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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Strategies for overcoming AS/ASC social interaction problems

Philogos
Posted: 09 Apr 2011, 12:23 pm 

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Alright. In light of the discussion above, one additional problem area in AS/ASC social interaction has to do with social norms and expectations. What might be some practical strategies for dealing with this? I'd like to remind everyone that the purpose of this thread is to identify the specific iss...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Strategies for overcoming AS/ASC social interaction problems

Philogos
Posted: 08 Apr 2011, 12:23 pm 

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I know what your saying, NT behavior is based on roles, imitation, etc. Its really second nature to them. Even tho most NTs are imitating to some extent, they at least know the reasoning beneath their actions. Whereas an aspie could just do a certain behavior and not know the reasons why a certain ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Strategies for overcoming AS/ASC social interaction problems

Philogos
Posted: 08 Apr 2011, 1:45 am 

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I think ur original post was more like strategies in how to better fool people into coming off as NT and not come off as outwardly awkward. Many aspies already fool people as it is, me being 1 of them. Sure I come across as pretty normal surfacewise but when you dig deeper...there are tons of gaps ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Strategies for overcoming AS/ASC social interaction problems

Philogos
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 11:06 pm 

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Have you read kfisherx's thread on her experience with a social training program for adults? Good stuff! :idea: This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for. I feel like this can drastically improve our outward apperance so we can put on a more NT apperance but it wont eliminate many of the ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Strategies for overcoming AS/ASC social interaction problems

Philogos
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 9:07 pm 

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The difference between AS/ASC (at least high-functioning autists) and NT social interaction seems to boil down to only a handful of specific problems. As far as I know there are about four core issues to tackle (if there are others, please mention them). So assuming these can be solved we could all ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: nature of your special interests

Philogos
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 1:33 am 

Replies: 26
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1. Do you pursue them by accumulating info on a topic; collecting items related to topic; talking to people re: topic; reading the same books/watching the same movies again and again but not collecting more info about book movie; thinking or fantasizing constantly about topic or what combination of...
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