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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you feel stupid when trying to socialize? |
| mind_my_palace |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2018, 2:22 pm
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Replies: 29
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Do 'you' feel stupid when trying to socialize with me? Another joke, no?
Why would you feel stupid?
Inadequate, OK. Embarrassed, perhaps. Seriously; it just sounds beyond idiocy. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Im done with this place, and you should be too. |
| mind_my_palace |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2018, 2:09 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,971
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smudgedhorizon wrote: You mean Autism Talk or something videos sponsored by Autism Speaks? So people should abandon this place?
Why hate NTs in the first place? They are tremendous fun! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's and "extreme male brain" |
| mind_my_palace |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,041
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| I don't think this is true. I think that the traits are nearly the same between females and males, but due to contexts and opportunities they just appear different. But hey, believe what you want to believe. Not sure about this. I doubt the traits are the same. I just don't think they are supposed ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Friendships with NTs aware of Aspergers? It's doable! |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 2:53 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 605
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| Anybody boost social skills by becoming acquainted with an NT aware of Aspergers? The goals of developing friendships with NTs aware of Aspergers i.e., those quality people we all would like to know present healthy (doable) opportunities for people experiencing difficulties with social-skills! &quo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's and "extreme male brain" |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 11:32 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,041
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| Find the idea extremely unscientific and mildly disturbing. Grey matter has no gender. Social constructs of gender typically involve no grey matter. Asperger's is having a brain with extremes. Irrespective of reproductive anatomy. I think Simon Baron-Cohen's hypothesis is considerably more nuanced ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you, or have you ever had a close friend? |
| mind_my_palace |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 4:35 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,280
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| Very much a sore topic, as I am appalling at the friendship business; that much I know. I doubt I could ever have more than one actual friend at a time. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Male or female friends? |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 4:07 pm
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Replies: 10
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LegoMaster2149 wrote: Who do you prefer more, male or female friends? And why do you prefer them?
Always curious,
-LegoMaster2149 (Written on January 29, 2018)
Why do you ask? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's and "extreme male brain" |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 3:42 pm
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Replies: 39
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| Find the idea extremely unscientific and mildly disturbing. Grey matter has no gender. Social constructs of gender typically involve no grey matter. Asperger's is having a brain with extremes. Irrespective of reproductive anatomy. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling hurt by online friend who suddenly went distant |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2018, 2:57 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,460
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| Yep, & if you read the post above, she deleted me from facebook this weekend. I also found out she got a new phone number and such as well. Letting her go then? Not being funny, but it sounds like she has other stuff on her mind. I hope so. It's going to be hard to forget but I'd rather someone... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling hurt by online friend who suddenly went distant |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2018, 2:39 pm
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Replies: 15
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super boy 44 wrote: Yep, & if you read the post above, she deleted me from facebook this weekend. I also found out she got a new phone number and such as well.
Letting her go then?
Not being funny, but it sounds like she has other stuff on her mind. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Failing face-to-face, failing online |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2018, 2:26 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I have been trying to put my finger on what it is that make people withdraw from me - well, after a while anyway; not just in real life but online also. I am sort of clueless. My best guess is that I might become somewhat over-engineered in my conversation and hence a little bit "creepy". ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling hurt by online friend who suddenly went distant |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2018, 2:01 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,460
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| Sounds like she's blowing cold, without giving you the courtesy of a heads-up. Sounds appalling, if you ask me. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling superior to other people |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2018, 1:41 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Feels super-frustrating. The time and effort to EXPLAIN stuff, and yet there's ZILCH guarantee that they will get it. I LOATH explaining stuff. Struggle with this a lot. |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Kinsey scale test |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 3:34 pm
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Replies: 59
Views: 4,090
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| People just love validation, don't they. No matter how insipid it is. "The Kinsey Scale is an idea developed by Alfred Kinsey in 1948 ." Four years later Alan Turing was forced to choose between prison and "chemical castration". He killed himself. Seriously, you are posting your ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Cats |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 2:41 pm
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Replies: 45
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Esmerelda Weatherwax wrote: My mother, to all intents and purposes, was a brown Abyssinian - a dainty little girl with bunny rabbit fur.
just confused... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Well-meaning friend, me a freak - what to do? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 290
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| Thanks all; it worked out OK in the end. I suppose part of the issue is throwing myself into a loop on each of such occasions and go off on one about my inadequacy. The fact that I am on the spectrum is a fairly late discovery and there is a lot of grief and anxiety attached to it. On both sides, I ... |
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