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Originally Posted by SquarePegGuy
Hi @ jesyka, I sense that this upsets you -- I'm sorry about that.
There's a lot to reply to here. Let me start with agreeing with @ Yaowen who wrote,If you can carry out activities of daily living, you don't get the DX.
But I wonder, why be insulted? This might be an idea to explore. I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, and I really don't want to upset you (nor you, Yaowen), but taking insult suggests to me that you feel there's something bad or undesirable about autism.
My daughter was DXed at age 3.5 years. The behavior that led us to seek evaluation was OCD. Perhaps it's because I might be "on the spectrum" that I didn't find her quirky, detached behaviors to be anything significant.
And because it's a spectrum, it may be that nearly all of us have some very minor autistic tendencies at some point. Maybe these tendencies will be more apparent when we're tired, hungry or stressed.
I'll stop here. Maybe I stepped over the line. I hope not. Peace |
It did upset me. I guess it’s because I’ve been called weird most of my life. Most people think anything that’s weird is bad. I think that maybe I just don’t know how to read people that well at times.
I can do stuff like drive & run errands just fine. Since I worked this job, I noticed that almost no autistic people drive. My client used to drive, but she wasn’t good at it
I was bullied most of my life since I was 11 up until I was 51 from peers, my family, some former supervisors & coworkers & some people online too.
When you got your daughter diagnosed, how much did everything cost you? How many tests were done?
You didn’t step over the line btw.