asd
u24 teeth chattering, fingers twitching, feet twirling.

overthinking what people think of me.

overthinking choices in general - as in spreadsheets, exhaustive comparisons of all possible options and even some impossible ones. I once photoshopped 6 different styles of band onto a watch to see which one I should buy.

re-playing jokes and convos in my head like I'm squeezing everything I can out of it.

being called 'too sensitive'

imagining entire conversations or arguments, sometimes with people that don't even exist.

phasing out entirely when I'm upset, unable to think about anything except maybe one weird thing like how to distribute items on a shelf to achieve ideal load-balancing, or just having a particular tune play over and over in my head and not be able to think about anything else.

Amazing that it took so long to start to realise I might have an autistic spectrum disorder, really.
200520
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unhinged the overlap between anxiety and autism has always made me feel close to all my spacey OCD friends and family.

it's a brain wiring thing. we can't help it.
200521
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unhinged (hope that isn't offensive...but my brother and my cousin are autistic and they rate pretty high on people in my family i actually want to spend time with) 200521
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u24 Not offended in the least. 200522
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