Autistic people of Reddit, what is autism really like?

It's like winning the lottery but 200 pages of fineprint come with it that fuck up your life. In my case anyway. The lottery being intelligence.

And really that's the problem I have, and so do a lot of 'Aspies', being to intelligent for your own good.

This inevitably leads to depresion. And apart from depression being a taboo and awful and what not people always act as if it can be cured.

I'm sure it can be cured for most people. But when the underlying problem is something that can't be cured neither can the depression. So you're basically fucked.

Everyday you walk into the same walls again and again. You know why, but you can't fix it. People tell you your whole life that you are imperfect and different so much its all you believe.

Which means you have 0% self-confidence. Oh and socializing. Well, that's where it really gets great.

You are always the odd one out. Either you talk to much or you talk to little. You always want to improve but it's pretty much impossible. Because social skills are an intuition you can't recreate. So pretty much you are always embarrassed of yourself.

The smallest things can cause the biggest anxieties. This can be anything. Even the smallest remarks someone makes. And it very tiring.

You can also never find a gray area in anything. Doing things moderately is something nearly impossible.

And you are extremely addiction prone. (Drugs, gaming etc)

But apart from that, its

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