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What is bothering you right now? (self.autism)
submitted 11 months ago by BackOnMyBS to c/autism
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We’re autistic, and one of the characteristics of being autistic is that we feel things deeply. On the positive side, when we are happy, we feel immense joy compared to others. On the negative side, we feel painful emotions more strongly than others as well. Because of this, many of us have been invalidated, insulted, or pushed away when all we were wanting was to share what we were going through and get support. Maybe even a really tight hug and someone telling us that it makes sense that we feel that way.

While we can’t give hugs, we can help each other by sharing our pain and having others help us through it. So here is that post. What’s bothering you? Why? Tell us.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm so bad a talking to others. I understand, speak and write three languages (I work as a translator), but I can't talk to people for shit. Auditory processing sucks, the moment people start talking to me my brain goes "NOW PAY ATTENTION OR YOU WILL MISS WHAT THEY SAY" while they are speaking. Then I go "WHAT?" like some deaf and dumb idiot. Never mind not remembering their names or faces after the conversation.

On the other hand I got into a situation recently where I had to live interpret (very different job from translation) for a friend in my two non-native languages in a highly stressful situation, different authorities involved, absolute nightmare. I made a bad job of it mostly (as expected) but still managed to help her solve her problems. And for a few moments I managed to get into a zone where my brain managed to focus on what was said and just straight out process it into the other language. It was magical.

So I have started taking online interpreter training. Getting into verbal language use in a professional way might do the trick. Sometimes brains can be hacked. Plus, if ShiteGPT takes all the written translation work away I might still have a job in the future.