My wife (psychologist) dropped the bomb on me a month ago, telling me that she long suspected that I had high functioning autism.
I was initially surprised, but it honestly makes a lot of sense and explains so much about my life.
It doesn’t change anything, but I think about it a lot.
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I was initially surprised, but it honestly makes a lot of sense and explains so much about my life.
It doesn’t change anything, but I think about it a lot.
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I consider it one of my greatest personal accomplishments that I got a masters degree with undiagnosed ADHD. That is afaik extremely rare.
And now, after taking a screening test, I’m likely to have a mild case of ASD.
I’m not sure what to do with that info.
I’m just bad at picking up social signals.
I kind of knew that already, but now I’m just going to accept it as how I am.
But I take people at their word, and people rarely mean what they *say*, which apparently is not a problem for most other people, but I suspect it is partially the cause of many of my interpersonal conflicts over the years.
I have always been disappointed that others weren’t as open, direct and honest as I am, but now I realize I may have just completely misunderstood people.
Ambiguity is a key strength of natural language. Just not for me.