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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Student Moving |
| playgroundlover22695 |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2025, 9:02 pm
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Replies: 0
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| One of my favorite students is moving to a trailer park in another town. This Friday is our last day of school and it could possibly be the last day that I'll ever see her. The reason that she's my favorite is because I've never met another child with as much in common with me as her. We have VERY s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Job Stress |
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Posted: 15 May 2025, 6:56 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,647
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| If you're in the US, do any of the local public schools hold an "extended school year"? These are generally for special ed kids so they don't lose skills over summer break. My school department does offer exactly the program you mention over the summer and I will be a part of it. The prob... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Job Stress |
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Posted: 14 May 2025, 9:22 pm
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Replies: 7
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| I've been facing a lot of stress lately. I've been trying to find a summer job at a daycare or camp because my job doesn't pay over the summer. All the jobs I've applied to have required applicants to have a high school diploma and be at least 18 years old. I have an associate's degree with about 57... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Attachment to people |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2025, 9:08 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 12,362
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| I've been really thinking about my student that's moving to the trailer park. We only have 40 more days of school before the summer when she moves. :( I would really like to give her something to remember me by and our school by. However, I'm not sure exactly how to go about it without crossing the ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you like vegetables? |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2025, 9:22 pm
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Replies: 37
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| I honestly don't like veggies. The only veggies I can tolerate are corn(on and off the cob), peas(round cooked, not snap), cooked green beans, cooked broccoli(as long as it's not cooked until it's brown), cooked carrots, cold black olives, and raw red, orange, and yellow pepper sticks. I can't toler... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stress and Fatigue |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2025, 9:09 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,620
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| I have tons of stress & fatigue too with living in a group home, I sooooooooooooo hate it, my stress level causing alot of problems. Why is the group home stressful? Is it the other residents? The rules? No privacy? I imagine there's no place you can really go to be alone and relax. That does s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stress and Fatigue |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2025, 6:48 am
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Replies: 4
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| Mineral oil and drinking a lot of water might help the itch. Ibuprofen might help the aches. Leaning back in a tall chair with a heating pad might help the shoulder blade pain. Sometimes listening to a favorite song from your youth can give a brief lift to the spirit/ The pain isn't bad enough for ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stress and Fatigue |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2025, 8:46 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I just want to say that I can't believe that it's only Thursday and I'm this burnt out. :( I've been under a ton of stress on and off for the past month. Between getting sick myself, dealing with my mom being in the hospital for a week several weeks ago, dealing with my mom getting out of the hospit... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Dry and itchy skin in the winter |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2025, 9:55 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I agree that the heat is drying out our skin. I've been lucky today to not be as itchy as I usually am in the winter. I noticed that if I get a thorough back scratch, it helps with my itching for the rest of the night. Yesterday I had my back scratched all over for about half an hour with short bre... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Dry and itchy skin in the winter |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2025, 8:57 pm
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Replies: 12
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| causes my skin to be more itchy in winter partly due to the heating supposedly drying out the air & wearing more & heavier cloths. Yes electrical heating is notorious for drying out the air. We had humidity levels of 16% and lower when the weather was really cold. It made my skin itch worse... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Dry and itchy skin in the winter |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2025, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I noticed sometimes after a hot shower at night, the bottoms of one or both of my feet get a burning itch. I'm not sure if it's from the hot water making my skin dry or just wearing heels all day, but I don't like to scratch because it usually makes the itching worse. Instead I pat my feet dry and p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Attachment to people |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2025, 7:09 pm
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| Yeah. As I said in my previous post about this, I will try to talk to my social worker about this on Saturday. The only problem I have is sometimes talking about sad things makes me cry and I don't like to cry in front of anyone. I have only been to one session in my entire life where I cried and it... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Attachment to people |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2025, 7:37 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Probably. I get attached easily. It's mostly a familiarity and predictability thingy, translated into a form of loyalty and devotion. I'm also the type who doubts everything emotional, subtle and "instinctive", with enough inner security to just not just cling or hold onto something too m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Attachment to people |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 8:44 pm
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Replies: 11
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| I can also get exceptionally attached to people. I think it's definitely an Autism thing for me. Because I feel so deeply, that includes the feelings that I have for people. It's scary how we were pathologized for so long as unfeeling when, in fact, many of us feel everything so much more powerfull... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Attachment to people |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2025, 10:29 pm
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Replies: 11
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Tim_Tex wrote: I get emotionally attached to people very easily, and get super depressed when they leave social media (and there's no other way to get a hold of them), or take a long absence.
So how do you handle it? What do you do to help heal your aching heart? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Attachment to people |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2025, 10:20 pm
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Replies: 11
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| I just found out 2 of my favorite kids are leaving the school. One is going to catholic school and the other is moving to another city this summer because her parents saved up to buy a trailer. At first when the 2nd girl told me her parents wanted to buy a trailer I asked her where and her answer di... |
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