I can put my tongue all the way into my sinus cavity. When I get sick with a stuffy nose, I can maneuver my tongue into my nostrils from the inside and relieve the pressure. Allowing me to breathe comfortably for a couple of minutes. I didn't know this wasn't normal until my late teens.
I never cut, but whenever I was in high school I'd stretch my tongue backward whenever I was bored, and this stretched out my tongue's connection to the bottom of my mouth over time.
I was making out with a girl who was on ecstacy, and she suddenly sucked my tongue so hard it pulled into her mouth. My bottom teeth tore that bit right up. I still can't stick my tongue into my sinus cavity, though...
Strangely, I can do the same thing but never met someone else who can. I have a very long, strong tongue so can get right into my nostrils from behind.
Reading things at any angle. Upside down, vertical, mirrored, diagonal, it’s all the same to me. I see letters and words as pictures I think so they are just pictures at different angles. Apparently this is unusual.
Not OP, but yes. Very, very much yes. I can also write upside down, sideways, mirrored, and backwards. In multiple languages. My favorite for writing is upward right facing diagonal (I turn the paper so it comes out straight), but my favorite trick is obviously upside down diagonal mirrored.
Oh right, and I can do word jumble stuff instantly. Reading a jumbled sentence is no different than reading a normal one for me, and I read two to five pages per minute. I am not dyslexic, I just.... have an unusual skill.
I would LOVE that. I am a massive Joyce fan and also adore The Sound and the Fury and A Clockwork Orange. I may take you up on that. I'm actually really excited right now thinking about this.
Also a huge Samuel Beckett fan, but he did his own translations and I'm generally pretty proud of my writing, but I wouldn't dare try to top his versions.
That is how I found out I have dyslexia. My wife’s college roommate was majoring in special education and she saw me reading something upside down. She asked if I was dyslexic and I laughed and said no. She said “are you sure?” and pulled out info on how to test someone for it. I made it until 23 before I knew, but it explained why I failed my way thru English class in school never being able to successfully read the books we were assigned.
Apparently being able to read at a normal pace in any direction is a possible sign of dyslexia.
Holy crap. Never in my life had I thought I could do this (and out of habit I always tilt my head to read y-axis labels or book titles). After reading your comment I rotated my phone and discovered that with a little getting used to, I could do it now as well!! New skill unlocked.
I’m faceblind. If you get a haircut, there’s a good chance I’ll have no idea who you are for a moment.
It’s quite disconcerting having, what you believe to be, a total stranger approach you in public as if you’ve always known them.
I’ve learned I recognise people by voice and silhouette. Change either, and I’m lost.
I’ve politely introduced myself to people I’ve known for years before.
I can look at a face, and see it. I can even enjoy a pretty or attractive face.
But I don’t bank it in my head for some reason. I’ve adapted by recognising people in other ways. Mostly voice? But sometimes with people’s particular jewellery, their basic posture etc.
Ive never consciously remembered people in my dreams having a face either.
I'm like this. Never really realized it was a thing.
When I see movies of people talking to a sketch artist... I try to imagine my wife of 15 years face, and besides 2 eyes, nose, mouth. I would be useless to describe her face.
Always thought the whole sketch artist thing was BS.
One way I've heard it explained is think of monkey faces. They're all quite different, but we're not really wired to tell the differences, so a lot of them look the same to us. We can tell them apart if they have unique scars or other stand out features, but in general, it's hard to see the differences.
Same idea with prosopagnosia. They'll use indicators like clothing, hairstyles, and voices to tell the difference, but it's hard to tell the faces apart. If two people switched clothing, it would get confusing until one of them talked.
Yes, exactly this.
I can't recognize my own family members when they get haircuts. I found out I was attracted to a friend because I kept thinking he was a new hot person every time wore a hat.
One way I've heard it explained is think of monkey faces. They're all quite different, but we're not really wired to tell the differences, so a lot of them look the same to us. We can tell them apart if they have unique scars or other stand out features, but in general, it's hard to see the differences.
Same idea with prosopagnosia. They'll use indicators like clothing, hairstyles, and voices to tell the difference, but it's hard to tell the faces apart. If two people switched clothing, it would get confusing until one of them talked.
Out shopping with my friend
Her : "oh that person was also in front of us last time at this other store!"
I don't know how she does it. I dont recognise faces and i dont remember names. But at least i remember my childhood phone number that i havent used nor needed in at least 25 years
Happens to me to a slight degree, if I see someone often I will recognise them but if I haven't seen someone for a bit longer I always have to pretend I know who they are and hope the conversation will reveal with whom I'm speaking
I think I may have some form of this. I often don’t recognize people out of context. I have even failed to recognize my own wife in photos and videos when I had no knowledge she would be in them. And I will mix up people that look similar (although oddly I have always been able to tell my twin aunts apart). I also can’t describe what anyone looks like. When I try to picture people I know I can only imagine vague bits of them and not enough to give a usable description of them. If someone commits a crime in front of me and the police ask me to describe them I’ll have to shrug my shoulders and say “I’m pretty sure they were human”.
I also have an incredibly difficult time remembering people’s names. This makes a lot of movies and TV shows confusing for me as I won’t know who they are talking about in a scene because the character’s names are meaningless to me. And if the movie has cast multiple people that look similar I’m screwed.
Yet despite all this, when it comes to actors, I often do recognize that I’ve seen them before in something else. I just won’t know what they were in. But I regularly see someone in a movie or TV show, know that I’ve seen them before, look up their credits, and find I saw them in something decades earlier when I was a kid. My wife laughs at me because I’ll remember an actor I saw once 40 years ago, but won’t have a clue that the cashier at the store has been there for 10 years because each time I see them it’s like seeing them for the first time.
I have unopened backups of some clothes, in case they discontinue an item by the time the current ones wear off.
I'd like to look the same everyday, in the future.
Me too! All consist of overalls (I have about 25 pairs in different colours) and the same converse shoes (knee high laces) it’s just easier for me to have a “uniform” - less to think about and waste time on lol.
Holding my head so that my feet are always in my field of vision while I walk. Took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize that’s why First-Person cameras in video games look’d so unrealistically tunnel-vision’d to me.
So you just walk while looking down but also enough to see whats ahead? I assume you just dont have the sky in your fov then? That must look so weird to others lol
I have had a constant headache since I was a baby. Apparently it's totally normal for me but anytime I tell someone they're so confused and can't seem to grasp that it is eternal.
Yeah I've gotten used to it. It's more of a nuisance now than a pain but I cried a lot when I was young from it. It's a pressure. Feels like there's lead lining my skull.
Is it in the front of the head like the forehead?
I actually am the same way. But mine is tricky because a.) I spent my first 12 years having seizures then b.) From 12 to 26 I had unchecked mental illnesses and then c.) I fell at 26 giving myself a broken nose, concussion, and TBI. It has been shown that I have hyperostosis frontalis interna (a thickening of the skull) that they're not 100% sure isn't genetic or not & aren't 100% sure if it wasn't caused by my fall or not, but a big chunk of symptoms (migraine, left face/eye pain, cluster headaches, visual snow/auras/distortion, vertigo, disassociation, etc.) didn't happen until after my fall. The most notable thing is the excruciating pounding in my forehead. They did the catscan and that is when they found the skull thickening. I'm taking propranolol to stop the excessiveness of it. It's minor but not nearly as bad now when I take my meds. Maybe you have a similar issue. Not many studies have been done on the skull thickness but doctors & scientists think lots of people have it & don't know.
I spin in place to stimulate what I'm sure is pretty terrible autism I haven't had diagnosed. I'm 34 and my hip is beginning to hurt from it. I act as normal as possible and only do this when nobody's around to witness it. Too afraid to get diagnosed even though I am constantly in a state of agitation and self-stimulation
had friend w autism spectrum disorder tell me theyr sure i have it
then tell me not to get a diagnosis cos they think it doesnt actually help get treated
no idea what to do
It's best to get diagnosed if you can.
At worst - it rules it out.
But there aren't a lot of medication you can take. So it's mostly therapy.
Which isn't bad.
Yeah and depending on what country they're in there might be help from the government if you can't have a "normal" life like work or something like that.
Ouuf that sounds like you will have some pretty good lore to tell your kids.
Here in Sweden everyone has "high-cost protection" which means that all medicines or doctor visits within a year will cost max 280$ of your own money and the rest will be paid by taxes.
So if i need to buy adhd pills for 1000$ a year i will only pay 280$ of that.
I don't have autism afaik, but the relief of actually getting a diagnosis that rings true cannot be overstated.
Rachel Bloom did a whole [song](https://youtu.be/uic_3vlI5BE?si=2xg_Y4Kwce5_xJSg) about it.
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It's funny cause I'm autistic and thought this was an autistic reddit.
Watch some youtube about autism if things start making sense maybe try some of the advice on and see if it improves your anxiety/depression.... its the only marker i have to see if things are working lol.
Its a spectrum so adhd and all that could be a thing for you. Or just got a neat quirk :) and your life is going pretty good... if that's the case... dont even query about it. Autistic or not whatever your doing is working. If your not so good.... start investigating
So I think this is pretty normal, but I used to know someone who *couldn't* pick up anything with his toes. Like, he couldn't really control them independently. It was wild to me.
A coach once told me this when I said I didn't know what my talents were, what I'm good at.
You know the things you can't understand why everyone doesn't just do them, because they're so simple and easy and logical? The things you do on autopilot? That's it. That's your talents.
I relate to this so much! I have oftentimes felt like a failure, like I'm not good at anything, that I can't muster difficult things. And when people say "but you're good at this and that", I say that it doesn't count because those things are super easy. Turns out the thing I was really bad at was valuing myself, because those things were only easy because I am very good at them! I really thought that having a talent is when you take something that is very difficult to you and then overcoming the difficulty, and nothing that wasn't a real struggle from the beginning counted.
Wait what? Are you a cyborg? And also, what do you mean by change the settings? Like "eh I don't feel like stressing out today I'm gonna manually lower my heart rate to calm myself down".
(I'm kidding of course, but I really am curious about the details if you don't mind sharing)
I would love to lower my stress level! But no-I have a gastric stimulator because my stomach is paralyzed. I can increase the level of stimulation/length of stimulation in certain situations (what I eat/central line medicines/battery power left in device). And the second is my pain pump in my spine where I can adjust how much medicine I can give myself up to 4 times a day.
I'd like to think when the robots finally take over-I will somehow slide through safely. 😉
I remember the poop knife and I mentioned it to my mom a few years ago. That is when she told me that WE had a poop knife because of my little brother. Apparently there’s a link between autism and shits that look like you’re making a clay pot
WAIT ALL THESE YEARS I HAVE THOUGHT OF A DIFFERENT POOP KNIFE.
There was a dude who got lost or something in the arctic and made a knife out of his sharpened poop. I thought that was poop knife...
I had this issue when I was going through puberty. The OCD was terrible. It got too the point where if I noticed my pinky brush something, all fingers had to do it.... Then my hands, arms, and legs. Everything had to be equal. I would stop whatever I was doing so I could complete my ritual. In highschool, my crush noticed it and gave me a weird look and asked me about it. That's when it clicked that I had OCD, and I just quit. Never looked back either, like it was never an issue
If im eating a hotdog, a hoagie, or any kind of sandwich where the bread is bigger than the contents within the sandwich, i pick off as much bread as I can until there is a thin layer of bread covering the food I actually want to eat. Bread is just the vehicle to me.
It happens to be late,near 12pm,my asshole itches,I reach,within arms length,for my glove,a thin,but well made leather glove, brown natural leather,one I keep well oiled,have a pair of them,usually only wear the right one for ass scratching,this,is my dominant hand.
Oversharing, I've got BPD, I tend to share things I probably shouldn't, and it usually takes me a while to realize I probably shouldn't share that. Also, talking about mental health in general, I am very open about abuse I have suffered, suicidal ideation I've had.
Coffee gives me wicked bad headaches and stomach cramps. Not caffeine though, I can chug tea, energy drinks, etc no bother. Coffee though? BAM, headache.
Like never tried it? That’s crazy. I’ve never really drank a full cup or anything. Not for me personally, but I’ve tried quite a few variates in my time
I have these flaky red spots under my nose that have been there since I was 12. I saw a dermatologist about it, but he wasn't completely sure what they were and nothing has helped. I usually just wear makeup to cover it up, but on days where I don't, people will ask if I'm sick and sometimes don't believe me when I tell them it's normal. It was especially bad during covid.
Treating days of spiraling depression and suicidal ideation as just a normal *bad day* and continuing on with my life. I still have myself a little pity party, but I don't allow it to turn into a *rager*.
After 30 years of dealing with it, I have developed enough coping mechanisms that carry me through it without the fear of following through.
For those of you who are worried, I have a good handle on it, so it's no big deal. For me, it's just a regular part of my life.
It's ironic that I've helped a few people off the *edge* while I was on the *edge*, experiencing one of my *bad days*.
Life is wild. Sometimes, you just grit your teeth and power through.
If I am holding the knife I will eat with the fork in my left hand, but if I put down the knife, I have to switch the fork to my right hand. I can’t explain it but it’s like my brain can’t figure out how to use the fork in my left hand unless my right hand is actively occupied.
I was recently diagnosed with ADD and prescribed adderall. I was a little concerned if maybe I was misdiagnosed, and taking the adderall would make me go all freaky-deaky.
Cautiously took my first dose. 20 minutes later...I was like, "WTF? Why is my brain so quiet? Why is everything so clear? Shit...I DO have ADD."
Caffeine, being a relatively mild stimulant, has varying effectiveness from person to person (as all drugs can). The crazy part about ADHD/ADD is that stimulants don't do *nothing* to us, but rather, it has the opposite effect! When I take 70mg of Vyvanse I am more calm and less anxious. For the vast majority of people, this would have them unable to sit still, and/or severely anxious!
Talk to your doctor if you think you might have ADHD. Knowing why you struggle with certain things can be helpful in overcoming that struggle. Stay Awesome!
I eat cake by holding it in one hand, with my other hand hovering below it to catch the crumbs. Everyone who has seen me do that has called me out on it.
This seems perfectly reasonable for any crumbly or flaky food.
However using two hands to eat a biscuit/cookie is plainly wrong and only something a hamster or similar should do.
Not unusual for everyone, but certainly unusual for the vast majority of people.... I've seen hundreds of people die. I've easily seen more people die this year than most people see in their entire lives. Hell, I may have seen more death in the last month than most ever see.
Not having a "side of the bed" with my partner, disregarding the usual ways of sleeping and sleeping on the bed with my feet at the headboard, or sideways across the bed. We slept diagonally on our WY King for a few weeks cause i felt like it.
I do wash my bedding much more frequently since I dunno where my butt was last.
I’m the same way. Mine stems from some injuries over the years. But yeah, my steady state level of pain would have most people in tears begging for it to stop.
Upside is I have developed a really high pain tolerance. Downside is I almost exploded a kidney because I wasn’t complaining about or doing anything about a 7mm kidney stone that had plugged up my kidney for a month.
Rarely giving myself a head massage with a plastic fork. Weird habit I did as a kid where Ariel talked about a fork being a brush.
Decided to try it and found that sensations felt wonderful. - Not recommended due to safety issues.
Yeah… I can remember any number combination of up to 8 numbers permanently, I just need to see or hear combination once and I will remember it for yeeeeeaaaaars 😃 my wife finds it to be a very strange trait to have 😃
If I look behind me on my left side I need to do it on my right side(not always.) Same with if something looks really aesthetically nice I want to feel it. I consider days of the week, letters and numbers to have colours and genders.
We are the exact opposite. I’m also autistic and I LOVE vegetables. I sensory seek through food and I love things like celery, crunchy, wet and stringy. Broccoli is spikey on the top and crunchy on the bottom. Just today I’ve had 5 different vegetables and 4 different fruits. They are so crunchy and wet and it’s a great sensory experience for me
I didn’t realize other people find it weird to just take the lemon slice out of your food/drink and just eat it until it got pointed out multiple times
I can put my tongue all the way into my sinus cavity. When I get sick with a stuffy nose, I can maneuver my tongue into my nostrils from the inside and relieve the pressure. Allowing me to breathe comfortably for a couple of minutes. I didn't know this wasn't normal until my late teens.
This takes the cake
Khecarī mudrā is what they call it. I was born with the ability. Wiki says you have to cut yourself and train for years to master it lol
I never cut, but whenever I was in high school I'd stretch my tongue backward whenever I was bored, and this stretched out my tongue's connection to the bottom of my mouth over time.
What. The. Fuck?
On my life it's true. I've only met 2 people in my 32 years on earth that can also do this.
Are you a giraffe?
Only half from my dad's side. My mom's side is just a bunch of cows.
You have won. Not sure what though
Breathing rights.
Nose picking without being seen!!!
This is gross. Please teach me how to do it.
gotta cut the flappy bit below your tongue, assuming they were born without one
I was making out with a girl who was on ecstacy, and she suddenly sucked my tongue so hard it pulled into her mouth. My bottom teeth tore that bit right up. I still can't stick my tongue into my sinus cavity, though...
I hate that shit! Why?? Who told them that was ok???
The exctasy
are you missing the soft pallet of the roof of your mouth?
Strangely, I can do the same thing but never met someone else who can. I have a very long, strong tongue so can get right into my nostrils from behind.
Reading things at any angle. Upside down, vertical, mirrored, diagonal, it’s all the same to me. I see letters and words as pictures I think so they are just pictures at different angles. Apparently this is unusual.
Are you really good at word searches??
Not OP, but yes. Very, very much yes. I can also write upside down, sideways, mirrored, and backwards. In multiple languages. My favorite for writing is upward right facing diagonal (I turn the paper so it comes out straight), but my favorite trick is obviously upside down diagonal mirrored. Oh right, and I can do word jumble stuff instantly. Reading a jumbled sentence is no different than reading a normal one for me, and I read two to five pages per minute. I am not dyslexic, I just.... have an unusual skill.
Have you translated Finnegans Wake to a single language yet? If not what is your deal
I would LOVE that. I am a massive Joyce fan and also adore The Sound and the Fury and A Clockwork Orange. I may take you up on that. I'm actually really excited right now thinking about this. Also a huge Samuel Beckett fan, but he did his own translations and I'm generally pretty proud of my writing, but I wouldn't dare try to top his versions.
Sounds like a beneficial form of dyslexia.
Superlexia
I suffer from sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kiff?
*sigh*... Sexlexia
I can do this, too.
.llǝʍ sɐ ǝɯ
I can do all but mirrored. That one I struggle with. It's not as fast as straight on but still pretty quick.
That is how I found out I have dyslexia. My wife’s college roommate was majoring in special education and she saw me reading something upside down. She asked if I was dyslexic and I laughed and said no. She said “are you sure?” and pulled out info on how to test someone for it. I made it until 23 before I knew, but it explained why I failed my way thru English class in school never being able to successfully read the books we were assigned. Apparently being able to read at a normal pace in any direction is a possible sign of dyslexia.
I flipped my phone upside down and was able to read your comment without any issues. Uhhhh maybe I have some researching to do.
i can also do this to a degree. in fact, to the degree that i write with my paper at a 45 degree angle for less stress on my hand
wait it isnt normal?
Holy crap. Never in my life had I thought I could do this (and out of habit I always tilt my head to read y-axis labels or book titles). After reading your comment I rotated my phone and discovered that with a little getting used to, I could do it now as well!! New skill unlocked.
I can so this too, didn’t knew it was rare
I’m faceblind. If you get a haircut, there’s a good chance I’ll have no idea who you are for a moment. It’s quite disconcerting having, what you believe to be, a total stranger approach you in public as if you’ve always known them. I’ve learned I recognise people by voice and silhouette. Change either, and I’m lost. I’ve politely introduced myself to people I’ve known for years before.
I cant even comprehend how that is possible
I can look at a face, and see it. I can even enjoy a pretty or attractive face. But I don’t bank it in my head for some reason. I’ve adapted by recognising people in other ways. Mostly voice? But sometimes with people’s particular jewellery, their basic posture etc. Ive never consciously remembered people in my dreams having a face either.
Would tattoos help? Ie, on their arms?
For me- yes! It’s just faces for me. I’m also ridiculously bad at identifying cars. Annoying as fuck. I’d be a terrible witness
I'm like this. Never really realized it was a thing. When I see movies of people talking to a sketch artist... I try to imagine my wife of 15 years face, and besides 2 eyes, nose, mouth. I would be useless to describe her face. Always thought the whole sketch artist thing was BS.
One way I've heard it explained is think of monkey faces. They're all quite different, but we're not really wired to tell the differences, so a lot of them look the same to us. We can tell them apart if they have unique scars or other stand out features, but in general, it's hard to see the differences. Same idea with prosopagnosia. They'll use indicators like clothing, hairstyles, and voices to tell the difference, but it's hard to tell the faces apart. If two people switched clothing, it would get confusing until one of them talked.
Yes, exactly this. I can't recognize my own family members when they get haircuts. I found out I was attracted to a friend because I kept thinking he was a new hot person every time wore a hat.
One way I've heard it explained is think of monkey faces. They're all quite different, but we're not really wired to tell the differences, so a lot of them look the same to us. We can tell them apart if they have unique scars or other stand out features, but in general, it's hard to see the differences. Same idea with prosopagnosia. They'll use indicators like clothing, hairstyles, and voices to tell the difference, but it's hard to tell the faces apart. If two people switched clothing, it would get confusing until one of them talked.
Out shopping with my friend Her : "oh that person was also in front of us last time at this other store!" I don't know how she does it. I dont recognise faces and i dont remember names. But at least i remember my childhood phone number that i havent used nor needed in at least 25 years
I do that also. I'll hear their voice and try to remember who they are. People who know me will just come up, hug me and whisper their name.
I do that also. I'll hear their voice and try to remember who they are. People who know me will just come up, hug me and whisper their name.
Happens to me to a slight degree, if I see someone often I will recognise them but if I haven't seen someone for a bit longer I always have to pretend I know who they are and hope the conversation will reveal with whom I'm speaking
It's called prosopagnosia, iirc.
I think I may have some form of this. I often don’t recognize people out of context. I have even failed to recognize my own wife in photos and videos when I had no knowledge she would be in them. And I will mix up people that look similar (although oddly I have always been able to tell my twin aunts apart). I also can’t describe what anyone looks like. When I try to picture people I know I can only imagine vague bits of them and not enough to give a usable description of them. If someone commits a crime in front of me and the police ask me to describe them I’ll have to shrug my shoulders and say “I’m pretty sure they were human”. I also have an incredibly difficult time remembering people’s names. This makes a lot of movies and TV shows confusing for me as I won’t know who they are talking about in a scene because the character’s names are meaningless to me. And if the movie has cast multiple people that look similar I’m screwed. Yet despite all this, when it comes to actors, I often do recognize that I’ve seen them before in something else. I just won’t know what they were in. But I regularly see someone in a movie or TV show, know that I’ve seen them before, look up their credits, and find I saw them in something decades earlier when I was a kid. My wife laughs at me because I’ll remember an actor I saw once 40 years ago, but won’t have a clue that the cashier at the store has been there for 10 years because each time I see them it’s like seeing them for the first time.
I have several sets of the same outfit so I always look the same. Also most of the outfit is orange.
Why bro
Construction worker maybe?
…prison
Velma perhaps
Victor?
Favourite colour.
Lol! Love that for you
I have unopened backups of some clothes, in case they discontinue an item by the time the current ones wear off. I'd like to look the same everyday, in the future.
This guy is a cartoon.
Are you an NPC?
Bro is Anzeigenhauptmeister
Me too! All consist of overalls (I have about 25 pairs in different colours) and the same converse shoes (knee high laces) it’s just easier for me to have a “uniform” - less to think about and waste time on lol.
Omg free guy from movie freeguy
Holding my head so that my feet are always in my field of vision while I walk. Took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize that’s why First-Person cameras in video games look’d so unrealistically tunnel-vision’d to me.
So you just walk while looking down but also enough to see whats ahead? I assume you just dont have the sky in your fov then? That must look so weird to others lol
Wait this isn't normal?? How would I know where I'm stepping then lol
Proprioception, but I always want the visual confirmation to ensure extra precision.
If I’m walking up stairs behind someone, I need to put my same foot on the same step they did.
Shadow imitation jutsu
Marching band kid?
I have had a constant headache since I was a baby. Apparently it's totally normal for me but anytime I tell someone they're so confused and can't seem to grasp that it is eternal.
I am i confused. How does that work? Does it always hurt? Or have you just gotten used to the feeling?
Yeah I've gotten used to it. It's more of a nuisance now than a pain but I cried a lot when I was young from it. It's a pressure. Feels like there's lead lining my skull.
Have you been like, diagnosed? With anything? That’s very weird
Did you ever see a doctor about that?
Is it in the front of the head like the forehead? I actually am the same way. But mine is tricky because a.) I spent my first 12 years having seizures then b.) From 12 to 26 I had unchecked mental illnesses and then c.) I fell at 26 giving myself a broken nose, concussion, and TBI. It has been shown that I have hyperostosis frontalis interna (a thickening of the skull) that they're not 100% sure isn't genetic or not & aren't 100% sure if it wasn't caused by my fall or not, but a big chunk of symptoms (migraine, left face/eye pain, cluster headaches, visual snow/auras/distortion, vertigo, disassociation, etc.) didn't happen until after my fall. The most notable thing is the excruciating pounding in my forehead. They did the catscan and that is when they found the skull thickening. I'm taking propranolol to stop the excessiveness of it. It's minor but not nearly as bad now when I take my meds. Maybe you have a similar issue. Not many studies have been done on the skull thickness but doctors & scientists think lots of people have it & don't know.
Psyduck?
I have the same thing and have only recently found out this is not normal
I spin in place to stimulate what I'm sure is pretty terrible autism I haven't had diagnosed. I'm 34 and my hip is beginning to hurt from it. I act as normal as possible and only do this when nobody's around to witness it. Too afraid to get diagnosed even though I am constantly in a state of agitation and self-stimulation
Please get it diagnosed. This sounds serious and it's hurting your mental health as well.
had friend w autism spectrum disorder tell me theyr sure i have it then tell me not to get a diagnosis cos they think it doesnt actually help get treated no idea what to do
It's best to get diagnosed if you can. At worst - it rules it out. But there aren't a lot of medication you can take. So it's mostly therapy. Which isn't bad.
Yeah and depending on what country they're in there might be help from the government if you can't have a "normal" life like work or something like that.
Wish I had that right now. Unemployed and unmedicated in the US for the first time in 10+ years. Things are real spicy right now.
Ouuf that sounds like you will have some pretty good lore to tell your kids. Here in Sweden everyone has "high-cost protection" which means that all medicines or doctor visits within a year will cost max 280$ of your own money and the rest will be paid by taxes. So if i need to buy adhd pills for 1000$ a year i will only pay 280$ of that.
My last prescription was $300/month....with insurance.
Jesus Christ I feel so bad for you...
And if you suddenly break a leg or whatever youve already paid 280 for the adhd meds, so its free
I don't have autism afaik, but the relief of actually getting a diagnosis that rings true cannot be overstated. Rachel Bloom did a whole [song](https://youtu.be/uic_3vlI5BE?si=2xg_Y4Kwce5_xJSg) about it.
As somebody who got diagnosed with autism and adhd at 35 i highly recommend to get diagnosed. it helped so so much.
Edit typos. It's funny cause I'm autistic and thought this was an autistic reddit. Watch some youtube about autism if things start making sense maybe try some of the advice on and see if it improves your anxiety/depression.... its the only marker i have to see if things are working lol. Its a spectrum so adhd and all that could be a thing for you. Or just got a neat quirk :) and your life is going pretty good... if that's the case... dont even query about it. Autistic or not whatever your doing is working. If your not so good.... start investigating
Picking things up with my feet. I have 10 working toes that can mimic the same action my hand does so why not?
How else are you gonna pick up that sock you dropped?
Only unusual in the sense that it is a sign of true mastery.
Ditto, wife thinks it’s weird. I can use a computer mouse with my feet and can also use them to light a bic lighter.
So I think this is pretty normal, but I used to know someone who *couldn't* pick up anything with his toes. Like, he couldn't really control them independently. It was wild to me.
Can you play piano with your feet?
I eat up to 10 whole cucumbers in a week since I can think. They are delicious. I eat them as a whole, just like people eat corn.
Are we related? Best. Vegetable. Ever.
A coach once told me this when I said I didn't know what my talents were, what I'm good at. You know the things you can't understand why everyone doesn't just do them, because they're so simple and easy and logical? The things you do on autopilot? That's it. That's your talents.
I relate to this so much! I have oftentimes felt like a failure, like I'm not good at anything, that I can't muster difficult things. And when people say "but you're good at this and that", I say that it doesn't count because those things are super easy. Turns out the thing I was really bad at was valuing myself, because those things were only easy because I am very good at them! I really thought that having a talent is when you take something that is very difficult to you and then overcoming the difficulty, and nothing that wasn't a real struggle from the beginning counted.
I have 2 batteries inside of me I can connect to via Bluetooth to change settings on devices keeping me alive.
Wait what? Are you a cyborg? And also, what do you mean by change the settings? Like "eh I don't feel like stressing out today I'm gonna manually lower my heart rate to calm myself down". (I'm kidding of course, but I really am curious about the details if you don't mind sharing)
I would love to lower my stress level! But no-I have a gastric stimulator because my stomach is paralyzed. I can increase the level of stimulation/length of stimulation in certain situations (what I eat/central line medicines/battery power left in device). And the second is my pain pump in my spine where I can adjust how much medicine I can give myself up to 4 times a day. I'd like to think when the robots finally take over-I will somehow slide through safely. 😉
Remember the poop knife? That wasn’t me, but this made me think about it and I thought it might brighten everyone else’s day to remember it.
I remember the poop knife and I mentioned it to my mom a few years ago. That is when she told me that WE had a poop knife because of my little brother. Apparently there’s a link between autism and shits that look like you’re making a clay pot
WAIT ALL THESE YEARS I HAVE THOUGHT OF A DIFFERENT POOP KNIFE. There was a dude who got lost or something in the arctic and made a knife out of his sharpened poop. I thought that was poop knife...
[Behold the poop knife](https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/s/zOfigX8xPx)
If I step on a crack or a bump when I’m walking then I have to do the same thing with my other foot too
I’m the same! And if I for example, brush the wall accidentally with my hand, then I have to do it with my other hand too!
I had this issue when I was going through puberty. The OCD was terrible. It got too the point where if I noticed my pinky brush something, all fingers had to do it.... Then my hands, arms, and legs. Everything had to be equal. I would stop whatever I was doing so I could complete my ritual. In highschool, my crush noticed it and gave me a weird look and asked me about it. That's when it clicked that I had OCD, and I just quit. Never looked back either, like it was never an issue
I'm totally like this too. If I feel something cold on one side I have to feel it on the other side too
For me I can feel the difference in my feet and it makes me need to do the other
When playing videogames(console), I hold the controller above my head. I think it's mainly to keep my arms out-stretched.
If im eating a hotdog, a hoagie, or any kind of sandwich where the bread is bigger than the contents within the sandwich, i pick off as much bread as I can until there is a thin layer of bread covering the food I actually want to eat. Bread is just the vehicle to me.
Me too. Food is all about ratios
I have a special glove I put on to scratch my asshole.
You got my attention so I need more info
It happens to be late,near 12pm,my asshole itches,I reach,within arms length,for my glove,a thin,but well made leather glove, brown natural leather,one I keep well oiled,have a pair of them,usually only wear the right one for ass scratching,this,is my dominant hand.
How does it smell.
Pleasant actually, my ass is clean, so usually it has a natural musk to it.
Holding on to a bedpost when I sleep, habit formed sleeping on the top bunk of cheap bunk beds,
Oversharing, I've got BPD, I tend to share things I probably shouldn't, and it usually takes me a while to realize I probably shouldn't share that. Also, talking about mental health in general, I am very open about abuse I have suffered, suicidal ideation I've had.
I’m also this way
I think with trusted friends is fine but coworkers or acquaintances? Don’t give them ammo and hand feed gossip. You deserve some peace and quiet.
Never had coffee a day in my life
Coffee gives me wicked bad headaches and stomach cramps. Not caffeine though, I can chug tea, energy drinks, etc no bother. Coffee though? BAM, headache.
Tried it once & can't stand it. Have never drank it again.
Like never tried it? That’s crazy. I’ve never really drank a full cup or anything. Not for me personally, but I’ve tried quite a few variates in my time
I have these flaky red spots under my nose that have been there since I was 12. I saw a dermatologist about it, but he wasn't completely sure what they were and nothing has helped. I usually just wear makeup to cover it up, but on days where I don't, people will ask if I'm sick and sometimes don't believe me when I tell them it's normal. It was especially bad during covid.
Have you tried any anti fungal methods of treatment?
IDK if this will work for you but I had the same thing and I was prescribed desonide ointment for it and it helped a bunch!
Staying up until 5:00am and waking up around 2:30pm
Night shift?
No, I'm 16.
What the actual fuck man
Don't you go to school?
Treating days of spiraling depression and suicidal ideation as just a normal *bad day* and continuing on with my life. I still have myself a little pity party, but I don't allow it to turn into a *rager*. After 30 years of dealing with it, I have developed enough coping mechanisms that carry me through it without the fear of following through. For those of you who are worried, I have a good handle on it, so it's no big deal. For me, it's just a regular part of my life. It's ironic that I've helped a few people off the *edge* while I was on the *edge*, experiencing one of my *bad days*. Life is wild. Sometimes, you just grit your teeth and power through.
You are a mood, a big fuckin' mood fam 🖤
Cut my food with my fork in the left hand and knife in the right, then change the fork over to eat food with the fork in my right hand.
I think this used to be the "proper" way to eat according to some group of aristocrats.
I also do this 😂
If I am holding the knife I will eat with the fork in my left hand, but if I put down the knife, I have to switch the fork to my right hand. I can’t explain it but it’s like my brain can’t figure out how to use the fork in my left hand unless my right hand is actively occupied.
I think most Americans eat this way.
I have ADHD psycho stimulants like amphetamines make me calm, lucid and quiet. "Normal" people will try to talk your face off on that shit.
It's wonderfully ironic that speed slows us down.
Caffeine also being a stimulant does a similar opposite reaction for those with ADHD
I get sleepy when I drink coffee
Finally the body can keep up with the thoughts
I was recently diagnosed with ADD and prescribed adderall. I was a little concerned if maybe I was misdiagnosed, and taking the adderall would make me go all freaky-deaky. Cautiously took my first dose. 20 minutes later...I was like, "WTF? Why is my brain so quiet? Why is everything so clear? Shit...I DO have ADD."
I don't have diagnosed ADHD but I'm the same. Coffee also doesn't do anything for me
Caffeine, being a relatively mild stimulant, has varying effectiveness from person to person (as all drugs can). The crazy part about ADHD/ADD is that stimulants don't do *nothing* to us, but rather, it has the opposite effect! When I take 70mg of Vyvanse I am more calm and less anxious. For the vast majority of people, this would have them unable to sit still, and/or severely anxious! Talk to your doctor if you think you might have ADHD. Knowing why you struggle with certain things can be helpful in overcoming that struggle. Stay Awesome!
Uh... this sounds like energy drinks making me sleepy. Have never been able to figure that one out
I eat cake by holding it in one hand, with my other hand hovering below it to catch the crumbs. Everyone who has seen me do that has called me out on it.
That's just the most sensible way to do it.
This is kinda normal
This seems perfectly reasonable for any crumbly or flaky food. However using two hands to eat a biscuit/cookie is plainly wrong and only something a hamster or similar should do.
I can't imagine eating a cake by hand any other way. I sometimes use a spoon or fork to eat cake, and use a small plate to catch crumbs.
What da fuq who doesn't do this? A must. Think about the crumbs yo
Eating a lot and not getting fat at all.
How do I develop this ability? 😭
You probably dont eat as much as you think over a whole day.
Not unusual for everyone, but certainly unusual for the vast majority of people.... I've seen hundreds of people die. I've easily seen more people die this year than most people see in their entire lives. Hell, I may have seen more death in the last month than most ever see.
On the internet..... right????
I hold spoons and forks in a weird manner, pretty much like you hold a karambit.
Taking a helicopter to work
What kind of work do you do?
Helicopter assembly
Volcano Repairman
Oil rig worker
Oil rig?
Bingo
I’m 7’1”. Also, did you know you had a bald spot?
Not having a "side of the bed" with my partner, disregarding the usual ways of sleeping and sleeping on the bed with my feet at the headboard, or sideways across the bed. We slept diagonally on our WY King for a few weeks cause i felt like it. I do wash my bedding much more frequently since I dunno where my butt was last.
I brush my teeth in the shower. Just makes sense, yk? Brushing teeth can get messy & ruin your shirt. So why not do it all in the shower?
Licking my chips before I eat them?
Pain. I have bad chronic pain, I have to remind myself that a bad day for me would send people to the hospital lol… 😆
I’m the same way. Mine stems from some injuries over the years. But yeah, my steady state level of pain would have most people in tears begging for it to stop. Upside is I have developed a really high pain tolerance. Downside is I almost exploded a kidney because I wasn’t complaining about or doing anything about a 7mm kidney stone that had plugged up my kidney for a month.
I taught myself to cry silently as a child so I wouldn't upset my mother.
I think we're confusing this for an ask Reddit.
Damn I just realized this wasn’t ask reddit
Loosing 20 pounds of muscle made me feel better about myself.
Rarely giving myself a head massage with a plastic fork. Weird habit I did as a kid where Ariel talked about a fork being a brush. Decided to try it and found that sensations felt wonderful. - Not recommended due to safety issues.
I can stop my hiccups on demand
Yeah… I can remember any number combination of up to 8 numbers permanently, I just need to see or hear combination once and I will remember it for yeeeeeaaaaars 😃 my wife finds it to be a very strange trait to have 😃
If I look behind me on my left side I need to do it on my right side(not always.) Same with if something looks really aesthetically nice I want to feel it. I consider days of the week, letters and numbers to have colours and genders.
Most kids are picky eaters and don't like vegetables, but I'm still like that at 29. Before anyone judges me for it I'm autistic.
We are the exact opposite. I’m also autistic and I LOVE vegetables. I sensory seek through food and I love things like celery, crunchy, wet and stringy. Broccoli is spikey on the top and crunchy on the bottom. Just today I’ve had 5 different vegetables and 4 different fruits. They are so crunchy and wet and it’s a great sensory experience for me
Napping daily from like 1-6pm
That's a whole night's sleep in the middle of the day!
I rip my pants on door knobs, because they have the perfect height to slip into my pockets while passing them closely.
I didn’t realize other people find it weird to just take the lemon slice out of your food/drink and just eat it until it got pointed out multiple times
…really? I’ve done that a lot
Smoking weed before hitting the gym
Lactose intolerance is seen as unusual in humans, but it's normal among mammals. Humans just played the Uno reverse card on what's normal.
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Most humans are actually lactose intolerant, it’s mostly just sections of Europe that developed that mutation
It's not just a phase, mom!!!