It is a spectrum, and your symptoms may vary. Just because you're "autistic" doesn't mean you can't be social, it means you've been diagnosed to have a brain that functions somewhat different than the average brain. That's why I prefer the term "neuro-atypical" myself.
Having been diagnosed ~20 years ago as being on the autism spectrum, it always weirds me out a bit when I can sit kibitzing with some coworkers for 45 minutes without trouble. It makes me wonder, am I even autistic? Or are my coworkers just as autistic as I am?
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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It means it's a spectrum, and you probably have some other autism symptoms enough to get the diagnosis but not that one in particular. If "not enjoying socialization" is actually even a symptom and not just something that happens to occur in a lot of autistic people.
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As with all things, it comes down to a matter of degree. I don't enjoy socializing. Not in the way most people seem to conceptualize it, anyway. I'd rather go eat rusty metal fragments than have to socialize with people I don't know. But my coworkers and I, we have a rapport.
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What I know from being autistic, if you have something in common, being social can be easy/fun. Whiles with new people or people with next to nothing in common feels forced/draining.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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