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Autistic here too. Search for improvement, that's the only thing you can do.

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I’m undiagnosed, but I’m older and never even heard the word autism until college. I have many of the traits.

Do you have a job that lets you be independent?

I know the struggle. I’ve had dark periods of insanity from it. I’m doing OK now. My job helps. I am trying to be good and improve. I think of each day as an opportunity to do the right thing, to learn eye contact more, for example.

Keeping busy, having a meaningful hobby beyond video games, reading books that teach you things, exercise, eating well, sleep.

>>789638

Anon, I'm not autistic, but I am a social outcast and a weirdo who is also currently rotting in my parents windowless basement. There is literally a rotting puddle of milk water (the curds separated from the water, but the water leaked out of the jug) in my room and it smells like shit in here. Also there are trash bags full of cum tissues and I sleep on the floor. Here is a pic. I've been trapped in this hell for the past 6 years, but hopefully I will get out soon and if I do you can come live with me. I may be a loser but I know how to function in difficult scenarios and I'm not depressed or blackpilled anymore. Also if you live in southern New Hampshire or north central Massachusetts I can get you a job if you want.

Look into cognitive functions. It may help you see yourself in a different light. It's not easy to get into and there's a lot of horoscopte-tier stuff going on in personality circles, but the linked channel should get you started.

I work with many "high-functioning autists". ADHD is another diagnosis I see all the time. These terms don't mean anything: all knowledge of these disorders is based on observable behaviour; without a decent framework that attempts to explain the underlying processes, all a diagnosis can tell you is that you're different. You knew that already.

>>789638

Paul wrote much of the New Testament while he was in prison. God is calling you to find a calling that has nothing to do with "functioning" in the world, for we are called to be on the world but not of it, our praise doesn't come from men, it comes from God. Therefor, there is NO reason to be sad that you can't 'function' as others do, for what the world calls glamorous is ultimately death.

>15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17

>But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Romans 2:29

Our praise is from God, which does not take into account outward things, but faith. This is the significance that Abraham represents, Abraham's righteousness was his immense faith in God and through Jesus Christ we become his children by emulating his faith. It was what was inside that counts, NOT what we were doing on the outside.

So this is what I'm telling you, anon, stop looking for the glamour and praise of this world, it is emptiness and death in the end. You have something MUCH better. Had God not given you certain afflictions you may have not have needed to rely on him and you may have never found him as a result. This is why Paul tells us to rejoice in hardship:

>1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have a peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in the hope of the glory of God.

>3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. Romans 5:1-5