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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: 15% of Americans agree that Tylenol causes autism |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2026, 5:48 pm
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Replies: 22
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| If you don't know what public opinion is then it is less likely you can respond appropriately to it. Fair point. Still, what does the public opinion matter in this case? Does it change anything? Scientists share what they know about the cause of autism and hopefully people will listen to that and c... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: 15% of Americans agree that Tylenol causes autism |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2026, 7:09 pm
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| Why make a poll asking people with no expertise what they think is the cause of autism? How could they possibly have an informed opinion on that? They might have a semi-informed opinion on the sources of information. Personally, I don't think people should be encouraged to voice their opinion about... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: I used to eat paper |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2026, 10:29 pm
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| During several of my teen years, I compulsively ate paper. Even after I stopped, for many years afterward I continued to feel the urge. I’ve never found a satisfactory explanation for why I did this. I’ve spoken with several mental-health professionals and read extensively about it. Pica (the eating... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Antisocial Personality Disorder and Autism different |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2026, 4:17 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I realize from watching old clips from The Sopranos that it must have been one of the first times I heard the term alexythimia, which Dr. Melfi brings up at one point in connection with ASPD. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Feeling like you will pass out |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 9:30 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I had that during Covid, but that was mostly because part of the source of my anxiety was being unable to breathe. I don’t think I was in real danger of passing out. The mind can play tricks on a person during anxiety attacks. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 7:45 pm
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Replies: 48
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| Regarding not being able to ID autism by looking at a chromosome like you can DS...maybe one day we WILL. But that doesn't mean until then, autism shouldn't be taken seriously when it's "mild." Agreed. And I want to be clear: the expansion in the diagnostic criteria for autism over the pa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 7:42 pm
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Replies: 48
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| I wish people would stop indiscriminately using the term "learning disability." This refers to a specific type of "difference," of which there's several, including dyslexia. dysgraphia and dyscalculia. I wish the APA would do away with "learning disability" because it'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 7:38 pm
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| It isn't a useful label like Down's Syndrome, in which everyone with it shares a number of similarities. Look up Mosaic Down Syndrome. It's kind of the Asperger's of Down Syndrome. I recently met a man with MDS. I didn't know it at first (you know how you can immediately tell when someone has Down'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 3:37 pm
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| Having a wide range of presentations under one label is not unusual. There are stages of cancer, and many subtypes(throat, lung, and on and on). These have widely varying presentations and treatments. There is no campaign to make them completly separate conditions. Burns, Pain, Flu similar. The Aut... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 12:19 am
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Replies: 48
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| When the film was released in 1988 his presentation was thought of as high functioning. When a psychiatrist was explaining autism to the Tom Cruise character he used the words “very high functioning”. It's been a while since the last time I saw it, but in an online transcript of the film I found th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2026, 12:14 am
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BTDT wrote: It isn't a useful label like Down's Syndrome, in which everyone with it shares a number of similarities.
Look up Mosaic Down Syndrome. It's kind of the Asperger's of Down Syndrome. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2025, 11:14 am
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Tamaya wrote: Some refer to mild Asperger's cases as just "high-masking", but I wouldn't consider myself that either.
My brother is low-masking--possibly no-masking--Asperger's. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Modern day autism stigma |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2025, 11:11 am
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| It's definitely been destigmatized overall. The biggest problem the subject has going for it is the rapidly changing terms and definitions. One of the reasons a lot of people continue to stick to the "Asperger's" term, after having been dropped from the DSM more than a decade ago, is that ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Is autism rights movement associated with left-wing politics |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 6:40 pm
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| Yeah, I think it’s got a bit of a lefty feel to it. Most disability-rights advocacy does, and there’s a strain of antipsychiatry on parts of the right that tends to view mental-health conditions (which autism gets lumped into) as signs of weak character. None of that means, of course, that it’s inhe... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Special interests vs. obsessions |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2025, 1:13 pm
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| The main distinction I've read about is that OCD obsessions are more like anxiety based and is initiated by anxiety. I think that's a reasonable distinction. I've often said that OCD is inherently unpleasant, whereas ASD behaviors are often pleasant to the person with ASD, even if they're weird or ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Special interests vs. obsessions |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2025, 5:28 pm
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| When you have both ASD and OCD, it’s sometimes hard to tell when a special interest ends and an obsession begins. Example. One of my special interests, going back to childhood, is song structure. Every time I hear a song, I break it down in my mind into its constituent parts: verses, chorus, bridge,... |
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