I am being tested for autism but regardless of my potential diagnosis I process things soooo extremely slow.
If someone speaks too fast or too suddenly it sounds like a foreign language to me. If someone asks me a question it takes me 30 “uhhs” and 100 “ummss” before I get my words out. Then they have to wait through my stuttering and me saying “like” a million times as a filler word while I try and think about how to respond. I can’t even read fast and god forbid if I read out loud it is all over the place.
Many people think I am dumb for the way that I speak and it hurts because they treat me so differently from other people or get so impatient and I can hardly blame them.
If you told me a joke it would take me 6 business days to finally laugh because I didn’t process it for so long.
how can I possibly work on this or explain to someone I just can’t process hardly anything in the moment