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<blockquote data-quote="Blank." data-source="post: 1054501" data-attributes="member: 267403"><p>[USER=41816]@Brunneria[/USER] </p><p></p><p>I came to this section directly from google - trying to find a forum of people talking about it, and kept hitting dead links and very general health forums until I hit here. Haven't really been around the rest of the forum, so I'll take a look</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I don't know any different. Because I've been like this as long as I can remember, and management was gradual, it's not until I actually think about it that I realise how much is part of preventing, becoming aware of, or addressing symptoms <em>before </em>I get knocked over the edge.</p><p></p><p>In fact, I thought it was completely normal. Especially the lighter side of it - it was a shock to me to learn around age 15 that "overheating" was not what people meant by "I'm hungry". Because I'm used to doing things like sitting on a train and looking at what everyone else is wearing - if they're wrapped up in jackets, I gotta eat, if they've taken their coats off, the train just needs better air conditioning.</p><p></p><p>I find it surprising and amusing to discover that it's actually a pretty **** rare thing. I tried bringing it up when I was a kid, but my mother outright ridiculed me because what I described was totally normal and me even being interested in quirks was making a fuss etc. etc. Which didn't really help, to be honest. Remember one occasion particularly when we were in a museum, and I was like "I gotta eat", "no, I really gotta eat", to no avail. Got to the point that I don't even know how I was still standing, I was on the very edge of consciousness. Then she tore me a new one because I didn't hold a door open (due to lacking awareness that there were other people or a door because I was barely conscious).</p><p></p><p>So yeah. This whole thing is a bit "you're all talking like this is real and legitimate. Woah."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blank., post: 1054501, member: 267403"] [USER=41816]@Brunneria[/USER] I came to this section directly from google - trying to find a forum of people talking about it, and kept hitting dead links and very general health forums until I hit here. Haven't really been around the rest of the forum, so I'll take a look Yeah, I don't know any different. Because I've been like this as long as I can remember, and management was gradual, it's not until I actually think about it that I realise how much is part of preventing, becoming aware of, or addressing symptoms [I]before [/I]I get knocked over the edge. In fact, I thought it was completely normal. Especially the lighter side of it - it was a shock to me to learn around age 15 that "overheating" was not what people meant by "I'm hungry". Because I'm used to doing things like sitting on a train and looking at what everyone else is wearing - if they're wrapped up in jackets, I gotta eat, if they've taken their coats off, the train just needs better air conditioning. I find it surprising and amusing to discover that it's actually a pretty **** rare thing. I tried bringing it up when I was a kid, but my mother outright ridiculed me because what I described was totally normal and me even being interested in quirks was making a fuss etc. etc. Which didn't really help, to be honest. Remember one occasion particularly when we were in a museum, and I was like "I gotta eat", "no, I really gotta eat", to no avail. Got to the point that I don't even know how I was still standing, I was on the very edge of consciousness. Then she tore me a new one because I didn't hold a door open (due to lacking awareness that there were other people or a door because I was barely conscious). So yeah. This whole thing is a bit "you're all talking like this is real and legitimate. Woah." [/QUOTE]
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