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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Desire for children? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2014, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 40
Views: 2,679
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I can't afford children, time and money wise. So I won't have them.
Further, the thought of being woken by a screaming baby, having to drive kids to social activities, having other kids constantly in my house. Frankly it's a terrifying thought. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do any of you deal with feelings of abandonment? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2014, 2:04 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,564
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| Nope, only when I come back to my desk after going to the toilet and everyone else has disappeared for breakfast. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone experience with Bupropion? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2014, 5:14 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,674
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| I felt more alert and so on, however I did have a lot of funky dreams and false awakenings. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What does stimming feel like to you? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2014, 4:47 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,071
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| Sometimes like letting off steam, sometimes like flying |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm worried that I'll convert to Judaism one day |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2014, 4:40 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,790
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| Interesting, I've flirted with the same idea over many years. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did You Have a Tonsilectomy? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 12:58 am
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Replies: 40
Views: 7,249
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| I had chronic ear infections as a small child and had my tonsils removed around age 5 much to my relief. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: This might be a weird thing to ask but... |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,987
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| I used to have big problems with that and started a thread about it a while back. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Any adults still struggle with sleeping? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2014, 4:31 pm
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,256
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| I used to have a lot of trouble falling asleep with racing thoughts and restless rolling around for hours. Remember it from early childhood. These past four or so years I've been building up an exercise regime of 30-90 minutes of walking and swimming a day, and I am much better able to fall asleep. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fast-food menu boards that SCREAM |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2014, 12:12 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,620
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BorgPrince wrote: Solution:
Google -> Restaurant Menu -> Decide -> Go to Restaurant
BTW, what does this have to do with autism? Everybody struggles to decipher fastfood menu boards.
I wonder why they make them so overwhelming then. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you hold down a debate? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2014, 1:03 am
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,447
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EzraS wrote: We have lots of political and religious debates on my teen forums. I'm not able to keep up with them.
Debates in writing are very different, although personally it has to be a topic that currently preoccupies me for me to have any motivation to debate online. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fear of abandonment, anyone? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2014, 12:57 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,264
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| For me personally, not at all. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you hold down a debate? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2014, 12:56 am
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,447
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| Nope, I struggle immensely in debates. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Speaking nonsense to my mum |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2014, 3:34 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 759
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| I do that a lot in the evening, a bit like a tic, almost decompressing after holding it in all day. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NT kids upset by noise vs ASD kids upset by noise |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2014, 10:39 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,663
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| I don't think there is any. Many people if not most share some autistic traits including sensory issues without having enough to be diagnosable. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else hate step-by-step instructions? |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2014, 1:44 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,938
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| I can't follow a recipe even if it's written down clearly. My learning style is in fact best with the written word and yet when I'm faced with the 1, 2, 3, steps in a recipe, and a long list of ingredients, my brain just stops functioning and I don't know why. It's an agonizing feeling, very frustr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Confused about my aspergers. |
| Noetic |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2014, 1:47 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 864
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| 1. Misdiagnosis 2. Correct diagnosis. Aspies can think there social skills are great when they are crap 3. Troll. If this is the case a really skilled one with 468 posts and not being thrown out. 4. Some combination of the above. Which one I don't know. Somehow I missed out on the perfect people re... |
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