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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I got a medical alert bracelet disclosing my diagnosis |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2025, 2:49 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 7,624
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| [quote="King Kat 1"]I found these. The first is a bit general. 2nd is more specific. I am high functioning, but I've considered getting one, even though I don't like people knowing I'm on the spectrum. I'm getting worse at hiding it and dealing with certain things as I enter middle age. My... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Spike of autistic children drowning |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2025, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 638
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| It could just be a fluke, but these cases all have several things in common: 1) Kid never took swimming lessons. They end up drowning in STILL bodies of water, so swimming lessons would've saved them. I've seen INFANTS swimming and preschoolers treading water at swim classes. 2) Kid is always under ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fictional characters with AS? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025, 9:11 pm
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Replies: 96
Views: 13,278
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Did anyone here mention Connor from "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage?"
He's clearly on the spectrum, as totally evidenced by the episode where his mother wants to feminize her husband's tire shop. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stimming calluses? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2025, 1:07 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,529
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| I have calluses on the upper part of my palms, just below where my fingers begin. They're from deadlifting. I'm a woman and I deadlift heavy and hard. I don't consider it stimming, though, but it's very unusual for women to have calluses in this area. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I am sick of these comments |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2025, 1:05 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 27,374
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| I just want to point out two things. First, it's so true that with "profound" autism, it's the intellectual impairment at play that makes the autism seem "profound." I've known severely autistic people who were socially engaging and gave eye contact. But the ID with their autism ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Having eye contact |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 1:28 am
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Replies: 57
Views: 9,570
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| May as well contribute to this thread, in that I don't like when I learn that an autistic person, whom I've been interacting with, says they've been looking at my mouth. This has happened several times now, and the primary reason they give is that they have auditory processing disorder or have diffi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Bubble gum |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2025, 1:17 am
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Replies: 14
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| For a while as a kid I chewed Bazooka bubblegum. Not very often, but here and there. I'd blow bubbles. Currently, I can't believe I ever did that. There was a time that Bubble Yum was very popular. All the time in public I'd smell grape Bubble Yum on peoples' breath, and I found it yucky. Didn't the... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Bubble gum |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2025, 1:14 am
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Replies: 14
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| I don't like bubble gum and think it's gross to chew on something that never disappears. I used to try it years ago. Rather give me Imperial Mints any day. "Chew on something that never disappears" -- this would apply to chewlery or gnawable pendants to stim with. I don't know how any HFA... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why we are so obsess with representing ASD as angels? |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2025, 1:02 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 763
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skibum wrote: I am not sure that Dan Akroyd is Autistic. I think he eventually said he was not. I am not sure.
I read he got tested in the 1980s and that's how he got diagnosed. He claims a lifelong special interest in ghosts. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why we are so obsess with representing ASD as angels? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2025, 2:06 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 763
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| This idea of representing disabled people as angels makes me think of how PARENTS of disabled people are made out to be the angels or the perfect parents. Well dang, that is so untrue. Just because someone has a disabled child doesn't mean they're a good parent or are smart about protecting that chi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How can autism be monetized? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2025, 7:23 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 11,741
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| There are several autistic youtubers who've made it big. One is "Layla." Don't recall last name. Another is "Mom on the Spectrum." Another is probably the same guy another poster mentioned, from the UK. He's handsome and has an endearing British accent, and those two features I'm... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it normal for someone on the autism spectrum to be... |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 1:40 am
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Replies: 22
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ArticVixen wrote: honeytoast wrote: 80k a year is bad?  They might be living in a HCOL area or have kids.
The fact that one has kids to feed/clothes does not invalidate the fact that 80k is a good income. OP implied his income was poor, rather than he had too many bills to pay. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it normal for someone on the autism spectrum to be... |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 1:34 am
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Replies: 22
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| You "ONLY" make 80k a year? This is the national average for the U.S. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How come you never hear from people in assisted living? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025, 12:22 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,843
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| People in "group homes" or who are living with a host home provider tend to be lower on the funcdtioning scale (not all, though, but usually), and thus, lack the cognitive capacity to interact in an online forum. For example, I know a woman with mild ID (very HF) who told me her housemate,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I am sensitive to body odor.. are you? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2025, 12:55 am
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Replies: 4
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| I could've written the OP's message. I've always thought of my nose as being very "keen" or a "super sniffer." I now wonder, as a late diagnosee, if it's due to the autism. I work out at a gym. You don't know body odor til you've been in a gym. I can detect the difference between... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How many others here are like this woman? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2024, 9:54 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,804
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| I take issue with her take on door slamming. I HATE door slammers. After putting up with it for too long, I informed the neighbors below me that they slam their door incredibly hard, and I hear "BOOM!" "BOOM!" and it shakes my walls. Their excuse was that the door was difficult t... |
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