{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Youre autistic? Have you been diagnosed?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/708922478703116288/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Youre autistic? Have you been diagnosed?</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/708921772178833408/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>As far as I can tell, the &ldquo;old personality&rdquo;, who I <i>was</i> until my later 30s around March 2020, <b>was</b> but didn&rsquo;t realize it. And the &ldquo;new personality&rdquo;, who I <i>am</i> now since Covid spread to my brain in 2020 and rerolled everything, is <b>not</b>, but still uses mental structures and ways of thinking crafted under and for the old personality.</p></blockquote><p><p>I&rsquo;ve actually <i>had</i> amnesia and I explain it to people as the opposite of that \u2013 with amnesia I had no access to past memories (that&rsquo;s &ldquo;retrograde&rdquo; amnesia, I also had &ldquo;anterograde&rdquo;, inability to form new ones like in <i>Memento</i>) but I was fundamentally the same <i>person</i>, with the same instincts and tendencies; across <i>this</i> I maintained full continuity of memory but I&rsquo;m fundamentally a different person.</p></p>"}