Overreaction to people attempting to interact with you in a way outside your comfort zone situations.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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Being depressed a lot of times without understanding why.
Gets transition lenses because the sun makes their brain hurt.
"Your shirt's on inside-out."
Unintentionally offending people
Thinks they're an introvert due to always masking and thus having low energy after socialising because they had to pretend to be someone they're not.
Having days in which a certain sense like smell or sound or tactile sensation is unbearable and constantly drawing your attention to the point you feel like you’re about to break down in public because you can’t ignore it to focus on anything else no matter how hard you try
Being an outsider. Having a low self-esteem because the world and my own expectations don't suit me.
Oh and:
- Escapism. Finding a better world in books, tv series, games.
- a persistent special interest which is meaningful to me
Sudden crying, hatred of certain clothing textures, good test grades but horrible homework because I simply never did it, wanting to eat the same thing a lot, absolute fury at injustices.
Just because my obsessions were socially acceptable, doesn't make them any less autistic fixation. Looking at you reading and music.
Trains
That's it, I think trains are pretty cool and awesome
Let's see:
- Wants to be a paleontologist REALLY HARD.
- Hates very loud noises (eg ambulance sirens) to the point that they can make them go in standby.
- Goes to a party, it's so exhausting that they are falling asleep in the bar for being completely drained of energy.
- No friends because everyone thought they were a weirdo
- Picky eater, some food textures felt like a personal attack
- Of course, NO TOUCHING!
- Music? Sure, 3 songs on loop for hours.
- "What do you mean I should have more hobbies outside dinosaurs?"
- "I don't understand what you are trying to say"
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Not understanding until years later that the "friends" laughing with you were actually bullies laughing at you
Tries to go to parties, and regrets it every time.
