Anyone like me out there?
I am late diagnosed last year at 32yo, I wonder if there is anyone out there that has similar combination of traits as me.
- Dyslexia: obvious as a kid but was never tested
- Prosopagnosia (face blindness): I very often just don’t recognize people I should
- APD (auditory processing disorder): difficulty conversing in bars or with music and cross conversations
- Alexithymia & low Interoception: I just don’t feel internal signals well and rely on logic mostly for my responses.
- Aphantasia (no visual imagination): I think conceptual
- Dysnomnia: (difficulty retrieving words, related to dyslexia) I just often make weird sentences, switch words or can’t retrieve names or words
- SDAM: ( Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) unable to mentally “re-live” personal past from first-person perspective
Behavior:
- I am and feel quite positive and don’t have depression or enxiety
- some sensory sensitivities (mainly audio and light some textures with cloths) but I am also mainly sensory and novelty seeking.
- Even though I have difficulty expressing my thoughts and retrieving words. I tend to speak fast and sometimes monologue talk.
- I had selective mutism as a child 4/5 yo, but now don’t have meltdowns and hardly shutdown
- I’ve always been extremely sensitive to people’s moods, behavior and positive or negative energy