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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why are people so easily offended? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:55 pm
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Replies: 71
Views: 16,027
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| I'm seeing irony in some of these responses. I'm would like to playfully point out a little irony... Yeah, I've found that the real difference between between Aspies and NTs is that Aspies know they don't know what other people are thinking, but Nts think they know what you are thinking, but don't ... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Adult female diagnosis. Pros, cons, and process |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:36 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 94,737
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| Being diagnosed was a good thing for me IMO. I was an adult, I had no reason to do it except that I wanted to know once and for all what the situation was. Knowing what I was up against made it easier to fight back and do the things I wanted, because I had a word that outside people could understand... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I lied... |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:33 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 56,820
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| I think it's one of the worst things that has ever happened to me. It didn't " happen to you " - you weren't neurotypical and then came down with a 'case' of Autism. If you were "cured" you would become a completely different person . . Everything Willard said in this post is bang on the money. Als... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Any anime fans? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:19 pm
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Replies: 1,479
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| Last night, I found out that FUNimation have finally gotten around to doing Season 2 of Fairy Tail :D Yes, I'm one of those people that only watches Anime with an English dub. You're missing out on a lot if you're skipping the Japanese dubs, you know. I actually started learning Japanese originally... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forbes article about Female Autism |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:16 pm
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Replies: 7
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| "One key difference between girls/women and boys/men with autism lies in the generally different social lives and social expectations of girls and boys." Very true. I suspect they're right about girls/women being underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed because the symptoms manifest differently. BBC recently... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why are people so easily offended? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:11 pm
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Replies: 71
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| Yeah, I've found that the real difference between between Aspies and NTs is that Aspies know they don't know what other people are thinking, but Nts think they know what you are thinking, but don't really. . This. Unfortunately the other thing that has struck me - and I will say it - that there are... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: MOM OF 10 YR OLD SON WITH AUTISM |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 2:06 pm
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| Welcome to the site! Pretty much every aspect of living on the spectrum (or living with it) is somewhere on this site, good, bad, ugly or beautiful xD. Though your son is still unique to all the rest of us so will probably do or say things that are all his own xD. A lot of people seem to come to sit... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Top 5 jobs that you as an Aspie would never want |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2013, 12:11 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 9,622
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| Sorry for the doublepost. Forum is being funny with me today and keeps telling me posts haven't gone through when they have =(. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Top 5 jobs that you as an Aspie would never want |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2013, 12:10 pm
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| 1. Customer Service Adviser 4. Teacher (especially with older children) Hrm. In my first proper job I worked in frontline customer service, got a customer service award, dealt with customer enquiries and worked with people nonstop in a busy reference library setting. I loved it, so I fail to unders... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: When to quit a job? |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2013, 12:03 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,917
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| I quit working at a toy store after nine days, when I was 21. They were vile to me on account of the fact I had a degree. I was not diagnosed at the time so it wasn't disability discrimination, they just had this thing about the fact I'd been to uni (even though I NEVER MENTIONED IT, it was just on ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Just a very general comment about these forums and posters |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2013, 11:58 am
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Replies: 18
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| Does anyone else get more offended when someone uses swear words ungrammatically than the actual use of the expletive itself? Or is that just me..? I am a moderator on another forum where chatspeak is frowned on but still happens. It's only here that I don't think I've ever seen it (though I tend to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Autism/Asperger a defect? |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2012, 10:00 am
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Replies: 62
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| No you have me wrong. 1. I am not totally against any accommodations; I just think too many use their Aspie status as an excuse to get accommodations. I understand your point and agree with you somewhat, but where is the evidence to suggest that "too many" of us exploit our conditions to claim acco... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: (UK) Are off the record psychiatric appointments possible ? |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2012, 9:40 am
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| I found having a diagnosis has ultimately been to my benefit, not to my detriment in most things. I am in the UK, and my diagnosis was done through my GP referring me to the right expert. I actively went to the GP and asked to be assessed, and so he referred me at my request. It is on my dental reco... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Autism/Asperger a defect? |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2012, 2:03 pm
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Replies: 62
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| It is not a disability exactly. I mean, we have all the functions we need to live. The things we struggle with are societal rules that don't make sense to us, and the expectations of other people who think differently to how we do. So it is really society that disables us, not our own bodies. We are... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hardly any info about adults with AS? |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2012, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 24
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| It's because the children all have parents to flap for them and get their attention. Which is great, but aside from getting a distorted viewpoint (from the parent, not the child), it means you get forgotten once you reach adulthood. Apparently we don't have a voice of our own. Guess they haven't see... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Empathy Spectrum. Are there Six Types of empathy? |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2012, 1:59 pm
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,699
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| I have big issues with the empathy/sympathy debate. Mostly because the people who generally say folk with ASD don't understand empathy, don't actually understand it themselves. To them, empathy is understanding the world from their standpoint and understanding the way THEY feel about it. If we don't... |
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