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sleepyhippo

494d

I am SO happy for my autism diagnosis, but honestly right now I wish I was neurotypical... Every time I'm in a group chat with friends it starts out small, and things are great and I can be myself and people laugh and I feel valued. But then eventually the group gets bigger and I feel worthless. I try to be myself, send things that I find humorous that previously made people laugh, try to send memes, whatever I can because it's my main way doing social things. But like today I sent things that previous patterns told me would be appreciated or make someone laugh and literally the entire chat went silent other than a 😐 emoji. I'm trying so hard, but practically every time a group chat gets people who I'm not familiar with, or I join an already large group with people I'm not close to, I make everything awkward. I'm so happy I have my diagnosis... but I guess today I just wish I could be NT. I wish I could be normal and have social skills and know what I'm doing right or wrong and understand why things get so awkward when I try to use patterns from the past to help decide what to say in the chat. I wish I knew what I was doing. I hate feeling like group chats would be more fun without me in them...

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    • MixedBag0fMess

      494d

      I get that, it happens to me often enough that I stopped trying all together to make neurotypical friends

    • MixedBag0fMess

      494d

      I get that, it happens to me often enough that I stopped trying all together to make neurotypical friends

    • Sydie_Bear

      494d

      Hey I know that this sounds crappy, but do they do this every time? Because often times what happens is NT friend groups welcome at first, then the second it is clear to them something Is off they ice you out. Are they maybe doing this on purpose in an effort to get you to stop trying? That is actually a really heartbreakingly common thing that happens

      • Sydie_Bear

        494d

        @Sydie_Bear And it has NOTHING to do with you, they just are ableist and don’t know it and would deny it if you ever tried to tell them that if that ends up seeming like that’s what they’re doing. It happens to most of us at least once but usually more often than that. But it is NOT our fault, they’re just insensitive and cruel.

    • ashyo

      494d

      Same here. For me though it's more of a I see someone I know by themselves I talk to them it goes great, or they're with friends doing something and I'm not supposed to speak but I do and they get mad for it. I wish I knew how to talk to people it'd make everything easier and then things wouldn't be awkward all the time. Sorry your going through this as well, but people do value you you just don't realize your probably looking in the wrong places for it. Best of luck I really hope you find your way.

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