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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Wondering about Schizophrenia, is all |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 5:38 am
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Replies: 5
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| Hey. Like you, I have ASD and either schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia (since apparently, schizoaffective disorder has been dropped from the DSM-5 and therefore officially no longer exists :roll: ). The bad news is that schizophrenia IS associated with difficulty maintaining positive relatio... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How did you find a good therapist? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2025, 4:04 am
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Replies: 11
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| Hey. I've been seeing my current therapist pretty continuously for over 12 years or so. (To be fair, I stopped seeing her for perhaps 6 months because I couldn't afford it at the time.) I am aware that for a therapeutic relationship of this kind to go on for this long is a little rare. (And yes, it ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why do people get surprised if you're a certain age and... |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2025, 11:07 pm
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Replies: 2
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| Societal expectations regarding required milestones in your life, and when you should achieve them. Nothing more, nothing less. There aren't so many of them now, I think. Or they're not as strong. For instance, I don't think it was a coincidence that it was your Nan (i.e. someone of an older generat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Setting up govt disability support - advice needed pls |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 1:23 am
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Replies: 4
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Hey, no need to apologise. I don't take it personally that my post didn't get inundated with rresponses  . It was an obscure question.
But thanks anyway for being the lone responder. I hope you can get help for your diagnosis. I'm getting some help with mine. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Terms and literary expressions in everyday communication |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025, 4:09 am
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| Hey! Welcome to the forum :). In my experience, using big words and sophisticated literary expressions can be off-putting to most neurotypical people because it can come across as conceited and arrogant, sorry to say. The only exception I can think of is in the legal profession (which is one of the ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Setting up govt disability support - advice needed pls |
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Posted: 11 May 2024, 6:23 am
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| Hi all - In favour of getting a diagnosis: like some of you, I struggled to admit that I had a disability, let alone needed help for it. But when I accepted my diagnoses (yes, plural. And yes, 'complex', going by my psychiatrist report) they set me free - free to make good and appropriate decisions ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ASD: would you rather have realised earlier or later in life |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2024, 6:44 pm
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Replies: 24
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| Thanks for the responses so far, guys. Obviously there's no one size fits all answer to the poll, but it has been interesting reading where you've been coming from. All I can say in response is, you guys are... survivors. (I guess I am too.) Hope this post has (mostly?) been helpful for you. Take ca... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ASD: would you rather have realised earlier or later in life |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2024, 6:23 am
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Replies: 24
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| Hi guys, (trigger warning - post touches on a breakdown and strained familial relationship) I hope you had a Christmas/NY period with more highs than lows! (mixed emotions in mine). Not sure if someone has posted this question before but I'm curious as to your answers :D . Regardless of whether you ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Dating apps/websites - how to target girls with autism? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2023, 5:50 am
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Replies: 49
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| H'mm. It's my turn to be a little disturbed by this post, as in how... blunt these posts in response sometimes are. I hope everyone is rolling with the punches :ninja: . As an autistic person myself, I think I confront the idea, not the person. (Though my non-autistic husband may beg to differ :wink... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Dating apps/websites - how to target girls with autism? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2023, 7:16 am
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Replies: 49
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| Hey, thanks for the responses, guys. Anyone else with something helpful they can add, that's most welcome :D To be honest (which is what we ASDers do :wink: ) I have wondered whether his misery in romance is partly self-inflicted because he doesn't want to acknowledge his autism and therefore work w... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Dating apps/websites - how to target girls with autism? |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2023, 6:42 am
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| Asking for a dear friend. No, really. So I have a friend I strongly suspect is autistic (he's worse than me, and I've been diagnosed). He's also a lonely heart, poor soul. I could be wrong, but I strongly suspect he needs a mate who's also autistic. From what I've observed, he's hitting a wall on th... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Best work environments for Aspies? |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2023, 8:09 pm
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Replies: 19
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| It has been interesting reading people's thoughts. Yes, now that I think about it, I agree that the bottom line is what management is prepared to accommodate and tolerate (or not), both in terms of tics/unusual behaviour and incidentally, any bullying/b.s. that can go on. Because of my skill set, I'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Disclosing new autism diagnosis - when? - to whom? |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 5:59 am
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Replies: 34
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| Hi guys, Thanks for all the replies! Food for thought :) Yeah, it's true, I could disclose (after much debate with myself, for instance) and only get a blank look from the other because they don't know much about ASD anyway, or don't care! Re. my comment about only making friends with other ASDers, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wish my family was different |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2022, 7:14 am
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Replies: 8
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| Posting a few random thoughts, in the hope that they help :). One thing about CALD (culturally and ethnically diverse) parents is that they're not as clued up on "invisible" disabilities as people of a Western European background in the same generation. (Saying this is not politically corr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Disclosing new autism diagnosis - when? - to whom? |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2022, 6:36 am
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Replies: 34
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| Hi all. So I've finally been diagnosed with autism (at age 46). Still processing this...it does explain a lot. I guess my question is, when should I disclose to people that I'm autistic? Does anyone have any advice? Of course, some people I'll never disclose to (i.e. people who I guess would never u... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Best work environments for Aspies? |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2022, 2:46 am
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Replies: 19
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| Thanks for the insights, guys! Yeah, my current job is actually WFH too but as an Aspie who actually likes chitchat (we do exist :) ) I would go a bit dotty without some "civilian" interaction in my workweek. But hey, beggars can't be choosers. Having said that, someone in another thread s... |
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