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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

We have created our own instance! Visit Autism Place the following community for more info.

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I'm tired of always needing to prove my inteligence (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Examples:

Yesterday I was at a health evaluation for a driver's license. Everything went well with my physical health, but at questioning, my autism was bought up. I was accused of needing help with learning in primary school (despite of my grades, that were usually B (I know, I'm lazy)) and now I need a psychological evaluation.

When I started high school, most professors infantalized me, but later stopped after I proved myself (ok, some didn't stop, like the slovene teacher and the sport teacher/coach).

When I meet someone new, they always think I am intelectually disabled, before proving otherwise...

Why is this happening?

Edit: It means a lot to talk to people who support me trough this (even if only on the internet). I took a psychological evaluation today. It included an iq test like form (easy, but didn't finish the whole paper), questionairs and some cordination tests (that in my opinion I was bad at). Just waiting to get the results. Hopefully I'll pass, but I can't really do anything if I don't, can just maybe try somewhere else in the EU (i think).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Did you know there is overlap between dyslexia and autism?

Speaking for myself, communication and language is pretty damn hard. The act of having to recheck and verify all the time if its all correct makes my head spin. I can either accept that i do make tons of mistakes (including use of wrong words and mispronounced in spoken words) or i can save myself the stress and stop communicating in general.

Its not like you can write properly yourself as last i checked a sentence has to end in a point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I might have dyslexia, but I started reading very early in kindergarten and back then, I found it easier to read, than I do now. I suspect, that I had injured my eyes some way, but the tests for the driving test were good, so you might be right.