| Author |
Message |
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nervous about sensory disorder / open to parents |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 11 Feb 2009, 8:42 pm
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 2,288
|
| The "Hypersensitive" column all the way down pretty much describes me. |
|
 |
Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Path to Diagnosis |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 11 Feb 2009, 11:28 am
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 1,169
|
| Well, I do have one point to make: learn to stop talking about "disorders." Embrace, instead, the concept of neurological differences and allow that to replace the more negative, medical terms you will be learning. Thanks! Yeah, as an autistic person myself I hate how dehumanized autistic people ar... |
|
|
Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Path to Diagnosis |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 11:41 am
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 1,169
|
| Hello. I want to go to medical school, and I will probably become a child neurologist specializing in neurodevelopmental disorders. I just wanted to ask, how did things go in getting your child diagnosed? Did your child's pediatrician suggest it, or did you go on your own? How long did it take? What... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: "We kill threads"; Threadkiller Society |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 11:31 am
|
|
Replies: 21,865
Views: 1,251,143
|
| It's impossible for this thread to die. No one will allow it. |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are u doing right now? (apart from being on WP) |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 11:29 am
|
|
Replies: 11,971
Views: 722,781
|
| Wondering why I keep waking up every morning feeling exhausted. And reading. |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Revisiting Empathy in Asperger Syndrome |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 3:10 am
|
|
Replies: 97
Views: 24,083
|
| My scores Fantasy:14 Perspective-taking: 10 Concern:17 Personal Distress: 15 No one I know in real-life would believe these scores. While my empathy might be less than the average persons, what I feel bothers me greatly. I am big into volunteer work, I hate the thought of hurting people's feelings, ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "You have the Aspergers" |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 2:51 am
|
|
Replies: 33
Views: 3,693
|
| ^ That "Autism Stereotype Violation" ticket is hilarious. |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Studies comparing HFA and AS |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 18 Jan 2009, 11:53 am
|
|
Replies: 49
Views: 3,982
|
| Wow, that's really interesting about the possibility of HFA people having more psychopathology than people with AS. It's just one studty, but it's an interesting finding nontheless. I don't quite fit into it's category, though. With my speech delay I would be under the HFA category. I have a lot of ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic Spectrum People and Being Touched |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 18 Jan 2009, 11:47 am
|
|
Replies: 71
Views: 23,372
|
| My sesory issues have changed recently, and I believe it's due to my new medication. Up until just recently I hated pretty much all types of touch. Hugs, firm or soft, made me feel claustraphobic. A light touch is awful--I involuntarily shiver, and have to wipe the sensation off my skin. My issues w... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Question related to language delays, peculiarities, etc. |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 14 Jan 2009, 6:43 pm
|
|
Replies: 19
Views: 2,706
|
| I only repeated what my family told me until I was four years old, and I was almost five before I began to speak on my own. However, by the time I was in kindergarden my teacher remarked on my "remarkable" vocabulary. And yet the psychiatrist told me that wasn't a speech delay, but "I was learning t... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Negative image user names |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 14 Jan 2009, 4:37 pm
|
|
Replies: 45
Views: 4,575
|
My screenname is also my RL nickname. That's why I use it.
I'm also with the self-depriciating humor comment. Though there might be some people with low enough self-esteem to even have a negative user name. |
|
|
Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A book hitting the myth of vaccines causing autism |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 14 Jan 2009, 4:18 pm
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 1,310
|
| Oh good, I thought the book wasn't out yet! I'll pick it up at the bookstore this weekend. |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: You know you're autistic when... |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 14 Jan 2009, 4:04 pm
|
|
Replies: 603
Views: 60,470
|
| I think the reason that NT's will remark on our behavior and yet, when we say we're autistic, they immediately go "that's normal!" because of possibly a few reasons: 1) they don't really think about the behavior in a systematic fashion. People may comment on odd behaviors, but they probably don't re... |
|
|
Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A book hitting the myth of vaccines causing autism |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 14 Jan 2009, 3:28 pm
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 1,310
|
| So there was an article two days ago in the New York Times (just found it) about a book called "Autism's False Prophets." The article can be found here . I think that we've had book that have debunked the myth that vaccines cause autism before, but considering this is getting attention from the NYT ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why? |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 9:41 pm
|
|
Replies: 47
Views: 3,665
|
| I don't know why, but I like it. I have a hard time understanding when people type in Netspeak or just poorly. A few to several mistakes is okay, but something like the "example" you have is hard to read. I'm also a writer. I use fairly decent grammar, punctuation, and spelling even in text messagin... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I think Wrongplanet has lost its way |
| Ryn |
|
Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 10:50 am
|
|
Replies: 145
Views: 10,816
|
| Really? Sometimes I feel really lacking in the social department. I haven't noticed any flame wars in a long time, and the trolls are just making their usual posts that I don't click on. Maybe I just missed them or something (though I'm not interested in finding them--drama is overrated). I feel com... |
|
|
| Sort by: |
