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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Smell |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 6:07 am
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Replies: 19
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SeizeTheDay wrote: I smell 5:00pm. It doesn't have to be 5 when I smell it, but when I was young, I attached a certain smell to a time of day, and now, I'll catch a whiff of 5 o'clock pm.
I have that with seasons of the year. Specially the fall. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 6:06 am
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Replies: 1,024
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DarrylZero wrote: Why do they ask for your honest opinion, then get upset when you give it?   
That's my line too! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone else have any odd stims? |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2011, 5:34 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,625
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| I have also a big twitch with my eyes, cannot just normally blink most of the times, I have to perform a very heavy blinking movement in order to feel that I satisfactorily blinked. God, I do that. It is seriously frigging annoying. In the same time doing that is soothing, it makes you tired, doesn... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Lost Generation? |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2011, 5:28 am
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Replies: 54
Views: 7,021
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| 1 - Born in Southern-Brazil. Diagnosed last year, when I was 29. 2 - It affected in every single way it does as described, I took gardenal (strong medication like prozak I guess ) for a long time of my life. One doctor back when I was 3 told my parents I had some sort of autism, but my parents didn'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone else have any odd stims? |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2011, 5:20 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,625
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| I repeat the phrase I state right after I do it. Like an echo from what I said. Many times I catch myself repeating really long statements. I have also a big twitch with my eyes, cannot just normally blink most of the times, I have to perform a very heavy blinking movement in order to feel that I sa... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Any scientists here? |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2011, 8:21 am
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Replies: 23
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| galwacco, what do you do exactly? What do you mean by "physicist"? I'm curious. To be more exact, I'm taking my masters in astrophysics, I do research at the astrophysics lab for Santa Catarina State University ( Brazil ), finding and measuring accretion disks for binary stars. It's fun, though lik... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Walking up to a complete stranger the aspie way. |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011, 5:44 am
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Replies: 21
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| Isnt this topic supposed to be for advice on how to approach people? Because thats exactly what I havent seen yet. And I was looking forward to seeing some useful answers in here. Yeah, and you gave much of an advice here, huh?! And yet, I've seen advices here, like this one: tangomike says: Posted... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Walking up to a complete stranger the aspie way. |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2011, 10:20 am
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Replies: 21
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| It could be called social intuition i think. I think if you are in a pack of people it is less noticable. Unfortunately due to the nature of our condition we aspies tend to be solitary creatures. People instinctively fear the loner i think. I guess us loners must have been a threat at some point in... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Walking up to a complete stranger the aspie way. |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2011, 9:45 am
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Replies: 21
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| That happens to me on the bus also. When i was out at the gallery yesterday some chick even said out loud to her mates "What's wrong with that guy"? This makes me think that NT''s will always be able to spot that you are a little off centre and that ultimately there's not alot you can do to change ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Walking up to a complete stranger the aspie way. |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2011, 7:26 am
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Replies: 21
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| I remember walking behind this woman awile back and she clutched her purse and kept looking to the side everyonce inawile to see just what the heck i was doing behind her. I dont know? walking perhaps. or maybe i was gonna steal her purse! or grab her butt, who knows dude. but i'm saying Gees! That... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Diagnosis and existence of god |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 7:36 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 3,808
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| I was already an atheist before my diagnosis. It helped me understand why I'm so hungry for information and why I have a hard time accepting things that don't make sense at all though. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Insomnia & Pillow hugging |
| galwacco |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 7:19 am
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Replies: 33
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| Interesting! I never realized it had any connection with my autism. I just can't sleep without hugging a pillow. And when I have a meltdown, or when I'm about to have it at home, I hug my pillow and rock back and forth. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Problems with differing parental opinion on discipline |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2011, 10:35 am
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Replies: 15
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| Brenda D bittersweetaffinity angelbear Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am still reading and digesting the ideas and insights you game me. I really appreciate that you actually took the time to help a lost fellow all the way here in Brazil, it means a lot to me. Yesterday I was feeling so down, th... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Problems with differing parental opinion on discipline |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2011, 7:01 am
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Replies: 15
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| At my house, my mother usually just asked us what we wanted, or told us to make what we wanted ourself. She never forced us to eat things we didn't like and if we did eat something we didn't like, it was because that was all there was to eat. Your wife is having an empathy problem. Ask her if she t... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Problems with differing parental opinion on discipline |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2011, 6:28 am
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Replies: 15
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| Hello there, I am in a very similar situation, I tried already what's been said in the above posts, but no result. I'm 30 years old, diagnosed with aspergers, I have two boys, one is 6 years old and also diagnosed with aspergers and another 3 years old boy who is NT. My wife seems to be very ok abou... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have these issues? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 8:33 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,640
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| ... Well you wake up tomorrow awake alert ready to go and mom is like I don't know we might not even go shopping. :-( (Yet you were ready/psyched yourself TO GO) OR the opposite come on lets go (and you aren't ready) I also notice I say some things and expect a totally different response. .... Gees... |
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