I do hide my AS, and nobody guesses unless I say (which I never do). People have said I must have an anxiety disorder or ''suffer with my nerves'', so that must show, but otherwise they don't suspect AS. I know they don't. So I must be generally good at hiding it.
Only once a friend I had at school had suspected Autism in me, but even then she wasn't sure. And it was only because I went on about my obsession to her a lot, and then one day, in science class, we were told to look up psychological conditions on the internet, and she found Autism and just happened to read the symptoms of it and then pointed to the screen and said, ''oh look, this might be you - you go on about your obsessions a lot''. I felt embarrassed and ashamed, so I pretended to act surprised and so I said, ''oh yes, maybe I might have that.'' She forgot about it after that. She was probably just joking a bit anyway.
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I clicked the 2nd one. But just to be clear for me that means I:
Make eye contact
Don't visibly stim
Make facial expressions
Sometime intonate my voice
I DO NOT:
Hide my personality
Pretend I'm into sport, soaps, peoples relationships other than basic curtisy
I think of it as translating the real me into the NT language.
That's what I do. I desire to fit in so I do push myself a little, but then again, doesn't everyone have to make an effort a little to fit in? I just have to do it a little more. I do what you mentioned, and I will include that I don't talk non-stop about my obsessions, and I try not to complain about everything either, unless the other person is complaining about something. Otherwise I try to be relaxed and positive, and just keep my emotions at a socially acceptable balance.
Like you said, I don't try to pretend that I am into mainstream things like celebrities and shopping. I openly admit that I know nothing about celebrities, and that I'm not one for shopping.
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04 May 2012, 7:31 pm
