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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: but may not become fully manifest until social demands excee |
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| Looks like your thread title got truncated. I guess it was meant to say "ASD social traits may not become manifest until social demands exceed the subject's social skills," or something similar? If so, my personal experience is that some situations exceed my social skills, while others don... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you make friends when people think you’re weird |
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| Yes, not everybody is easily weirded out, and not everybody is weirded out by the same things. So finding different people may help. Also you might be able to do a bit of work on your behaviour to better match it to the people of your choice. Of course you can't become a completely different person,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: China Gene Editing Creates Autistic Dogs |
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| I suspect that to be a reckless and cruel experiment that will do little or no good to anybody and may well have caused the dogs to suffer. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Would you let people make a spectacle of you |
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| No. To me, loneliness is a miserable thing to be avoided at all costs, but avoiding it is a matter of finding good company, not company that would make a spectacle of me. And I'm not exactly scared to be alone, I just hate it when it gets chronic and depressing. OTOH if I saw no alternative I'd take... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Was Jesus really God? |
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| ^ Yes it looks fairly clear that he existed. I would think that also the Gospels had at least some veracity when it comes to the details of the ideology he expounded and various tales of his life - it seems unlikely that they invented the whole shebang - the miracles are much harder to sell to the r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do autistic people talk to themselves? |
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| I'm the only person who will listen to me apart from my psychiatrist. you took the words right outta my mouth! for most of my life nobody would listen to me or they would misconstrue me to the point where i wished they just didn't hear me at all. Good communication is hard, I think. And even when i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: School Cafeteria |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:10 pm
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| I ended up spending my school dinner money on junk food. My mother didn't know I was doing that. I didn't have much trouble with the school dining room as such, and don't remember any sensory issues, but there'd be a teacher watching over us who came down on me for "not eating a substantial mea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is this typical with autism? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:47 pm
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| https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y126/labile/Everyone_knows.png vs https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y126/labile/lower_intelligence.png Those were contrasting opinions as to how intelligent I am. Yes I think it's common in autism. From time to time over my life people have said things to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you ever forget what you did right after you did it? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:12 pm
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| Yes I get that, and it seems to happen more when I'm stressed or trying to work too quickly (a common effect of being stressed, in my case). But it's not always stress-related. It can be an attention thing - I often shift my attention onto other matters without giving myself time to fully take stock... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do autistic people talk to themselves? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:44 pm
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| I'm the only person who will listen to me apart from my psychiatrist. you took the words right outta my mouth! for most of my life nobody would listen to me or they would misconstrue me to the point where i wished they just didn't hear me at all. Good communication is hard, I think. And even when i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do autistic people talk to themselves? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:10 pm
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| To rehearse lines. But in our case not in scripted plays but to redo past real conversations with people ...to figure out a better outcome. Ah, there is that. I've certainly rehearsed lines with the intention of making them sound more palatable, but I've never done much rehearsal of past situations... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do autistic people talk to themselves? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:57 pm
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| I do that when I'm alone. I think it's because when I speak my thoughts it seems to make them more clear. There could be an element of loneliness-alleviation in it too. It might fool the brain into thinking it's got company. Yes one downside is that some people will think you weird if they notice yo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: That slippery word "woke" |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:32 pm
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| I use the word "woke" all the time. I'm actually a centrist, and I do have conservative stances on some issues. But I think conservatives tend to get carried away with throwing around the word "woke". Do you use it to mean "properly aware of institutional racism," or &... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Conservatives Cancel Breakfast Cereals |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:39 am
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| ...they don't think that maybe boycotting their child's favourite breakfast cereal on ideological grounds might lead to their kids to grow up seeing their parents as a bunch of killjoy fanatics? Not that this has ever happened before, right? :roll: Took more than being denied a bowl of Sugar Puffs ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Did anybody else grow up in an atheist household? |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2023, 10:40 am
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| We didn't do God. Mum never mentioned religion. Dad mentioned it infrequently to mock it, except that later in his life when Mum died he simply said that the vicar who paid him a visit was a nice chap. My parents did send my sister to Sunday school, but it's not clear why, and it had little effect. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fired my doctors |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2023, 10:34 pm
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| I approve of the attitude, that you are the boss and as such you get to hire and fire. I don't know if it's easy to switch doctors in the UK. It's possible the client has to live in the doctor's catchment area. I've always been lazy about it and just gone for the one who's nearest to me. I'm dissati... |
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