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I want to give a general shoutout to my #ActuallyAutistic peers.
I know not all of us have this (and that's OK and valid!) but I'm fairly certain I'm not alone in having lived my life "second-guessing" myself. I sound uncertain, I sound afraid to commit, and I "overanalyze everything".
One of the things my talk therapist helped me to see is that while there are times where this can be a problem ...
- I'm not second-guessing or being afraid to commit: I'm allowing for nuance rather than absolutes
- I'm not "overanalyzing": I am putting care into understanding myself and the world around me, allowing me to make the right choices
She more than once told me that my analytical brain was an asset, and that it's a good thing to look at the world with nuanced thoughts.
I suspect I am not the only one that needs to get this perspective.
@autistic.me @actuallyautistic (remove group tags if responding, please =)
@melindrea @autistic.me @actuallyautistic
Sadly, many of our common traits are still commonly pathologized and labelled as flaws even though they are more complex than that and could, when approached right, become our strengths.
Also, thanks to therapy, nowadays, when I find myself cursing an autistic trait that makes my life difficult at the moment, I try to take a deep breath and a broader perspective.
Traits are traits. There is no need to hurry to judge them "good" or "bad". Our job is to manage them and find ourself places where our traits show their positive sides as often as possible and cause problems as little as possible.
@ReimanSaara @melindrea @autistic.me @actuallyautistic
I'm late diagnosed (at 50). Looking back, however; what I now know are #ADHD and #ASC1 (#Aspergers) traits are what made me good at my job.