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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosed Late? Let’s Talk Childhood Signs |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2025, 10:07 am
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Replies: 9
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funeralxempire wrote: I displayed special interests that completely consumed me. Basically, any creative projects I did would be related to my special interest and it would dominate any conversation I had. I'd infodump on strangers and relatives.
You got us all curious: What was this special interest? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosed Late? Let’s Talk Childhood Signs |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2025, 11:23 pm
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| Was THIS a sign of autism: I'd unpeel the wrapper on crayons and place the "raw" crayon on the top of a heat register so that the heat would make it "bendy." I loved doing this but it was short lived because my mother found out and forbade it. I then snuck a crayon on a register,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your "special interests" faded as you've gotten older? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2025, 7:34 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Telomeres ? Have had a a number of them , Halloween has been almost a lifelong one. Then started looking for patterns .... or would find a topic , I liked , or got curious about..then would learn about ,everything I could about it. I've always been fascinated by telomeres/telomerase (the secret to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your "special interests" faded as you've gotten older? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2025, 10:44 pm
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| FINALLY, another autistic who has a spin in Fibonacci. Thought I'd never come across one. Unfortunately it's not in person. How deep did you go on that? Did you know that the dimensions of the human DNA molecule is 21 x 34 (angstroms)? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your "special interests" faded as you've gotten older? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2025, 10:41 pm
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| I will ALWAYS be very fascinated by the different phonetic ways girl names can be spelled. This started up when I was around 11, and I'm at least as old as the OP. In fact, this evening I was watching a reality show where someone was talking to the mayor of a small town. The mayor's name appeared in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Just started a retail job and struggling with counting money |
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Posted: 23 May 2025, 10:17 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Doesn't the cash machine calculate the change? And all you'd have to do is know how much money you're being given? Every place I buy from, the cash box displays the change owed. You must be working in some little ma-and-pa antique store or something like that? As for closing the store by yourself, h... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 14 May 2025, 7:47 pm
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Replies: 37
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| My romantic partners & one crush have been my special interests. Lots of people say that being obsessed with your partner is a bad thing because the obsession fades after a while & then you may not want to spend time with your partner or you may want to end the relationship because the attr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 11:11 pm
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Replies: 37
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| ^ Right, you don't need all the traits to qualify for ASD, and I expect some of us don't have special interests any more than NTs do. I've always had a propensity to become super focused on some new interest, or, as they were called in childhood, "phases." So many odd things that I'd take... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 11:07 pm
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| Yes I'd say that qualifies as eccentric. 8O What's the thing about how it manifests? Is that about it interfering with normal life and survival? How it manifests means how the interest shows itself, such as me entering the stranger's backyard to watch the tree trimming without realizing, Hey, I'm l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 7:23 pm
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| A tip-off that it's an autistic special interest is the oddness of the interest in combination with how it manifests. So for instance I was once very fascinated by wood chipper deaths (real life). This was sparked by a fatal wood chipper accident in town. Something about it just hooked me, and I beg... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Physically weaker |
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Posted: 04 May 2025, 1:11 pm
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Replies: 47
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| Humans, eh? Victims of our own success. We used to have to exercise to get food. Now we don't have to, so we don't bother. Short-term result, comfort. Long-term result doesn't bear thinking about. I had access to an exercise bike once, and I used to pedal very fast for about 5 minutes. Couldn't bea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Physically weaker |
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Posted: 04 May 2025, 11:15 am
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| no gym membership. $$$$ I hate when people use "can't afford a gym" as an excuse not to exercise. First off, you have 24-hour, free access to the world's largest gym: the outdoors! Second, I found this article about getting started with strength training for very cheap. It specifically ta... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: death penalty possible despite autism diagnosis |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025, 10:49 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Kohberger didn't kill four people because he has autism; he killed four people IN SPITE OF his autism. In other words, his autism had nothing to do with murdering four people, not any more than some other killer's neurotypical wiring made HIM commit murder. Kohberger's autism shouldn't even be an is... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Top 1-3 autistic people you admire/are impressed by |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2025, 11:25 am
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Replies: 25
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| OP should've put in the qualifier: "Excluding yourself" |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Lead in "Resident Alien" TV Show Is Autistic AF |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2025, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 3
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| New series, "Resident Alien," about an alien who crash lands on Earth. He's a humanoid lizard who somehow transforms himself into looking human (after killing a man in a remote house). Apparently he assumes his identity (doctor). He learns how to speak by watching TV. Without narrating the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Any songs that have lyrics people with Autism can relate to? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2025, 1:17 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,301
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| "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles |
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