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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: My year-long experiment of not using soap in the shower |
| wombashkaya.fukovchi |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2018, 5:23 pm
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Replies: 22
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| Haven't used shampoo for years. The odd bits of non-dread hair that I have (they escaped!!) are much less greasy than my hair ever used to be when I used shampoo. Rosemary tea is really good for itchy scalps. I wouldn't use soap if I was better at remembering to shower more often than I do and didn'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Convince me to accept my Asperger's. |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2018, 5:05 pm
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Replies: 46
Views: 1,999
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| Hate to say it, but I'm afraid you don't have a choice. Well actually you do, but it's a sh***y one. Either you accept yourself for who you are (don't worry, plenty of NTs struggle with this concept too-it's why advertising works.), or you spend the rest of your life hating yourself and wishing you ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you ever discredit autism on purpose? |
| wombashkaya.fukovchi |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2018, 3:16 pm
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Replies: 20
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| My response to them would be along the lines of 'I don't get to choose my neurological make-up, but you get choose whether to be an a**hole.' And then ask them if they make fun of other types of disability. And what that says about them as people. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hi you're through to the NT embassy |
| wombashkaya.fukovchi |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2018, 2:52 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Hi, you're not through to the AS embassy because that would involve making a phone call. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Would anyone else find this difficult ? |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 7:29 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I'd find it difficult. Although maybe it'd be easier than, for example, trying to write an email to someone who I've not replied to for months because I couldn't think of anything to say-that involves a.) thinking of something to say, and b.) thinking of a justification for why I haven't written bac... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Narcissistic abuse when you're on the spectrum |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 7:15 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 6,209
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| When I was told I had C-PTSD and started researching it, I understood why certain teachers in my primary school targeted me. So many of the symptoms of PTSD in children-difficulty regulating emotions, being prone to violent outbursts, avoidance of social situations and isolating themselves, being re... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Depression is killing me |
| wombashkaya.fukovchi |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 6:23 pm
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Replies: 25
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| :arrow: Sorry but nothing to do with the thread. How do you pronounce your user name and where does it come from , it looks great :) wombash=wombat with sh instead of t. Kaya=bit like cayenne pepper. Fukovchi= F*** off with chi on the end. It's a village in Slovenia (not spelled correctly because i... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: What's the deal with the asexual autistic stereotype? |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 2:31 pm
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Replies: 31
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| There is also a trend within society to regard ALL people with disabilities as asexual. That's why disabled toilets are always non-gendered. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why does Facebook have such bad stigma? |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 92
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| Everything that kitesandtrainsandcats has posted. I got rid of mine early 2016 after it demanded that I send them a picture of a valid photo ID to prove that the name I was using was mine. I'd heard they were doing it to other people-lots of my friends had to change their names from outlandish ones ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Singular "they" should be accepted in formal English. |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 12:29 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I struggled with it for a while because the idea of it being plural is just so damned ingrained, but I use it in the absence of anything else. I really look forward to the day when there are no gendered pronouns and a people are just people. And while we're at it, isn't it time that 'other/prefer no... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Depression is killing me |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 12:19 pm
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Replies: 25
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| FFS shortfat, I was only trying to help. Believe it or not, I have been where you are. So. Many. Times. I have tried to end my own life many times and I still think about it a lot. I am in no better position than you are. I too have no job. I too am single. I have friends, but I hardly ever see or s... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Depression is killing me |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Been there. I've had counsellors give up on me and tell me that they can't help me, I'm incurable. I avoided getting help for years afterwards-until it got to the point where I had to in order to survive. Ended up with a good one finally. I have my own strategy that I have devised. I call it my thre... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: School/college disciplinary procedures-rewriting them! |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 9:47 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 388
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| The college I was attending until recently doesn't have any guidelines or protocols for how to handle disciplinary issues pertaining to autistic people or people with PTSD/CPTSD. I have been invited by the student association to help them remedy this-I see it as an opportunity to tell the faculty al... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi everybody |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 9:10 pm
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Replies: 1
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| I posted replies to other topics before I got round to introducing myself. It's a bit like walking into a party and hearing all the conversations at once and not being able to stop myself from joining the ones I can contribute to before I say hello to anyone. :) Aaaaaand I couldn't figure out what t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What the gen public should know about people with ASD |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2018, 10:08 pm
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Replies: 13
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| That meltdowns are not voluntary. That our sensory issues are real. And that having them does not mean that we are weak. The fact that we have them and still try to go out and live our lives in this world means that we are more freaking hardcore than most people will EVER understand. That I'm not sh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How I almost lost my composure on a train. |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2018, 9:58 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I had a full on meltdown on the bus a couple of months ago. It was crowded and noisy and the schoolchild behind me was kicking my seat. I was anxious because I had an exam that morning. My noise cancelling headphones had just broken that morning. I bent over to tie my shoelace; my glasses fell off a... |
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