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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Does a Meltdown Feel Like? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 8:14 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,853
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| I feel helpless or sad and I scream and feel very exausted afterward. Oddly, I don't feel embarasd afterward, I just want to sleep. As teenager I would be laying on the floor kicking and screaming or crying. People have acted kindly toward me though, like bringing me a cup of tea. Not my family of o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Programming with bad memory and low executive functioning? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2020, 4:00 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,108
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| I also have a bad memory and as a child never memorized history dates and facts, the times table, or anything that had to be memorized. My vocabulary is very poor and I forget the meanings of words I don't use often. My logical reasoning skills are very good and I can program a computer. But my verb... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Tool Users |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2020, 6:28 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 381
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| My father was a tool and die maker and kept a lot of tools at home. neighbors used to come to him if they needed something fixed. I used to play with his jars full of nuts and bolts and arange them into rows and patterns. Crows make tools. If they find some food that they can't reach, they search fo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Slowness |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2020, 8:49 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 684
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| I'm slow. I can't seem to get any thing done quickly because I space out thinking about things. My parents used to say I was slow. I seem to live half in the real world and half in my head. Even in grammer school some kids called me outer space. I lack stamina. I've never had the stamina to work qui... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Echolalia |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2020, 6:47 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 565
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Echolallia is a subconsious repetition of something you've heard.
I'm shure it's a reflex reaction and not intended to be an answer.
Someone told me I do that but I wasn't aware of it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Does Masking Work? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2020, 12:05 pm
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Replies: 95
Views: 2,616
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My mother used to slap my hands for stimming, but that didn't work.
If I stop stimming it will start right up again. It's not consciously controlled.
My meltdowns were emotional. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have a continuous monologue in your head? (w/POLL) |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2020, 11:42 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,501
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I have an internal monologe but it is very repetitive.
The same sentence, the same thought, going over and over again in my head until I move on to the next.
I can see moving pictures in my head, but not still pictures. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: (need help asap) Am i just being a hypochondriac? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2020, 5:11 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 631
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Over 1,000 genes implicated in autism |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2020, 11:46 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 858
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Over 1,000 genes implicated in autism |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 11:55 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 858
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| I'm sure they mean pathogenic variation or mutation in the coding sequence of any one of those genes could possibly lead to autism. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stimming? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2020, 7:30 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,607
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| Mostly I have hand stereotypies, all day, from the moment I wake up in the morning. sometimes wiggling my toes too, for no reason. I pace a lot too. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Bad teeth are socially unacceptable |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2020, 1:06 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 836
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Over 30 years ago I got caps on all my teeth except for a couple of back ones that had gold fillings because the dentist said I grind my teeth.
They still serve me quite well after all these years.
I would recomend that.
I think caps and crowns are the same thing. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Swearing - ? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2019, 10:07 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,360
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I hate swearing. I don't swear. If I have meltdowns I scream.
I have neighbors who swear. I can't look at them or talk to them. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's YOUR superpower? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2019, 12:09 am
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Replies: 128
Views: 7,965
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^
That seems like a super power
I scored in the 99th percentile on a ravens matrix test I took in highschool, even though I was failing my classes and dropped out of school. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List the extra things that come with your autism |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2019, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,316
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| Perseverative thoughts and pacing constant stereotypies from the moment I wake up in the morning Poor vocabulary Poor at memorizing Don't study others to mask Don't try to make friends and don't know how Forget to try to make eye contact but don't want to anyway Withdraw and don't communicate when I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What if your childhood self and your adult self met? |
| Marybird |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2019, 6:33 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,553
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I would see a quiet, withdrawn child and not see anything wrong with her.
We would both prefer no hugs and have ice cream instead. |
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