Autism emotional direction

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Welcome back @admiralbarkley !

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I like your handwriting, if that’s your handwriting.

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It is :sweat_smile: thankyou.

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Yeah so neat! You should see mine! Horrid.

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I miss your old avatar. Welcome back!

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I prefer the old one too but one of the mods have taken it. I’m not back, as I said before I just come back every now and then and post my journal entries. My mental health is quite good these days. I am off meds for about 2 years and voice free for over 8. Good to hear from you though. Are still doing the landscaping thing I saw you doing last time?

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Not anymore! I am a data analyst again now. Have switched between the two a few times but this time it’s for good

Really pleased to hear that :slight_smile:

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Because autistic people do not experience loneliness, they also do not experience paranoia. As paranoia is an assessment of people or objects that are not there that could harm them. Paranoia is an assessment of ‘Am I alone’. Therefore autistic psychotic patients often are treated for paranoid symptoms rather than extremes of confusion with reward centre complications on failed attempts.

Does this make sense to anyone? I had a psychotic break from a car accident, I was just in a bad place at the time. Hitting my head triggered external voices. I think it is common, Kurt Cobain often complained that the CIA were after him and people were trying to get him when he was 18. I think the confusion complicates things. People get a hard time because they are different all the time, autistic people lack the ability to say you are complaining because of this, and that is why they are more vulnerable and have massive problems with autonomy.

Wait what? Since when do autistic people not feel loneliness or paranoia? Im autistic and experience both of those emotions regularly. I know a lot of autistic people that experience chronic loneliness.

Good to see you back. I’m formerly oolaloola.

I also dont get the chart at all. Ive been staring at it for a long time trying to make sense of it

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Pure and utter bs.

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Wait what? That makes no sense.

You can ban me if you want.

Personally I feel overwhelmed, if I get bored I just fall back to the quiet in my head. I never used to. Confidence problems stopped me from being happy never mind get that far. The order of emotions chart is a thing. It is just when we stop having new experiences or something to occupy us, we either get bored or lonely. If you don’t fall to negative emotions hen bored, you don’t suffer, but on the flip side you would not be confident and appear very timid.

When did I say anything like that.

It was a joke. 151515

Ok…i was very confused.

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