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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stimming with String |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 02 May 2006, 12:41 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 12,495
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| I love the feel of string or fibres running between my fingers and around my face. My mother lost more than one candlewick bedspread to my desire for the strings. It just feels good and right. Your hands are so sensitive and so is your tounge (although I don't put it in my mouth). I do remember some... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Walking dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 02 May 2006, 12:28 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,243
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| Oh yes! Just this weekend I had people bringing odds and ends like small metal tags to me and asking what they were (they were what was left of rotted telephone poles that had been used for landscape shoring in the 1950's). I can't spell, but my memory for things I've seen, touched, read or smelled ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Odd intonation/voice quality |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 3:40 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 6,549
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| I also have a very deep voice, deeper than most men's. It's also hoarse, especially if I'm struggling with having to talk to someone when I'm being sucked into non-verbal mode. My voice is also very flat affect, and while animals trust, listen to, and are comforted by my voice, other (nt) people alm... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you ever wished to be NT .....even for once ? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 3:34 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 5,949
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| To want to be different would sever me from who I really am. I can't even imagine it. Makes me kind of sick to even try and think about it! I could never write those essays in school where you were supposed to write about "who you would rather be". Duh. That's just so wrong it is sickening. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic friendly toothbruses |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 3:27 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,892
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| Yes, try one of the small headed, soft, kid's toothbrushes. I'm an adult with a small mouth and normal-sized, hard, brushes are terrible. I do like the Colgate battery one with the head that vibrates (doesn't rotate, just goes back and forth). Toothpaste is what really gets me. Why does it have to b... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Weird desire of mine, anyone else the same |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 11:36 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,633
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| My parents' idea of "affection" was incomprehensible to me. I could never understand when I was supposed to be affectionate, and when not. I also never figured out how to respond to offers of affection from them. If I acted on "You are not loving!" by hugging, I was just as likely to get slapped or ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: "Do you have a disability?" |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2005, 2:48 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,540
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| In the USA, I don't think they should be asking "do you have a disability?". I think they are only supposed to ask direct, job performance related questions -- like "can you alphabetize?", "Can you work more than 8 hour shifts if needed?". I thought the ADA prohibits straight up questions about disa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you talk about Asperger's Syndrome with your family? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2005, 8:01 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,411
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| Talking to my mother about AS healed wounds between us that have been there my entire life. I came close to hating my parents because they kept doing what I saw as sensless and abusive things. They were frustrated beyond belief with me because I am so bright but wouldn't conform to a single thing th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stimming on Sounds? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2005, 7:45 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,284
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Evil washing machine in unbalanced spin cycle.
It sets up this syncopated thing in my brain and I am struck dumb and blind and just get completely off on it.
God I love random, syncopated rhythms! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: rainbow posts |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2005, 3:07 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,651
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Tim_p wrote: It's not hard to read! *Smirk*
Evil one!  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Baren-Cohen Systemising Empathising Test |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2005, 12:09 pm
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,410
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EQ = 19
SQ = 68
Who doesn't wonder about the mechanics of things? Bah. I like the "almost no women score this high" text.
I did.
Maybe that's why I keep getting called "unnatural" by management.
I just got told I should be more "upbeat" and "perky". And more eye contact too.
Gah. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Range of Abilities |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2005, 11:44 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,821
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| Most troublesome: I agree, dealing with ambiguity. Peoples' contradictory, sloppy, evaluations and explanations. It reduces me to -- literally -- terror in short order. Coupled with that, their seeming inability to hear what I'm saying and appreciate that I'm saying exactly what I intend for them to... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Bi, Straight or gay.... |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 2:01 pm
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Replies: 177
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| vetivert: "Proud member of the Right To Wear Merkins Alliance" Niiiiiice :lol: Conjures memories of the Halloween I wore a flesh colored body stocking, an appropriately placed (entire, but tastefully trimmed) rabbit skin, and a raincoat. Was fun, that! re the topic... I think sexuality is too comple... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how do you wear your hair? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 10:15 am
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Replies: 85
Views: 7,067
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| Too many strangers asking "can I touch it?" I used to ask if I could grope their body parts in return, and found out just how many -- really many -- guys there are out there who like completely bald women. oh cmon. You ask a guy if you can grope a body part of his in return...Thats just asking for ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how do you wear your hair? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 8:26 am
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Replies: 85
Views: 7,067
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| My hair is mid-back length, very fine, straight, dark, and all I do is part it in the middle and let it dry. I tried other stuff with it, but this is what looks best and is easiest on me. Well, except for when I shaved my head. Completely. For a couple years. I let my youngest son shave it when I lo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What did you have dreams about, last night? |
| ashkelon |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2005, 11:45 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,564
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| In my dream last night, we moved our 45' camper out into a prairie field and set it down on a foundation of boulders and rammed earth. After that we covered the whole outside with adobe and reinforced it with cedar logs, then built an arbour and planted grape vines on it. My shoulders and arms ached... |
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