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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Beginning a conversation with small talk. |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2011, 3:47 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,914
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| I do often get asked whether I'm trying to play this 20-questions game...and I thought I'd hit on a foolproof method! Like: What's your favourite band? -Umm...Lady Gaga? Oh right. Um. Favourite book? -Don't really read... Well, do you like school? -What is this an interrogation?! Often I just can't ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Correcting People? |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2011, 3:42 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 7,217
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| This was one of my most irritating traits when I was younger. For other people, I mean. As soon as I was talking, I was correcting grammar, we have home videos. I was not a fun person to baby talk around! :D When I was in school and we worked in groups, I was always pointing out wrong spellings or t... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Does anything get you /noticed/ as 'odd' at school? |
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Posted: 18 May 2011, 1:29 am
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Replies: 65
Views: 14,010
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| Well, my name was "weird" all the way through primary/secondary school. It got so I was really surprised when anyone apart from the teachers actually knew my real name. Then there was the books, and the drawing everywhere, zoning out...i.e. reading in detention and not hearing the teachers shouting ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone from Belgium, Netherlands or Germany? |
| daedal |
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Posted: 08 May 2011, 4:06 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,481
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 I lived in Maastricht
I'm Dutch but I don't live there anymore.
I know Groningen fairly well, great city.
Have fun in Holland- I want to move back there after uni...it's the best country I've been to, haha |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How does one balance school, work, and all that smooth jazz? |
| daedal |
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Posted: 05 May 2011, 1:51 am
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Replies: 4
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| This is normal! But a routine helps SO MUCH. Seriously. Timetable everything. I'm revising for exams now, and I know this is a stupid example, but if I timetable stuff in big blocks of time like 9-12 History 3-5 German It really doesn't motivate me as much as 9-9:30 learn British history quotes 9:30... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What did you do during highschool lunch? |
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Posted: 05 May 2011, 1:34 am
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Replies: 118
Views: 13,651
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| I ate with my friends (the people I hung out with, but it was So boring). About 3/4 of the time in secondary school I skipped lunch and went to the library, or I was in detention. I did have a "best friend" until about Year 10 and she was great fun, and we often went off together and left the group ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Should there be consequences or discipline? |
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Posted: 04 May 2011, 10:47 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,618
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| I am in favour of using discipline with Aspies, even if it's harder for them, even if they don't realise something seemingly obvious about what they're doing. There's no need to moddycoddle them just because they have Aspergers, especially over stuff which causes trouble. I.e. If a child is very fus... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspies - are you independent? |
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Posted: 03 May 2011, 3:11 pm
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Replies: 57
Views: 6,367
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| I'm 17, so I still live at home. I have until September 2012 and then I guess I'm going to uni, which I'd rather not think about. Speaking in Aspie terms, yes, I am completely independent. I can feed myself etc, I would be the last person you'd send to a care home, in that sense, I'm fine. Independe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: not social...but obsessed with socializing |
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Posted: 03 May 2011, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,765
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| It sounds like what I used to do as a child (from maybe five to eleven), I was very fixed on the idea that I wasn't normal and that I had to 'get normal', but it was never an out and out obsession. It's a very self centred thing to do (in a literal sense). |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Mom doesn't think I have AS? |
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Posted: 01 May 2011, 1:49 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,948
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| My parents were a little like that. Even though everything's sorted out now and we know why I'm such an antisocial person, my dad will invariably make a huge fuss that I haven't made any effort to talk with people after we come back from holiday (they're to family houses where there are lots of cous... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: How do you do in school? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011, 2:33 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,980
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| Was top through primary school and first part of secondary school no effort, but things started to go wrong around Y9 because I decided I wasn't going to do anything in school at all...just turn up to the lessons and do the bare minimum because I hated it there, which was a silly decision, and in th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Childhood personality question |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 7:13 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 3,841
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| Apparently I was the perfect baby, hardly ever cried, I was fairly responsive. I had a little speech delay, but I'm still Aspergers because it's normal in multilingual households (in my case, tri). My mum was home all through my childhood and when I was a toddler she'd stick me in front of a paint p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Tone of voice? |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 5:50 am
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Replies: 8
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| Do you have problems with this? With my family, it's pretty simple. I can understand them just fine (except maybe ones I haven't worked out yet :D) and when they're angry I get the message because I know what angry sounds like, but in school, I guess people are more confusing...in my old school, the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do You Have a Photographic Memory? |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 5:35 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,532
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| I have a VERY visual memory. But I'm not sure if a photographic memory is just a really intense version of a visual memory or if it's only distantly related. Before this brain fog (!) I used to be able to look at a page of German voab and it would somehow end up in my brain. Probably because there w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: GRRRRRR Why don't people say what they mean! |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 5:26 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,245
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I used to agonise over this when I was small
"How CAN someone ask someone to do something??" she pondered.
Do you want to/ can you/ may I/ do you think you could"...well, yeah, sure. Ten seconds of staring later. Oh...I actually have to do something? |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you think you are anyone's best friend? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 12:09 pm
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Replies: 108
Views: 12,706
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| I have had quite a few best friends. Now I don't have one, which is fine with me. I don't put in enough effort, people seek me out and I rebuff them. Don't know why. I'm just more comfortable reading in the library :D I have never made a friend...they always made the effort and I responded clumsily,... |
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