Having an Autistic Spectrum Disorder can be Hard!

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Having an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (of which Asperger's Syndrome is one type) is sometimes DIFFICULT. Especially when I have SENSORY OVERLOADS and when I am in a SENSORY OVERLOAD, sometimes I may NOT be able to EXPRESS what is going on in my BRAIN and this makes me FRUSTRATED. Because I want to TELL but I CAN'T find the WORDS to EXPRESS myself. I sometimes get ANXIOUS because I never know when a SENSORY OVERLOAD is going to HAPPEN, and hence being ANXIOUS makes me more SUSCEPTIBLE to having a SENSORY OVERLOAD. And also having SENSORY OVERLOADS, makes me even more ANXIOUS at the time. Because I have SENSORY OVERLOADS or am highly ANXIOUS, I don't TAKE EVERY THING IN that is happening around me

 

People who don't UNDERSTAND AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS THINK that I am being DELIBERATELY AWKWARD and RUDE. But that is NOT the case at all. Sometimes they tell me to HURRY UP and TALK, and this makes me UPSET because people don't UNDERSTAND me. This sometimes makes me DEPRESSED and ANXIOUS, and I sometimes may want to HURT myself or say I want to DIE at that time. But then I FORGET sometimes after a while and get all HAPPY again. People need to learn to be tolerant and understanding of people with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Also another part I don't like about having an AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER is when I am really ANXIOUS I develop FACIAL TICS and that makes me SELF CONSCIOUS about myself.

But there are good things to having an Autistic Spectrum Disorder, like being really good and knowledgable about a special topic, which my special topic is researching and reading every thing on Autistic Spectrum Disorders.