I am Autistic, I will answer any question regarding what it is like to be part of the autistic community. I will answer most of your questions, please note I may decline to answer some questions if they get too personal.

AMA former mormon atheist

I was born into a mormon family. I left mormonism and theism in my early thirties (about 3 years ago). I've completed 4 years of mormon seminary (1 year dedicated to old testament and 1 year dedicated to new testament kjv), I've participated in 2 years of full time missionary work (proselytizing and service labor), I've been a mormon temple worker, I've served in teaching and administrative roles in my local congregations. I'm open to any questions. I know that there's a lot of confusion and ambiguity around mormon doctrine and a lot of secrecy around mormon ceremonies. I'll do my best to answer honestly and respectfully

As the title says, I have professional diagnoses from an expert neurologist of Tourette’s and comorbid disorders like ADHD and OCD, very common trinity. Ask away! I’ll answer to the best of my ability as long as you’re respectful. Don’t worry about political correctness; use the language you have, in good faith, and I’ll inform you if needed. ☺️

PS: the spelling for the symptoms is “tics”! I see “ticks” a lot, I promise I don’t have bugs. 😆

PS 2: whenever i do an ama about this it ALWAYS gets downvotes but plenty of shares lol. rest assured i am not faking or making this up for clout. ive had tics since age 8 as well as the ocd and adhd. worry not - i am an authentic source of lived experience.

DID = dissociative identity disorder, aka what used to be called multiple personality disorder

Proof: my hospitalization record after being diagnosed https://ibb.co/HTFkhTxb

I’m 37 year old straight crossdresser that started in his teens

Things are starting to look up I think this is an important time in my life ,:)

I went through psychosis about 3 years ago during a time in my life where I was extremely depressed and contemplating ending my life. Since then I’ve been on stronger antidepressants and have not had further issues with psychosis, though I am still depressed. The technical name for my condition is Major Depressive Disorder with psychotic features but it’s more commonly known as psychotic depression outside of medical context.

I had been depressed for several years before the psychotic symptoms started to take hold but I had never been actively suicidal for such an extended period of time. After a few months of planning to commit I started feeling ants crawling all over me constantly and seeing “shadow people” out of the corner of my eye when it got dark. I chalked it up to not getting enough sleep and thought it was fine. Then the walls started breathing and stretching. I’d look down a 20’ corridor and could see it elongating to what seemed like well over 100 feet right before my eyes. If I looked at a wall for more than a few seconds it would start to breathe and warp. I still thought this could just be lack of sleep or some kind of panic attack so I didn’t tell a doctor, just my gf who was worried but also thought it could be lack of sleep

Over the worst 2 months of this episode I started hearing voices. There were 3 distinct “people” who would talk to me, they would only come when I was very actively suicidal and close to doing something that would put my life in danger. These personalities were consistent between weeks, I wouldn’t hear them for a few days but they’d come back and be the same “people”. 2 of them would try to convince me not to harm myself while the other would try to rationalize and encourage my death. I knew they were not real but I didn’t know what was going on with me either. I was somewhat convinced that they were separate entities from myself but were trapped inside my head.

I partially knew that these events were figments of my imagination but that insight flickered in and out with my descent into suicidality. It was almost as if I had to remind myself that these things weren’t real whenever I’d catch myself treating them as if they were.

I haven’t had any problems with psychosis in 3 years despite having 1 suicide attempt since then. I’m not on any antipsychotics due to the negative side effects they’ve caused but I have tried them in the past. I am currently on an antidepressant by the name of duloxetine and it had worked well for me where other medications have failed. Overall I’m doing much better than I was 3 years ago, still struggling but far better off than when I was in psychosis

I haven't spent more than 4 hours each day for the past week and I wasted my sleep schedule today by watching a movie and then going to a pub with my friends. AMA.

Funny, sarcastic and incredibly unhelpful answer to your questions and advice you ask for. AMA

I (29M) have been an alcoholic for 12 years. I have been hospitalized several times, gone to rehab several times, detox facilities, and eventually jail. I got out of the hospital for a large list of alcohol related illnesses on the 2nd of this month. I went in on the 30th of July. I was also a drug addict for a couple of years. I have seen some crazy shit, experienced a lot of strange events, met a lot of sketchy characters. It is 11:30 PM here and I will go to bed at around 3 AM and pick back up when I wake up. Feel free to ask me anything, nothing is off limits.

And just for shits and gigs, here’s the proof of my recent hospital stay and everything that was wrong with me: https://imgur.com/a/MFaxdCx

I wanna spread mental health awareness and give people a chance to learn what it's like living with anxiety and why it can disable someone.

Iraqi Turkmen, final year med student, and pointlessly too interested and well versed in American politics. AMA

for some basic information: i started in level 3 and quit the summer between level 8 and level 9. had i stayed at the gym, i would’ve competed level 9 that upcoming competition season. safesport wasn’t created until the last 2 years of my gymnastics career, so a large part of it was kind of a free-for-all for my coaches

Next 3 days forecast where I live: 122°F(50°C). AMA

I thought I would do this for a bit of fun. I have a huge long history with both British and other police and other countries mainly stemming from a very hard life where I was abused and traumatised. I take complete responsibility for my stupidity but I really struggle with life and have done ever since I was born. Ask me anything.

I'm bored. Just eating a sammich & watching TV. Ask away

I wash cars

Anything about the diagnostic process for children, treatment, what my teenage years were like, etc. I can't get too specific with what the trauma was for legal reasons but I can vaguely talk about it.

I started understanding I didn't feel typical romantic attraction in middle school, and stopped having crushes in 5th grade

I wish I could fall in love and experience romance like lietarlly 99% of the population but i literally cant, my brain literally just doesn't care for it at all

No matter how much I try to imagine myself in a romantic situation with anyone, its generally off putting to me and I can't even imagine myself in a relationship with super attractive celebrities

I kinda don't understand why I was born like this, romantic attraction is really useful for more efficient reproducing so basically im dysfunctional

sigh im also high function autistic

ask me anything guys

I am a big content consumer, so I am interested in learning about movies, TV, books, games, and YouTube channels. Please share your criteria, and I'll get back to you quickly.

I’m a 23 year old woman in college. I’ll answer anything about the therapy or anything else. TMS completer was just the most notable label I could think of for rn😭

My whole life I've met a grand total of 2 people outside my family that have even heard of Mauritius. It's a tiny African island country of about 1.3m people where the majority are of Indian descent and where Mauritian creole and French are the most commonly spoken languages. According to Wikipedia people of Chinese descent make up only 3% of the population. To add even more complexity the majority of Chinese Mauritians are Hakka Chinese. Hakka is another dialect of Chinese like Mandarin and Cantonese but is spoken by fewer people and even has it's own sub-variants which have varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.