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2:10am November 2, 2013

➸ Musings of Ade: Did anyone else...

clatterbane:

adelene-dawner:

yesthattoo:

madeofpatterns:

…not have a regressive phase until puberty?

I’m not sure if what’s going on right now (I’m a senior in COLLEGE, but this started about a year ago) is a regressive phase or what, but if so, it’s the first. So not until well after puberty, for me.

…you…

Similar here. I am not entirely sure how to sort that out from changes in expectations as you get older and just plain burnout, though. I never got back completely to “me-normal” after a couple of rather spectacular burnout episodes (and a bunch of smaller ones), in my teens and 20s. There was plenty of stuff going on there, but yeah.

It’s extremely frequent.  The rate of autistic people who have a “regressive” phase in puberty ranges from around 1/6 to 1/3 (depending, it seems, on whether you count it if they get the skills back afterwards).  The rate of people who have a “regressive” phase in infancy is lower than that.  So that means there’s a lot of people out there who didn’t “regress” until puberty.

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  1. politeyeti reblogged this from yesthattoo and added:
    2007 to 2012, yes. I think it’s getting better? I think I may have permanently lost some executive function/planning...
  2. leeqleeq reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Thank you so much for this! :)
  3. olddisabledautisticmofo reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  4. autiecommie reblogged this from chavisory and added:
    Mine happened after college.
  5. clatterbane reblogged this from adelened and added:
    Similar here. I am not entirely sure how to sort that out from changes in expectations as you get older and just plain...
  6. chavisory reblogged this from yesthattoo and added:
    I didn’t until well after.
  7. adelened reblogged this from yesthattoo and added:
    …you know, thinking about it, I probably did have a regressive phase at some point. I definitely was much more able to...
  8. alliecat-person said: I sort of regressed post-puberty, when my family moved across the country right before I started high school.
  9. munnarita reblogged this from yesthattoo and added:
    um *ignorance sorry* regressive phases are a thing? i don’t know what that is but it sounds like a thing that happened...
  10. yesthattoo reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I’m not sure if what’s going on right now (I’m a senior in COLLEGE, but this started about a year ago) is a regressive...
  11. mmmyoursquid reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I’m not sure. I started socially flopping in middle school in a way I never had in elementary school (I don’t remember...
  12. lt-spock said: me
  13. transponderer reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    To be fair though, I’m also lumping in stuff like not being able to get basic shit done as consistently as I used to any...
  14. madeofpatterns posted this