Just remember that if you feel like you are able to function fine without a diagnosis and what not, there is nothing wrong with that. There are probably many people getting a score around thirty without ever knowing.
Good luck :)
You start life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been and wonder who you really are.
Control Freak, I hope that you will be able to get an assessment done, good luck.
I actually have Irlen lenses so I've got a pair of glasses with orange lenses that also block out 66% of incoming light. I am not dyslexic though, just very hypersensitive to sensory input. I don't always wear the glasses, but I wear them when studying (but not when I'm using my laptop because that has a screen tint program on it) and in lectures when they put those horrendous spot lights on and the power point slide projector decides that white has to be glaring and painful. On a similar note, I take earplugs/noise cancelling headphones everywhere with me because I have had meltdowns in public due to noise levels before :/
Is anyone else here hypersensitive?
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I am half deaf yet very sensitive to loud noises. I had some Musicians earplugs made for me a few years ago. They are amazing as they are very hard to see that they are earplugs, but they block out all background noises.
I am also very sensitive to the sunlight. I hate summer and whenever the sun is out my sunglasses go on.
But yea, that's just me.
You start life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been and wonder who you really are.
My glasses are transitions so they go dark like sunglasses in sunlight.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
As I mentioned (I think I did) my tutor at uni works in the autism research unit at uni so I've emailed him about this. We're going to discuss it next week and he can advise me of what to do next.
I'm still under the CMHT so he might advise me to see them- but I raised this topic a couple of months ago with my care co-ordinator and she dismissed it right off the bat without properly listening to me. I'm scared she'll do it again.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
^ not all care co-ordinators are trained in autism spectrum disorders I'm afraid. My cc used to be an OT so she is trained. I think contacting your tutor is a good idea.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I am waiting to hear back from an assessment centre for a date for an assessment. I'm getting really impatient, but I suppose the theory is, I've waited 20 years, another few months won't hurt.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
Went on an awareness course yesterday as part of my work, so fascinating and interesting, things actually clicked and fell into place.
Discussing with my mum in the evening though, she is really struggling with the way I view her & what I expect of her, I do see her as an object, and it's the mother object, except, she's divorced now, and wants to be able to have another relationship, and I don't know how to even begin tackling this. She has told me, that I am now restricting her life, terrible thing is, I don't feel bad at all. I don't think anyway.
& i'm sick sick sick of being seen the odd one, the eccentric one in my friend group. I'm contemplating disclosing that I have autism to them, I think my friends may understand, they are all mainly older than me. Of course, if they don't like it, I don't see them, simple, my personal social relationships are weak at best I suppose.
People have said that I do not "have a heart". I cannot feel love/find something cute/have a "crush" on someone etc.
Just to say to anyone who has the same issue, you're not alone.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
People have said that IRL, I have no feelings, as I find it very hard to physically express emotion. But on the internet, or by text, I have learned what words to say to pretend to show an emotion. Although sometimes I get high anxiety/anger levels.
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PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I have traits of Aspergers but don't appear to have it fully. I do tend to obsess about certain things and don't have any friends just acquaintances really!
