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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: I feel ashamed of my IQ score. |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2016, 12:05 pm
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| Please don't feel ashamed of your i.q. score. Intelligence can't be measured using any one simple test. My 12 year old daughter was tested last year for autism, but they didn't find it. What they did find is that she has a disharmonious intelligence profile- strong verbally, but weak on other areas.... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Siblings |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 4:50 pm
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| I'm grateful for your response, because I believe that this is how she feels too. Coincidentally she too brought out a card game, and they started playing it, followed by dressing up in gala dresses and pretending that they were dancing at a ball. I'm going to be alert to the need to establish more ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Teenage daughter |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 4:42 pm
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| In my limited experience as a parent, whenever I've done or said something that I regretted, admitting this to my kids helped repair the damage. I think that your daughter might need time to think things over, but if she knows that your door is always open even just to talk, (I hope that ) she'll re... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Siblings |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 4:34 pm
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| Thanks for your reply. She loves her sisters too. I'll ask her if she'd like headphones. Even though she likes peace, its probably healthy to have some degree of noisiness (and she often joins in or is the noisiest.) Perhaps if she'd been away for longer, she might have started missing us (and the n... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Siblings |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 4:15 pm
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| Yes, she does have a room where she could escape to, but mostly she doesn't want to go there (unless she wants to read or put nail varnish on or something.) She actually seems to want to be around people (and the chaos). This seems to be contradictory, but I can't explain it either. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Siblings |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 4:02 pm
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| My daughter, who is 11, just came back from staying ar her grandmother's. She seemed happy and was playing with her little sisters. Just before she went to bed we chatted. I asked her if she had enjoyed the peace and quiet at granma's. She said yes. I asked her if she would like to live like that al... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The old question - Do you BELIEVE in God? |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 12:21 pm
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| Nope. What god would create a transsexual aspie? A person who is not only born in the body of someone of the opposite gender, but someone who is unable to adequately communicate his feelings or even make proper sense of them? Only a malevolent god, and if one should exist, I would very much like to... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Bio Medication |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 11:44 am
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| All of you mums are brilliant. (Blondeambition, Liloleme) and all those mums who do so much. The world is such a good place when I think of people like you. I worked once with a non-verbal man with cerebral palsy- he could only move his eyes to communicate. There was a way using a book he had memori... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Rock Bottom |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 8:08 am
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Replies: 15
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| Where I live, there's a charity that offers children a one on one buddy with whom they can spend time with (my daughter has one for a few hours ever week). The girl is a young adult still studying to be a social worker but she's young enough to do fun things like Wii, and so forth. If you could find... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Rock Bottom |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 8:04 am
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| Is he being bullied? If he's being bullied, it needs to be nipped in the bud immediately. It's hard enough for an NT child to deal with, and it would be very hard for an autistic child to deal with imho. He might react even worse (behave badly) at home because he feels that there's no where to go or... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Bio Medication |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 7:49 am
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| Hello Lyrute, I have read about good results when children are given a gluten-free diet. It's a complicated thing to do but you could try it. It takes a lot of thinking and preparation. (I lost weight when I tried it- so that was a nice bonus!) I read Temple Grandin's book "Thinking in Pictures". Sh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Be wary of self diagnosis |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 7:33 am
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| I think that this is a very helpful thread to start. (Thanks!) |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The old question - Do you BELIEVE in God? |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 8:35 am
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| Yes, I do believe in God. An entity that began everything and always was, always will be, and amazingly wants a personal relationship with us humans (is concerned with us.) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I've found (maybe) my husband is an Asperger's |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 7:06 am
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| StuartN, I can't speak for HopingforHope, but the image I have is someone who is treated like dog excrement under foot. (There are some sorts of behaviour that are just unacceptable if you want to remain in a continuing relationship with someone. If he's calling her stupid or her culture stupid, the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I've found (maybe) my husband is an Asperger's |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 6:51 am
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| HopingforHope, the small rituals he has when entering a room or sitting at breakfast sound like OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). People with an autistic spectrum disorder can have OCD too. It becomes their way of reducing anxiety. Autism inclines people to be egocentric- it looks like selfishnes... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Bad Sensory Issues! - Need a Parents Advice, Please. |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 6:01 am
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| Hello MusicIsLife! I'm not really someone who has experience of these specific things and I hope that what I'm about to write is not too lame... It seems to me that you needed more time to develop attachment to your parents. Maybe this sounds really hippy-like, but kids often need a lot of simple co... |
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