Also often autistics say that NTs are driven by emotion while autistics are driven by logic. I don't find that's true. I feel the NTs are driven by logic while I'm driven by emotion. For example, NTs (with no mental health conditions) can work full-time, as in up to 50 hours a week, and be able to cope with it because they know that they need to do it to earn a living. So they just shrug off their emotions and carry on getting up at the crack of dawn on frosty mornings and turning up for work because they know that it's what they need to do. That's logic: "I need the money so I have to work for it".
Me, however, can't think that way. All I can think of is how depressed and anxious I feel when leaving my bed, how panicky I feel of having to do the same thing 5 days a week 49 weeks a year, how challenging it is to get my brain into work mode, and counting down how many years of this I have to suffer then becoming frustrated and angry at the government for raising the pension age again and again.
Me, however, can't think that way. All I can think of is how depressed and anxious I feel when leaving my bed, how panicky I feel of having to do the same thing 5 days a week 49 weeks a year, how challenging it is to get my brain into work mode, and counting down how many years of this I have to suffer then becoming frustrated and angry at the government for raising the pension age again and again.
