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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm so effing stupid |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019, 8:07 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 753
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Be brave Firemonkey. You can conquer the touch screen.
Things that first seem confusing become familiar. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Masking- it's foreign to me |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2019, 1:07 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 504
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| Masking is foreign to me too and it seems what some people call masking, I call learning. When I was young a neighbor of mine befriended me and arranged to go on double dates with me by setting me up with guys she knew. I would sit in the car absolutely silent because I had no idea what to say to th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Decoding myself |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2019, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 359
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| Is it really about where your body and limbs should be in space, or is it to feel where they are in space? A lot of stimming is about proprioception. I'm pretty much a classic stimmer. When I wake up in the morning my toes and fingers are wiggling. I don't think about it, it just happens. I'm always... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Heard people say that autists are gifted in only one area.. |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2019, 9:14 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 801
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| I think they mean an uneven cognitive profile. Some autistic people have amazing abilities like an incredible memory. I have a terrible rote memory and was getting very poor grades at school. But in high school I scored in the 99th percentile for abstract reasoning. They had a psychologist come to t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Genealogy |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2019, 12:19 am
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Replies: 69
Views: 4,274
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| I became interested in genealogy several years ago when I was searching the internet for information about an ancestor and found a census record from 1910. The more information I found (dates, names, places) the more searches I could do. That was about 10 years ago when there was free access to cens... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Trixie mildly autistic? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2019, 8:44 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,085
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kraftiekortie wrote: I know another Trixie-----Trixie Norton from the Honeymooners.
Do you think she's autistic?
No, but Ed Norton maybe. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: trouble getting ideas from brain to words -spoken or written |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 09 Jul 2019, 11:54 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 488
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| Does anyone have trouble, and maybe strategies with getting their ideas from their head out to written (computer or pen paper) and spoken? Essentially there are lots of great ideas/descriptions/explanations but when it comes to laying it down on paper or explaining to someone there is a block. But ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What were you like as a teenager? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2019, 11:08 pm
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,312
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| very quiet and withdrawn. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Old Were You When You Were Diagnosed? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 25 Jun 2019, 7:52 pm
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Replies: 53
Views: 1,627
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| When I was a kid, my father wanted my mother to take me to a psychiatrist but my mother said she didn't want to because she didn't want the psychiatrist to think she was a bad mother. She went by herself and when she got back she told my father that the psychiatrist told her that both I and my fathe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Obsessed with ASD, curious about my similarities |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2019, 6:25 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 679
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Hi GreatApe. I like your username.
To have ASD you have to have been born with it.
It would be helpful to ask your parents or siblings or other relatives about your early childhood.
Also you should read the DSM entry for autism spectrum disorder. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have problems with proprioception (body awareness)? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2019, 5:40 pm
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Replies: 148
Views: 31,830
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| Poor proprioception causes stimming as a way to get input and body awareness. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I think I played with toys weird |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2019, 8:21 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 689
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| I had baby dolls that I sometimes carried around with me. I once got a betsy-wetsy doll that when you fed it a bottle of water, it wet the diaper. I took the doll apart to see how it worked. It was interesting but I couldn't get the doll back together. They didn't have Barbie dolls when I was a kid.... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When did you realise your life was going to be different? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 1:45 pm
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Replies: 58
Views: 1,737
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| I was always waiting for my life to begin. I thought I would eventually have a normal life with a husband and friends and my parents and siblings would treat me like a normal person. I didn't think there was anything so wrong with me. Other people thought there was something wrong with me. I was jus... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Stimming" more often later in life than in childhood? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 03 May 2019, 7:00 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 682
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| Is stimming always caused by anxiety? I don't think necessarily, no. Joyful excitement can bring it out in me, as is often seen in autistic children. Another function which I think it has is to help unify my mind with my body - the feeling of physical embodiment is often quite vague for me, probabl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Stimming" more often later in life than in childhood? |
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Posted: 03 May 2019, 6:08 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 682
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Is stimming always caused by anxiety?
I'm like that too. Pacing and monologging, spacing out, wiggling toes and fingers, rocking.
I'm never still. My mother used to get on my case about it when i was a little kid and I'm over 70 now.
I don't know if it's anxiety, It just feels natural. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: [If applicable] Why do you find eye contact difficult? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2019, 12:48 pm
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Replies: 46
Views: 1,672
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| I once tried doing eye contact while watching TV. That night it gave me a nightmare. I was sitting at a table across from a man and I looked up at him and his eyes were glowing red. It scared me and I immediately woke up. I have a memory of being a child and my mother was leaning over me because I w... |
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