Thread:McAlastair/@comment-26356785-20161112205000/@comment-27496972-20161115032746

I'm not neccessarily annoyed that my point isn't getting across, but usually it doesn't take this much explaining. So I'm just gonna copy and paste the symptoms I DO have from the official list (it's a long list, YHBW):


 * differences in perception and problems with motor skills, sleep, and emotions;


 * enhanced perception of small changes in patterns such as arrangements of objects or well-known images;


 * deficits in some tasks involving visual-spatial perception, auditory perception, or  visual memory;


 * unusual sensitivity to sound, light, and other stimuli;


 * increased fight-or-flight response;


 * failure of habituation;


 * physical clumsiness;


 * poor coordination;


 * odd posture;


 * poor handwriting;


 * difficulty with falling asleep;


 * unusually sophisticated vocabulary at a young age;


 * difficulty understanding figurative language;


 * lack of understanding of the intent of humour;


 * abnormally intense or focused;


 * preoccupy themselves with parts of objects/compulsive behaviours like lining things up in patterns;


 * stereotyped and repetitive motor behaviours;


 * lack of social or emotional reciprocity;


 * engaging in a one-sided, long-winded speech about a favourite topic, while  not recognising the listener's feelings or reactions;


 * selective mutism; and


 * the articulation of social norms in a laboratory context (knowing how to do it but being unable to actually do it).

These symptoms are more like excuses that act as restraints, but I'm learning to work around them. They bite, but I've learned to accept them and try to learn around them. But the bullying I've gone through has severely damaged my inner self-confidence, so I need positive feedback that doesn't feel like a Carolina Reaper.

Seriously though, how would you describe all this?