Other Aspergers... sigh...

[Ecdysis]

So, I joined an Aspergers Forum... which is good... but it's also "too much"... I'm getting total brain overload from thinking about it too much...

On the one hand, it's important... and I need to deal with it... but I need to limit it somehow, to stop myself getting flooded.

My depression-burnt-out brain can't deal with that much (personal) information at once... and I can't seem to find a good balance for it... Ugh...

How can I limit my exposure to it so it's more a micro-dosing thing? Try to set some kind of time limit?

Or try to be more mindful of when I get agitated cos it's "too much" and then try and leave it be for 24 hours?

 

[Flossy]

So, I joined an Aspergers Forum... which is good... but it's also "too much"... I'm getting total brain overload from thinking about it too much...

On the one hand, it's important... and I need to deal with it... but I need to limit it somehow, to stop myself getting flooded.

My depression-burnt-out brain can't deal with that much (personal) information at once... and I can't seem to find a good balance for it... Ugh...

How can I limit my exposure to it so it's more a micro-dosing thing? Try to set some kind of time limit?

Or try to be more mindful of when I get agitated cos it's "too much" and then try and leave it be for 24 hours?

Is it a forum that is set up like this or is it a FB Page.?

I ask this because for me FB pages are too difficult to micro-dose. A forum like this is better, because the main focus can be on reading and educating yourself through the parts of the forum that are foundation learning about Aspergers. There should not be person to person interaction I believe. Those come under a heading of relationships and the last thing you need at the moment is new relationships.

Another point is "How do you best absorb information?". Through the written word or through visual or audio? My husband has Aspergers and he learns best through visuals on Youtube by people with Aspergers initially. It is less confronting to learn from a peer than from a Therapist on Youtube initially. There are lots of people with Aspergers who do their own videos.

I hope these ideas are some help to you. I would set a time limit on your phone with the alarm function. 20 mins is more than enough at one time. Do it at the time of day when you feel at your best, not when you are tired. Make a rule. Maybe "Once I have done my learning I do not have to ruminate over it. Processing is fine, ruminating is not necessary.

We find having a large home made blackboard in the lounge room and chalk helps to cement key points to remember for strategies to. make life easier...such as the blackboard.

 

[Teasel]

There should not be person to person interaction I believe. Those come under a heading of relationships and the last thing you need at the moment is new relationships.

Why not?

 

[thetattoolady]

I had an Asperger's diagnosis about 10 years ago... in the end I basically ended up ignoring it tho...

It's an issue again now, as I'm going through a general diagnostic process with my T.

It's become such a fad diagnosis so I don't even know whether to take it seriously or not.

But just as you can basically "spot" people with ADHD, I can often "spot" people with Aspergers too.

And I think my dad has it, I think my brother has it.

I think my mother (who was incapable of empathy) may have had a more pronounced autism disorder.

So there could definitely be a genetic component.

And if I look at my childhood and schooling as if I'm looking at some other kid, then I'd be like "yah, probably Aspergers".

Sigh... I just don't know if I want to deal with this...

I've just emailed my T about it tho... so now I'll have to talk about it at the next appointment.

It would also explain the symptoms that he'd thought might be due to schizoid PD.

Ugh... for f*ck's sake... I don't want another thing to deal with...

Tho rationally, I do realise that dealing with it will make it easier, not harder...

It's the same as stuff like asthma or diabetes... ignored and untreated, it makes your life more complicated and difficult than if you just deal with it and get the appropriate treatment and adjust your life accordingly.

This is old, but I am glad I found it because I went looking for your ketamine journey thread (couldn’t find it) and stumbled across a post that made me want to ask if you’re an aspie. Luckily instead of derailing my search, I kept going and found this.

Your post was about how you have been able to have compassion for your inner child. And I’ve never heard anyone else express that before. I am the same. But there are other things too (when it comes to how some of us process abuse.

For example, as a child my mother always called me stupid and sorry. I always have to clarify for my therapists (because they assume this is what I grew up believing about myself) that I DID NOT believe her. I didn’t feel stupid or sorry and I used to be hurt and confused because I didn’t understand why she kept calling me that.

I don’t know that the diagnosis is something you have to ‘deal with’. But I hope it has served as a filter when you look back on your past and how you interacted with others and how they treated you. To help you understand your brain and why traditional therapies for processing ptsd may or may not work for you. Our brains are wired differently. It matters.

 

[Ecdysis]

Hi

This is the thread I added to:

iv ketamine with very high dissociation levels

I'll reply to the rest of your post later