i’ve been reading about personality disorders and I feel like a lot of the symptoms fit autism as well. both have a rigid and “unhealthy” patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving, troubles perceiving and relating to situations and people, the early age of onset, both are pernament
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It sort of was in the mid 60s – I got a dx of sociopathy ponyed up to my dx of autism. ‘shrug’ I make the assumption that it was because I wasn’t processing human interaction like normal.
It wasn’t that I got better or anything like that, my mom went to a hella lot of trouble training me to act like a neurotypical – I can chat with someone and look them in the eyes, I can touch or be touched casually, I don’t crunch away or stiffen up. I can converse about all sorts of things, I don’t monolog about hobbies.
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