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Originally Posted by Pinecone
Changed your experience from what to what?
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Rather than figuring out each individual social difference and rule separately, I can go through a large list of them checking whether they apply. I'm no longer trying to reinvent everything. I could probably have done this pre-diagnosis, but would have been less confident in it.
As a secondary thing, there is a huge difference between "I believe I am autistic" and "I have a clinical diagnosis of autism" in communication. The world is full of people on the internet who clame to be autistic so they can be jerks to people. A formal diagnosis makes peplle more inclined to accept the explanation. (This is a dangerous amount of power to give to someone who is capable of carefully consciously planning how to use social norms and constructs...)
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I finally stood my little island. It was a transformation that met resistance from others and eventually an acceptance. I too came to accept their differences without so much internal animosity towards them.
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This makes some sense. It's easier to accept that other people really *can't* help being shallow and irrational.
