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 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: How colleges can prepare for Autistic students

Posted: 14 Jun 2018, 2:41 pm 

Replies: 2
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Here are some things my uni has in place: - Specific person in the Disability Support Service (DSS) who is responsible for people with AS/HFA, so you can go to this specific person any time you have a problem - Optional separate orientation day for autistic people registered with the DSS, so you don...

 Forum: Women's Discussion   Topic: Do women really have more normal looking special interests?

Posted: 08 Jun 2018, 2:50 pm 

Replies: 116
Views: 9,919


blooiejagwa wrote:
Salesladies sometimes seem shocked at how much i know.


:lol:
Salesladies, hardware shop dudes, car mechanics, newspaper sellers... Here's EVERYTHING I know, salesperson. Lucky you.

 Forum: Women's Discussion   Topic: results of a survey study on autistic women

Posted: 08 Jun 2018, 2:45 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 840


Thanks for posting the link. Researchers always say they'll share the final paper but they rarely do.
I had a JHS diagnosis before I was diagnosed with AS. Your study was the first I'd heard of any link between the two.

Best of luck with your work and congrats on the publication.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism Issues in Academic Positions

Posted: 06 May 2018, 4:23 am 

Replies: 42
Views: 1,760


Ireland, like the UK, doesn't have tenure, so there is maybe a little less pressure to do what US academics call service, to get on. ... In most cases, you wouldn't have any significant admin role until after you'd done your PhD (and then probably at least one postdoc contract if in sci/eng). And e...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism Issues in Academic Positions

Posted: 05 May 2018, 6:49 am 

Replies: 42
Views: 1,760


It does greatly vary depending upon where you are at and your particular position there. Tenure-track and tenured positions tend to have higher social requirements than those that are on the non-tenure track route. The tenure processes have certain requirements for service work that is almost alway...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism Issues in Academic Positions

Posted: 03 May 2018, 2:22 pm 

Replies: 42
Views: 1,760


Re-waking this thread - if there's a more recent one on the same topic, please feel free to redirect me. I'm a final year undergraduate (mature student) and looking at further academic options. My lecturers have either recommended (or in some cases just assumed) that I will go into academia. I know ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: The Dawn of Autistic Space - Excerpt from NeuroTribes

Posted: 03 May 2018, 2:04 pm 

Replies: 35
Views: 6,642


I think most communities are made up of individuals with some conflicting beliefs. For instance, Wrong Planet has a community made up of a very diverse group of people who do share many similarities. Yes, I agree. But the differences of opinion within the neurodiversity movement are quite extreme a...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: The Dawn of Autistic Space - Excerpt from NeuroTribes

Posted: 03 May 2018, 1:46 pm 

Replies: 35
Views: 6,642


I just speed-read this last week, and referenced it heavily in a paper I was writing (about Vulcan moral psychology and the dehumanisation of Aspies... long story). Looking forward to rereading it slowly. I found the sections on the historical treatment of autists to be pretty upsetting. Much of it ...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Being an Aspie in different cultures

Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 3:54 pm 

Replies: 18
Views: 1,575


Yep, completely straight-faced stony sarcasm is pretty much the only kind of humour there is here too. It's not even always sarcasm (which I think implies some level of cynicism or meanness), it's just saying the opposite of what you mean. Automatically funny, apparently. I sometime get the sarcasm ...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Being an Aspie in different cultures

Posted: 31 Aug 2017, 2:13 pm 

Replies: 18
Views: 1,575


Are you in the US, Fireblossom? I agree, really, in terms of either being accepted or targeted for being different. I've had both experiences. I found that once I stopped caring what people thought of me, and became more independently minded, that changed. Maybe now I take the comments and snide loo...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: How do I deal with my sound sensitivity at school?

Posted: 29 Aug 2017, 2:00 pm 

Replies: 5
Views: 620


You can do it. The evaluation is important right? It'll help in the long term. I have pretty acute sound sensitivity and it was a major concern starting college. I wear in-ear foam earplugs (just the cheap ones from the pharmacy) on campus a lot, especially in noisy areas like cafés and corridors. I...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Creating a Penpals group

Posted: 29 Aug 2017, 9:39 am 

Replies: 31
Views: 10,430


If anyone wants to send some actual paper-and-pen letters, I'm in. I keep in touch with a couple of people that way already, it just works better for me than phone calls or social media. Regular old-fashioned hey-how-you-doing mail is good for me. I usually just write a couple of pages of whatever c...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Being an Aspie in different cultures

Posted: 29 Aug 2017, 9:20 am 

Replies: 18
Views: 1,575


Prynuka sounds horrendous. I wouldn't even know where to begin. In globalised/internationalised situations (meetings, businesses, academia to an extent, urban-social) I notice the expectation for eye contact. I try to look at people's foreheads or somewhere near their face, but usually end up starin...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: ASD treatment for adult. Experiences?

Posted: 09 Oct 2015, 3:33 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,160


Hey, snap. Recently diagnosed too. I've been told occupational therapy is the best option for me, mostly for anxiety management, social skills, general life skills... ok there's actually quite a few things it's for. I haven't started yet. The diagnosis was a bit of a surprise, because I didn't know ...
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