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Scintillate
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06 Nov 2006, 12:17 am

I'm continuously told that I don't feel anything, and that the definition of autism is that I don't feel anything..

This is killing me! I feel so much!


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06 Nov 2006, 12:41 am

I don't think you have anything to prove to anybody. You are what you are, who cares what anybody else thinks? Let them live in their ignorance.



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06 Nov 2006, 1:08 am

"Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."-Dr. Seuss

slightly shallow but, at times, it's something to remember when you need a boost of confidence.


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06 Nov 2006, 2:20 am

Please don't rely on the definition of autism, even if others do. After all, the definition comes from the same reliable folks who gave us "female hysteria" and so on. They've already change their Definition to include AS. Tomorrow they might change it again to include feelings. Not your problem. What you feel is real. Medical definitions reflect psychiatric consensus, which changes all the time.

Um, come to think of it, when you say 'definition' , do you mean DSM-IV?



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06 Nov 2006, 7:57 am

How do they know what you feel :?:


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06 Nov 2006, 3:18 pm

with their mind reading abilities! honestly, get with the times.


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06 Nov 2006, 5:35 pm

:)


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07 Nov 2006, 12:40 am

Who says you don't feel anything? Trust yourself. You know you feel! :)



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07 Nov 2006, 2:44 am

tinky wrote:
with their mind reading abilities! honestly, get with the times.


So THAT is how they do it! I was wondering how they seem to know what each other was talking about!


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08 Nov 2006, 1:02 am

Scintillate wrote:
I'm continuously told that I don't feel anything, and that the definition of autism is that I don't feel anything..

This is killing me! I feel so much!


You're being told this by people who want you to feel a certain way that they dictate to you, right?



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08 Nov 2006, 4:36 am

thats for sure... I've tried to explain my feelings are black and white. Meaning all or nothing, I've tried doing it other ways but I just can't, I'm either totally obsessed and enthralled, or not interested..


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11 Nov 2006, 8:34 am

I have been told I show no feelings, too. And you are right, it is like on/off, all/nothing.
We turn our emotions off on purpose sometimes as a way of protecting ourselves. We receive everything around us as input, add all emotions responses and we overflow. So yes, we show and feel nothing sometimes because we have to. We have an all or nothing valve, we can't filter as others do.
This is as it is for me, I have accepted it now.