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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Morning or night person? |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2024, 7:46 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,614
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| I have a routine where I get up early for a 2 mile walk every day; I like to do that before sunrise. So that more or less determines that I need to be a morning person. I've sometimes worndered if I could as happily be a night person, but the routine where I need walk in the dark as the start to my ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia |
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Posted: 27 Nov 2022, 9:14 pm
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Replies: 65
Views: 7,571
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| I have aphantasia, and see no mental images. I was unaware of it until fairly recently, and for many decades I just assumed people were wildly exaggerating when they said they could see things in their mind's eye. In my case, at least, I never felt I was missing out on anything, and I suppose I jus... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Another boring empathy thread (sorry) |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2022, 8:16 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,638
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| Autists don't lack empathy at all. They have slow social processing. This means it may take them a little longer to figure out what someone else wants or what the correct reaction is. But I have never seen anything indicating a general inability to feel sorry for others. If anything, I think the op... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Problem using ironic humor |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2022, 6:27 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,187
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| "...BUT.. the first response I got was from someone who...felt it necessary to explain to me the origin of the word "entrepreneur" , and how it traced back to French. Almost ruined the moment. Felt like typing "you stupid dumbcluck. Its obviously a French word. I was making a jo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Newly Diagnosed, friends don't believe me |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2021, 6:51 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,947
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| I have the feeling that some people sincerely believe they are doing you a favour by assuring you that you can't possibly be autistic (typically, something like "I know someone who's son is autistic, and he's nothing like you"). They seem to think that you are hoping to hear them say that ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sounds |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2021, 11:06 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 768
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| I have no problem with most mechanical sounds. I like the sound of a clock ticking, or the gentle hum of machinery. The sounds that drive me to distraction are ones that are either directly produced by humans, or else by means of humans. Sounds of chewing, coughing, or sneezing. The sound of a leaf ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Detecting & dealing with subtle disrespect? |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 2:07 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,931
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| all my life i wondered what syndrome it was where you never had a comeback for an insult, if ever, until 3 in the morning a few weeks later. It sounds a bit like an extreme version of what is known in French as "L'esprit d'escalier," where someone only manages to think of the perfect repl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Male to female ratio |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021, 3:08 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 6,231
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| Nobody exhibits "exactly the same symptoms." Yes, of course, and I agree with your point. I just wanted to consider a theoretical abstraction in order to understand a philosophical point. So you are saying, I think, and I would probably agree with this, that there is no differentiation be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Male to female ratio |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021, 2:43 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 6,231
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| I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying there is the tendency for females to exhibit less overt symptoms; hence, they are often overlooked within a classroom environment where there are disruptive children with ADHD and autism; these disruptive children tend to be boys (though, of course, there are ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Male to female ratio |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021, 2:21 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 6,231
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| There are some females who, through social conditioning, and the relative “mildness” of their symptoms, present more subtly. They might be “missed” during their school years. One thing that has puzzled me about this kind of statement, and I know that such statements are often made, is that it seems... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 28% of murderers thought to have suffered from ASD |
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Posted: 27 Sep 2020, 10:28 am
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Replies: 293
Views: 20,132
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| I prefer my approach of 99.9% of autistics aren't murderers so I don't care what proportion of murderers are autistic. I think emotrtkey makes a valid point, and one that should not be brushed to one side. On the face if it, the data seem to suggest a considerable propensity for violence among thos... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being upset by words people use? |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2020, 3:09 pm
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Replies: 88
Views: 9,842
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| "Woke" -- Woke subculture functions as a rigid and self-righteous secular-fundamentalist religion where you will be instantly excommunicated for stating heretical facts or ideas. A great many young "Woke" people may as well present themselves as a bunch of uptight, rigid, self-... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Understanding inappropriate topics of conversation |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2020, 6:32 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 870
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| Over the past few days it has become apparent to me that someone I know can't tell what's an appropriate thing to say in conversation and what is not. Just because something is true or is interesting to you doesn't mean you can just say it to people. I tried explaining why a black person will not w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia - Curious about Prominence in the Community. |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2020, 8:25 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 507
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| I see nothing at all in my "mind's eye." I just don't have one. In fact I never realised that anyone else actually had a "mind's eye" until I first encountered an article on aphantasia. I always assumed, if I even thought about it, that other people were just wildly exaggerating ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When no one believes you're confused |
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Posted: 04 Aug 2020, 7:25 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 439
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| Yes, I've had this problem all my life. Like in English lessons at school when we were told to write an essay about something, but the teacher hadn't properly defined what it was we were to write about; if I started asking questions to try to clarify what I was meant to be doing, I would be criticis... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: About the documentary of Luke Jackson |
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Posted: 16 Jul 2020, 9:50 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 492
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| I watched the whole video last night. I thought it was a fascinating insight into the life of a mixed family of NTs and NDs. What impressed me the most was how they all got along so well, and how the single mother managed to cope with it all. Luke did a wonderful job of pulling the whole video toget... |
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