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I try everything I can, music, animation, art, programming, even Sports yet no one understands me!

It's so hard to live with autism, and I'm wondering how I can get help. ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What exactly do you mean by no one understanding you?

[โ€“] BlueWorld2007 -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what you just said to me, you don't even understand me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't expect people to understand if you don't explain ๐Ÿคท.

[โ€“] BlueWorld2007 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't fully explain stuff well

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if you don't try, we can't help.

I don't have autism, but I am kinda weird, so I think I could (maybe) help, but you have to explain things.

[โ€“] BlueWorld2007 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

๐Ÿคท

You have to start talking man, otherwise we can't help.

EDIT: Sorry, just realized you're a woman ๐Ÿ˜‚.

[โ€“] BlueWorld2007 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, come on, can't be that bad ๐Ÿ˜‰. I live with a person I can't stand, and I have to do it for at least another 14 or 15 years, beat that ๐Ÿ˜‚.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean... as an autistic person, when your only statement is "I've done this, this, and that. Nobody understands!" Your statement is very critically missing anything to do with what people are failing to understand, or what you're trying to accomplish. Autism can be hard, but complaining about this as an issue while not actually demonstrating an issue, and actually demonstrating a complete non-issue, is not going to get any help for yourself.

All you have specificied here is that you:

  • Do things
  • Aren't understood

What are we supposed to get out of that? Sure, nobody is understanding, but you've given nothing to interpret or understand.

If you have issues saying what you have issues with, I can relate, that is something I deal with. Expressing yourself can be hard. What makes it harder is not trying to express anything, because that "expressing" is hard. Express anything, even if it isn't perfect or close to what you're thinking, because at least you can hear yourself say it and think "oh, yea that is NOT it." Eventually you'll be left with whatever it is.