Mildly related, I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 7, then my family basically hid it from me until I got myself diagnosed when I was 31. All those years of school problems, social issues, all the bullshit could have been massively helped if they didn't just want to hide everything.

Frustrating to think about.

I got the allergy test too, except it was two or three rows down my right arm. I was terrified of needles back then, and injecting me with trace amounts of common toxins to see which ones I reacted to was not fun.

These days I'm not bothered at all by needles. (Never had a lumbar puncture though.) I love fucking with phlebotomists (people who draw blood), especially if they're good at it. I love to act like it really hurt. I always tell them though, that I'm just playing, and if they're good at it. It's fun. Had a flu shot, doctor came in with a really long needle. I remember saying that looks like it'll hurt. He started with the "it'll be over in a minute." I don't scream or anything when they push it in, I don't want them to jump or anything. But it was like, "oh that's it?" Good times.

Not to be pedantic, but plenty of problems go away if you ignore them. Or at least stop being problems.

A ton of my allergies have gone away since that test (oh gosh that was so long ago!) I no longer get seasonal, and I can rub cats on my eyes now! Cat face rub is an incredible QoL upgrade.

I’d happily get tested again if it’s that much less horrible hahaha

Yeah I legitimately resisted going back because of that memory. But I was in such sad shape I finally said fuck it I'll give anything a shot to feel better. And I'm very glad I did.

If you are having serious inflammation issues of any sort. Not just congestion or runny nose. Run, don't walk. Even having previously been "diagnosed". Maybe I developed new allergies in the last 40 years. But I doubt it. I think they legitimately missed some of my worst ones. Giving some of them up after finding out was hard. But worth it for me.

Chronic joint pain hardly a thing any more. Chronic dermatological issues. Largely a solved thing. Congestion, it was never this minimal even as a kid plowing through everything with the energy of youth. Even managed to loose 50 pounds. Don't get me wrong. I'll break down and eat something with allergens in it from time to time. Even overdo it.

When I overdo it I will pay for it. Usually one of my ankles swells up and gets really sore and stiff. And I might have some other General body aches. But just detoxing my diet again and I feel so much better.

Honestly '50s and 60s you're going to get so many new aches and pains why add to it if you can avoid it. I definitely recommend going if you haven't been in 30 to 40 years. It's very different.

Jesus… Allergy testing was one of the worst experiences of my life. I had the back needle million poke thing like you described, and they also did a grid of shots into my arm. Absolutely awful. All I wanted to do was rub my back against the stucco wall of the doctor’s office like bear but they wouldn’t let me D:

They changed how they detect allergies? I…might have to go in and get tested for that, someday.

Yeah, "more autism cases" is a typical case of "more data availlable".

Fellow Xer. I was tested for other things. But yeah not autism. Because autism were the ones that were mongoloid as the term used to be. Thankfully well outdated now.

Still undiagnosed. But I've had plenty around me who were as adults. And honestly beyond knowing and having it documented. Something with the current ignorant fascists in power around here is probably a good idea to not be on another list. Just knowing why I do some of the things I do, and to recognize them. I don't know if there's a good reason to worry about official diagnosis.

But yeah. Dear god how things have changed. After 40 years I ended up seeing a rheumatologist again. When I was first tested for allergies in the late 70s. Diagnosis was often 25+ needles in the back. 5 columns and sometimes more than 5 rows just under the skin with common allergens. Then you come back and they would read the burning itching splotches like a map and make guesses at what you were allergic to and by how much. Yeah, guesses. And that's not being dramatic or hyperbolic. This time they drew some blood. So much easier and way more accurate. I don't know when they started this in particular. But damn wish I had known that at least sooner. Despite all our advancements even at the time that shit still seems almost medieval nowadays.

Lol, same here! Just about exactly!! It's almost like you took this comment out of my brain, except there were a select few of the other 'gifted and talented' kids who I got along with well...one who I'm still friends with as an adult, who got a late autism diagnosis, too! Ha! I always thought it was weird when I'd get praise for being friendly with the kids in the special education program, or for helping them with their work or whatever.* They were just kids like the rest of us??

(*which I now realize they definitely should've had an adult aide to help them paid by the district; not to foist the responsibility onto some poor kid who doesn't want their friends to be upset from struggling or failing, and depriving these kids of the help they deserved. They deserved so much better. But that's a whole 'nother rant.)

I was never diagnosed. My nephew was, and my mother told me he was just like I was when I was a kid.

Gen X. They didn't diagnose us with mental conditions, if you weren't [hard R], they just said "go out and play and don't come back until the streetlights came on." I'm not saying those conditions did not exist or weren't known... or weren't diagnosed elsewhere in the world. Just that where I was, they didn't care. They thought we'd outgrow it. And I think that's the point. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now that these diagnoses are coming out and people were saying "but they didn't have this when I was a kid." No, they just ignored the problem then. It didn't go away. Ignoring problems never makes them go away, but they're going to keep trying because the same people say "thoughts and prayers" whenever something goes wrong.

Not all detail

Seems especially weird for someone with a condition known for enhanced attention to detail.

With or without autism, you’d still be weird to keep using a platform that actively enriches the wealthiest neo nazi.

We do tend to gravitate towards each other 🤷

LMAO

When I was in k-12 almost all my friends were in special education. I mean, I was too but "gifted". I did not get along with the gifted kids.

I would get praise for demonstrating inclusion but they were just my friends? I liked them? Turns out I was autistic all along 🌠

Hey I do words good!

Ha that's exactly my problem too.

To meet it feels like I'm following a literal train that tries to go through one of the rail switches, but the switch keeps switching between multiple rails and in the brief connection each time the train lurches forward.

Yeah pretty much.

My great struggle is to come up with the next words to say at the same time I’m speaking. I need a script to function.

I'm glad I'm not the only one though.

I'm usually pretty happy when I can get a word or two in

I’m pretty damn good at understanding the ways in which computers work in very intricate ways, both in the physical hardware as well as understanding the software. I could program better than almost everyone in my pretty large software development class (this was months ago tho, I graduated from high school recently), with 500 or so lines of python for a line-by-line CSV reader complete with text commands, theming options, window decoration settings, an almost perfect UX for the use case, etc. (I did however have issues with allowing CSVs to interact with the program after compiling it with an install script file.)

What I am absolutely hopeless in however, is tying my shoes, understanding when I’m hungry/thirsty/tired/etc, and I struggle when speaking unless I spend hours of my day scripting theoretical scenarios, which also includes in text form. I was also terrible in English and mathematics in every year of school, not due to “not wanting to learn” but it was just since half the time they were excruciatingly slow and boring, and the other half of the time they were so difficult to understand since it was also going too fast and I was under excessive pressure.

Reminds me of when I got my last new Android phone (I went to the dark side 10 years ago). They asked if I wanted them to set it up for me. I told them I don't even want them to turn the bloody thing on. They said why. I said when I get it home, I'm wiping the data, partitions and all, and I'm installing custom firmware. They said that'll void the warranty. I said fuck the warranty. (Okay, no I didn't, but that was the intent of what I said.) I knew the phone could be made to run plain Jane stock Android (which you could not easily get in 2014). So I never ran the ad-infested shithole of a half-arsed Android fork it came with. By the time I booted it up, it just ran "Android." I think it came with KitKat which was... 2.3? 2.4? And that's what I ran, but the stock version based on AOSP. The "Google Play Edition." This was 2 years before the Pixel, mind you.

(Any old-school Android users wanna guess what phone I had?)

My mother said my father couldn't tie his shoes properly. He was literally a rocket scientist. As in, the company he worked for designed things that went to space on rockets (to be fair: not the propulsion systems themselves, i.e. not the rocket itself) and he was a scientist.

As for me, I'm pretty much a wizard with computers, but not so great at social interactions. I had to learn a new computer system last year (one that isn't publicly available, it's not really an OS per se, more of a specialised interconnected system with its own language) and I do stuff with it that people who have been using for years told me they never thought was possible. Because I RTFM and I try shit.

Talking to people... if we start out on the same page I'm good, but if the tone/mood shifts, I either falter and people lose interest in me or take offence to something I said, or I catch on and get out before that happens. I think now my coworkers realise that about me and don't really push me into awkward social situations for the most part, and just kinda let me work my magic. I'm just glad they found something I'm good at.