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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What do they ask your parents? |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 3:37 pm
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Replies: 4
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| For anyone who was diagnosed as an adult or older teenager, what did the doctors ask your parents? Were they interested in specific events, or general behaviour, or something else entirely? I'm still pondering seeking a diagnosis, but if I do, I'd like to prepare my parents beforehand, especially my... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: does anyone else like monasteries? |
| BainAduial |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 5:29 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,426
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| I love them, although I'm not sure symmetry plays a big part in it. I wanted to be a monastic hermit when I was a teenager, and I got very upset with my carreer counsellor when she pointed out that not only was this not a practical future, but that I wasn't a man, so I'd have to be a nun instead. Fo... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Why won't anyone help me? |
| BainAduial |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 5:23 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,158
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| Ditto to everybody else; I did something similar, only a year earlier. My problems exploded on me in Jr. High, and I went from being the top of my class to the bottom. No one could figure it out, I couldn't figure it out, I was struggling with everything, and I eventually just started blowing it off... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is positive about autism? |
| BainAduial |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 5:59 pm
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Replies: 59
Views: 6,277
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| All of the above, plus, I'm never (well, rarely) bored. There's always something to learn! Or to look at! Or to touch, because it feels furry/crinkly/whatever! Or to imagine; there are no ends to the imagination! And I always have someone to have a conversation with (granted, it's myself), so I can ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Obvious disabilities in people and reactions to it |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 5:36 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,814
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| I've had different experiences with this topic. Where I grew up, it was largely a matter of perceived mental disability. For instance, people would quickly strike up a conversation with a blind person, a person in a wheelchair, any number of other obvious physical disabilities, as long as they appea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does WP make you more Aspie? Or less? |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2008, 7:44 pm
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Replies: 22
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| I don't think it's changed my behaviour. What it's done is make me aware of my behaviour, especially things like eye contact. It's helped explain a lot about why I do things the way I do, and that other people do them to. Some of the people on here who have been dealing with their AS a lot longer th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Oldest, Youngest, Only Child? |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2008, 5:09 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,436
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| two in a row! I'm also the youngest of a set of twins. No other siblings. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism |
| BainAduial |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2008, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 972
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| Regarding the Star Trek series, I disagree on Spoke and Data in that for Spock, it is the normal traits of his Vulcan side and for Data, (it) is a programmed machine, designed to learn human traits at a very high level - and that trait learning is a central tenet of (its) character and the show's o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: dating sites |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2008, 10:45 pm
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Replies: 61
Views: 7,526
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| Okay, as a young aspie woman, and I really don't think I'm all that bad looking, I find this entire thread kind of off-putting. I like clubbing. I like to dance. I like going shopping, even. I'm perfectly fine with going out to the pub for a night. So this person's profile, other than being blonde a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting yelled at , being wrong, or failure. |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2008, 5:16 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 19,221
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| This is so me. Especially in my grade school days, I was terrified of being yelled at, and would try very hard not to cry whenever a teacher even mildly reprimanded me. I still have the same reaction with my parents and some of my professors these days. I ended up forming the habit of just clamming ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thumb/Finger Suckers? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2008, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,410
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| I sucked the index finger on my right hand, in all sorts of situations, for years. I don't remember precisely how old I was when I stopped; it was right before I started Grade 8, because that was when I got braces and a metal expander put in, and there was no room for the finger. I freaked out for ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thumb/Finger Suckers? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2008, 2:02 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,410
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| I sucked the index finger on my right hand, in all sorts of situations, for years. I don't remember precisely how old I was when I stopped; it was right before I started Grade 8, because that was when I got braces and a metal expander put in, and there was no room for the finger. I freaked out for s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Real life Heroes |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2008, 2:51 pm
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Replies: 18
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| J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis for famous people. Also some poets, but mostly it's the poems that are my inspiration, not the people who wrote them. James Joyce. Albert Einstein. Not so famous, my Jr. High marching band director, Ken. For a whole lot of reasons. If I ever amount to anything in my lif... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Names of fictional characters |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2008, 5:13 pm
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Replies: 8
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| All the time. I'll also, in the case of a movie or tv show, often become obsessive enough to know all the actor's names, ages, and other filmography. As a contrast to this, it took me almost seven months once to remember the names of five other people I saw every day for several hours. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic Spectrum Components 2.0 |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2008, 12:25 am
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Replies: 67
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| http://www.pttools.co.uk/asc/asc_wp_gif2.php?rbi=7.75&si=6.75&lg=3.25&poc=7.5&ir=5&rp=6.25&s=3.75&m=3.5 # Repetitive or restricted Behaviours and Interests (RBI) - Stereotyped, repetitive behaviours and interests # Social Impairment (SI) - Social understanding # Language... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Who should I tell? |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2008, 12:53 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 967
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| I'm in my third year of university (off and on, due to medical problems unrelated to AS), and I've only just figured out about my having AS. So since I've been coping okay up until now, without knowing what the problem was, I'm wondering who I should tell, or if I should keep it entirely to myself. ... |
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