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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Your" song |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 9:53 am
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Replies: 91
Views: 9,150
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| i like so many songs it is hard to just pick one or even several, but here are some... "Fleet of Hope" and "Closer to Fine" by the Indigo Girls "Both Hands" and "32 Flavors" Ani DiFranco "Box of Rain" by the Good Ole Grateful Dead "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan "Imagine" by John Lennon |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Post a Picture of the Real You. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 9:45 am
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Replies: 12,791
Views: 2,367,974
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| thanks for the compliment, hyperlexian! |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Post a Picture of the Real You. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 9:21 pm
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Replies: 12,791
Views: 2,367,974
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| thanks, Strapples! hugs for you and anyone else who wants some |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What led to diagnosis? |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 4:03 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,788
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| i got diagnosed after a really negative work experience. the job was very stressful and involved dealing with a lot of arrogant and egotistical people and not being able to confront them or tell them off because i was just a lowly clerical employee and they were law school professors, law school stu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Listening to someone when there are other sounds around you |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 12:34 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,817
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| this happens often to me when i am in the front room of our house and the television is on, and my spouse is in the kitchen and says something to me...she thinks i need to get my hearing checked but i do not think it is a simple hearing problem, but rather the asperger trait of difficulty dealing wi... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I can only remember interesting things. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 12:20 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,407
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| i sometimes wonder if maybe that was my problem with math and natural/physical science (physics, biology, chemistry, etc)when i was in school. not so much that i couldn't do it well, and more that i just was not interested enough to work too hard at learning how to do it. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Finding it near impossible to get through Senior year of HS. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 12:08 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,003
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| just to add to what has already been said here...yes, it does get better after high school or at least it did for me. i went off to college, started exploring the big wide world outside of the conservative suburb where i grew up, started learning new and exciting things that weren't taught in high s... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Say something positive about yourself. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 11:59 am
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Replies: 2,644
Views: 303,781
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| i am a really great academic research librarian, at one of the most prestigious universities in the world (The University of Michigan, Go Blue!). i do a great job of helping students do research and learn new things...and in the process, i learn new things too which is always interesting and enlight... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I'm always wrong!! ! |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 11:54 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,040
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| i've gotten this all the time throughout my life... i have mentioned in other threads that it is VERY hard for me to know when it is OK to say something in a group conversation. i have been accused of "interrupting" so many damned times that just the word "interrupting" makes me want to throw up or ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Ultimate Asperger's Song |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 10:18 am
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Replies: 91
Views: 31,059
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Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles, with John Lennon on lead vocals.
Just about any of Syd Barrett's songs, solo or with the Pink Floyd. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wearing T-shirts of your special interest |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 10:11 am
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Replies: 35
Views: 4,328
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| i have quite a few Grateful Dead and Phish concert shirts, many of which are tie dyed. also quite a few sports team t-shirts and jerseys...especially from the various University of Michigan varsity sports teams. of late i have become very interested in women's sports, and so have a lot of shirts and... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Post a Picture of the Real You. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 9:54 am
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Replies: 12,791
Views: 2,367,974
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| this is me a couple summers ago at the Motor City LGBT Pride fest in Ferndale, Michigan just north of Detroit aka the Motor City. The basketball jersey is from Detroit's former Women's pro team, the Shock, and #14 for the Shock is my all time favorite player, Deanna Nolan. look her name up on YouTu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: You Might be an Aspie if... |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2010, 7:06 pm
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Replies: 4,649
Views: 659,247
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| you might be an Aspie if, despite being born in 1964 and therefore having no meaningful memory of anything before about 1970, you still are familiar with the names of even obscure pro athletes that your dad and his friends talk about from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. and know their statistics, and which... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Post a Picture of the Real You. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2010, 11:58 am
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Replies: 12,791
Views: 2,367,974
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| this is me a couple summers ago at the Motor City LGBT Pride fest in Ferndale, Michigan just north of Detroit aka the Motor City. The basketball jersey is from Detroit's former Women's pro team, the Shock, and #14 for the Shock is my all time favorite player, Deanna Nolan. look her name up on YouTub... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: i am Vanessa and i'm a transgendered aspie |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2010, 6:27 pm
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Replies: 18
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| chessimprov: i work at the University of Michigan Flint campus and live in a rural area in between Flint and Ann Arbor, in southeast lower peninsula of Michigan, USA. Ilan and Autumnsteps: thanks for the welcome!! ! lotusblossom: thanks for the links, i will check them out. i notice the name Chomsky... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
| VanessaGoldman |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2010, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 1,024
Views: 112,489
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| The cue when to talk versus when not to talk. I never got that. Maybe it has to do with nonverbal gestures. This, times infinity!! !! !! i simply am not able to perceive this, unless there is a really clear break in the conversation. which often is not the case in my experience. so, i feel like my ... |
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