something not solely focused on socializing.

Language classes are good too.

 

[Chimorin]

Internet communities? Related to interests?


Language classes are good too.

I used to be quite popular in niche internet circles under an alias a while ago, got ostracised from it though which was a bummer. Definitely starting to handle things a lot better now though, acceptance goes a long way I guess.

 

[Cryptid]

How do all you cope with long periods of isolation?

Far better than I cope with short periods of socialization.

 

[Chimorin]

Far better than I cope with short periods of socialization.

True that. I can barely hold a convo in real life without shutting down.