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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: mid-life diagnosis make you feel cheated? |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2017, 1:56 pm
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Replies: 49
Views: 6,630
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| I'm glad I never knew. I simply thought everyone else was weird. Now that I know, after analyzing the repercussions and social consequences of not knowing, I'd prefer not to know. Plato, I guess. My initial reaction upon finding out about Aspergers went somewhat like this: "I'm the weird one? ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Breaking up with a friend |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 4:11 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Sorry to hear about your break up. I do think that you would be better of seeking help from a professional therapist than from an online forum. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Improve your social skills - Barron Cruz videos |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 3:47 pm
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Replies: 4
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Improve your social skills - Barron Cruz videos |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2017, 3:18 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 833
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: mid-life diagnosis make you feel cheated? |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2017, 6:35 pm
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| It's about self-knowledge, not just diagnosis per se. Many WP members came to greater self-knowledge of their AS selves through discovery, not diagnosis. For others, the process was the reverse, diagnosis opened their door to self discovery, and for this group, that self discovery sometimes comes a... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: mid-life diagnosis make you feel cheated? |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2017, 8:03 pm
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| I was diagnosed at 42, Not the first time I have been in front of a psychiatrist. A long history of mental illness and misdiagnosis. There are so many things that could have gone differently and better and most likely a lot less medication. I do feel cheated but not necessarily by people or all the ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I Am Broken! |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2017, 4:41 pm
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Replies: 15
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Sounds a lot like depression, have you seen a doc recently or a therapist?
If not then please do. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm A Nobody |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2017, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 40
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"I'm the one who has Autism and can't even fit in with other people who have Autism (weird, huh?)"
That is so me too, 
I just don't fit in, constantly feel like a mutant or something like that, just not a human as I don't seem to fit in with humans. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Are you labeled with three disorders or more? |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2017, 8:06 pm
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Replies: 65
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| In the past; anxiety, depression, avoidant personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, Psychosis NOS (not otherwise specified) Currently; Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder, Periodic limb movement disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Pros... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can Mentor become Friend?! |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 8:39 pm
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Replies: 5
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| What do you care about? What do you like to do? I would try to pick up a hobby or two. Physical hobbies like running or cycling are the best. It's awful that you are manipulated or even feel that way. I like to develop software and I work as a software developer, I also like computer games and spen... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can Mentor become Friend?! |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 5:39 pm
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Replies: 5
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| ... I know that you can pay. The point is that I don't want you to. I suppose it's about trust... I needed a way for you to be able to trust me again. Your mentor is using the word "friends" only as a convenient substitute for "mentor-client"...and to me, all of that sounds cond... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can Mentor become Friend?! |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 6:01 am
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Replies: 5
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| I have had an Autism mentor now for 1.5 years. he has been very helpful, he advises me and helps me in communicating with NT's and as a result, I'm doing much better in my current position than previously. I have been in a cycle of getting a job easily but retention is low because of the dreaded &qu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to say things like "Take your time" without being rude? |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 4:54 am
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Replies: 36
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| "What do you want me to do about it?" is used belligerently in arguments. The inflexion can be "What do you want ME to do about it?", implying that it is not the speaker's job to fix the thing and it's aggravating them that you asked. Or it can be inflected "What do you wan... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to say things like "Take your time" without being rude? |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 4:16 am
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Replies: 36
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| The "what do you want me to do about it" is extremely rude. What is rude about that, it's a very constructive question, I get asked it a lot and I just tell people what they can do to fix and then the problem is solved. I sometimes ask it myself to get straight answers and it works very w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to say things like "Take your time" without being rude? |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2017, 7:45 pm
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Replies: 36
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| The "what do you want me to do about it" is extremely rude. What is rude about that, it's a very constructive question, I get asked it a lot and I just tell people what they can do to fix and then the problem is solved. I sometimes ask it myself to get straight answers and it works very w... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: I'm inhuman |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 8:13 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Thanks for the replies, I don't really know what makes a human but I've always seen such stark difference in how I perceive the environment and react to events than NTs do that I simply was of the conclusion that I was not human. Similar to being a goat in a herd of sheep. Now that I'm learning abou... |
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