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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Hospital discharges deaf non verbal autistic at 2AM |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2023, 4:56 am
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Replies: 62
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Good news!
The missing woman has been found by her family - she was riding the trains.
(Still in the same clothes and a lot thinner - they took her back to hospital for a check-up.) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your opinion on Monotropism. How much legitimate is |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2022, 5:52 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 630
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| I don't think I have the ability to hyperfocus then. I've never been too hyperfocused to remember to eat, sleep or go to the toilet. Even when writing my stories, which I love doing, I can't focus for long periods of time, as I lose focus when I get writer's block. Also I can't sit still for long p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your opinion on Monotropism. How much legitimate is |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2022, 5:47 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 630
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| It makes sense to me. Monotropism could explain all kinds of issues I have - not just hyperfocus but also the inability to attend to two things at once such as talking and driving, and the way I get stuck in one thought pattern (rumination). My brain has heavy steering, it only wants to go in one di... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Was it better to be unaware of your own autism? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2022, 12:35 am
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Replies: 77
Views: 3,284
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| I do wonder if not knowing was a good thing in some ways, because it forced me to learn a lot of compensatory strategies to be able to fit into society. These have served me well. I was also less aware and hence less self-conscious about my AS traits, which was nice in an "ignorance is bliss&qu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What made you first wonder if you could be Autistic? |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2022, 12:17 am
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Replies: 57
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| I was really slow to realise. Even after I had to take 6 months off work due to burn-out... and even after I was having trouble with parenting and had come to the realisation that there was some hard-wired problem in my brain, I still didn't get the picture. I just had a complete misconception of wh... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: N.Y.P.D. officer charged with murder of Autistic son |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 6:10 am
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Replies: 87
Views: 5,729
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Giving Birth |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 4:05 am
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Replies: 27
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| My first one hurt bad - but mainly because I didn't really understand the process and was afraid. Fear ramps up pain a lot. When the second one came around I understood better that the pain was contractions to help open up the birth canal and that the pain came in waves so you just have to (try to) ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Autistic manifestations and overall mental health |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 3:54 am
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Replies: 2
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Oh yeah.
If I'm under stress I get meltdowns - and then I get depressed and then I get anxious and then all it takes is a little stress and BAM! meltdown all over again. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: N.Y.P.D. officer charged with murder of Autistic son |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 3:51 am
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Replies: 87
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ASPartOfMe wrote:
Of course he cried. He'd just realised how much trouble he was in. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: CDC BS |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 3:19 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,375
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| If the report contains no statement recognising the gender difference in diagnosis age, and the likelihood of missing out significant numbers of girls, and if it then draws conclusions about autism gender ratios, I would consider that a very serious flaw. Even if all it is reporting is the gender ra... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Another and Atopic diseases and Autism “severity” |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2022, 9:10 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 187
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I see what you mean.
Similarly, I wonder if fear and embarrassment in case people saw their flakey skin was counted as an autistic social symptom? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: From Autistic Linear Spectrum to Pie Chart Spectrum |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022, 6:42 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 820
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A pie chart is an interesting idea.
It would be unable to capture how our traits can seem to change over time or due to circumstances.
But it definitely seems an advance on just labelling us all as autistic and having one-size-fits-all therapies. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring for autism / anxiety |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022, 6:29 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Sportspeople use HRV to check for overtraining or illness. They monitor is every day and if it starts to drop that means they need to ease up on the training as their body is stressed, or is fighting off an infection. So my idea is to see if I can use it to monitor my internal stress and anxiety and... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring for autism / anxiety |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022, 6:24 pm
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| Ah no, it's the other way around. When the HRV is too low, that means our heartbeat is too regular, and that actually means our nervous system is out of balance. In a healthy nervous system, the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are always pulling against each other, which leads to tiny variat... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Diarrhea |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022, 6:04 pm
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Replies: 38
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| Yes, I think each person has their own triggers of IBS. For me it's stress or anxiety combined with a food trigger - greasy food, curries, raw onions, processed food with a lot of additives, even coffee sometimes. So my only suggestion would be to eat very plain food on the day of the flight. Oat po... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: My delusional perspective of myself |
| MrsPeel |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022, 5:52 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 551
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The important thing is that you are developing the self-awareness the grow beyond them.
Do you have a goal in life to work towards? I ask because I think that having a goal and taking steps towards achieving it can help with all kinds of mental health issues. |
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