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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What do you struggle with the most |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 1:57 am
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Replies: 53
Views: 1,925
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| Quiet and withdrawn and don't make eye contact. Trouble memorizing things, poor vocabulary, and have a hard time expressing myself. That's the reason I never finished high school. Motor stereotypies that I used to not suppress in public because I wasn't aware of how weird I looked. Sensitivity to su... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2019, 1:46 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 1,644
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| Marybird wrote: "RRB's, repetitive restrictive behaviors, distinguish autism from social communication disorder. Observed together they are indicative of autism spectrum disorder. And an outward sign of what is going on in the mind. studies have shown that autistic brains produce more informat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019, 6:43 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 1,644
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| RRB's, repetitive restrictive behaviors, distinguish autism from social communication disorder. Observed together they are indicative of autism spectrum disorder. And an outward sign of what is going on in the mind. studies have shown that autistic brains produce more information in the resting stat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Conformity |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 8:55 pm
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Replies: 129
Views: 18,453
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I's part of being in your own world.
If you are in your own world, it may not even occur to you to conform to the unfamiliar world on the other side of the glass wall.
Or it may be impossibly hard to do.
It's called being weird, eccentric, autistic.
It's not a choice, it's just the way it is. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: To what degree are you autistic? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2019, 7:14 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 883
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| So my question to you all is, how far into the autism spectrum do you believe yourself to be? Mild because I'm independent. What unique challenges (and perks) has being on the autism spectrum given you, and what do you do to face those challenges and discover the perks? I was blind to how socially ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A Better Way to Understand Autism |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2018, 2:22 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 486
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| Fergus starts the program by describing mainstream ways in which autism is described, and how these approaches fail to adequately describe autistic thinking. One aspect is that of ‘mind deficit'. Non-autistic people have considered that autistic people cannot understand what other people are thinki... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Auties who Succeeded in Society |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2018, 5:54 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 990
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| I can't say i succeeded in society, but by my own terms I did o.k. I knew I wasn't as good as other people so i just did the best I could without expecting too much. I was a welfare mother living in poverty until i was almost 40. After taking some computer classes at a community college I saw a job ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you read people's expressions in thier eyes? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 08 Dec 2018, 7:06 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,057
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| I get literally nothing from eye contact at all. It is just both over whelming, and feels like you're staring into a deep void of Lights and intruding on someone or like someone's walking in on you naked. It's really uncomfortable and a little painful. I can fake effectively however by looking at t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Policeman Sunglasses |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 07 Dec 2018, 5:43 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 650
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| It was kind of the opposite for me. I knew a guy who wore those and I could look at his glasses because I couldn't see his eyes, just my own reflection. But I don't think I could look anyone in the eyes if I was wearing those glasses because I could still see their eyes and I have a sensitivity to e... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Was anyone else told this or similar? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 5:03 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 403
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| Yes, my mother called me awkward and babyish. Also she said I didn't have the gift of gab like her. She said I didn't smile when I was a baby. She said I was fussy and persnickety. When I was a teenager she called me schizophrenic. A Psychiatrist came to my high school to talk to me because I was al... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you spot what is wrong in a video? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 26 Nov 2018, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 447
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| To me you seem autistic in the way you move and talk. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Innocence, honesty and Aspergers |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2018, 10:15 pm
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,049
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| Hi, First things first, I apologize for my bad English. I am a 27 years old male from Paris, France. I have been diagnosed with Aspergers. I always felt different. I was a very shy kid, afraid to go to nursery school. I was born in a very strict family, my mother is French literature teacher and my... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you ever feel like you're trapped inside yourself?? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2018, 1:12 pm
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Replies: 79
Views: 16,377
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Yes, I know the bubble and the glass wall.
Really I think my brain is too slow and I can't be spontaneous around people.
So I'm stuck in my head thinking and analyzing. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is autism in all cases considered a serious disability? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2018, 9:48 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 765
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A social disability can be serious if you appear naive and timid to others and they see you as someone to be made fun of or taken advantage of.
I've lost too much money from trusting people too much. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forming thoughts into coherent sentences |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2018, 3:16 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 476
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Me too. It might be dysgraphia .
It's the reason I never completed school.
It's easier to write one sentence at a time.
In my head thoughts are always on repeat, sentences repeated over and over. It's hard to pull things together into a coherent paragraph.
And i think in movies, not still pictures. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I think "autism" is the wrong title for our condition. |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2018, 9:53 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,145
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| Autism means self-ism, a withdrawn personality, a closed personality. It doesn't mean nothing comes in and nothing goes out. Information may be absorbed, perceived, analyzed and expressed in a different way, but information definitely does come in and go out. Asperger is a man's name. I'll never und... |
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