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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Face time! Game* not test* (probs wrong section) |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013, 7:28 am
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| My theory? These facial expressions mean the young woman has been prompted to make a variety of facial expressions that are meant to exemplify a number of underlying emotions. Exactly. How can you judge what she might be thinking, when all she's doing is attempting to make her face look like she ha... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 6:15 pm
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| I wonder why parents don't tell their kids what they are doing wrong. Are they just too polite to tell them or are they afraid it will hurt their feelings or is it because the kid never complains how they are being treated? For me, it was a case of my parents not being aware that there was anything... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 5:19 pm
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| I am glad he has a choice. The truth is, when I was a kid, I was subtly odd (as evidenced by the way other kids treated me) and to this day, I still don't really know what I did "wrong." I just know that I was a target for kids inclined to find a target. Sometimes I feel that if I would have only k... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 4:57 pm
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InThisTogether wrote: Mummy of Peanut, how old is she again? It was her 8th birthday on Saturday. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 3:21 pm
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| Yeah, I would worry about my mother's lack of approval than the other children. Having friends that it doesn't matter to will insulate her to some degree, never mind the fact that she seems to have some mental resilience of her own. Just don't prod her into thinking in that adult way of worrying ab... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 9:28 am
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| I'm of the "it could make her think you don't accept her" camp. But, really, it's probably best to gauge that balance day to day with your own kid. My 6 year old AS son goes to a school where nerdy is cool, so he probably gets away with more socially than your daughter. Instead of focusing a lot on... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 5:06 am
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| Thanks, everyone. I'm reading through the responses and mulling evverything over in my head. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 5:05 am
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| I struggled with this for a really long time. When my son was in 5th grade, we started a "things that make me a target" program. I really felt horrible doing it, but he was so clueless and so upset because he knew he was doing "something" but he had no idea what it was. I felt like a heartless b***... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Un Freaking Believable!! !! |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 4:48 am
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| I'm sorry but this is hysterically funny. Just imagine folks doing this to women waiting in an abortion office...."Sorry ladies, in the lorry and off to the maternity wards for you!". God bless England, they have been an example of what not to do for a thousand years but they do it with pizzazz. I ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Un Freaking Believable!! !! |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013, 3:30 pm
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| As suspected, there's an awful lot more to this story than was written in the Telegraph. I was listening to the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio2 today (a much more reliable source than the Telegraph). It was reported that there are 2 separate issues here. Firstly, a court order was obtained, by medica... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Un Freaking Believable!! !! |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 3:47 pm
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| Not quite 'unprecedented'. I had a dim memory of a similar case occurring in the 1950s, but a bit of research has shown up a case that happened as recently as 1998! http://www.sheilakitzinger.com/ArticlesBySheila/BIRTH_Sept1998.htm If this summary is correct, Essex County Council could be in for so... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 3:43 pm
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| Mention it, don't mention it, it won't ever really matter. What you must understand is, we truly don't care . Our brains are not wired like yours and trust me on this, you neurotypical people seem every bit as odd and illogical to us as we do to you. That's not to say the ridicule for being differe... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 8:41 am
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| That would really have drawn attention to her. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 8:41 am
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b9 wrote: did you really name your child "peanut"? No 
I had pregnancy scan when I was about 7 weeks gone. She looked like a peanut then. I've never called her that, not even as a nickname.  |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Un Freaking Believable!! !! |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 8:33 am
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| This is unprecedented and has caused a lot of concern here. It's definitely not the norm. Having worked for social services in the UK, I can guarantee that this procedure (if it did happen), would not have been granted without various psychiatric reports, supporting the wishes of the social services... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Deciding to take a step back or to be more authoritative |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 8:14 am
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| I love my daughter's uniqueness. However, I know some things draw attention to her and could make her a target for those who might want to pick on her. At the moment, she doesn't mind at all (well that's what she tells me anyway). This morning is an example. It's quite dark, when we're gong to schoo... |
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