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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is/was your most unusual special interest? |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 12:28 am
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Replies: 47
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| Bonus: my most 'NT acceptable' special interest, which is also my special interest I've had since I was 3: Dogs! My most "NT acceptable" special interest was cats. I still love cats after the special interest died down; I just no longer consider it a special interest. Nevertheless, I did ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is/was your most unusual special interest? |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 27 May 2018, 12:56 am
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Replies: 47
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| ...Since college, as I matured, I put more emphasis on understanding in my special interests. What have you come to understand since then? If you don't mind me asking. It's a different style of thinking. When I was younger, I focused on bits of facts without connecting them into a big picture, such... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Odd One Out" Interests |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 1:11 am
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Replies: 12
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| All my past and present special interests are nerdy and studious, such as computer graphics, law, R programming, and etc., except: back in 2014, I was crazy about cycling. I don't mean watching cycling (I'm never interested in watching sports), but actually riding my bike. I've never been so athleti... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Neologism, word playing, idiosyncratic humour |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 12:57 am
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Replies: 610
Views: 107,141
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| I've been coining terms in my entire life; my parents sometimes say some words I coined when I was 5 in nostalgia, though those words have long been abandoned. Back in middle school and high school, I had a dictionary of terms I invented. Actually my parents are still using a word I coined back in m... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Monotonous presentations |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2018, 3:26 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 670
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| Thanks! My field is biology, which means I need to make presentations during discussion sections. Perhaps I should practice varying my tone. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: WP Addicts Anonymous |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2018, 6:18 am
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Replies: 65,574
Views: 1,572,961
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| Help! WP is becoming a new special interest because I can relate to so many things here. It's trying to displace my previous, better special interests and is interfering with work! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How often do you meltdown/shutdown? |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2018, 5:58 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 4,678
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| Earlier I thought the term "meltdown" means being driven crazy due to sensory overload, but posts on WrongPlanet suggest that many people had meltdowns due to emotion and meltdowns differ from tantrums in that the latter is about getting something. So in this sense, I meltdown almost every... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Monotonous presentations |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2018, 4:47 am
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Replies: 6
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| I'm not really nervous during presentations any more; I was required to take a class in which everybody had to give a 10 minute presentation every week as an undergrad, so I'm used to it. Now my number one problem in presentations is my monotone voice (anyone else has monotone voice?); actually I st... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Friends on WP |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 10:53 pm
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Replies: 3
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Male interests vs female interests |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 5:33 pm
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Replies: 50
Views: 5,297
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| I'm female, straight, cis-gender, self-diagnosed (trying to contact specialists for a formal diagnosis) but I have had special interests that are considered masculine in our culture: airports (2009-2010), Boeing commercial jet liners (2011), and R programming (2017-present)(more about the R programm... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is/was your most unusual special interest? |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 6:46 am
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Replies: 47
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| For me, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. In summer 2010, I stayed in Shanghai for 3 weeks (my family don't live there) and visited all 200+ pavilions; I could recognize all those pavilions as if they were just words. I had to wait in line for 4+ hours to get into many pavilions since there were so many... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Programming/Computer Sci a good choice of career? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 12:04 am
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| If you're in the US, then you really don't have to choose a major in your freshman year. I work in bioinformatics, and I code a lot in R and C++ to analyze biomedical data, so I can kind of relate. I would say it can be stressful to debug code and still see errors (especially when the error message ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Autistic collegiate difficulties |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2018, 10:54 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,092
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| I don't have ADHD, so can't relate to problems caused by ADHD. But I would say I'm really one of the most fortunate persons in the world. I never had trouble with academics; graduated summa cum laude with double majors in molecular, cell, developmental biology and computational and systems biology w... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: College life skill Help |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2018, 9:54 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Don't worry, you're not alone. I'm in graduate school and I still often end up running out of clean clothes because I'm not staying on top of laundry. I have never been bullied or alienated because of this in college and graduate school (though probably because I'm in an elite school); I have a NT f... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you really think it's that important to fit in? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2018, 8:17 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 449
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| I'm trying hard to small talk and I'm getting better at it in recent months, but it's really stressful since I have to think about what to say and force myself to ask about something I'm not really interested in; I feel lonely when while everybody is talking to each other in casual group settings, I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How often to you talk to people? |
| lambdamoses |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2018, 6:14 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,024
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Ordering food in restaurants: daily, if that counts
Functional conversations about work and interests: a few times a week
Small talk: rarely |
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