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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: DSMA dimercaptosuccinic acid (mercury detox therapy) |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013, 3:22 pm
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Replies: 23
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| It's a great big money making con foisted onto naive and desperate parents. These are the idiots that are trying to brainwash people into believing that the medical establishment and the pharmecutical companies are trying to intentionally poison your children with vaccines . It is the same conspira... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 23 Oct 2012, 4:21 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,818
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| I tend to interrupt or talk over people, or cut them off mid-sentence. Sometimes I'll continue talking about something and my only cue that the other person isn't listening is when they strike up a conversation with someone else while I'm still talking. :oops: A coworker once mentioned that the way... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 11:53 am
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Replies: 19
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| So you do really well in social situations. What then are your biggest problems? Is there any thing in life you can't figure out at all? This is exactly the thread I have been looking for. I too am amazing in social situations, but I couldn't mail a letter or go to the bank and back if my life depe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 11:14 am
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| How well do you do in this test? http://www.neurodiversity.com/nvc/index.html I tried it for 25 faces (it's open ended), and scored around 65-70%, which is a bit lower than I've scored in some other facial expression quizzes. This one has more options to choose from; I was able to identify "positiv... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Gay VS Aspie traits |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 10:04 am
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Replies: 16
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| I have heard of anecdotal and research claims that there is an association between gender nonconformity, especially full-blown transgenderism, and AS traits, and because there is some correlation between gender nonconformity and sexual orientation, a lot of people will assume 100% that someone is ga... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 7:53 am
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| Your original post sounds a bit like me, though I didn't score quite as well as you did in the Mind in the Eyes test. It's why, even though I'm not great in most social circumstances, I don't feel comfortable saying for sure that I have AS. (Things like timing in conversation, talking at people, an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 7:35 am
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| This is only part of the non-verbal or having"Theory of Mind," but is this within the full range of communicating? Say, holding a conversation and not taking it literally; but understanding the subtleties of it? For instance: Someone in a roundabout way is saying something to you; but his or her ma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 7:21 am
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Replies: 19
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| Being quirky, eccentric, etc. is not quite the same as having a "Qualitative impairment in social interaction". Social savants, if they exist, probably include current/former presidents, the Kennedy family, Dale Carnegie, CEO's, famous comedians, etc. Not so much people with high scores on facial r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 7:37 pm
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Replies: 19
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| It's 100% intuition for me. I never set about teaching myself the facial expressions, just things to say in different situations, how to respond to different kinds of jokes, try to appear confident, things like that. The body language reading has always been there, I truly feel a taste of the emotio... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do I have SUCH an issue with doing work? |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 7:10 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,845
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| Two things I suggest: Look into ADHD, and look into mindfulness practice. Mindfulness I find can become just like playing with your mind and attention, it's a game, and you can make everything part of these 'mind games', although it's got serious, powerful purposes behind it and the emotions evoked ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have out loud vocal conversations? |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 7:02 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,589
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| When walking along or unconsciously stimming by running about the room, I often get so lost in fantasy conversations between the person who's my special interest at the time and another person, or between any two people about an abstract subject I'm analysing, that my face and mouth act out the conv... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have bad self discipline? |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 6:44 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,168
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| if something concrete immediate and worrying comes along I can snap into a hunter-killer mindset and put everything into clear objectives and finish them par excellence, but otherwise not really I'm beginning to think I have comorbidity of ADHD with either BAP or ASD or AS because I cannot focus li... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Still undecided after diagnosis + 'social savantism?' |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 6:33 pm
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| The specialists believe I'm on the autistic spectrum, albeit mildly, and that I don't need much intervention because of all the research and observation I undertook in my teens to learn social skills. What didn't come up - they didn't ask, perhaps because it was covered by the questionnaires I'd fil... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have bad self discipline? |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 6:09 pm
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Replies: 24
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| I voted Very Bad, but my Ritalin puts paid to that. It's amazing to watch the transformation from the dedicated class swat to the one messing about on the Internet instead of working when it wears off. I like being the swat much better. Procrastinating and being unable to motivate yourself in the pr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Executive dysfunction and its relation to AS |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011, 1:19 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,277
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| Not all executive dysfunction is ADHD and per the study I linked above differences were found between autistic executive dysfunction and ADHD executive dysfunction, even though many autistic people also have ADHD. Is that paper referring to studies of AD/HD in all its forms, or only the Hyperactive... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Executive dysfunction and its relation to AS |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011, 12:32 pm
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Replies: 23
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| ]is it fair to surmise that therapy or drugs are not likely to make much of a difference? It occurs to me that therapy would be best in a situation where it is attempting to coax an individual back to functioning that they previously had. But I have never had executive functioning any better than i... |
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