Autistic friends and my experiences w/ them

[backpon 321]

Imma head this by saying that this will a bit of a vent. Feel free to add in because I want to understand the subject more. I will also not be in any way politically correct or sensitive to this, this is a vent after all.

 

I have this friend on Skype w/ autism. We don't talk too, too much lately. And frankly I've been frustrated w/ him. I've been considering removing him from my contacts. Every time I login I see a slew updates from him full of either super insane all caps exclamations or depressed comments how nobody ever likes him. He changes his username to something random every 3 days (the current one is "(yadda cuz privacy yadda) THE UNLOVED". I've been researching autism and I know that emotions can hit them harder and that they take it more seriously. But you know when someone is a super downer and it just ends up either getting you sad or pissed off? I try to sympathize w/ him, but when his entire feed is just moaning it's hard. A shudder for the day when a GF leaves him.

 

I know I need to be more supportive. I understand why he feels that way. It's just getting harder to deal with such a constant downer.

 

yeah so that's my offensive little rant. It's ok if you want to take this down mods

 

[Dark Horse 12,970]

Hey there @@QuantumPony,

 

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