rapidroy wrote:
Aimless wrote:
I think that's true and I also think, as is in my case, the simple fact of not knowing how to navigate the intricacies of social relationships, particularly initiating them, will cause social anxiety. I can remember as a child being frozen in fear when I was around unfamiliar people and wondering why it was so easy for others to connect. I didn't understand why people didn't approach me and assumed it was because I was defective. It was only recently that I realized the other people assumed I wasn't interested.
I can recall feeling this exactly as far back is age 3 or 4(kindergarden, preschool, babysiters, daycare etc.), surely I haden't had the chance to fail socially that much by then.
Exactly, and now that the DSM 5 is out and Social Communication Disorder is considered a separate category and not a part of the autistic spectrum, I have to wonder where that puts me. Perhaps I am minimizing my RBRI's (I think everyone has them to a degree) but my difficulties are pretty well firmly placed in the social category. So I Googled what would cause this in very early childhood and all that came up had to do with autism. My social differences were evident in infancy. I did not engage with people, I only cried to be fed or to have my diaper changed, not to be picked up. I am of the generation that I was already an adult before Asperger's was on anyone's radar. Incidentally, this not knowing how to approach people for friendship, I've never grown out of it.
I should add that I have a son diagnosed with Asperger's, and the parallels between us led me to look up WP. The more I read the more I related.
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