Them: “Hey you seem a little unfocused today is something wrong?”
Me using 90% of my focus to not say random thoughts out loud or pace or make weird faces because everyone will think I’m insane: “yeah I’m fine, just a little tired is all”
Unfortunately if you’re high-masking they usually disagree with you and say you can’t possibly be autistic.
I’m still traumatised by getting that reaction from my friends the first time I told them about my diagnosis. A decade and a half later and I still have imposter syndrome about my own diagnosis.
Maybe the doctors were wrong and my friends were right all along? Maybe I’m actually just a worthless, lazy piece of shit?
If it helps, like often attracts like. My diagnosis was delayed because my wife insisted I was normal. It turns out we both have ADHD and autism. 🤷♂️ Also, an impressive number of our friend have now been diagnosed as various neurodiversities. It set off a bit of a chain reaction.
The way you should think about it is that you were masking really well, which is hard!
I’ve only recently got diagnosed and I’ve been very selective on who I tell it. So far, only my dad and current gf know. The real irony is that my ex, a psychologist, never raised a suspicion, not even as a joke, that I might be one.
That image on the bottom goes hard
Poster: I support autists!
Poster: I hate reply guys! What the fuck is wrong with those morons.
what’s a reply guy?
Reply guy is an internet slang term for someone who excessively responds to social media posts, often in an annoying, condescending, or overly familiar or flirtatious manner.
Says Wikipedia.
so like creeps on Instagram model pages? or people that argue politics in comments? both?
Those people are awful and not who I meant. I’m talking about reply guys who point out that your joke doesn’t work because it is factually incorrect. They (reply guy can be any gender) can see how it would be funny if it were that way but alas it is not.
