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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Women aren't attracted to autistic men |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2025, 7:34 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 953
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yeah but then again, there are millions of guys out there who are unattrative in one way or another.
so the scales might not be as strongly tipped against you as you think. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: hhs vows to find the cause of autism by September? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2025, 6:39 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,022
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| Less flippantly, though, I have the feeling that they may wish to split autism up into those most severely affected and others (HFA, aspies, etc.) who may be labelled as fakers or something like that, to bring down numbers and deny supports. Maybe they will play around with the diagnostic criteria t... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: hhs vows to find the cause of autism by September? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2025, 6:27 am
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Replies: 20
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If they are insisting on finding one unique cause of autism, it will end up being "a biological impact affecting neurological development".
There, found it. Why wait until September? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: mistaken for homeless |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2025, 6:11 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 768
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| Yeah, I am wondering too. Could be a sensory issue or executive dysfunction or depression / mental health issue, I guess? Or a housing issue, like shared or dirty showers or lack of hot water? I feel like whatever it is, you should be getting some support, SFBUMan. Daily living assistance or somethi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Jealous |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025, 6:58 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 245
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I was going to say the same. Didn't you study engineering or something like that?
I think you have suffered a lot of misfortune in life, which was likely due to factors outside your control and not much related to physical capabilities. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Involuntary reclassification |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025, 6:53 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 757
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| The point I was making is that it is not illegal, since job classification can be changed against the employee's wishes in a number of circumstances. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Involuntary reclassification |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 8:59 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 757
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| In the Australian public service, an employee can be involuntarily demoted to a lower classification, under certain circumstances: From the Australian Public Services Act 1999: An Agency Head may reduce the classification of an APS employee, without the employee’s consent, only in the following circ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: How would you improve the recruitment process? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 8:38 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 527
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| 1. Slash the government quotas of job applications required to be sent by the unemployed to maintain their benefits, so that employers have more confidence that applicants genuinely want the job. 2. Make it illegal to screen applications using software or AI. 3. Provide options such as in-person or ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Leland Vittert's coming book, "Born Lucky": |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 8:16 pm
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Replies: 3
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| I think it is true that the world does not change for autistic people, so we have to learn ways to change ourselves, not in the sense of becoming less autistic, but in finding ways to work around our difficulties. I think if a parent helps with that in a loving and supportive way, that can be a good... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Opinion on Love On Thr Spectrum Season 3 |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 8:08 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,342
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| I watched the whole series, it was addictive, needing to know how everythign worked out. It is quite upbeat overall. Connor ends up being totally smitten by a second girl, who seems very nice, I hope that works out for them both. I think the producers did really well in this series in finding possib... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: hhs vows to find the cause of autism by September? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 8:01 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,022
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| I have a bad feeling about this. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Do you consider yourself special needs |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,285
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| it seems to be used more for kids in an educational context. so I had never considered applying that term to myself. Like others here, I do consider my autism to be a disability in the sense of it preventing me from doing many things I would like to do, or even need to do. But since there is very li... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: mistaken for homeless |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 7:53 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 768
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| wait, what? You haven't showered for over two years? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What level would this suggest? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 7:40 pm
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Replies: 15
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| I'm not sure if people here are aware, but the level of support needs is supposed to apply separately to the two diagnostic domains of "social communication" and "repetitive, restricted behaviours and interests". So someone might be, for example, Level 1 in the first and Level 2 ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think that NTs have bigger ego than us? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 7:26 pm
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Replies: 55
Views: 1,287
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| I know what you mean, although I probably wouldn't have termed it as ego. It seems to me more like a self-confidence within NTs as opposed to the low or fluctuating self-esteem that often plagues us autistics. This enables NTs to stand up for themselves and advocate to get what they want, which ofte... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Around 70% - 80% of autistic people are unemployed |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 7:12 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 9,017
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| A stat like this is senseless BECAUSE: 1. Many HFA/AS, etc... autistics will certainly be employed 2. Some Classicals won't because they are affected too much. 3. SOME will not REALLY be ASD! This will drive the REAL statistics DOWN! 4. Others that are ASD won't be in the statistics. This will driv... |
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