arth @kbin.social Colorado. Electrical engineer. Ham radio operator. Married. Math and engineering textbook collector. 3D printer owner. Subaru driver. Electronics tinkerer. Movie watcher. Sci-fi reader. Linux user. Ally.
I wouldn't even know where to get a diagnosis as an adult. All the resources in my area seem offer evaluations to children only.
Yeah this is good. I love this.
It's nothing but a popularity contest. We don't need that here.
Not that I know of. You may need to click the kbin logo on the upper left. I randomly need to do that sometimes to see just my subs even though I have subs set as my home page.
Click on your name in the upper right and choose settings. The very first thing in settings lets you set your homepage to your subscriptions.
Have you ever been accused of just having social anxiety?
A few months ago I was working on a project with someone. He had the habit of calling me all the time to talk about it, but I keep my phone permanently on DND and I would often miss his calls. It would take me a while, sometimes a couple of days, to get back to him. I preferred to deal with him through text or email, because I can answer in my own time, when I'm ready.
Finally I sent him a lengthy email explaining the situation. I told him I am autistic, and that means phone calls are difficult for me, among other things. I need to be mentally and emotionally prepared to talk to someone on the phone, and that, along with the DND thing, is why I never answer his calls.
He was also always pressuring me to come over to his place where we could use his lab for the project. No. Not a chance. I feel really uncomfortable in someone else's space, and when I'm in that situation, all I can think of is running out the door and going home, back to my own comfortable space. And that's why I never asked him to come over to my place to work, because I have a similarly equipped lab, but having other people in my home, in my space, my comfort zone, makes me equally uncomfortable.
So no. You work in your space, I'll work in my space, and we'll collaborate online, thank you very much. That's what I told him.
He replied saying that he understands my "social anxiety" and that he sometimes suffers from it himself, then offered up some tips to help me get over it. He completely ignored the autism. It was very frustrating.
I started to slowly back away from the project we were working on because I just didn't want to deal with it any more. I still see him sometimes though because we have a mutual acquaintance, and it's always awkward.
Have you been through something similar?
Jeezus, I've never had the experience of hearing someone screaming at me on the edge of sleep. That sounds horrifying! For me, it's always like she's calling to me from another room, like "Honey can you come here?"
I often hear my wife's voice when I'm on the edge of sleep. Sometimes it's so clear I'll ask her what's up, and she'll look at me like I'm crazy.
I've actually heard of this before. Is it common? Do you know of other people like this?
Hey this happens to me! Something in my ear just twitches for only a second or two and I hear a vibrating sound. It happens randomly and doesn't seem to be triggered by anything. It's also pretty rare. Maybe a couple times a month. I never thought that it sounded like thunder though and so didn't make the connection. This sounds (Haha. See what I did there?) like the most plausible explanation yet.
Thunder in your head?
A long while back I was hanging out with one of my sisters and she said that she hears thunder in her head when she gets startled.
Me: "Scuse me. What?" Her: "You know. That thunder you hear when someone startles you." Me: "Again. What?" Her: "You don't hear thunder when someone startles you?" Me: "Uh, no." Her: "Oh. I thought that happened to everybody."
Is this a thing? Does this happen to anybody else out there? She did struggle with depression for much of her life. Could that have had something to do with it?
Aren't magazine names here case-sensitive? Did you try searching for /m/Autism instead?
It's my understanding that "reputation points" isn't fully implemented yet and means nothing right now. I can't point to a source for this. Something I read somewhere that I've forgotten.
Agreed. This place shouldn't be a popularity contest.
This actually happened to me a couple of years ago. This woman came into my office and after we were finished with business, she said something like "I have two tickets to the baseball game. Would you like to come with me?" And I was like "No thanks. I don't like baseball very much." then turned away and started working on something else.
After she left, everyone in my office said "OMG she just asked you out!" I didn't get that at all and totally missed it. Besides, I'm married.
Heh. I didn't even think of trying this. Thanks for the suggestion!
Working IT: The entire family thinks I'll always be happy and eager to fix all of their computer problems for them.
Being an electrical engineer: People think I'm an electrician.
Hi! I was never a Reddit user, but heard about this place after Reddit blew up a few days ago and got interested in checking it out.
I'm in Colorado, an electrical engineer but working an IT job. Ham radio operator. Electronics tinkerer. I enjoy reading and watching sci-fi. And, believe it or not, I collect engineering and math textbooks.