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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What makes an event aspie friendly?

PhilipTraum
Posted: 15 Sep 2009, 1:48 pm 

Replies: 18
Views: 2,114
No bright or fluorescent lights. I prefer to work/be under well-shaded lamps or red light bulbs, or even by candle, but that might be going too far. No loud or disorganized noises or noisome activities. Twilight or nighttime. Controlled temperature, 50's or 60's.

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: People who don't "believe in" Aspergers?

PhilipTraum
 Post subject: The problem with words
Posted: 26 Aug 2009, 10:26 am 

Replies: 94
Views: 15,364
I think the word that trips people up isn't "Asperger's" but "disease," "disorder," or "syndrome" (or whatever word you choose to append to it). When you say you have a "disorder," "disease," or "syndrome," people expect you to be conspicuously crippled or disabled. This is generally not the case in...

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: Are all AS religious?

PhilipTraum
 Post subject: Nope, not religious
Posted: 26 Aug 2009, 9:54 am 

Replies: 313
Views: 29,077
I am a committed atheist, as well as my father and grandfather. I think genetic variation within the human gene pool probably explains Asperger's, not a God who took a special interest in you and made you different with some greater purpose in mind. Asperger's would have been positively maladaptive ...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: I am new here.

PhilipTraum
Posted: 21 Aug 2009, 12:00 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,295
I could not in fact make "no one" an option, since, strictly speaking, it is not an potential answer to the question posed. In that it denies the grounds upon which the question is posed, it is not an answer, but merely a way of declining to answer the question, in which case the question need only ...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: I am new here.

PhilipTraum
 Post subject: Okay
Posted: 20 Aug 2009, 3:32 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,295
Thank you for depositing this information. Should I say something about myself? I will tentatively assume "yes." I am 24 years old and I live in Boston with my cat. I am a graduate student in philosophy here. I began seeing a psychologist here after being misdiagnosed with depressive disorder and ob...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: I am new here.

PhilipTraum
 Post subject: I am new here.
Posted: 18 Aug 2009, 12:19 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,295
May I commence my introduction with a question? Is it common for immediate relatives (one's house-family) to be disinclined to recognize certain Aspergerian traits, but for other relatives and certain perceptive familiars to do so readily? (My mother and sister are adamantly against my doctor's tent...
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