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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do you feel younger than your chronological age? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 10:51 am
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| Just yesterday, I turned 54 years old. My brother (who is three years older than me) phoned to say "happy birthday," and asked, "Can you believe that you're almost half way through your 50s?" I told him that I didn't feel that old at all. I feel much younger physically (perhaps like I'm still in my ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do you feel younger than your chronological age? |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 11:06 am
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| As long as I keep my head shaved most people think I'm 10 years younger then I am. When I'm with my kids people will ask them is that your dad but If I let the gray grow out on the sides they'll say is that your grandfather. Peoples perceptions are weird, and they say we look at thing differently. ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do you feel younger than your chronological age? |
| AspieInTraining |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2010, 2:14 pm
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| I have a theory about why I feel younger than my chronological age, and I think it applies to other aspies, as well (such as the person quoted above). As people achieve various milestones in their lives, they gain greater maturity, which makes them feel older. These milestones include completion of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too much honesty |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 10:56 am
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| AIT, I use that tactic a lot, but I also know it's not the panacea. People are not stupid and they know you're deflecting. Same if someone does it to me: I notice that they're deflecting. Still, it's better than telling them what they don't want to hear - which is the biggest affront you can do to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too much honesty |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2010, 4:17 pm
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| I won't claim to never lie, but I certainly never do it for no reason, so if someone asks me if I like something they just made, or if I like their clothes, or whatever, I'll tell the truth. It's better in the long term anyway. Today I asked a neurotypical friend (who has very good social skills) w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too much honesty |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2010, 5:56 pm
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| or here's a better idea: rather than learning how to lie, as that's how human society works...learn how human society works, so you'll be one step ahead every time, with no real reason to lie, except to protect oneself. Sometimes you guys just make these waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy. Learning how hu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too much honesty |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2010, 11:26 am
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| or here's a better idea: rather than learning how to lie, as that's how human society works...learn how human society works, so you'll be one step ahead every time, with no real reason to lie, except to protect oneself. Sometimes you guys just make these waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy. Learning how hu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Too much honesty |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 5:42 pm
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| Every time I am asked the truth about something, I find it impossible to tell a "white lie" because it does feel like I am not telling the truth so I find it very uncomfortable not to be completely transparent. Anyone else do this? Ever since I was a child, I have found it difficult to tell "white ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do you feel younger than your chronological age? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2010, 11:51 am
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| Do you feel younger than your chronological age? Whenever I'm at a party, group, get-together or whatever around people my age, I'm totally lost and consequently find myself alone with my thoughts or conversing with the kids. With peers I am reminded of how out of place I am. There's this obvious y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Mormons with Asperger Syndrome |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 6:00 pm
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Replies: 21
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| I am a 53-year-old female, who is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). I am happily married (for more than 25 years), and served an LDS mission to England. Although I have not been diagnosed, I strongly suspect that I do have Asperger's Syndrome (since many o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death and Grief |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 5:06 pm
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| The wakes, to me, are sick. People socializing and gratifying themselves with a dead person lying there. Bizarre. The only funerals I have been to are those conducted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), which is the church I belong to. At these funerals, there aren't any wa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death and Grief |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 4:44 pm
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| But I don't like going to funerals, I mean, that's a corpse, it's not the person I knew anymore, why should I care? I'd rather remember him/her from the happy times we spent together earlier, not as a decayed vessel laying stiff inside a box. I used to be freaked out by seeing a corpse in a box, ma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death and Grief |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 11:37 am
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| I think you're right. Being myself, not faking grief, seems like the right thing to do. As I think more about it, my mom's funeral should be a celebration of her life of more than 87 years, and a time when we should be happy that she can again be with her husband in the spirit world. It's true that ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do you feel younger than your chronological age? |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2010, 7:11 pm
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| I'm 53 years old, but I still feel like I'm in my 20's! In fact, when I tell people that I'm 53, they often say that I look much younger. Maybe they say that because I am thin, in quite good physical shape, and don't have wrinkles (due to avoiding excess sun exposure). I got married at age 28, but m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death and Grief |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2010, 6:01 pm
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| I recently learned that I may be an aspie (although I haven't been diagnosed). I've been reading books and online information about Asperger's Syndrome, and a lot (though not all) symptoms sound a lot like me. Because my widowed mother is 87 years old, and may not be with us much longer, I've been w... |
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