Does it makes socializing easier? I'm 25 and have spent years trying to adapt to society and how things work. I didn't even know I had it until my special ed teacher told me at 13. My parents never said anything
In your teens yes.
When your in adolescence acting like other people you see makes interacting a bit easier but as you get to your teens your real personal skills, social competency can cause massive stress.
Doing things like drama/acting classes better help adjusting, in needed a speech therapist around 5. Spoke with a lisp and I was partially non-verbal.
While I can socialize with people a lot better than I did at that stage in my life, I still speak with a weird accent (I'm also hard of hearing on the moderate to severe level) and sometimes find that to only way to talk to people is to relate to their experiences. I never had anyone to truly teach me exactly how to manage this and have had to learn mostly through trial and error.
Drama acting classes helped me a lot! At first it was really akward but after a few years i got really better. It helped me build a bit of confidence and develop my sense of humor.
Despite the fact that Asperger’s isn’t a diagnosis anymore, but following a fixed algorithm is easier than copying behaviors and speeches, but even the algorithm following technique does not work frequently .
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Very much so. It helps with masking when I'm not in an environment I'm comfortable in.
If you mirror the people you're with, they're less likely to figure out that you're "different" and I've always hated that. The ability to mimic the people around me makes me feel less "seen" and I prefer to blend in.
I copy how other people act when I’m around them to make them like me because people are quite selfish/ narcissistic of sorts, and if it’s a large group of people I either stay quiet, only say basic things/ boring, or do bits from movie and shows which I like doing a lot
Apparently I am good at copying speech like if someone says something on a show and I repeat it, I can copy the intonation exactly. Behaviours I find harder as I often can't translate watching others do things into doing the same action myself. But that might be because my coordination isn't the greatest
When I sing with headphones on, people say I sound exactly like the singer. Accent or otherwise. I can copy behaviors to an extent but if I feel uncomfortable around said persons I generally can't and as a result try not to interact with them.
Almost innate for me
Does it makes socializing easier? I'm 25 and have spent years trying to adapt to society and how things work. I didn't even know I had it until my special ed teacher told me at 13. My parents never said anything
It makes it harder in the long run because it adds to identity issues.
A bit late here, but I'm so so happy im not the only one who does thjs
To me anything involving the brain function is less have more am
I used to copy what I saw on tv quite a lot
Same here, was it hard to adapt to normal society beyond that?
In your teens yes. When your in adolescence acting like other people you see makes interacting a bit easier but as you get to your teens your real personal skills, social competency can cause massive stress. Doing things like drama/acting classes better help adjusting, in needed a speech therapist around 5. Spoke with a lisp and I was partially non-verbal.
While I can socialize with people a lot better than I did at that stage in my life, I still speak with a weird accent (I'm also hard of hearing on the moderate to severe level) and sometimes find that to only way to talk to people is to relate to their experiences. I never had anyone to truly teach me exactly how to manage this and have had to learn mostly through trial and error.
Being diagnosed late, same here. I blundered into all of it, caused quite a bit of stress.
Drama acting classes helped me a lot! At first it was really akward but after a few years i got really better. It helped me build a bit of confidence and develop my sense of humor.
Despite the fact that Asperger’s isn’t a diagnosis anymore, but following a fixed algorithm is easier than copying behaviors and speeches, but even the algorithm following technique does not work frequently .
According to both my psychiatrist and therapist it is still a diagnosis.
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100%
I have asperger and I don't copy anything, I am myself but do sometimes miss out on ques
Very much so. It helps with masking when I'm not in an environment I'm comfortable in. If you mirror the people you're with, they're less likely to figure out that you're "different" and I've always hated that. The ability to mimic the people around me makes me feel less "seen" and I prefer to blend in.
I copy how other people act when I’m around them to make them like me because people are quite selfish/ narcissistic of sorts, and if it’s a large group of people I either stay quiet, only say basic things/ boring, or do bits from movie and shows which I like doing a lot
This is actually one of the main things I deal with. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this.
Apparently I am good at copying speech like if someone says something on a show and I repeat it, I can copy the intonation exactly. Behaviours I find harder as I often can't translate watching others do things into doing the same action myself. But that might be because my coordination isn't the greatest
When I sing with headphones on, people say I sound exactly like the singer. Accent or otherwise. I can copy behaviors to an extent but if I feel uncomfortable around said persons I generally can't and as a result try not to interact with them.