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sjfbo | 7 years ago | on: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced

Well the only ressource I have is my experience. I endured severe anxiety from childhood, instead of reading "normal" books at my early age I was into astrophysics and it lead me also to ask to myself why I was here down earth, the purpose of life blabla. It was in France. My mother thought I was just way too much anxious about nothing and told me to breath properly while I was doing panic attacks every single nights... But in the end I had only myself to rely on and I ended up studying people's behaviours to fit a bit into the society. Now if you interact with me of course I won't be amazingly extrovert although my Asperger's traits aren't that obvious now if you spend a short amount of time with me. But to be honest, because of a huge misdiagnosis in France I've spent 12 years under the wrong treatments while I was simply an aspie. Now I'm still taking some medications, because you know, you can't get rid of all of those medications cold turkey, and my psychiatric treatments and journey turned into a punitive one. But there's worse.

Edit: During my Master's degree I spent one year studying remotely because of agoraphobia, stuck in my student room. Social anxiety is something I'm kind of used to deal with now... But it didn't blocked me to travel and work abroad. :)

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