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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Does it bother you being naked in front of strangers? |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010, 9:30 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 529
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| I found that the idea of being nude in front of strangers was more frightening than the reality. At least in the US, we're still influenced by our Puritanical roots, which leads us to associate the body and its functions with a lack of cleanliness or even sinfulness. Combine this with youthful insec... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How might it be precieved? |
| delphizealot |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010, 10:21 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,160
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| The biggest problem I encounter is when people think I'm actively ignoring them because I'm not responding in the expected ways. Conversations have certain natural check-points where you're supposed to either encourage or discourage further interaction. Failure to respond is interpreted as rudeness ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Anybody have seizures that just suddenly stopped happening? |
| delphizealot |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010, 10:04 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 9,285
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| I had various focal temporal lobe seizures for about a year and then had a grand mal. I was put on medication after that and only had the occasional aura. After about two years, I tried tapering off the medication and was off the meds for about a month. I had a few focal seizures, but (stupidly) did... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Giving and receiving compliments |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010, 9:41 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Considering it now, I can think of a few classifications for compliments: 1. Flirtation (they want sex and/or affection/attention) 2. Flattery (they want money or a favor) 3. Appreciative (you helped them out in some small way and the compliment is a way to reciprocate) 4. Admiration (they are genui... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: You fidgeters! |
| delphizealot |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010, 9:23 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,108
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| Does tapping your foot while staring out into space and plucking out your beard hairs one at a time count? In retrospect, I bet it probably creeps people out when I do that in meetings. Nobody has mentioned anything, but people often don't say what they're actually thinking (which is annoying.) |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: best jobs for people with aspergers |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2007, 9:39 pm
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Replies: 248
Views: 215,187
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| I think most jobs have some amount of interpersonal interaction as a requirement. I don't mind most of these business interactions, however, since typically they're quite well structured with reasonably well-defined rules (though of course never spelled out explicitly; that's what practice and obser... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I am feeling sorry for myself..... |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 10:19 pm
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Replies: 20
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| I've moved more times than I care to remember. I think my family are suburban nomads. Since I don't drive, I'll probably wind up moving quite a bit in my future, as well. Lately I just try not to accumulate any stuff, so there's less to move when I need to move. I fulfill my need to hoard by collect... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post The Best Numbers |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 9:52 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,360
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| I'm partial to Phi, the golden ratio. It has a value of (sqroot 5 + 1)/2. For those interested, you can get more information on it here. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Is Life Better or Worse Now Than When You Where Younger? |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 9:23 pm
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Replies: 89
Views: 13,837
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| Life is a lot more logistically complicated now, but my attitudes toward life are much more positive now than when I was younger. I still don't have many enduring relationships (terrible at maintaining them), but the bitterness and angst have matured into a more detached amusement. Life is infinitel... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stimming |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 9:09 pm
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Replies: 140
Views: 17,561
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| I don't think I'm asperger's but when people tap and click things it drives me f'ing INSANE! If I hear tapping, I'm likely to start tapping along, either with the same rhythm or something complementary. For example, I might feel the need to 'fill in the gaps' in the rhythm. If I'm walking around ou... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Winking in the Workplace |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 9:03 pm
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Replies: 6
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| It would depend on the social context of the winking. A very sutble wink by your boss when he/she gives you an assisgnment is probably his/her way of saying: "I know(i.e. I have total faith) you will be able to get this done". Comes across as sort of presumptious from my viewpoint. I hadn't ever co... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Refuge |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 8:44 pm
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Replies: 13
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| For as long as I can remember, I've always loved blankets. When I'm with my family in the mornings, I'll wrap myself in one and shape it into a robe with a hood. From this vantage point I can talk without needing to look anyone in the eye. I think, for me, it's a kind of refuge. Do you have any plac... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Winking in the Workplace |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 3:21 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Is anybody else disconcerted when, upon making some polite eye contact, you find yourself winked at? I know that winking is often associated with flirtation, but on several occasions I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant in a flirtatious way. I think it might be to convey some sort of playful commiseratio... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: The Retrospective Tour |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 8:50 am
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Replies: 3
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| After poking around here for a while, I've lately been reevaluating some of the stranger chapters in my life (bit of a trap, that, I know.) I've always known that I've been ... different, but I had always attributed this to some sort of intellectual gap, since I was told from an early age that I was... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: My journal for quitting masturbation |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 8:15 am
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Replies: 67
Views: 1,600
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| I think of it as a tactilely administered sleep aid. It's only tangentially related to sex, as near as I can tell. There are a lot of cultural implications and taboos associated with it, but is it really so different from any other kind of stimming? (other than the fact that you're not likely to sta... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: daydreaming at work |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2007, 7:33 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,688
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| I spend a fair amount of time staring off into space at work, but I'm not actively thinking of anything in particular. I find that this is when I'm doing my complex, integrative thinking, allowing various thought structures to form that will guide the more focused thinking that will need to follow. ... |
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