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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi, I'm new here. |
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Posted: 11 May 2021, 5:35 am
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| Definitely a relief, looking at my long and painful life from the new perspective of being autistic made all the difference. At my old age it took a lot of sorting of past experiences, but it has been healing and helpful. I was so glad to know I was not a bad person and that everything was not "... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Life advice for possible Aspergers male |
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Posted: 11 May 2021, 5:30 am
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Replies: 12
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| welcome! Take your time and ask questions. The best resource we may have is forums like this with combined life experience of adults with autism and adapting our lives to survive and thrive. I self diagnosed at 65 and got formal diagnosis at 68.I will be 70 this year so I have had about 5 years to a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Mystery solved! My therapist ran ABA without telling me. |
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Posted: 11 May 2021, 5:16 am
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Replies: 10
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| As a young person I begged for therapy, everybody always told me things were all my fault. I thought there was something wrong with me too.( of course it was autism and nobody knew). I am sure if I had go that sort of "therapy" as a child I would not be living to tell about it today. I cou... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and Avoidant Personality Disorder |
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Posted: 11 May 2021, 5:10 am
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Replies: 5
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| Who would not be avoidant after a life time of not being able to understand motives, why people were constantly angry with me, saying I was thoughtless, uncaring, mean, bad, etc etc etc and me not being able to understand what people wanted of me, when every interaction was a demand for me to do som... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Enjoying social interaction |
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Posted: 11 May 2021, 4:43 am
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Replies: 13
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| One of the ways we know we are autistic! "Being social" is too hard, there are too many pitfalls and uncomfortable places where I don't understand what is going on or why. Being alone doesn't worry me the way I worry when I am interacting with one or more people. Am I saying the right thin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did we have emotional readability AT ONE TIME? |
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Posted: 09 May 2021, 4:39 am
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Replies: 10
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| early in my life I was trained to respond to demands of others, it did no good to try to understand their emotions or to try to express mine. I was simply to respond to them (please them) when they interacted with me. To do anything else was dangerous. I distinctly remember deciding that emotions we... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is meant by this...? |
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Posted: 08 May 2021, 7:53 am
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Replies: 14
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| verbosity is the use of words. A verbose person uses many words sometimes when fewer would work as well. verbosity is "wordiness", whether written or spoken. Comprehension is the understanding of words and their proper use in language, spoken or written. (although comprehension can also me... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: why do most autistic people need glasses |
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Posted: 08 May 2021, 7:37 am
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Replies: 57
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| over 40 percent of the world's population need glasses. I got corrective lenses at age 8 and it helped to be able to see clearly. But there was/is no help for my 25th percentile visual processing... people kept telling me my vision was corrected, there was no excuse for not understanding except that... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new here |
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Posted: 07 May 2021, 5:22 am
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Replies: 15
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Blogs on neurodivertism |
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Posted: 07 May 2021, 5:18 am
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Replies: 11
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can someone please explain the DSM? |
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Posted: 07 May 2021, 5:03 am
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,253
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| Aspergers label has gone away in DSM and replaced with level 1 autism. Level one has social struggles, problems with communication and understanding others, and has sensory struggles. Level one( which used to be aspergers) means we don't need a caretaker or help dressing or feeding, bathing or bathr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can someone please explain the DSM? |
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Posted: 07 May 2021, 4:53 am
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Replies: 33
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| technic1, Todays DSM does not say "aspergers" any more. They did away with that label when they changed the criteria the last time. There will be other changes in the future. It is a "work in progress". Diagnosis now is all based on how much support a person needs, and listed as ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Were you a gifted child? |
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Posted: 07 May 2021, 4:45 am
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Replies: 143
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| yes, absolutely brilliant at many subjects, a miserable failure in everyday life. at least now I know why. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What MEDS are you on? |
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Posted: 07 May 2021, 4:43 am
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Replies: 15
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| any meds I have been on have been for anxiety. I used various ones over my lifetime and they were a life saver. Very useful tool to get you through the hard stuff. Once I found out about my autism diagnosis I was able to self accommodate to the point that much of the anxiety was relieved, and retiri... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What are the problems with Asperger’s syndrome? |
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Posted: 06 May 2021, 4:10 pm
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Replies: 26
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| I think it has taken me about 5 years of constant reading and study to come to my current understanding of DSM criteria. There is far too much to post on a forum like these, I looked for explanations online using searches like "DSM autism criteria explained". Autism/aspergers is a developm... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hello |
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Posted: 05 May 2021, 6:55 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 640
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