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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Clubs and Societies |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2009, 7:24 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,572
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| Dang, you kind of got it in the neck, huh? I was just the silent-passive-invisible type myself, so nothing much happened to me. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Taking things literally |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2009, 12:38 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,025
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| I'm very good verbally, so the signs of this are so small, so few and so subtle in me that at first I thought it was an AS trait I just don't have. For example, when I was four my mother explained to me what the insect a tick is, and I said, "It's called a tick because it goes tick-tock." This was n... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Clubs and Societies |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2009, 12:23 pm
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Replies: 8
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| My mother signed me up for a softball team when I was seven and I really disliked it because I was embarrassingly bad both at understanding and at playing the game. I left the team at the end of the season without having made any friends there. When I was eight and making no friends at my new school... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Misunderstood Humor Due to Lack of Facial Expression? |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2009, 12:16 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,366
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| Once when I was eleven we had to practice interviews and the only thing the other kids could find wrong with mine was that I hadn't smiled enough. I thought that ridiculous. Why should I go round grinning like an idiot? I wanted to be taken seriously. I also have sometimes been told that I look bore... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is "a preference for sameness and routine"? |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2009, 2:30 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 7,834
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| To be sure, many of the small routines I still automatically develop, such as microwaving macaroni cheese in a certain way and checking my email in a certain order, could be found in lots of NTs. I think, however, that it's possible to tell the difference. When I was a child -- and still, for that m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Misunderstood Humor Due to Lack of Facial Expression? |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2009, 2:03 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,366
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| Story of my life. Aged fifteen, I was invited over by a classmate on the spur of the moment. I had not been expecting this and I felt flattered and pleased, but also surprised and awkward. Returning from a bathroom trip I said to her, "Why didn't you tell me I had pen on my face?" This was meant to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thoughts on the AQ Test |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2009, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,900
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| I always thought I was good at visualisation, but as you say, it's difficult to tell that sort of thing since you can't watch anybody else's mental movies. I like precision, so I've sometimes set myself to remember people's birthdays and when I do that I can, but a lot of the time things like that s... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: UK Student arrested ... for being honest |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 1:01 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 4,544
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| Theft by finding? What in the heck? |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Early signs of a 'special interest'? |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 12:47 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,616
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| I didn't have a special interest at that age either. This started at about seven, when I made up an imaginary world inhabited by a family of bears and talked about it nonstop. Then I became very keen on the Middle Ages -- it was always, "Mummy, what would we be like if we lived in the 1300s?" and re... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Do you think sometimes really bright people are misdiagnosed |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 12:34 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,796
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| I think it can work the other way round, as well: a very bright, very verbal person with AS is usually going to be better and more quickly able to camouflage his social difficulties. Here's an interesting article on the relationship between AS and giftedness, with a comparison checklist: http://www.... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Going to UNIVERSITY for the FIRST TIME and having AS |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 12:23 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 4,758
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| As I've said in another thread here, I was really worried about losing my friends from school when I went to uni, but I found it easier to keep in touch with them than I'd ever have thought. About uni itself -- it'll begin with something called Freshers' Week, during which everyone gets drunk and ma... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: school proms/balls |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 12:17 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 8,069
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| I wasn't going to go to my junior prom, but my friends prevailed upon me. I voluntarily went to my senior prom, and even allowed my friends to dress me up and do my hair and put makeup on me, as I had done at an earlier dance that year. I can't dance, but I was all right. The best thing about the wh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Gifted Aspie children and interaction with adults |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 12:06 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,235
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| I know exactly what you mean. I always hated to be patronised by adults, and I didn't like it when adults patronised other kids, either. In my adolescence it became very important to me to be treated as an intellectual equal by intelligent, educated adults. By the time I got to university my social ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is "a preference for sameness and routine"? |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 11:59 am
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Replies: 28
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| Another thing I used to do -- there was a particular brand of frozen macaroni and cheese I used to eat a lot as a kid, and I had a routine when eating it, chewing and swallowing in a particular way and a particular order. I liked doing that, though, because I liked the food. A preference for samenes... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Come My AS seems not as strong as I get older? |
| rhubarbpluscustard |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2009, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,079
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| It's possible to be diagnosed with residual AS, meaning that you had the characteristics when you were younger but have now outgrown/masked/learned to compensate for them enough that they don't affect your functioning much. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is "a preference for sameness and routine"? |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2009, 4:11 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 7,834
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| When I was little I read that the Romans considered the right hand, and the right side generally, better than the left, and being right-handed I adopted this principle. When one's shoes are tied the knot, of course, loosens slightly as one walks around, and I made it an inflexible routine to tie my ... |
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