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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Woo hoo--I am a university graduate |
| Jumla |
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Posted: 23 May 2012, 4:29 pm
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Replies: 17
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Congratulations, LL! 
Where to from here? Are you off to grad school? |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Teachers make me move to the front of the class. |
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Posted: 07 May 2012, 11:19 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 6,391
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| Here is an autism advocate's creative spoof re-write of DSM-IV, which I think is better than the original! :D http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/12/20/if-i-could-rewrite-the-dsm-iv-criteria-for-autism/ HAHA!...The spoof is definitely better! XD...and I like the use of the word "awe-tistic"- it ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: To disclose or not to disclose? Problems with lab work |
| Jumla |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 5:30 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I’m going to urge caution. I used to be an advocate of disclosure, but my experiences have irrevocably altered my position on the issue. Many instructors will be fantastic in terms of accommodating you, but a minority will not. This minority most certainly can give you ‘negative’. Legal recourse in ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosed AS people, Question about your perspective on life |
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Posted: 15 Apr 2012, 4:21 am
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Replies: 33
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| I spent my life believing everyone else was just like me, except that they weren't... That's kind of how it was for me, prior to my being diagnosed in my twenties. I did realise that I had social problems (being constantly called a ‘social ret*d’ at school and at home brought this to my attention).... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Should accommodations be noted on your transcript? |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2012, 10:56 pm
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| I just have a hard time seeing how it always makes things equal. When I was diagnosed, I probably could have asked for accommodations like extra time on exams, but I chose not to. I did not and still do not see why I deserved any special treatment because of my ASD. In my mind if I had ask for acco... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Article about the untapped Aspie workforce |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2012, 8:28 pm
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Replies: 9
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Keyman wrote: Disconcerting because?
You don't find it disconcerting that when an adjustment was asked for, the autistic person was accused by their colleagues of "milking" their condition for "special treatment"? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Article about the untapped Aspie workforce |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2012, 6:51 pm
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| Thanks for the link. As someone looking to enter the workforce soon, I have to admit that I find some of the quotes from autistic people who are/were in the workforce, disconcerting: Kay got into trouble at work for failing to observe a well-established hierarchy and is now awaiting a disciplinary h... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: How good are your grades? (American) |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2012, 5:09 pm
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Replies: 30
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| Hmm. Either Aspies are a high-achieving bunch academically, or nobody wants to admit to getting less than A's and B's. Or an alternative - that A's and B's together constitute more than 80% of grades distributed at US schools. It depends on what you study and where you go to school- students taking... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: How good are your grades? (American) |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2012, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 30
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Comp_Geek_573 wrote: Hmm. Either Aspies are a high-achieving bunch academically, or nobody wants to admit to getting less than A's and B's.
Or an alternative - that A's and B's together constitute more than 80% of grades distributed at US schools. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Any advice in how to tell my uni teachers about my Aspergers |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2012, 12:18 am
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Replies: 4
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| Honestly? I'd be pre-empting the release of the new DSM and telling them you have Autism Spectrum Disorder, rather than Asperger's Disorder. There are many teaching staff who will be understanding and accommodating towards people Asperger's Disorder, but you may also encounter a handful of staff (as... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Think I was harshly marked for an essay... |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012, 3:48 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Can you ask for a second marking by another member of staff? I've requested this at my college when I felt the grading of a piece of work was unduly harsh. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: waiting for grad school acceptance |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Good luck with it, Fern. I had a very high GPA, I was close and well-liked by many professors, and I had my senior research thesis awarded one of the departmental honor slots. This is why my lack of acceptance angers me. I don't understand networking and "schmoozing." I feel like you have to mold yo... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Group work...or not?.... |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 4:12 pm
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| When you were in university--or if you are in it now--what is your experience with group work? Do you try to challange yourself and do the group projects, or do you always try to work alone? Personally, I would work alone. My experience of group work is that it generates a good deal of anxiety, due... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is skin picking part of/common to autism? |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2012, 3:22 am
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Replies: 27
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| This may have absolutely nothing to do with Asperger's, but I was curious about if this is common to autism in general or if this might be a separate issue? I don't know enough people on the spectrum to say whether it is common or not. I will say that one of my friends, who is most definitely not o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Female Aspies= Borderline personality disorder?? |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2011, 6:22 pm
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Replies: 150
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Chronos wrote: I was never diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In fact I'm rather the opposite of such a behavioral profile as I am not particularly emotional, or clingy, nor to I engage in self destructive behaviors.
Same. No-one has ever raised the possibility that I could have BPD. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Group Projects! |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2011, 5:24 pm
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Replies: 7
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| So, me and another student just spent the last two days doing the work of two lazy jackasses we were millstoned with for a class project…. It is going to be all I can do not to strangle these jerks when I see them on Friday for the final/presentation. I’m thinking of sending them angry emails in ho... |
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