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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Can an aspie be a good teacher? |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2006, 5:32 am
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Replies: 47
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| Hi Bombergal, I have been teaching for 35 years. I have taught N, K grades 1 through 12 in Australia and in the USA in a variety of schools, plus I have worked in special schools and early intervention programs as well. I was once employed to teach demonstration lessons in the [now defunct] campus s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Talking after first waking up |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2005, 1:50 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,437
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| From late childhood I always tried to get up and have breakfast before everyone else as a way, I think, of getting myself organised and ready to face the NT world. I just do not want to talk in the early morning until I have got moving and done some chores or been for a walk or a bike ride. To have ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Guilt over lack of emotional/social connection |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2005, 1:43 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,656
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| Why on earth would I ever feel guilty about being me? If I care for and about someone it is a cognitive-based caring, not empathy-based. I care about people in a logical and action-based manner, but never emotionally. My emotions are mine and not for display, nor do I want to share or experience the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Info on Asperger Syndrom in Adults |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2005, 6:39 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,326
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| Ender wrote: "Well I'm 53 but not officially diagnosed, I suspect there are few people in their 30's up that are... If you are surviving there is little point (at my age, in my opinion) to get one." My colleagues in disability services diagnosed me when I was 45, and that was OK except that I contin... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does it annoy you when someone smiles constantly? |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2005, 7:11 pm
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Replies: 42
Views: 7,726
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| Chamoisee wrote: "I don't hate them, but I have an innate distrust of such people. I am far more comfortable around people once I have seen them irritated or angry." [NT] people who smile may be nice and safe or may be devious and unsafe, but angry NTs are more likely to be showing you the real pers... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Describe Mind Blindness. |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2005, 6:41 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,783
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| Aspie 1 wrote: "Maybe that's because I've been conditioned to associate laughter with negative things, from being bullied all my life. The negative association is starting to go away, but it's still hard to grasp the concept that people would actually not laugh at me." Yes!! It is hard to grasp that... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting Beat Up |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2005, 4:36 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,385
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| Hi Folks, The bullying started in grade 6 and continued through school. I was strangled unconscious by two much bigger lads in year 11 as we waited for a teacher to come to the class-room. I told no one as there was no point; I realised I had to fight my own battles - no adult was ever going to be t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Facilitated communication and LFA's |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2005, 8:56 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,293
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| Hi Folks Facilitated communication is claimed to allow apparently very low functioning or seriously physically impaired people to articulate their wants and needs through the mediation of another person. It was all the rage in the 1980s and early-1990s and there was a film made ["Annie's Coming Out"... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are meltdowns only a symptom of autism or... |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2005, 4:34 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,501
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Hi Folks,
I think people with Prader Willi Syndrome can escalate to pretty intense episodes of out-of-control behaviour; they need high levels of structure to cope as do we.
Jim Crawford. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The article about synesthesia. |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2005, 4:07 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,387
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I sometimes smell things such as cigarette smoke when I see some one in the distance smoking. It is subtle but when it has happened I have been certain that I was not in a position to actuallycatch the actual smoke ffrom the cigarette.
Jim Crawford |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thread for Aussies (and Australasians) |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2005, 4:04 am
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Replies: 56
Views: 6,656
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Hi Folks,
I was born in Melbourne and live in Garibaldi, south of Ballarat [Victoria] on a small farm.
Jim Crawford |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Saying someone's name, or mentioning it. |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2005, 1:20 am
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Replies: 57
Views: 23,996
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| Nocturnal owl wrote: "But I never seem to like mentioning or calling out people's names, not even the username or anything." I avoid using first names of people, the more so with people I know well, or I change their name in some fashion by abbreviating it or changing pronounciation. I do this to ke... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Meltdown (what is a...) |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2005, 11:20 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,147
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| I describe a meltdown as a disintegration of one's sense of being [Self] in terms of time and space - in other words one's perception of a coherent reality or environment surrounding one and one's Self being intact in reference to that coherent external reality. I know that when I am starting to los... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Institutionization of Autistics in the past |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2005, 12:24 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,171
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| Hi Folks, I worked in or visited a number of institutions in the US and Australia in the 1980s and early 1990s. In Australia, aside from those clients with clear intellectual disabilities, including those presenting with Down's Syndrome, ASD, and other developmental difference, it was common practic... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NTs as the enemy |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 9:23 pm
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Replies: 63
Views: 6,802
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| Coded wrote: "I don't know what I would do without the rare few good NT friends I connect with. I call them my translators because they convert what I say into what I mean so that others can understand me." While I do not use the word "friend" - I prefer acquaintances - I agree with Coded. I would n... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Near Sightedness as a Possible Contributing Cause to AS |
| Jim_Crawford |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 12:53 am
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Replies: 46
Views: 5,402
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| Hi eamonn, Now I understand what you are meaning: "the literature i have read points out the majority of autistics arent caused by brain damage just that it can happen through brain damage." In 1979 I was teaching in a Chicago special school and one of my students, aged 15, was to all intents and pu... |
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