Autistic Hedgehog
RSSA question for you or any other neuroatypical who reads this site: have you ever become so overloaded that your motor and speech abilities totally disappeared or became uncontrollable? At first the doctors thought I was catatonic and had thought disorder because of this, but now apparently it's just my autism. But I've never heard of this happening to any other autists, except the ones who got locked in the asylums back in the fifties. Maybe I'm just a throwback to the middle of last century...
Well, I do occasionally get so overwhelmed that I can’t speak. It happened recently, too.
Last week I had to go for blood work. I loathe needles; they terrify me, due to some trauma I don’t even remember. It’s gotten worse as I got older, especially since I moved to Sweden, since for some reason people here have a damn hard time finding my veins. One of the last few times I went, they ended up with three people crowding me trying to find a vein. They had to stick me three or four times in several different spots, and one of them refused to listen when we said they couldn’t take blood from my wrist (I bruise badly) and caught the spot where my RSD is.
This time went very smoothly, but even so, by the time it was done I couldn’t speak for a little while. I knew what I wanted to say, but the words simply wouldn’t come out. All I managed for a while was a few little squeaks.
So these sorts of things can and do happen to us, I think. Anyone else experience these kinds of things?
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wibblywobblygenderywendery said: I experience it, yup. I keep myself out of situations like that a little too strictly, but, yup.- wibblywobblygenderywendery liked this
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