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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How can I actually follow through on promises? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2016, 12:23 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 594
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| This is like, I will promise myself that I will drink several glasses of water a day, but I have problems with following through, even with a reminder app on my phone or any other assistance. Do you not drink enough fluids and get dehydrated? If the answer is "no", I think you should just... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Urgent!! ! Sensory overload and violent impulses |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2016, 8:28 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 630
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| Your friends aren't being good friends -- they're being selfish jerks. I'm glad you took care of yourself. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Heading towards another crisis. |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 25 Sep 2016, 8:59 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,334
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| My uni tutor said I will have to do oral presentations this year! I am not even allowed to write a verbatim script and just read it out, which I could sort of do as I find reading text out loud easier than producing speech de novo. Can you use AAC/text-to-speech? It doesn't seem reasonable to refus... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you handle the detergent isle of a grocery store? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2016, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,128
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| I hate the aisles with cleaning products/soap (arranged into different groupings in different stores, includes detergent, general cleaners, shampoo/body soap/deodorant) -- they all reek, and I avoid them as much as possible. I prefer unscented soap, mostly. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Serious Is Autism To You? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2016, 3:37 pm
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Replies: 104
Views: 4,107
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I see autism as a natural difference to be accepted and as a significant disability.
Whether it needs to be cured, or treated in any way, or just accomodated and otherwise left alone, is an individual thing. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: How do you calm down and get unstuck? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2016, 2:58 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 509
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| Thank you both very much! MjrMajorMajor: I can't clear anybody out or ask them to leave me alone but focusing on one thing is something I can work at. It is especially hard for me to stay focused on one thing right now (often hard normally) because I can literally see so much of what has to be done ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: How do you calm down and get unstuck? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2016, 10:28 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 509
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| How do you get unstuck when you are in an emotionally terrible situation, have fairly severe executive dysfunction(ED) and emotional self-regulation issues (related partly to the ED and partly to trauma) are overwhelmed to the point of paralysis and expending most of your energy on not having a loud... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Comfort songs |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2016, 8:14 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,128
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Dealing with looking like I’m intentionally inconsiderate |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 9:17 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 712
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| With cutting someone off in line, I would apologize, try to say how I wasn't paying attention and give them back their spot -- I think giving them back their spot in line is probably the most important part. Beyond that there's really nothing you can do. If they remained enraged and were carrying on... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What could be making me seem this way? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 3:24 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 486
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| Possibilities: > Violating social rules that you are unaware of. (People think you know the social rules and are violating them on purpose -- to be disrespectful or mean or because you don't care about other people's feelings.) > Not noticing nonverbal signs of what they feel, which results in not r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Comparing Autism to Cerebral Palsy |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 3:03 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,041
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| I think we should just call it autism. |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: captcha completed, then....nothing |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016, 2:39 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 236
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| Several times today I have completed a captcha (or series of them) -- up to the point where the pop-up/captcha-task box disappears because you've done the captcha successfully, and then nothing happens. Literally nothing. The page doesn't redirect. I have to refresh it. (I should have made a note of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you want a partner? |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2016, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 2,636
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| This likely won't apply to those with Aspergers, because aspies aren't truly asocial, however people directly on the spectrum are This statement doesn't make any sense to me, because: (1) Asperger's is considered to be on the autism spectrum.... (2) People with ASD's other than Asperger's (i.e. PDD... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Disclosing autism |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2016, 5:44 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,117
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| I have most just told friends and family. Some said they were not surprised, it made sense. One person seemed to think being autistic meant you were a genius. (I am not a genius.) Some were skeptical and questioned it....said things along the lines of "You're not that weird." Some said not... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: About Aspergers & Autism |
| animalcrackers |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2016, 5:42 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 549
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| They are mostly the same, I think. Autism just has more variety in symptoms and in the severity of symptoms than Asperger's does. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Reality, Fantasy and Speech |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2016, 6:05 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,715
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| I think, even when he's talking about "fantasy things" he's probably actually trying to talk about real things.... Basically trying to use something that makes sense to him as a model for understanding the world and creating analogies (however obscure, however "that's a stretch")... |
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