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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Aspergers High (parody commercial) |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012, 4:56 pm
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| Can't wait for their hilarious take on bipolar disorder and suicide. Actually I've seen some comedy routines that deal with these, and I find some of them quite funny. A lot of comedians experience depression, bipolar disorder, and suicidal thoughts. Comedy can be a way of dealing with pain, taking... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Aspies and terms of endearment |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2012, 4:05 pm
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| My previous two GFs however, couldn't really handle intimacy or affectionate words too well. They both may have been aspies. One of them called me by my last name. That was her version of a "pet-name". Kind of a reversal for a term of endearment, because to me it revealed a sense of detachment (she ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Aspies and terms of endearment |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2012, 3:57 pm
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| Yes. But it might make a difference what the words were and the way they are stated. Me and my ex said some sappy things to each other, but it was generally a kind of making fun of it. She was an aspie I'm pretty certain, which helped. Whenever we get romantic and sappy, we could handle it and enjoy... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Aspies and terms of endearment |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2012, 3:36 pm
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| Not physically ill per se, but I cringe. If I have to be around certain phrases too much, it's almost physically painful. But it's not just the words; it's the whole thing with being excessively public about your affection. To me, flaunting how much you love each other all the time cheapens it. Save... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Aspergers High (parody commercial) |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2012, 3:19 pm
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| [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFt2aZvg3qE[/youtube] Personally, I thought this was really funny. Does anybody find this offensive? Aspie friend of mine found it funny but "jerky" in parts. I don't mind self-deprecating humor, as long as it's actually funny, and I could kind of relate to so... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Canada issues glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 3:41 pm
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| 8O As someone who likes dinosaurs, glow in the dark things, money, while hating pennies, well this settles it. I officially love Canada. Also, Pachyrhinosaurus has long been one of my favorite ceratopsians. Vigilans, you silly. Everyone knows Noah rode a Chasmosaurus. Oh wait, the palaeontologists a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 2:42 pm
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| All people with autism have ordered, rather than disordered mind? from what I've heard some people have schizophrenia and autism, so couldn't one potentially have an ordered and disordered brain or neither of those even? I'm not saying all people with autism have an ordered mind. I'm saying autism ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 11:55 am
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| Last time I checked hyper empathy wasn't associated with schizophrenia. Correct. I am referring to the tendency to see intention everywhere which has been defined as hyper-empathy to fit the schiz/autism model. Random thinking "outloud" I get paranoid, obsessively perceiving intention, and it's pre... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 10:30 am
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| A curious point - in some languages (like mine), "autism" has the colloquial meaning of "living in fantasy ignoring reality" (I have at home an encyclopedia written in 1981 where "autism" is defined as "mental state characterized by a preference by subjective over objective impressions", or somethi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2012, 4:09 pm
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| I think that the problem with making Schizophrenia and Autism into spectrum opposites is that it frames Autism as a mental illness. The opposite of a Schizophrenic would be a person who is not Schizophrenic. The opposite of Autism? It depends on how you frame Autism I guess. There is a theory that A... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 10:35 am
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| Poke: I was trying to explain my understanding of how this model could work, not that I agree with it - as my follow up posts demonstrated. And yes I understand the idea of basing a label or description on the framing. When I say Schizophrenia has been a dumping ground, I'm talking about labeling so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are Aspies clean or messy? |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2012, 3:00 pm
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| If I do not obsessively clean, it spirals out of control. There isn't much middle ground; either very messy or very perfect. Not much middle ground. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2012, 9:45 am
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| I'm not even trying to be funny, this topic comes up here a lot but I had to check the date on this thread because this thread sounds so familiar. Even the example you mentioned about a doctor asking an autistic if they hear voices. I swear I've read this before but I'll chalk it up to lack of slee... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Synesthesia as something negative? |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2012, 4:06 pm
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Replies: 41
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| I have read stories online about people on the spectrum that are able to visualize and manipulate 3-D images in their mind(i believe this falls under spatial abilities). What you are able to do, brings to mind a scene from A Beautiful Mind. There is a visual pattern scene THAT i think has some key ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2012, 3:46 pm
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| if you ask me they aren't hyper-empathizing. From what I have read about the condition, the rational part of their brain just isn't working properly and so the brain reaches all of these bizarre conclusions without any filter. That makes sense to me. Maybe I've got it backwards; rather than hyperme... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?) |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2012, 2:51 pm
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| Schizophrenia has often been a psychological "dumping ground" - people slap the label on any disorder they don't understand. For a long time, this applied to Autism, but that's changing. There is a theory that Schizophrenia is the opposite of Autism based on the idea that autistics are hypomentalist... |
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