Apparently I don't have autism, dispute my abundance of autistic traits, because I can tell that \(°o°)/ is a surprised face.
Maybe you have another neurological condition with similar behaviours?
How strange. You too?
I’m officially diagnosed, but I can recognize most faces with ease. If anything, I’m more blindsided by tone of voice.
Think my main difficulty is with face-to-face social interaction, I can’t maintain eye contact to save my life.
Oh well. I guess they don’t call it a spectrum for nothing.
I have several conditions that could cause SOME of the traits I have, but a lot more traits that cannot be otherwise explained. And they told me that the only reason I don't qualify for the autistic spectrum is because I could recognize heavily exaggerated faces. I can't recognize faces normally. But I can recognize that a person pointing and whiny looking mean sad and wide eyes with an open mouth and hands on cheeks mean surprise. its really dumb and frustrating because I OBVIOUSLY have autism, everyone who's ever actually known me would agree. And without the diagnosis, I can't get the right help. Same things with ADHD. Told me I have traits, but one thing preventing me from qualifying for the diagnosis. Meaning I can't get medicated, despite the fact that I obviously have ADHD.
Yeah, it’s real frustrating when the people tasked with diagnosing you see that you check almost all the boxes, and that the only thing preventing a diagnosis is one thing. One possible way out of a menagerie of possible ways that an autistic person outwardly shows themselves.
Like not considering a large acre of trees a forest because they’re so hyper-obsessed with that one gold tree that they think needs to be there in order for it to be a forest, when really it doesn’t need to be there to be one.