Terms

This page contains varius terms, so I can easily link to them without expanding .

Note: These are terms as I use them, some terms may be used by other people differently.

Alexithymia

https://www.autistica.org.uk/what-is-autism/anxiety-and-autism-hub/alexithymia:

Alexithymia is a term to describe problems with feeling emotions. In Greek, it loosely translates to ’no words for emotion.'

Transfem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfem_(disambiguation):

Transfem is the abbreviation of transfeminine, a transgender identity.

Transfeminine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Transfeminine:

Transfeminine is a term for any person, binary or non-binary, who was assigned male at birth and has a predominantly feminine gender identity or presentation.

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SDAM

Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory

Introduction

This page is meant to serve to provide some basic pointers about SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory).

What is SDAM?

Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) refers to a lifelong inability to vividly recollect or re-experience personal past events from a first-person perspective.

https://sdamstudy.weebly.com/what-is-sdam.html

The following is a bit “medical” introduction to SDAM, but it has the nice part of basing it in medical resarch making it more clear it’s “real”.

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About

I’m Samantha.

This blog will be used to describe various topics related to life as a person who found out first they were autistic and trans late in life (40+ years old).

Avatars

This is my current primary avatar, with different background depending on use.

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They were made by Uniflame.

Old avatar

Old avatar, which I used for many years, for reference.

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Standard Autistic Disclaimer

What’s described on these pages are my experience. I do not claim to speak for anyone else or that I have in any way the correct view of things. It’s also very likely I at time misuse some terms.

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