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@BethanyBlack If I'm excited about a social interaction ("event" or "occasion" are terms too grand for anything I'm likely to be involved in), I find myself compulsively gaming it out and rehearsing all the witty banter I'm likely to require.

So when the curtain finally rises I'm struck dumb by sheer exhaustion and the feeling that I'm repeating myself.

(I've never sought a diagnosis of Asperger's or ADHD, because things are bad enough without having to leap to my feet and cry "trans bingo!")

Bethany Black

@katyswain well Asperger’s isn’t a diagnosis that exists anymore, on account of a lot of us not wanting a condition named after a Nazi Doctor, and I know you didn’t mean to, but your post suggested that the disabilities I have are an affectation which is incredibly unhelpful. Both for you and anyone else trying to cope with them.

@BethanyBlack Duly chastened and noted. Unintended, but thoughtless. Sorry.

@katyswain yeah, thinking of it as a set of stereotypes that you are trying to escape because you don’t want to be one of *them* only works to make people like you when you’re not talking to one of the *them* you don’t want to be.

@katyswain or in other words a diagnosis won’t change whether or not you are autistic/ADHD but it will make it easier for you to learn to cope.