r/AutisticIndians

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Hi guys

I'm a 29-year-old autistic man from Chennai. I work as a Data Entry Operator and have been attending therapy, but I still struggle with loneliness and making meaningful connections.

I've found that many social situations can be exhausting, and it's difficult to find people who understand neurodivergence without judging me. I'm trying to build a better life one step at a time, but I'd love to hear from others in India who have had similar experiences.

A few questions:

How did you make autistic or neurodivergent friends?

Are there any Indian online or offline communities you've found welcoming( P.S-I has joined a few discord servers)?

How do you cope with loneliness?

Has therapy or volunteering helped you?

I'd really appreciate hearing your experiences.

Currently in the process of diagnosing and man....I really don't like how much of life makes sense right now. It's jarring.

The worst part is, it is getting sooo lonely to have these realisations but people around you don't even understand what you're going through.

I'm glad to have supportive people around me but the support they provide doesn't land because they don't fully understand what it is like to unmask and feel like a child in an adult body, the shame that comes with it, the years lost to masking or performing a version of you to fit in, never really investing in what you liked to do, always having a wall with people and there's more. There's a lot of grief.

I think understanding lived experience is different from reading about the condition from Google. It takes some good amount of care and intention for someone to do that for you I guess.

I am currently living in Delhi diagnosed by Asperger's syndrome(type of autism) at age 17 , currently I am looking for earplugs for sound sensitivity are there any recommendations. I hears about loop engage 2 but many people on Youtube are saying that they are not serving their purpose correctly like they are made so that it eliminate other sounds and yet you can hear the person sitting next to you but according to many autistic people and autisitc therapist it's not working they had to take them off so is there any more guranteed and alternative for it for now I use realme wireless bluetooth earphones connect them with my phone put them on nosie cancellation for the whole but it drains my phone battery. Also if they can a less than 10,000 and have that soft thing not like apple airpods