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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it possible to outgrow Aspergers? |
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Posted: 19 May 2011, 7:56 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 7,538
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| People should accept us or they can go to hell. It is discrimination. You either accept us for who we are or go away. Enemies force us to change, friends and family accept us for being who we are. You are either with or or against us? I suppose I am against your kind then. I much prefer continuing ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it possible to outgrow Aspergers? |
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Posted: 18 May 2011, 8:26 pm
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Replies: 60
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| The long answer, with how your brain is wired and the size of your working set, and the resulting bias in how you approach things, is no. The short answer, yes. You learn behaviors, develop skills, and the Disorder part falls away. You'll never completely be like the other monkeys, but you can live ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you tell people it's your birthday? |
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Posted: 18 May 2011, 8:20 pm
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Replies: 51
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| This year I got a handful of texts and calls, but kept it low-key. My wife and her family are big on birthdays and cards and little gifts. I guess I feel a part of the family. But I did manage to avoid a party and just spend the day with my wife doing a day trip to a place we both enjoy together. I ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why are you not vegan? |
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Posted: 15 May 2011, 12:44 pm
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Replies: 352
Views: 25,166
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| The vast majority of people rarely if ever eat plain, unseasoned, unsauced, unbreaded meat. I don't bread my meat or my vegetables. I have no problem with plain... But some seasoning and sauces add flavor to anything. The only reason we don't eat people is because you have to cook them well because... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Anyone from Northern Colorado |
| LP0rc |
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Posted: 12 May 2011, 8:11 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Let me know how it works out. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it true about kids with AS and Thomas the Tank Engine? |
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Posted: 11 May 2011, 7:39 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,629
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I pre-date the show.
But probably the first sign of something unusual was when I was just a few months old, and they had to pry away my little Tonka Jeep from me while I was asleep to stage a picture with the completely uninteresting teddy bear Grandma bought me. |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Will I be ever not lonely? |
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Posted: 10 May 2011, 11:08 pm
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Replies: 16
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| Self-perception is important, as is an appreciation that comedy is based on pain, and life is generally perverse. No, you will never not be alone. Even NTs are always alone. That's why they have such elaborate rituals and rules, to feel like they are a part of a group. Every once in a while we find ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I don't quite understand: NT's and empathy/consideration |
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Posted: 10 May 2011, 1:19 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,393
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| A few weeks ago I had an epiphany with my wife around the empathy issue. As it turns out, often she has a better idea of my emotional state than I do. My own assessment of my emotional state is highly filtered and based on I feel the way I say I feel. She sees a disconnect, and in the past I'd just ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it possible to have aspergers with good eye contact??? |
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Posted: 10 May 2011, 1:02 am
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Replies: 54
Views: 30,006
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| A marked impairment of eye-to-eye gaze can include overly intense eye contact that makes people uncomfortable. Ain't it grand when your problem is only a problem because someone else has a problem with it? I would think if others had more self confidence they would not have to read negatives into ev... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: what causes the social issues with aspergers? |
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Posted: 05 May 2011, 12:00 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,727
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| I believe it is a matter of working set and clutter. NTs see a wider field than we do, we see a narrower field than we do. When we learn, we skip parts of the process focusing on what we know to be important, but what is important to them is the process, not the result. NTs expend a lot of energy on... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Career test: Holland Code. |
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Posted: 02 May 2011, 1:44 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,311
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Your results for the Holland Code Quiz are as follows:
Realistic: 11
Investigative: 14 *highest
Artistic: 7
Social: 10
Enterprising: 6 *lowest
Conventional: 11
Your Holland Codes are as follows:
IRC ICR |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Who would you want to play you in a movie? |
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Posted: 02 May 2011, 1:21 am
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Replies: 45
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| I would portray myself, and would have a group of actors who looked nothing like me or each other portray my younger selves. We'd set it up in a style crossing Pulp Fiction, Snatch, The Producers, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There would be subtitles on the top and bottom of the screen, neither of ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Tell me about "Cutting", please... |
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Posted: 02 May 2011, 12:50 am
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Replies: 35
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| I knew a cutter. She told me a bit about her reasons, but I didn't quite get it. But then one day had an experience that gave me an epiphany about cutting. When you are emotionally hurt, frustrated, angry, and in despair, an injury like a cut is a wonderful relief. It is physical pain "on the outsid... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: An Aspergers Ability Test is Needed |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 10:01 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Look into the size of working set and short term memory, I believe they both may have a bearing, as well as executive function. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: It's possible that a NT can show few autistic traits? |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 9:54 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,831
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| My wife is not on the spectrum, but has some traits common to the spectrum. The source of the traits is not biological, but due to certain circumstances in her formative and teen years. A correlation from a different cause. All of us have personality traits and features of various disorders. One of ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What song is stuck in you head at the moment? |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 9:42 pm
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Replies: 124
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| All day I've had the intro and last verse of "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen stuck in my head. The only reprieve was during some research on writing Android apps and some musing on a thermodynamics problem. My day was like a G-rated Quentin Tarentino movie, surreal but... |
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