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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Parents on the spectrum |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2021, 4:35 am
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| Hi there, here is an article I wrote on 'the positive symptoms of autism' http://www.dos-and-donts-autism.com/positive-symptoms-of-autism.html I had noticed that not everything about being on the spectrum is bad!! By no means. And I wanted neurotypicals to see that too. I'm a member of my local Aspe... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: what is everyone's favorite movie? |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2020, 6:11 pm
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ADHDAspie wrote: Interstellar 
I love Interstellar |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sympathy vs cognitive empathy |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2019, 7:21 pm
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| Yes it’s all pretty confusing! Looking at the discussion it seems to me that autistic people naturally have a lot of affective (or emotional) empathy that however often needs to be shut off in various ways due to overload, or anxiety or whatever. Cognitive empathy is much trickier as it’s about read... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sympathy vs cognitive empathy |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2019, 7:12 pm
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| This discussion is quite clarifying though. And very interesting. Anyone else with own experiences, I'd love to hear about them. OK then. I had an "empathy overload" today at work. A co-worker lost his wallet 4 days ago, then this morning it had been found underneath a desk. The superviso... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sympathy vs cognitive empathy |
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Posted: 25 Nov 2019, 3:30 pm
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| For the record, I strongly believe that autistic people do NOT lack empathy. Quite the contrary. I actually think it's due to an unusually high sensitivity that autistic people are liable to shut off their empathy ...involuntarily.. in some cases entirely, in many cases just towards other humans, an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sympathy vs cognitive empathy |
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Posted: 25 Nov 2019, 2:59 pm
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| Yes, I very much see the point about sympathy and empathy. Interesting indeed. For a person who is highly empathetic (I can often quite literally feel others' emotions, when I'm attuned to that person) and also highly sympathetic (I would never voluntarily hurt anyone or any creature and would be te... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sympathy vs cognitive empathy |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2019, 7:04 am
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| The word 'empathy' comes from Greek and means 'feeling in' someone... i.e. that means you literally feel their emotions in some form (regardless of whether you can tell outwardly that they are feeling anything). It accounts for why some people are capable of understanding and communicating with anim... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 03 May 2018, 2:08 pm
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| Ma Nature is pretty sloppy about genetics; like some artists, she relies on happy accidents. There are many failed experiments, but I think that cost is more than offset by the general leavening of civilization by creative thinkers. Aspies have the social isolation and sustained interest needed to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 03 May 2018, 2:05 pm
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| I don't really like threads like these because there are lots of things listed in this thread that lots of us may not have, but some posters make it sound like 99% of us do have them like "oh Aspies can do X but NTs can't" sort of thing. Plus some of these are personality traits. Nts are ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 03 May 2018, 1:59 pm
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| I think people with autism are generally more accepting and understanding as well as more honest and kind than other people i've met. Yes. Maybe when one is 'different' one tends to be more understanding of others. Kindness too is a quality I identify with. Maybe also the recognition/detection of t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 01 May 2018, 10:47 am
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| With their spare time they socialize. For me, pursuing special interest is oftentimes a way of dealing with loneliness; socialization would fill that gap. Yes, true. From my observations I think that autistic people... while it’s true not being able to handle too much socialising as it is exhaustin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 01 May 2018, 10:26 am
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| Combining quotes from your two posts here: Post 1 Organic chemistry, is, in a nutshell, the study of the chemistry of all compounds containing carbon. There are over 20 million unique described organic chemicals according to Google, although that's probably a gross underestimate, as the chemical ab... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 01 May 2018, 10:17 am
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| *Lastly, I've a broad range of interests other than those I've mentioned above, including, but not limited to, Maritime history, geography/geology of Nova Scotia, Canadian cartography, Lord of the Rings, being outdoors, I'd better stop now or else this list will get too long... Yes! A lack of inten... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 01 May 2018, 7:16 am
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| And, thanks for that suggestion about the title! Hm perhaps 'characteristics' would be better. It does seem 'symptoms' is a little controversial. maybe also giving the wrong idea. Although having said that sometimes controversial is not all bad.... as it tends to attract people's attention. And I qu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 01 May 2018, 7:07 am
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| Glflegolas, that is all fantastic thanks so much!! ! Indeed it is raining today :-) You have written some great stuff in here and given me lots of ideas.. I particularly like 'not wasting time socialising', my goodness that is too true! I think people.. no-one...not even NTs, do not even enjoy all t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think there are any POSITIVE symptoms of autism? |
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Posted: 01 May 2018, 7:01 am
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| from my experience of having friends on the spectrum I have observed the following: * loyalty - I really feel I can trust my aspie friends more than non aspies. I think it's because they are generally honest and direct which is a trait I find absolutely admirable. they will also not gossip behind y... |
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