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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Meltdown or Temper Tantrum, or Both? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 08 May 2025, 5:38 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 838
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| As a psychiatric patient- stress overload and being scared often result in a heated reaction/losing the plot . Much of that made worse by very inadequate help and support. A classic example= struggling to support my late wife who had vascular dementia, and being told to see a private therapist! Unfo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Why the new political right is bad news for autism |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 01 May 2025, 9:20 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,555
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| I don't dispute that Labour's behaviour towards the disabled,vulnerable, trans etc stinks to high heaven. I cancelled my party membership because of the planned cuts. It is very much a right left issue if you factor in that Starmer has shifted Labour into a centre right position. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Why the new political right is bad news for autism |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 01 May 2025, 5:24 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,555
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| I’m writing this in Boston, Lincolnshire – the Eastern English town that has long been a byword for immigration from Eastern Europe, Brexit, and the politics embodied by Nigel Farage and his new Reform UK party. There are elections here today (Thursday), for both a directly-elected Lincolnshire May... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The other end of the autism spectrum |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2025, 11:39 am
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Replies: 1
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| In my previous post I wrote about how we think about and talk about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and how RFK Jr misunderstands and exploits this complexity to weave his anti-vaccine crank narrative. There is also another challenge in the conversation about autism, which exists for many diagnoses... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Grocery shopping |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2025, 1:19 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,659
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| Ridiculously expensive, far too many chicken based meals. |
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Forum: Stats Topic: Long or short hair? (Or somewhere in-between?) |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 3:28 am
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Replies: 84
Views: 47,314
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| I'm at the 'just glad to still have some hair' stage. It's been a very gradual process rather than a 'James Taylor' type of thing. I've never had really long hair, at most it's been medium length. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 7:05 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,332
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| I haven't tried socialising, to try and improve such skills since my last typically disastrous attempt back in 2018. I had great difficulty being proactive, but did reply to other people's comments to the best of my ability. The others got on fine with each other,but my responses fell on deaf ears. ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 5:04 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,332
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| The highly educated also like to talk to others with a similar educational background. They like being able to express thoughts without worry that the other personal lacks the knowledge to understand what they are saying. Engineers especially run into the issue about knowing a lot about stuff that ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 3:27 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,332
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| The highly educated also like to talk to others with a similar educational background. They like being able to express thoughts without worry that the other personal lacks the knowledge to understand what they are saying. Engineers especially run into the issue about knowing a lot about stuff that ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 3:20 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,332
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| It would make sense that high IQ individuals are better able to relate to other high IQ individuals. I'm not sure that means social skills are less valued by high IQ individuals though. It's possible to value something without regarding it as a stand alone reason for a person not being worthy enoug... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 1:31 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,332
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| IME - The more intelligent people are the less likely they are to regard your level of ability re social skills, as a good measure of whether you are worth knowing or not. How exactly are you measuring intelligence when making this conclusion? :scratch: It's based on being accepted more by the high... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 10:29 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,332
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| IME - The more intelligent people are the less likely they are to regard your level of ability re social skills, as a good measure of whether you are worth knowing or not. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What level would this suggest? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2025, 6:05 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,477
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| Here's how Chatgpt assessed things. Autism Spectrum Disorder (DSM‑5) is described in three “levels” of support need, reflecting how much assistance a person requires in daily life. Based on your description—needing help with medication management, attending appointments, managing correspondence with... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What level would this suggest? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2025, 4:32 am
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Replies: 23
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| Thank you MrsPeel, for explaining. I'm not good when it comes to comments like that. Went into paranoid mode ,and saw a put down when there wasn't one. That was silly and wrong of me. When I was eventually taken seriously re autism it took just 7 months from referral letter in Oct 2018 to dx in May ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What level would this suggest? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2025, 9:06 pm
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Replies: 23
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| I entered the help and support I get. I see nothing wrong in doing that. I wasn't using Chatgpt to get a diagnosis, as I already have one. Hence I wasn't using it to get an unofficial dx via Chatgpt. Others may disagree with Chatgpt's assessment. That's fine. Restricted/repetitive behaviours is a gr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What level would this suggest? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2025, 2:45 am
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Replies: 23
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| ChatGPT places me at ASD level 2. |
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