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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I thought I'd ask the experts |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 10:30 pm
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| I'd say there's a good chance you do if it was suggested when you were a kid by a professional. I can't diagnose based on what else you mention, but that's a pretty good indication, in my opinion. See how much you can relate to the basic sorts of issues. Sensory sensitivity, narrow interests, litera... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: late bloomers |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 5:17 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,793
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| I've actually never met a person who hasn't had higher and higher scores on IQ tests throughout life. Your actual IQ is supposed to remain fixed/consistent, but they haven't found a way to measure it so that it remains fixed. This idea of measuring intelligence is itself flawed, of course, but I've ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Describing Aspergers to NT's as plainly as possible |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 5:11 pm
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Replies: 14
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| For me, sensory sensitivity is one of the biggest issues, and explains why I dislike social interaction, physical contact, unexpected changes in routine, and so on. It's all simply "too much" and causes me to overheat. It's amazing how much more smoothly I function by quieting the stimuli in one mod... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: late bloomers |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 4:59 pm
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| It really depends on the test. I recently scored 140 on a test but scored lower when I was younger, and between the earliest test and the most recent, I had an even lower score than the initial one. I think it depends more on test than anything -- especially TIMED tests. Usually an untimed test will... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Broad Autism Phenotype Test |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 4:54 pm
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Replies: 105
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| You scored 117 aloof, 98 rigid and 96 pragmatic, 6% on diagnosis. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 1938 paper by Hans Asperger |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009, 7:13 pm
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| I thought Tony Atwood's book was informative. It seemed filled with considerably less jargon than other texts I've read about the Autistic Spectrum and Asperger's. I think the best way to gain a full understanding is to research as many different resources as possible. I've read a half dozen or so b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did your parents try to change you? |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2009, 6:40 pm
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| My parents were encouraging of me in some ways, but used to make me feel very guilty about not making eye contact; a frequent response was "look at me! It's very disrespectful not to look at people when they are talking to you." I can now understand what they meant, since it's very hard for me to ma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Others' Mentioning AS In Your Company |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2009, 8:24 am
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Replies: 7
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| I've had it happen to me a few times recently that I can remember. Once when I first spent extensive time with my girlfriend's mom, and she told a story of how in a fencing club she is a member of there was a boy with Asperger's who threw a tantrum when he failed a match. The moral of the story was ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Others' Mentioning AS In Your Company |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2009, 10:14 pm
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Replies: 7
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| This is a specific sort of question, and I apologize if it has been addressed, but do you ever find, with people to whom you haven't mentioned you are an aspie (most people for many here, I imagine), and given that your Asperger's isn't immediately noticeable or glaring, that Asperger's or Autism is... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Self diagnosis" trends...source of ridicule |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 8:18 pm
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| I'm self-diagnosed but like others do not "broadcast" -- there is no reason for it. I shared the information with my girlfriend and it comes up from time to time and can be helpful in dealing with "issues." I mentioned it also to my family and they shrugged a bit; I don't think it was going to infor... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Are People So Stubborn |
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Posted: 21 May 2009, 2:19 pm
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| Probably they were upset and offended because all but one of the people (who probably left the book at home anyway) knew it wasn't them, and thus felt mocked or put out in some way by your insistence on checking every book. To me this seems clear...maybe it seemed to them that you weren't being very... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: A Radical New Autism Theory |
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Posted: 17 May 2009, 11:54 pm
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Replies: 15
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| The first thing I thought was "not groundbreaking at all," since it really isn't. No one is without empathy; all human beings have feelings and are able to feel for others on some level. I read it as a layman's run-through of the spectrum for people who have never read a single page on it before. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old were you when you first started reading? |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2009, 10:53 am
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| This is a difficult question, because I don't remember the act of learning to read very well; I vaguely remember using the simple picture books provided by school in first grade, and I can remember reading through all of them very quickly, from the easiest to the most difficult. I never remember str... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What are stimming behaviors? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2009, 5:00 pm
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Replies: 58
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| I fidget with my fingers, one of my favorites is touching each finger to my thumb back and forth. . Yes, this is one of my favorites too. I do it while walking if I have extra energy or am nervous. Most of my "stimming activities" are related to my hands; I've been a piano player since aged seven a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thinking in Pictures, but Faceblind? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2009, 1:51 pm
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Replies: 21
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| This is interesting to me. I've never related too strongly with the descriptions of Autistics and Aspies as having visual thinking; in fact, I identify more with overexpressed verbal and aural capacities. To me, this makes more sense along the lines of face-blindness. On IQ tests, for example, I oft... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Aspie thought Highly Associational? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2009, 1:01 pm
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Replies: 24
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| Jamin; nice description. This is similar to what I experience (which box to choose...uh oh, not enough time for all of them, should I stick with just this one, or that one over there, or maybe this one, hmm...and the boxes always contain more inside than was imagined from external viewing), to the p... |
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