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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Faux pas |
| Tinman917 |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2020, 4:20 am
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| Sometimes people (including, but not only, people with mild ASD (nothing I have got to say here applies to people with anything more serious than that)) have problems with social skills because they say ‘inappropriate’ things and then feel embarrassed. You could see this as the manifestation of a mo... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meeting people |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2020, 12:14 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 811
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| Ah yes! Tone! So hard to convey and interpret with just words. I find a generous sprinkling of ‘LOL’s often helps, I forgot them this time. But otherwise, yes: part dismissive, part flippant, part just not agreeing at all. Sorry, I shouldn’t have used the word “superficial” in my previous. I don’t m... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meeting people |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2020, 5:24 am
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| Hobbies? I don’t have hobbies, look you! Because I’m not ten years old! But I’m very glad you asked that question, Mr Goat. Yeah, sure I’ve tried that thing where you join a group (like on Meetup) and you get together with people with a similar interest. For example say I am interested in politics s... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meeting people |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2020, 5:48 am
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Replies: 5
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| Is there a skill to meeting people? (A skill that I lack.) Immediate clarification. When I say “meeting people” I mean having a proper conversation with them for a reasonable length of time (say half an hour). I know people will say “I met so-and-so” when all they did was shake hands with them and s... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Some introductory remarks |
| Tinman917 |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2019, 10:52 am
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Replies: 3
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| Hello everybody! This website is called “Wrong Planet” and, yes, it is true that often “I feel like I am on the wrong planet”. (So I’ve come to the right place then, hooray!) Where that phrase means that I think there is (notionally at least) some other planet which is the (for me) right planet. Ano... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 60
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| So the idea is that “intense pursuit of an interest” on its own is not sufficient for a diagnosis of the ‘disorder’ of AS. But if you put that with other traits (as listed in the DSM), which, equally, on their own, are not sufficient for a diagnosis. Then, collectively, this is sufficient for a diag... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2019, 4:47 am
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| I do read and enjoy many other authors So IsabellaLinton doesn’t have a ‘disorder’ at all! It’s just a passion. If she lived where I do (just down the road from where the Brontës lived) then she might go to Haworth every weekend. No more frequently than a churchgoer. What’s so ‘disordered’ about th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2019, 11:16 am
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Replies: 60
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| So, it’s not the oddness of an interest that makes the having of that interest an AS trait. Rather it’s (as IsabellaLinton says) the obsessive intensity with which that interest is pursued. So an interest in poisons is odd but not anything which might be called a ‘disorder’ unless it was pursued obs... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2019, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 60
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| Many of the AS special interest topics are not usually things that the majority of the normal populationed wants to know every little detail of. Sports are very popular topic with many people, so it is not an “odd” interest to others to have But why is having an odd interest (an unusual hobby) a ‘d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 4:16 pm
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Replies: 60
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| Thanks for the input so far guys. I think maybe my question might be better (albeit rather longwindedly) stated as: what is peculiar to the traits that constitute the ‘disorder’ of AS that makes those traits different from the similar traits as they appear in people who do not have AS? So, as I ment... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Asperger’s Syndrome? |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 8:52 am
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Replies: 60
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| Hello everybody. Help required to get my head around the way people talk about ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’ and similar phenomena. When I do an internet search on “what is Asperger’s Syndrome?” (‘AS’) I learn that it is (see Wikipedia article titled “Asperger syndrome”) “a developmental disorder characteri... |
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