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Not at all; that’s not something I can know. But if you struggle with the things outlined in this post to an unhealthy degree, it might be worth talking to somebody much more educated than me to figure out the source of your symptoms and learn how to handle them within that context.

Not OP, but I’ve asked myself this as well. I think it depends on where you live and what you want out of your language learning experience. If your goal is to learn something more useful in everyday life and you live in the southern US, Spanish is a great option. If you’re from Canada, French is probably the most useful. German and Mandarin are useful in the business world, but the latter is significantly harder to learn. If you’re not worried about maximizing the utility of what you learn, Norwegian is considered one of the easiest languages for English speakers, and let’s be real, Norway is awesome.

It’s more important that you stick with whatever you choose though. That’s the part I’ve struggled with.

I have ADHD, not autism, but this is something I hear a lot, and I think this is a mischaracterization of what these conditions are and how they impact daily life. Most mental illnesses/disorders/etc aren’t just defined by unique and niche symptoms, but also by issues most people have experienced, but cranked up to 100 and present all the time.

Take depression for example: we’ve all felt sad at some point, and maybe even had times where we had low motivation and felt empty due to grief or stress, but if these struggles are permanent and all-consuming to the point where you struggle with life, you may have a disorder.

Some of the things listed in the image make sense when done in response to a certain stimulus, or in a specific context. But if you’re living your entire life in this way, something is clearly off-center.

There’s also a lot of overlap with symptoms between different disorders, but understanding the source of these behaviors can be crucial in learning how to deal with them. Just because ‘hiding ones feelings’ isn’t unique to autism, that doesn’t make it less unhealthy.