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Snake Lady
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From: Austin, Texas
Registered: Aug 2011

posted August 26, 2022 01:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Snake Lady     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I wanted to continue our talk here in Health and Healing as you suggested.

Yes, autism can definitely cause frustrations with communication. From what I understand, there is often a streak of genius in a certain area and extra difficulties in other areas.
I know that it's not the same as down syndrome at all.
There may also be heightened sensitivities to experiences that don't bother other people.
Maybe you can tell me more about it if you feel up to it.

I was thinking about your apologizing and explaining yourself, though, and I think that's more related to having experienced long-term narcissistic abuse probably for most of your life (mainly childhood, then carried over into adulthood). This is based on what you told me about your past, of course.
Yours is a response that comes from CPTSD, which is a type of PTSD that comes from long-term abuse rather than a sudden, intense moment. With CPTSD, you have emotional flashbacks rather than flashbacks to specific events. Meaning you'll just suddenly feel sad, depressed, scared, guilty, etc. instead of flashing back to a specific event (although this could be included). Also, you'll tend to feel as though everyone is a minefield you have to step around because their reactions affect you so intensely.

In any case, you don't ever have to apologize to me for being direct. It takes a lot of energy to have to include apologies and defenses. I do want to learn more about you, so at this point I take your explanations as informational, but I definitely don't require any apologies for your honest opinions.

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Lexxigramer
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From: Here since March 24th.2005/..& Have been Lexagramming going on 2/3 of a century to date! LEXIGRAMMING.♥is my Passion!
Registered: Feb 2012

posted August 27, 2022 11:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Lexxigramer:
Excellent post😎❤️
I will start a thread in hearth
and home and just copy cut and paste
this post there😎❤️
It will stay open here and others can
post on it too of they desire to do so😎
I am not a moderator of this forum so cannot move or close threads👽
Maybe I can have some moved to hearth and home by another moderator here⁉️
Well anyhow I shall reply here for
the moment a wee bit and then
later on the Hearth And Home one😎

What you describe sounds almost
right on😳
However
though
I DO get the flashbacks
but only to the
extremely detailed and
extremely specific things😳👽

Never really get any vague just sad
or other emotions without the clear
memory trigger that a new situation
causes the old similar situation
to jump forth as if it were
brand new emotional state👽😳😢
My memory is too ha we cases
contain every detail even smell
taste and more details and is
totally new not old👽
Oh yes definitely much abuse by
super narcissistic and control
freak people and also physically
abusive people😢🤬
The mental emotional
head game players
were in many ways the worse ones😢🤬
I do not know whether I told you
about my heroin addict ex and his
creepy things he did to smash my
self esteem to death😢🤬
Mother, stepmother and even other
kids and teachers, yes teachers,
treating me as if I were retarded
and a freak because of various
physical deformaties and restrictions
and having a beard and mustache at
9 years old mixed
with puberty brought on by medical intervention at sound age 8,
because they were making sure
I matured as a girl and not an
intersexual person👽😢🤬
My mother took DES when pregnant
with me so
as with many children exposed
to that prevent the miscarriage
drugs back then,
I was left with genital deformaties
and required surgery to fix me😢🤬
On the other hand I was indeed a girl
and over 30 pregnancies confirmed
my ability to get pregnant and
prove being female, just not a
perfect one, hence losing all but one pregnancy👽😢

So yeah more than one reason for my psychological issues and PTSD and such👽

Okay going to wait and post more at
the new thread and here perhaps too⁉️

My mind and body are a bit over
exhausted at the moment so talk with you later dear Snake Lady❤️

I do love your user name❤️😎
It sounds
mystical and gentle but powerful too😎❤️
Sweet dreams to you my dear friend💤💤💤[/B]



PS
I think I mentioned this before but
not sure👽
I was put in what was known as
the retarded class because of how
I looked and the uncontrollable
stuttering that hit me hard
after a brutal rape at age 9👽😢
Then a few years later a new
teacher came and they tested
me and discovered to their
utter shock
that not only was I not retarded
But was the person with
the highest IQ in the corner of
the state😎😎😎
High as Einstein
which was 180 😎
A which is far above
low genius of 135
and averages of 90 to that👽
But my self esteem was so crushed
by being abused and then stuck
with the retard label by the
school system;
Well I never got over it and
then married a man who made sure
that my self esteem stayed
crushed so that he could
control me👽😢🤬
Ok rant over again 👽
Good night and sweet dreams
dear Snake Lady💤❤️

Pardon any typos or weird autofills as usual👽

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Lexxigramer
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From: Here since March 24th.2005/..& Have been Lexagramming going on 2/3 of a century to date! LEXIGRAMMING.♥is my Passion!
Registered: Feb 2012

posted August 28, 2022 12:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I started a thread here for us
at Hearth And Home😎❤️ http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000659.html
I hope it was okay that I did a
copy cut and paste quotes for our
two posts above here😎❤️
If not I can fix it😎


Oh yeah about the constant
apologizing issue😢👽
My beloved husband of over
25 ,years to date❤️
Is still trying to break me of
that problem/habit👽❤️

He reminds me that I am not with
my ex or the many abusers and to stop
always apologizing when I have not done anything wrong👽
I apologize for some of the weirdest
things👽
Shall explain more later on the
Hearth And Home thread and here too
a copy of it😎
This is a good thread here others
can also reply on about autism
and its relationship to trauma and
Multiple types and number of
the times of such things that
had happened👽
There I go again a rambling 😅
Good night again dear Snake Lady❤️

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Lexxigramer
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Posts: 8563
From: Here since March 24th.2005/..& Have been Lexagramming going on 2/3 of a century to date! LEXIGRAMMING.♥is my Passion!
Registered: Feb 2012

posted August 28, 2022 11:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Grrrs many typos and strange autofills
in my posts again👽
I shall try and fix ASAP
as it makes some things sound off
or weird and not right and stupid
grrrrs
Far above genius IQ
but being both visually and
physically impaired my eyes cannot
see well and or I get moments of blindness
and or partial blindness depending on
which nerves are acting up from the
Demyinating Polyneuropathy
and my hands go numb,
and I have never been able to type
with more than one finger hunt
and peck due to my severely arthritic
hands and the motion of bringing
hands together as on a keyboard is
impossible for me because my neck,
arms,and back of my head go numb
from various cervical stenosis and
endplate Spondylitis and
disc degenerations and more nasty
syndromes👽
So yeah I make many many typos and
it can make me appear stupid because
unfortunately being a genius does not
fix my eyesight and neurological
diseases👽
Before the cancers hit I did my
best to fix all errors and eliminate
strange autofills as I typed and
checked immediately for such
aberations and fixed them on the fly,
but now am too often worn out from
just my first drafts and so I post
and do not always fix right off.
This is not an actual apology
but an explanation as to my reasons
for so having so many typos left
in my posts since the cancers hit.

Oh yeah Autism is definitely
not Down's Syndrome.😎

I suppose there are folks with
both but am not sure about that👽

As far as being a genius in one
area but not in other areas
a good example is this:
My husband describes me as
going from
Einstein to Elmo to Rain Main
and back to Einstein😎
The dyslexia gets involved and
then stuttering and then I just
try and become invisible and start
rocking and go blank until my
brains return and I stop flapping my arms like a rabid raven👽
Yeah I am an idiot in some areas
but a genius in others.
That can make me appear retarded
even though I am actually a
high genius of at least 180 IQ😳

I shall move these posts replies
to the new thread at
HEARTH And HOME ASAP 😎

Rough night trying to get myself
moving more and clear head up
and struggling with overpowering
nausea from the chemothetapy😢


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Lexxigramer
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Registered: Feb 2012

posted August 28, 2022 11:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I do want to reply to specific points
in your first post here on this thread😎

So please feel free to ask
ANY questions you have concerning
all of this😎

It may help others to heal and understand
folks who are thusly affected by
either being the
afflicted person or
by being the parent, partner. and or caregiver of the
afflicted to all cope better❤️

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