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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special interests |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 17 Mar 2023, 9:51 pm
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| Cinderash, If you're in the States, have you heard of a show called "How It's Made"? There's a BUNCH of these episodes, I think on the National Geographic channel or one of those type channels. You name it, it's been covered. I've only watched one or two episodes, but I've read a lot of th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What was your wierdest obsession growing up? |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2023, 6:42 pm
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Replies: 145
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| To add to my list several posts ago, my sister said that when I was very young, I had an "extreme interest in sidewalk cracks and sidewalks in general," but I have no recollection of this, and she's unable to give any further detail including my age at the time (she's only two and a half y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special interests |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2023, 6:33 pm
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| Just wanted to add (I can't find the "edit" function to my post that's several above this one), that what makes an interest "special" in the autistic sense is that you THINK a LOT about it. You don't necessarily TALK a lot about it, but your mind frequently drifts towards it whil... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special interests |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2023, 12:49 pm
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| My longest (and still current) special interests are: 1) Spellings of female first names (alternate spellings). I once sat at my computer to see how many possible phonetic spellings there were for Carolyn. Though I didn't type every single one out (there's a way to project all possible spellings wit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What was your wierdest obsession growing up? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2023, 12:40 pm
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| I don't know if I posted here, but I'll happily repeat if so. Oddball interests in childhood: 1) Comas. I often imagined what it was like to be in one. I wanted to get bonked on the head hard enough to be unconscious. 2) Had a peculiar interest in phone number exchanges, but I wouldn't call it a hyp... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is having an obsession (or obsessions) problematic? |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2023, 7:20 pm
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Replies: 25
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| OP, what were your obsessions? Maybe there are FB groups dedicated to them. Otherwise, I'm still curious what they are. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Banned from a Mcdonalds |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2023, 7:18 pm
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Replies: 50
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| Weird that the OP won't name what he or she is accused of doing that got a ban, despite several people here asking. Like someone said, without that detail, not much to go on. Even NTs act strange in public especially in a fastfood place. Homeless people sit in them staring into space; people dress w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Pretending To Be Normal |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2023, 11:37 am
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Replies: 27
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| Two things: First, it seems, from a logic common sense perspective, that the first thing NTs assume about someone who averts eye contact in conversation is that they're very timid, basfhul, skittish, insecure, etc. Many, if not most, conversations in day to day life are predicated on either social e... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2023, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 101
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| I had only one meltdown in my entire life, when I was a preschooler. Tantrums, meltdowns, acting out, call it what you may, but this behavior was absolutely forbidden in the house I grew up in. My mother, bless her, was an authoritarian and had ZERO TOLERANCE for "tantrums." None of my fiv... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2023, 10:20 am
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Replies: 101
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| When it comes to "facilitated communication," one wonders who those who were "facilitated" came up with what they came up with. Some of those who were "facilitated" seemed to have a great deal of imagination (if what they wrote on the computer was not true). There were... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2023, 10:12 am
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Replies: 101
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| Agree with Elgee. Also thats interesting that he actually knows a person involved in "facilitated communication." Have seen stories on that on 60 Minutes back in the Nineties. Am surprised that its still being done. Always looked absurd to me on 60 minutes, and I assumed that it was discr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 10:46 pm
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Replies: 101
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| It all boils down to opinion, just like the puzzle piece vs. the infinity sign, or ABA vs. no ABA. I've gone to an autistic support meeting several times; each time "Jimmy" is there: a man in his 30s who always seems detached cognitively from other people in the room. If an autistic is avo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Socially unacceptable" special interests |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2023, 12:29 am
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Replies: 71
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| Bigfoot: Ever listen to "Coast to Coast" on the radio? On occasion they've had Bigfoot experts on and took calls. That one really famous video ("Patterson video") is a hoax: A zoom-in of the trunk shows what appears to be a belt buckle. Another tip-off it's fake: A lower primate ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Socially unacceptable" special interests |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2023, 10:42 pm
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Replies: 71
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RetroGamer87 wrote: My interestests aren't taboo, they're just boring to most people. The socially unacceptable thing is when I talk about them to uninterested people in mind numbing detail.
What are they? Maybe one is interesting to ME. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic adults exempt from jury duty |
| Elgee |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2023, 10:51 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,960
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| Scientific studies do indicate that autistic college students on average will be more logical than their allistic counterparts, they will not be swayed by different frames. For example, experimenters may ask college educated students whether they would take a bet if they have a 20 percent chance of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic adults exempt from jury duty |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2023, 10:36 am
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Replies: 55
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| OP: Are you saying that from a legal standpoint, Autistics are exampt from jury duty? Or that your friends think they should be? How insulting, this idea that Autistics wouldn't understand the tehcnical terms. ASD is NOT an intellectual handicap. We can be quite objective on a jury, whereas NTs woul... |
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