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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Ever done something like... |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2010, 11:11 am
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| I make coffee by filling a cup with water and heating it in the microwave before adding instant coffee. I have lost count of the number of times that I have walked into the kitchen, pulled a cup out of the cabinet, filled it with water and upon starting to put the cup in the microwave, I find anothe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aversion to eye contact and photographs |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 11:46 am
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| I enjoy looking into the eyes of a photographed person because it's the only way I can look into eyes. Joining WrongPlanet has made me more aware of this issue, and the fact that people may be looking at me even though I'm not looking at them. I had fallen into the assumption that in a temporary, p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Aversion to Eye Contact - Phobia or... Something Else? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 12:11 pm
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| 2. Pick a spot on someone's face. I tend to aim for the spot between the eyes. This requires a bit of practice on the timing because you can't stay like that forever. About every 30 seconds or so you need to look away. I tend to look just a little to the left or right of the person's head and look ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aversion to eye contact and photographs |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 11:52 am
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| Unless you already know the person in the picture, how would you know they were introverted or extroverted? Intuition often comes with an 'inner knowing' attribute that says, "This is truth" and it just knows, but my logical side wants to test my intuition's perceptions anyway, particularly things ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Aversion to Eye Contact - Phobia or... Something Else? |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 8:25 am
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| Alright, so I'm in entering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to address my social phobia. I don't know if it is the proper treatment process, but my thinking process is that this cannot do much harm. It just might hurt a little. Anyways, in the support group, I'm trying to actually speak. I actually ans... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aversion to eye contact and photographs |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 7:54 am
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| On the subject of people who are ASD being uncomfortable with eye contact, I am curious about portraits of people where the subject was looking straight into the lens of the camera when the photograph was taken. When I look at such a photograph it has the appearance to me of making eye contact with ... |
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Forum: Stats Topic: Are you physically disabled |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 11:40 am
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| I have Auditory Processing Disorder. This is protected by the American Disabilities Act. This is classified as a hidden disability. About all that ADA protection does for you with APD is gets you special assistance when taking college courses, maybe high school too, I don't know, and it can be usefu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Stimming"--good or bad? |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2010, 2:00 pm
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| Another way that I stim which tends to be a somewhat more acceptable approach is playing stimulating music to myself via headphones. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Stimming"--good or bad? |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2010, 7:13 pm
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| Her psychologist one day told me that if she didn't stim, she would have more time in the day for doing productive things such as more typical play such as dolls or puzzles. He said that I should redirect her stims and eventually she would replace them with coloring, dressing dolls and things other... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Stimming"--good or bad? |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2010, 6:29 pm
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| So what is hand flapping? I move my hands a lot. But I wouldn't call it flapping. I have trouble since the word flapping invokes an image of a profoundly disabled person curled up in a corner rocking and thrashing. It's a terrible, hurtful stereotype, I know. Part of the "I'm not a freak" defensive... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Who here has ADHD? |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2010, 3:55 pm
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| I got myself tested for ADHD, and all of the results said boarderline. I do experience many of the it's symptoms, including the easily being distracted, and needing to stim, though I seldom rock forward and backward except when also sitting in a rocking chair, but I love sitting in swivel chairs. I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2010, 9:12 pm
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| I do not see the point of small talk, There are people who are made to feel comfortable when hearing it, or by being involved in it. I don't see much use in it either, but I have learned to use it as a tool to put others at ease who are around me, and sometimes I can use it to put a smile on their ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2010, 8:59 pm
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jpfudgeworth wrote: I dont understand when I use synonyms for words and ideas that people have said to me, and they act like Ive misunderstood them.
Can you give me any examples? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2010, 4:22 pm
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| How they show very little empathy for us, yet they expect us to have empathy for them. this, completely For me to empathize with you, I must find something in me that is like you, or similar enough that I can create a mental image of what it is like to be you and then mentally run this created imag... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2010, 1:30 pm
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Surfman wrote: Flash cars. I drive low end budget econo boxes, and cant understand the whole luxury car thing.
This I think is a combination of the status of owning one, what it says about you/them to other about you/them as it's owner, and how that makes you/them feel. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2010, 1:26 pm
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| How they show very little empathy for us, yet they expect us to have empathy for them. this, completely For me to empathize with you, I must find something in me that is like you, or similar enough that I can create a mental image of what it is like to be you and then mentally run this created imag... |
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