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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Embarraced siblings |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2025, 7:21 am
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| My eldest son (15 years old) is autistic. He is what I would describe as an incredibly sociable talker. His special interest is actually talking to people. He has a set of questions that he likes to ask everyone about what films, cartoons, and other elements of pop culture they know. It always start... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Youtube / GoAnnimate |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2020, 3:30 am
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Replies: 4
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| I need some advice please. My son has an obsession with youtube and in particular youtube videos of GoAnnimate. For those not familiar with this GoAnimate is a basic animation software accessible to kids. Kids make video's using the program and post them on youtube. They tend to follow a format abou... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: The tyranny of alphabet songs |
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Posted: 22 May 2017, 11:19 am
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Replies: 11
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Thank you all.
Much good advice to consider. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: The tyranny of alphabet songs |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2017, 4:52 am
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| So my son 7 has recently taken to a new form of stimming. This involves alphabet songs. He will say a letter and then we need to say a friend or dinosaur that belongs to the letter. Another variation is he we say a colour and then we need to say an associated friend or dinosaur. He has in his head a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Does Level 2 Autism mean? |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2016, 11:39 am
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| What is the difference between level 1 autism and level 2 autism? DSM 5 has 3 levels of autism Level 1 - requires VERY signifcant support Level 2 - requires significant support Level 3 - requires support As with all things autism its a bit vague. But the main difference between 1 and 2 is that many... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Explaining to his younger brother. |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2016, 12:23 pm
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| My eldest is 6 and "mid spectrum". He is verbal but needs to go to special school. Whilst I hate the "high / low functioning terms I'd say he was mid function... if that makes sense. His younger brother is 4 and NT. He's a very social little boy and is begining to notice that his brot... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Need sleep............ |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2016, 9:20 am
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| Ok so I posted about this before and got some good suggestions but I don't seem to be getting anywhere with my son. He is 6 years old, verbal, "mid-spectrum" quite lively little boy. He has always slept pretty well once he got to sleep. Getting to sleep has been an issue for him but a low ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Undiagnosing Grandin (essay) |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 1:29 pm
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| Einstein syndrome. Yep I remember ready that book early on and convincing myself that this was what my son had. Looking back I feel foolish and realise that I was still in my denial phase. Back then autism was this big bad scary thing that was happening to my first born. I didn't understand autism b... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Feminists 4 autism |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2016, 10:28 am
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| Don't bother with getting him to understand autism. As much as you think he's "fighting SJW's", he's actually a bigot and misogynist and plus is ignorant about feminism and often straw-mans their position. So I'm not surprised that he'd be ignorant about autism too. hmmmm don't think I ha... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Feminists 4 autism |
| evilreligion |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2016, 2:58 am
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| Sargon is not the sharpest intellectual around, and much as I like him and despise feminism, my sense is that he has been clumsy here with misinformed satire. He hasn't researched the divisions in the autistic movement, and is essentially trying to mock something he doesn't understand. Of course wo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Feminists 4 autism |
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Posted: 03 Sep 2016, 1:56 pm
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| Ok so I am having mixed feelings on this. On the one hand I really like most of Sargon of Akkads content. He does a great job taking down SJW types and revealing the hypocracy of many feminists and other activists. But on this one he is kinda throwing autistic people under the bus. He is basically s... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Sleep problems |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2016, 5:04 am
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Replies: 8
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| My six year old has always had problems getting to sleep. Melatonin works a treat and always gets him off to sleep fine. We have learned that it is best to give him his "tony" quite late, just before nine normally, and then he will sleep through till about 6 or 7. If we give it any earlier... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how people are treating rosie king is why AS don't speak up |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2015, 12:03 pm
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| They are clearly either of a significantly lower than average IQ Hey! Don't insult low IQ people by comparing them to Youtube trolls! Indeed. I should not have used the term "low IQ" as this was inaccurate. I should have said lower than "average intelligence." Having a low IQ do... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic overload dismissed as "white tears" |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2015, 11:38 am
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| The point is that looking at people through the lens of statistical averages about the groups to which they can be assigned is reductionist and damaging to the humanity of both the person being looked at and the person who is looking. Well yes and no. The stats to give us an indication of problems ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic overload dismissed as "white tears" |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2015, 10:19 am
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| Well we could look at the stats. And the stats tell me all I need to know. Another perspective on the stats: http://www.thenation.com/article/fate-and-fundamentalism/ To what walled-off isolation are we consigned when our profiles are our destiny? I;m not sure what this has to do with the educati... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic overload dismissed as "white tears" |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2015, 9:56 am
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| Ok so the linked video is quiet long. It is a press interview with Mark Schierbecker who was the photo journalist at the university of Missouri trying to cover the concerenedstudent1950 anti racism protest. His video of him being denied access to the protest (in a public space) went viral (link bel... |
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