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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Prom with friends |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 14 May 2006, 1:13 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,013
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| Best you can do is focus on enjoying yourself. Pretend those people you don't know aren't there; I remember enough of high school to know that nothing breaks cliques. Nothing you can do about the nerves except go; it sounds bearable at least. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Belonging |
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Posted: 10 May 2006, 7:55 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,643
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Quote: ah, but you are "IkariShinji" someone with a keen interest in something Asian?
I don't get too involved in anime in general, and lord knows I'm not otaku... It's funny, I guess - the anime club at college was composed of people who I felt "normal" to by comparison, so I didn't belong  |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Belonging |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 08 May 2006, 9:17 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,643
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| (disclaimer: I'm not diagnosed, and all I know for sure is that I'm not normal...) Is the concept of "belonging" foreign to anyone else? When I'm with groups of people (people whom I think consider me a friend, but I'm bad at judging that sort of thing), I feel like I have to try to say things somet... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Who has no friends? |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 08 May 2006, 8:47 pm
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Replies: 133
Views: 18,712
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| I think I have friends, but I can't really gauge what's appropriate to tell whom, so I don't really tell anyone anything - funny how you can say more here than to your supposed friends... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: "everybody is special" ---> What does that mean |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 08 May 2006, 8:32 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,696
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My personal opinion is that it's just another BS platitude to make the un-special feel better.
Incidentally, I've never really felt "special" and believed it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Who can help? |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2006, 5:11 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 757
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| I've decided that whether or not I end up having AS, I need to seek some kind of professional help - I have a long history of emotional issues that would be easy to attribute to AS, or to other things, but I've been ignoring them rather than really solving them, which doesn't work forever. So my que... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Happy birthday to me |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2006, 11:33 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,607
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Happy birthday!
I'm intrigued by your user name and icon - for awhile on EZBoard I used the ace of spaces as my user icon. Seems like a fun little coincidence... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Boring "I'm new" post |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2006, 1:10 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,723
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| When I was in chorus at school and college it was easy - just don't have the time or opportunity now... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being nice guy, something to do about it. |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2006, 3:24 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,966
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Quote: These people who call themselves "Nice Guys" can't see that THEIR OWN behavior is the problem.
Well, not being able to see it, much less fix it, is, I wager, common around here... (Been there. Still there, really...) |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: I want to be rich, have a wife and kids, and happy. |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2006, 3:20 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,025
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| A wife would be very nice, but I'd settle for friends I really felt like I belonged with. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: It's hypotonia, and it's supposed to be related to AS, among |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2006, 6:30 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,386
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| I actually tend to have poor flexibility, but whatever else I have, I've got Russell-Silver syndrome which is probably to blame for that. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being nice guy, something to do about it. |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2006, 6:27 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,966
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| I'm the opposite, I have a huge overabundance of criticism and hate... Part of my journey has been trying to be partially tolerant of people and viewpoints that are "wrong", for a wide range of values of "wrong". |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Boring "I'm new" post |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2006, 6:21 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,723
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| I got extremely specific in the Members Only forum about why AS seems to explain a lot for me, not least of which is the root cause of wanting to completely forget the first 14 years of my life... I think I would have been trivially easy to diagnose then and it might have drastically lessened the to... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why? |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 8:26 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,835
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| Why are the 10,000 Smiley banner ads so annoying? |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Boring "I'm new" post |
| IkariShinji |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 4:48 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,723
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| Doesn't look like these get much response other than "Welcome", so here's the sticky questions... What is your first name? Convince me you care and I'll tell you. Age: 25. Location: Atlanta. Hobbies and Interests: Politics, Wikipedia addiction. Why are you here? Seeking answers... When were you diag... |
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