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I'm autistic myself. I don't want a "cure" but I would like to have something that could help me reduce some of the harder aspects of life. Right now I'm on an

I'm autistic myself. I don't want a "cure" but I would like to have something that could help me reduce some of the harder aspects of life. Right now I'm on anti anxiety drugs, which whilst mostly affective, have sided effects that kind of suck. I'm lucky my wife and daughter love me very much, and I've always been someone who wanted to push myself a little further to get outside or do new things.. mostly because my daughter is also autistic and I want to be a good example of "small steps" ... But it was so hard with no medication that I eventually had a full blown autistic burnout, where therapy, time off work, and eventually medication helped me get back to work. Yes I want society to be more accommodating to us, but that doesn't stop the multitude of micro-aggressions I suffer daily just trying to navigate life, relationships, work, etc. If something could help remove those, I'd be forever grateful. I do not however want the way my mind works to change. Keep the positive, remove or dull the negative.

Scandiravian 2mo ago
I'm 100% with you I am very lucky to be in a country where my workplace is required to provide "reasonable accomodations" for me. There's still a long way to go to actually address a lot of the problems that myself and other autistic people have to deal with on a daily basis The important point for me is that I can see what that world would look like and it doesn't depend on "fixing" me
- intothemild 2mo ago
  Same. Norway here, and yeah whilst some work places will be happy to make larger accommodations, most will only do what they are forced too. Working as a SWE has helped me have more accommodating workplace conditions, it was really the last 6 years since work from home did I truly realise that was the only one change a company could give me that made the biggest difference. Whilst I can take meds to make things better for anxiety, I will never be able to take meds to understand subtext or subtle facial expressions. It can take me weeks to realise that someone meant the opposite. There's no meds that could fix that.... Or if there is. Wow! I'd take it.
  - Scandiravian 2mo ago
    It's really nice to hear from someone who's had some of the same experiences as me dealing with autism. People look at me weird when I say that I have never had it as good as I did during COVID lockdowns, but it was amazing that my entire world was my apartment and I didn't have to deal with anything besides what was within those four walls I agree with your distinction/example about meds. If there was something that could improve the things I struggle with such as not being able to recognise faces, interpret facial expressions, etc then I'd be very happy to take it Unfortunately I think these things are intrinsically interconnected with the parts of being autistic I love Anyway - thanks so much for sharing your perspective and experience. I really appreciated hearing about it

Scandiravian 2mo ago

I'm 100% with you I am very lucky to be in a country where my workplace is required to provide "reasonable accomodations" for me. There's still a long way to go to actually address a lot of the problems that myself and other autistic people have to deal with on a daily basis The important point for me is that I can see what that world would look like and it doesn't depend on "fixing" me

intothemild 2mo ago
Same. Norway here, and yeah whilst some work places will be happy to make larger accommodations, most will only do what they are forced too. Working as a SWE has helped me have more accommodating workplace conditions, it was really the last 6 years since work from home did I truly realise that was the only one change a company could give me that made the biggest difference. Whilst I can take meds to make things better for anxiety, I will never be able to take meds to understand subtext or subtle facial expressions. It can take me weeks to realise that someone meant the opposite. There's no meds that could fix that.... Or if there is. Wow! I'd take it.
- Scandiravian 2mo ago
  It's really nice to hear from someone who's had some of the same experiences as me dealing with autism. People look at me weird when I say that I have never had it as good as I did during COVID lockdowns, but it was amazing that my entire world was my apartment and I didn't have to deal with anything besides what was within those four walls I agree with your distinction/example about meds. If there was something that could improve the things I struggle with such as not being able to recognise faces, interpret facial expressions, etc then I'd be very happy to take it Unfortunately I think these things are intrinsically interconnected with the parts of being autistic I love Anyway - thanks so much for sharing your perspective and experience. I really appreciated hearing about it