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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Highly Functioning ASD Mentoring Children on the Spectrum |
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Posted: 04 Sep 2016, 1:50 pm
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On planet FaceBook someone suggested visiting Big Brothers Big Sisters and asking if anyone on the spectrum is waiting for a mentor (in US).
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Highly Functioning ASD Mentoring Children on the Spectrum |
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Posted: 03 Sep 2016, 4:33 pm
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| I saw Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes (now in paper) interviewed on Australian TV. There was mention of highly functioning ASD adults mentoring children who are on the spectrum, and wonder if anyone has any leads on information about that, and more particularly how I might get involved. May a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: sensation of head being sawed |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2016, 10:40 pm
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| describing it with a little finer degree of granularity ... it happens in a split-second, but so remarkable it pre-empts whatever else was occupying consciousness, and leaves me a little startled. It's easiest described as a buzz-saw going across my skull ... oftenest along the corpus callosum ... b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: brain waves |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2016, 10:04 am
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| Long ago, I once heard of research with brainwaves where an autistic person's leftbrain waves were fed back to the right brain, and the rightbrain waves were fedback to the left brain. Supposedly, this had good results. I wonder if anyone's heard of, or even encountered, this, themselves. Am also op... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: questionnaire problems |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2016, 10:08 pm
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Replies: 29
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| i meltdown with questionnaires, even 'tho I've aced i.q. tests: it's like there are too many variables and assumptions in these kinds of questions that I cannot answer black or white or even multiple choice. (Fuzzy logic, anyone?) in the instant case, I loathe noxious museum shows and detest odious ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: messing up with dates, and addresses |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2016, 9:44 pm
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| Maybe it's just me. I don't know about you. I started noticing this trait about 20 years ago: I'd write down a date for an event I wanted to attend, and the time, and the address, and when I'd show up, I'd be told "It was yesterday." Or I'd get the right date but the address wrong. So I've... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: handling elder abuse |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2016, 9:18 am
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Replies: 3
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| Wisdom & Compassion Needed There's two reasons I'm taking up band-width here. 1) Just so everyone knows, "elder abuse" is far more prevalent than people realize. The police tells me 50% of cases uncovered aren't even reported (altho' that makes me wonder: how does anyone know? If a tr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: GI / digestive issues |
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Posted: 12 May 2016, 2:30 pm
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Replies: 13
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| I'm newly identified as being on the spectrum. The first resource I'm studying is The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin. (Wow! just Wow!) I noticed her mentioning, almost as an aside, how GI (gastrointestinal) issues are common in ASD. Well, ain't that the truth for me. How about members of Wrong Pla... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: sensation of head being sawed |
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Posted: 11 May 2016, 9:32 pm
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| thanks, seaweed & arielhawksquill. It shall continue to remain a mystery. Yes I've had a bit of the phenomena you mention arielhawksquill, but it seemed more cut&dry. Like, "Oh! a buzzer just buzzed. But it's not my doorbell ... oh, it's in my head. Oh, ok! Back to the crossword puzzle ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: sensation of head being sawed |
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Posted: 11 May 2016, 11:04 am
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| Trivial, perhap, but I cant help but ask. Thruout my life, maybe once a year, in the afternoon, without warning, i feel the sudden sensation like a buzz-saw slicing through my skull. But it's swift enough and somewhat gentle enough that it doesn't make me jump out of my skin, but just takes my breat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your Aspie Quiz score |
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Posted: 11 May 2016, 10:47 am
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aspie 152 / 200
non 67 / 200 |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: a new newby |
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Posted: 11 May 2016, 10:43 am
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Replies: 6
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Thank you, TheAP, RoadRatt, AnonymousAnonymous, and aspienaz !
Good to be here. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: a new newby |
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Posted: 09 May 2016, 6:31 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Hi! As a kid, my school was given a battery of IQ tests, so we could be divided up according to ability and be guinea pigs for new teaching methods. I kept getting 100% and was given harder ones, until finally I peaked out somewhere. No one ever mentioned ASD. February, I took a self diagnosis test,... |
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