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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: COVID-19: Not touching your face!! |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2020, 12:03 am
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,956
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| People say that to avoid getting sick, we should wash our hands a lot and avoid touching our face. Washing my hands is fine, but I've got so many stims that involve touching my face that I really can't see myself stopping touching my face. Does that make people with ASD more susceptible to COVID-19 ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting a diagnosis. |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2020, 9:30 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 703
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| I would recommend that you take a copy of the DSM5 or ICD11 diagnostic criteria with you, and have your notes tailored to match those descriptors. Just be careful here, because the definition of ASD in these manuals (at least for me) tended to actually suggest that I might not have it, because I te... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting a diagnosis. |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2020, 8:42 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Not sure where in the world you are, and I think it might vary a lot based on that. In some places, having a doctor's referral is mandatory. In others, you might be able to get the cost of an assessment covered if you have a GP's referral. In some places, it's completely unnecessary. I'm in Canada, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone here have trouble lowering their voice? |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2020, 8:31 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 524
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| Definitely. Growing up, my parents were always telling me to talk less loudly, and recently it's been coming up in my performance reviews at work. Always been a challenge for me. I've heard that voice volume is very frequently a problem for people with ASD, but it's not always that it's too loud lik... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: If you work : Are you different at home than at work? |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 06 Oct 2019, 3:25 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 425
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| I'd say most of us are many different people...it's what Masking is about. One thing I find kind of hard is when I meet people in a situation where I didn't expect them, particularly if I'm with other people already. Often, the two different "masks" that I've created (either intentionally ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "why are you tiptoeing?" |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2019, 11:48 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 353
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| I'm guessing you get asked that, and the answer is because it's a stim, but you don't want to say that? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I finally got diagnosed! |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2019, 11:35 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 422
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Welcome to WrongPlanet!
I wish I'd been 14 and not 36 when I was diagnosed...
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How does your memory work? |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2019, 11:21 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 813
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| It's hard for me to memorise things, but once I do, I don't forget it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I just took an Autism Spectrum Quotient test |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 9:44 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 986
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| It's a test developed at a University and some psychologists actually use it as part of the assessment process, but it isn't an assessment in itself. Anyone who takes the test and has concerns about the result (or even has concerns without having taken any test) should talk to a psychologist about s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: dish washing poll |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2019, 8:15 pm
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,511
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| I voted "Always wash", because there was no "almost always" option. If it's going in the drawer or drain rack, it gets washed, period. There's a fork I keep at work that, if the food that I'm eating doesn't leave debris behind, I'll sometimes put it away without washing it, and t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Metal things on the lips - or worse, in the mouth |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2019, 8:11 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 348
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| I'm noticing that I really like touching metal things to my lips, or sometimes, I'm even catching myself putting them into my mouth. I usually take it out before I actually damage my teeth, but the temptation is certainly there. I especially like removing the metal clip from a pen. Usually, that cli... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Friendly banter in children's TV shows |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2019, 7:53 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 295
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| There was a news article recently about how the main puppeteer from a TV show that I watched as a young child about 35 years ago had died. The show was called The Friendly Giant. This inspired me to go find an old episode on YouTube, and as I watched it, I found myself remarking just how difficult i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Anti-Vaxxers Shame Autistic Kids. |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2019, 10:45 pm
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Replies: 184
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| How about this? While we can't be absolutely certain that vaccines don't cause Autism, there is, to date, no evidence that they do. I would say that the odds that vaccines cause Autism would be roughly the same as the odds that eating carrots causes cancer. And no, I don't think that eating carrots ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Interoception Sensory Questionnaire (ISQ) |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2019, 5:54 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 354
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| I did a quick search and, while I found plenty of references to it, nothing that allows one to take it online. If it's an official test intended to be administered by psychologists, it's likely not made available online so as to make it harder to fake certain results. That's often the case with many... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Struggling to accept my autism diagnosis |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2019, 9:33 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,058
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| Is it possible to have been masking since childhood and never realize that I was doing it? I can think of situations now where what I do can be considered masking and I recognized putting forth a conscious effort (for example, eye contact), but I don't recall thinking that much about these things w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Struggling to accept my autism diagnosis |
| SplendidSnail |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2019, 11:30 pm
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Replies: 27
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| Welcome to WrongPlanet! In many ways, your situation sounds very much like mine when I was diagnosed two years ago at age 36. At first, it was a shock and a horror to me that I might have ASD. Then I really wanted to have it because it would explain much about my life. Then I actually got the diagno... |
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