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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What are you doing this Valentine’s day? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2024, 3:46 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,142
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| I had my girlfriend over from Monday to Tuesday. She was on duty in her job this Valentine's day so we had a meal at a Beefeater on the Monday washed down by going twos on a bottle of wine. St Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Miscommunication with my line manager |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2023, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 848
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| And if you do a rush job on that 1 you would tire yourself out and get overloaded and 2 do a poor job anyway. It is like that you couldn't win. So no wonder you feel the way you so. I had similar experiences with the neurotypical person who came into our self advocacy group and tried all the making ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: BPD or Autism? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2023, 10:25 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,076
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| I was misdiagnosed with a lot of conditions from type 2 intellectual disability as a baby because the GP inappropriately prescribed valium. in 1988 I was given a misdiagnosis of schizoid personality disorder and put on an overdose of carbamazepine. I only had temporal lobe epilepsy and absence seizu... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I give up with recruitment agencies! |
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Posted: 05 Aug 2023, 8:01 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,272
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| In 1986 I applied for a job as a lab technician or something similar. I was told by the agency the job had been filled. I just left it at that. I had a phone call later from them saying they had work available which was nothing to do with the position loading lorries with sweets from the Mars firm i... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are you eating?/Last thing you ate? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2023, 7:06 am
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Replies: 19,220
Views: 793,278
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Ben n Jerry at half eight.  : |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Bullied into adulthood |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2023, 10:10 am
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Replies: 117
Views: 27,802
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| I have been bullied since 1974 by family and everyone else in my neighbourhood when I was growing up didn't want to be friends so I really haven't had genuine friends. I also think there is a spectrum of exeriences of societal bigotry that can be encouraged. When I have spoken about this when I was ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What medication helps you? |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2023, 2:43 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,243
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| When I was about 21 I was diagnosed with epilepsy on which my neurologist put me on ethosuximide for simple absence seizures which progressed from temporal lobe epilepsy. I ended up on 800 mg of carbamazepine for seizures which the medication left me feeling like a zombie or often drowsy. I was stil... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: An epilepsy question. |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2021, 11:36 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,469
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| I had my first seizure in 1974, the second one I had in 1977 and another one a few months later, these would have been labelled or thought of a temporal lobe epilepsy. A few years later then they developed into absence like seizures then and then falling over ones which weren't really tonic clonic s... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Predator Blindness |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2020, 9:37 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 11,981
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| Since 1974, nearly everyone just pretended to be friends only to see what they could get out of me and nothing more or pure bullying and hate even from my own family have acted as social predators by making sure I was surrounded by such people, either predatory or parasitical. Anyone who called them... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NT Friends /people you know( you don't know) |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2020, 10:24 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 537
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| I only had one friend who was NT in 1977 that didn't last long because he moved away and I last saw him back in 2005. . Others pretended to be my friend but only to see what they could get out of me and nothing more. I wasn't expected to have boundaries. Genuine friends from the non autistic communi... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Can two Autistic people work in a relationship? |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2019, 1:04 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 679
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| I've been in a relationship with my current girlfriend for nearly four and half years (will be January 13th). The longest I have been in a relationship with anyone and we both have Asperger syndrome which is what we really understand about each other. This can help with relationship maintenance and ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: before the big bang |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2019, 11:07 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,905
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| To work that one out, theoretical physicists must come up the way to reconcile quantum physics with general theory of relativity. The thing is both feature alternative universes in both general relativity and the possibility of what's on the other side of a black hole and other rips in spacetime fab... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you notice when you don't get along with others? |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2019, 10:36 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,983
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| Yes I do notice when I am not liked right from the start. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When did you first notice you were different from NTs? |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2019, 10:32 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,233
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| I always knew I was not neurotypical from the get go. My mum was always telling everyone that she knew that there was something different about me. That started when I was a baby with that delusion or gaslighting that I had 'suffered brain damage as a baby' and she said a doctor told her so and was ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is your family accepting? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2019, 10:37 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,323
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| No, my family are not accepting they tried to gaslight me for 36 years into believing I had a disability that I didn't have. That was way before Asperger syndrome was in my vocabulary. I went to the worst school possible. My dad was a filthy child beater who regularly beat me for the most trivial th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What has been your overall experience with non-autistics? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2019, 3:27 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 892
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| Most of my experiences of NTs were awful. They still make the excuse of which the oldest is ignorance or being uneducated. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be kind and try to understand it is like they want to use ignorance like a get out of jail card. A few non autistics but not many can be ig... |
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