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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Extremes in Aspergers |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 10:30 pm
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Replies: 59
Views: 14,425
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| I tend to be very extreme in my attitudes to just about anything or anyone. I find it hard to see the the so-called nuances of situations. I hate people but I love humanity and I want to serve it in a positive way. I am very emotional and have very sharp changes of attitude and mood. People think I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Extremes in Aspergers |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 10:30 pm
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Replies: 59
Views: 14,425
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| I tend to be very extreme in my attitudes to just about anything or anyone. I find it hard to see the the so-called nuances of situations. I hate people but I love humanity and I want to serve it in a positive way. I am very emotional and have very sharp changes of attitude and mood. People think I ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: 5 Months Ago Healthy Then 5 Months of Hell Part I |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 8:30 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,634
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| This past July I was going about my business not doing much of anything when I started to have severe headaches and dizzy spells. I kept bumping into things and falling down especially at night. As I was 63 years old but it kept happening and got worse. I went to my local hospital, Florida Hospital-... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: 5 Months Ago Healthy Then 5 Months of Hell Part I |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2010, 5:40 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,634
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| This past July I was going about my business not doing much of anything when I started to have severe headaches and dizzy spells. I kept bumping into things and falling down especially at night. As I was 63 years old but it kept happening and go worse. I went to my local hospital, Florida Hospital-A... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What do you think of this poem> |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 9:07 am
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Replies: 0
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| Crocus Flower first to come first must go. By this rule flirting Crocus comes to fall. He manifests himself in soldiers cries And suicides atop tall ledges without eyes. He comes on bravely, promenades the field, Surveys the situation, will not yield. And now before him stretched in a mighty throng... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What do you think of this poem which I wrote some years ago? |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 8:46 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 866
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| Masoch to Brother Leo I am a faithless servant Who needs to taste and see The glory of the moment And the depths of frailty. To offer up my will for a thousand days To praise the shadow of my Lord. Or know torment and ecstasy At the unkept word Spoken to me. But for a dark and hidden visage, An ima... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: How do you deal with co-workers drowning in perfume? |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2010, 3:44 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,524
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| Why don't you gently draw close to her and confide in her that you like her and are sure you're going to have a wonderful time working together but that you have a problem that you don't know how to handle in that strong odors of any kind, good or bad, make you dizzy and give you a terrible headache... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Job interview physical gestures |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2010, 3:05 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,028
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| I'n not great being passively interviewed for anything and I have found after long years of interviewing for jobs that managers don't want to hear the truth as they are only interested in hearing what they want to hear. When I interview for a job I always try to learn what they want to hear and feed... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Are you employed? |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2010, 2:40 am
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,871
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| I was marginally self employed from 1988 to 2003 teaching about the history of massage and its clinical applications to chronic pain, but that work dried up soon after 911, and almost all of my other jobs were contract positions through agencies or my own efforts at finding work. My last job was wor... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Cheerful, upbeat, positive attitude- anyone else hate this? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2010, 2:24 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,981
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| How so? I don't fit anywhere. Everywhere is distressing and confusing. It's either too noisy or smelly or crowded and quite often pointless or worse. I don't understand people, don't feel comfortable, try very hard to understand, fit in, listen, interact. No employer has been dissatisfied with my w... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: What's The Worst Job You Ever Had? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2010, 2:01 am
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Replies: 78
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| I've had so many lousy jobs during the course of my long life. But one stands head and shoulders among the rest. I was seventeen years old and a day laborer for Manpower Personnel Services. They assigned me for a day to work at Teddy's Frozen Fish, a nearby assembler of frozen fish TV Dinners. The p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Trapped in My Own Point of View |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 10:51 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,065
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| I've come to realize that a major problem in my life is my inability to see things at work and home from anyone's point of view than my own. I really don't know or sometimes even care what others are thinking or concerned with. I feel trapped in this rigidly held position and don't know how to overc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Bizarre Way of Achieving Balance in My Life |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 10:42 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Everyone who's know me howbeit briefly had said and I concur That my way of trying to achieve some reasonable balance in my life is to race about at top speed running from one extremely position to another with out rest. How fatiguing and inefficient. Does anyone her have similar difficulties and if... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Profound Ambivalence |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 10:35 pm
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Replies: 1
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| I've got a big problem and I've had it for more than fifty years which I don't change for the better. I'm rxtremely ambivalent about getting involved with people, befriending them or having anything to do with them. After severe bullying since I was in third grade I haven't trusted most people. I di... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do self-diagnosers ruin it for the rest of us? |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 2:35 am
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Replies: 121
Views: 12,003
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| Anyone who without proper training and techniques available to make a knowledgeable medical diagnosis is creating a muddle of misinformation about the characteristics of people with AS. The word diagnosis is derived from two Greek word roots which mean "through knowledge," and guessing, hoping, or b... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Disabled 'wrongly denied' benefit |
| RichardP |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010, 1:38 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,919
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| I am in the USA and a medically diagnosed Aspie at 63 years of age, a little late to do much good in helping me fit into the world of everyday life. I have received Vocational Rehabilitation assistance four times but still have problems holding a job. I have learned that a good thing to do to bolste... |
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