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Recieved an ASD & ASPD diagnosis 4 years ago, the latter due to extreme verbal aggression during meltdowns.
I did speech therapy this year and now I have endless fast loud hyperverbal speech, and started rambling to myself at home, and silently talking to myself with lips moving outdoors.
I currently volunteer in a bunch of (people with asd / adhd / learning disability) community centres, people just sit gobsmacked when I talk and just want to listen. Endless compliments somehow, for being intelligent apparently, people with downs syndrome or learning disability become my best friends, probably because I talk to them like an adult and no one else does.
So I figured out I have verbal / logic brained ASD, and hyperverbosity - my temporaral lobes are always throbbing / painful, usually one at a time.
But I don't have memory problems, rather a gifted level of speech and language ability which I keep training.
I fixed the aggression by training my brain to keep everything respectful, and practice active listening, turn taking and cognitive empathy. I am now assertive and direct, and often on full enthusiasm.
Executive dysfunction, emotional dysregulation & no emotional empathy, no impulse control or fear response, and hyperactive temporaral lobes basically.
I use cocky jokes now to replace my superiority complex of being a speech sorcerer or god of all words or such. Even before that, when I went to a community centre I'm working at and spoke to the owner about my self improvement, she said 'Why would you even need speech therapy? You already talk perfectly'. I exist as everyones magical speech genie friend now. Still can't figure anything in life out, but going to start some drama practice group soon.
I openly tell people that I'm a diagnosed psychopath, and I still get to work with kids, vulnerable adults and elderly people. I tirelessly self advocate for asd / adhd / personality disorders being my special interests now as well as communication styles.
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