Coping with Autism

[SweetSue92]

I am autistic. Although I cannot afford an official diagnosis, I show many of the signs, along with ADHD. I have been told by people and have read on many science and health pages that both can work together or one can be misdiagnosed as the other.

I became convinced of it last year after some recent social miscues of my own. But I struggle to cope and handle it sometimes, and now that someone dear to me passed on several months ago, the struggle is even harder. The depression is likely amplified from it.

Pointers?

I mean. There's a continuum along all of human behavior. It's possible to miss social cues and have some oddities (we ALL do) without being autistic.

As a teacher who taught many, many autistic children, I'm not a fan of so many people self-dx, for a lot of reasons. One being that people who are very lightly affected are making judgments about all cases of autism (not saying you do this, or would, it's just prevalent). Autism can be subtle or it can be so impacting a child/person is unable to function even in basic ways.

 

[toobfreak]

I would suspect Aspergers before Autism. You strike me as high functioning.

Asperger's Syndrome is a form of high-functioning autism merged as part of the entire autistic spectral disorder condition.

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

That I'm unsure of. I had depression before if I had to guess.

Are you being treated for depression? If not, can you tell if you're depression has increased now you're dealing with autism.