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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: London Meet Up : May 2015 |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2015, 11:24 am
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Can't come that day  - but interested in future dates |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: The Great London Meet Up - Feb 2015 |
| youngdoug |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2015, 1:52 am
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| Been off the forum for a long time - but happy to be told about future meets |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Japanese Culture |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2011, 11:02 am
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| I lived in Japan for nigh on 20 years. I'd agree with a lot of what has been written. I've also lived in other countries, and one thing I've learnt is that the commonality of human nature (NT) is the overriding factor. Cultural differences are just behavioural differences - different ways of showing... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Socially awkward NTs |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2011, 3:23 am
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| I'm thinking that the line in the specific case is how your life is effected. It's a matter of disability. When an individual can not operate in the way that society expects and the individual's life is constrained by this then it is AS. Of course a full diagnosis is needed for all areas. I'm sure t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 'We are all somewhere on the spectrum' |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2011, 7:25 am
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Replies: 48
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| 'spectrum' is a metaphor. We need it to talk about the various autistic challenges and how we display them to the world. One thing I've learnt from this discussion is the fact that the Autistic Spectrum is clinically distinct from the rest fo humanity. And it's digital - admittedly fuzzy-edged but s... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Were you diagnosed as an adult and did it change anything? |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2011, 7:01 am
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Replies: 78
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effzedpilot
That's so real nice positive. Stories like yours give me hope for us all. Thanks for sharing. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Naive Advice Given To You During Therapy |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 1:41 am
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Replies: 25
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Quote: my psych told me to drink alcohol as a solution to anxiety/panic attacks
Is there any room on your psych's patient list... please  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Mind reading |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 12:31 am
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Replies: 18
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| This mind reading stuff - yes, sometimes people can intuit what another person is feeling or even occasionally thinking but... It's like cold reading - where the guesses that are right are remembered and the guesses that are wrong are not. Plus guesses that might be right but aren't are remembered a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 'We are all somewhere on the spectrum' |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2011, 3:36 am
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Quote: Now I think I would politely correct them.
How do you do that? What frustrates me is that I don't know a way of disagreeing that will be listened to. The NT 'That's your opinion' tactic or others. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 'We are all somewhere on the spectrum' |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2011, 3:02 am
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Replies: 48
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Quote: Oh, f**k you.
That sounds very reasonable and restrained to me . Honestly. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Naive Advice Given To You During Therapy |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2011, 2:38 am
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Quote: Not sure if you find that funny I certainly did
I do  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 'We are all somewhere on the spectrum' |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2011, 2:29 am
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| 'We are all somewhere on the spectrum' - Has anybody come across this or similar statement from NT's - usually very 'well-meaning'? A variation I've heard is 'we are all a little bit Autistic'. I'm not talking about 'autistic traits' here, which might well be valid in families with an AS history. Wh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Email from WP to ARC request debate on WP with S.B Cohen. |
| youngdoug |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2011, 2:15 am
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Replies: 102
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| Listening to the the answers in the interview, it seems like Cohen when pressed, doesn't deny much of what we are theorizing here: that some people with Autism have greater levels of empathy than others; that some have a great deal of affective empathy without the cognitive empathy; that some have ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Email from WP to ARC request debate on WP with S.B Cohen. |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2011, 4:30 am
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| Ok, SBC has already participated an interview and it is interesting. His POV is nuanced. http://tinyurl.com/3kpadqk A lot of the problem revolves around his definition of empathy But you are right that different theorists may have different definitions of empathy. I don’t suggest mine is the only on... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Email from WP to ARC request debate on WP with S.B Cohen. |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2011, 4:01 pm
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| I think it's a bit of an aggressive message. We'll be talking to scientists (at least, supposedly). We are interested in discourse first and foremost. I'm afraid such a message would only serve to alienate them from us. Yes, I take your point. I was really thinking of media articles, like the book ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Email from WP to ARC request debate on WP with S.B Cohen. |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2011, 3:32 am
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Replies: 102
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| We have a right to reply, but what do you think we should do? We could simply start sending e-mails to the relevant papers when they publish something like this, or we could mass-criticise Baron-Cohen's book on Amazon, but neither of those are really an opening to a discussion, which is what we wan... |
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