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06 Jul 2011, 6:58 pm

Do you ever have a day that goes so well, where you act so social, where you make no mistakes and be the perfect NT, that you doubt your DX?

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06 Jul 2011, 7:01 pm

Nope. I make some "behavior" mistake almost DAILY!

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06 Jul 2011, 7:15 pm

I have days where I THINK so. At some point someone points out otherwise
All things considered I do pretty well but I have my bad days with it.
One situation where I just don't know how to react is when the person I'm talking to is highly reactive and very sensitive. It's the only situation where I'll ever lie because doing so causes them to explode but I lie BADLY so it makes it even worse. I see it as a lose lose situation and get agitated whenever someone does that to me because it feels like a trap.
So I guess ignorance is bliss provided you're around people that will just let you be you.

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06 Jul 2011, 8:28 pm

Oui, on my graduation trip I was the class clown.

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06 Jul 2011, 8:39 pm

I never doubt my diagnosis and never act nt and pretty much everyday is a good one.

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06 Jul 2011, 11:29 pm

I've done some pretty effective things socially, but they all happen when I'm being myself, rather than trying to imitate NTs. Everyone knows I'm very odd; the trick is to make sure I can communicate, rather than trying to fool people into thinking I'm not odd. Playing NT actually gets in the way of communication for me. The less I worry about putting on an act, the better I can use what I've learned to understand and be understood by others.

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06 Jul 2011, 11:31 pm

I don't care about social embarrassment anymore.. Even NTs embarrass themselves but not to the aspie extent... but I don't care... I am much happier now that I don't care.

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06 Jul 2011, 11:38 pm

Callista wrote:

Yup. It's kinda like that.

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07 Jul 2011, 12:40 am

Callista wrote:

Yes, this makes sense.

What makes me doubt my DX is not how my days go, but when I start to worry that I might really just be lazy and terrible at life, which is a great way to feed both my anxiety and depression. Sometimes it can be triggered by someone else saying something, even if I know logically what they said wasn't true or wasn't applicable in the way they apparently intended.

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07 Jul 2011, 12:45 am

I do. Then someone reminds me of something cringeworthy I missed. Ugh.

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