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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 10:28 am
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| I'm reading Temple Grandin's "Thinking in Pictures" (expanded edition). I've decided that my protagonist will be a pattern thinker with some visual emphasis/enhancement. I think this will be more consistent with her professional achievements than making her a visual thinker like Temple Grandin. For ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: author seeks AS or HFA consultant |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2009, 10:20 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,338
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| I'm reading Temple Grandin's "Thinking in Pictures" (expanded edition). I've decided that my protagonist will be a pattern thinker with some visual emphasis/enhancement. I think this will be more consistent with her professional achievements than making her a visual thinker like Temple Grandin. For ... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2009, 7:51 pm
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| I've been proceeding from the assumption that you are more accustomed to having the eyes of the diagnostic world upon you and have a higher awareness of differences between NTs and those with AS than someone like me. That assumption leads me to defer to your knowledge base on these matters. Like la... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2009, 7:30 pm
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| This is your version of terse?! Concise?! Succinct?! Whoa. :? You seem to think we know how NTs think... we don't. I have no idea what makes my creativity different from someone elses. I just hear about it from them. To me it seems perfectly ordinary, obvious, and reasonable. You might try reading ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: author seeks AS or HFA consultant |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 10:02 pm
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| Hi, all, To NTs who follow traditions and cultural norms, seminal events in life are typically things like "turning 16", getting a driver's license, making the team (be it football, track, hockey, lacrosse or whatever), first date, first kiss, entering high school, prom/homecoming (whatever that is)... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2009, 9:17 am
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Replies: 22
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 9:34 pm
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| Honestly that was too much text for me to read, but have you actually tried meeting people with HFA? Not everybody is the same, and if you were to meet a few HFA people you might learn a lot about it. Also, you could try making a survey on a site or just here. List symptoms and we can write about w... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 9:30 pm
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| I will repeat some previous requests for examples, and add a few more (and I'm trying to be terse!): Can you share specific examples from your life or from the lives of others with AS whom you know personally of the following. Again, please think of this as relating to you personally, not people wit... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 9:03 pm
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| Couple of things, maybe it's meant in a friendly way and certainly a number of people on the site use the term "Aspie", however some loathe it and find it patronising....sorry, but you might need to bear it in mind. Thanks for the warning, and apologies to anyone rubbed the wrong way. It was defini... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 8:38 pm
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| 2) if you require specific examples, how can you be capable of creativity and imagination? That is not a rhetorical question. I believe you must be capable of creativity and imagination, which entails asking yourself open ended questions. Do you mean if I require specific examples, YOU can't be cre... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 8:21 pm
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| Pick one thing, "dress" your character in it, and ask us what we think. We'll let you know, I assure you. Basically, my response goes like this: 1) there's no way I can imagine the kinds of behaviors which are described at a very high level in the "diagnostic summaries", Huh? Taking the first one..... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 5:52 pm
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| Some NTs can go on... :D Haha! Indeed! Especially me! Because of varying levels of executive deficits, such large, lengthy and involved posts are difficult to process, prioritize, and respond to for many AS/HFAs. Pick one thing, "dress" your character in it, and ask us what we think. We'll let you ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: author seeks AS or HFA consultant |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 10:24 am
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| Thanks, pandd! Your cupboards/sighing example is perfect! (I'm sure the description of such internally soothing behaviors as "non-functional" refers to the outward actions, not the inward effects.) I understand the motor mechanisms thing. Your example of tapping the face with a pen is exactly the ki... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 6:31 pm
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| Maybe I can bootstrap this thing with this post. In reading various sites describing Asperger's, I encounter descriptive terminology like the following. Please don't be offended by the way this is worded. I know it may come across as a list of flaws, but let's be plain spoken, shall we? -- Aspies ar... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: author seeks AS or HFA consultant |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 6:30 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Maybe I can bootstrap this thing with this post. In reading various sites describing Asperger's, I encounter descriptive terminology like the following. Please don't be offended by the way this is worded. I know it may come across as a list of flaws, but let's be plain spoken, shall we? -- Aspies ar... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: author needs AS or HFA consultant(s) |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 11:31 am
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| Hi, I'm writing a speculative fiction novel (first timer, but long in development) and need your help. One of the main characters is a woman, a prominent scientist, with Asperger's Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism, and having a consultant will always trump research. One of the main themes is obje... |
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