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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling that if you're not doing this you're not "living" |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2025, 2:46 pm
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Replies: 3
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| First of all, it's not a good idea to play the comparison game with other people. The more you do that, the more you are going to end up feeling miserable. Second, most of those people who are seen on social media may look like they have it all together. When in reality,they might have bigger pictur... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Fed up about my love life |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 11 Jul 2025, 8:36 am
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Replies: 67
Views: 6,208
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| I would like to get married to a companion who gets me and accepts me for who I am. I would also like someone who I can love and appreciate as well. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Fed up about my love life |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 10:24 am
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Replies: 67
Views: 6,208
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| 36 in September still a virgin and never had a proper girlfriend. Do you think it’s normal too feel fed up at this stage and not have any hope? I went through that in my 20's as well and it was especially hard when a few of my friends were able to date and get married. Then meanwhile, I kept gettin... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Was this rude or not in your opinion? |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 10:25 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 671
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Hi:
It does not sound like you were rude. Rather, it sounds like you attempted to put the ball in his court by reaching out and doing the best that you could. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does your autism make it hard to relate to your generation? |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2025, 1:56 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,611
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| I don't know is being autistic has anything to do with being able to relate to my current generation. However, I have noticed that people have been very short and inconsiderate of you. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does your autism make it hard to relate to your generation? |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2025, 3:45 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,611
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| I lived through most of the 80's through the eyes of a young child and remember the 80's At age 4, I watched the Challenger explode and did not know what was going on until my parents explained it. Meanwhile, Regan was president for the first 7 years of my life. Back in those days, Michael Jackson w... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What are your pet peeves in social situations? |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2025, 10:07 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,253
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Other pet peeves
1. People who expect me to be one of those friends who should spend every one of my waking hours giving them attention. They get very upset when I make them realize that I have my own life.
2. People who seem to have no concept of my boundaries and do what they feel like. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What are your pet peeves in social situations? |
| Summer_Twilight |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2025, 12:50 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,253
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| A few of them 1. Whenever someone seems to play mind games by asking you a question. When you answer, that person says "No that's not my question." That one really pushes my buttons. Another thing they do is "That still does not tell me anything." 2. Whenever someone asks you fo... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Two way street |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2025, 12:38 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,367
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| Until most recently, I had been attending a local autism group that was put on by two people who were supposed to be my friend. I felt like I was expected to bend over backwards for these people and their socials. Then when it came to inviting me to anything, they "Never had time." I even... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What are your pet peeves in social situations? |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2025, 12:32 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,253
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A few others
1. When people assume what I can and cannot afford
2. When I find myself being upset and the other party dismisses me by trying to give things the benefit of the doubt in a condescending manner.
"Well maybe it's because of XYZ." |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What are your pet peeves in social situations? |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2025, 8:30 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,253
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A few other ones of mine
1. Whenever someone makes it sound like they want to see you or do something like go to lunch. Then as soon as you are about to take off with them, their phone rings and it's "Sorry, I need to take this."
2. When talk to me like I am clueless. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What are your pet peeves in social situations? |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2025, 12:00 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,253
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| A few of them 1. Whenever someone seems to play mind games by asking you a question. When you answer, that person says "No that's not my question." That one really pushes my buttons. Another thing they do is "That still does not tell me anything." 2. Whenever someone asks you for... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I don't fit in with social groups for others with autism |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2025, 11:38 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,423
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| I've been to a couple of places in which others on the autism spectrum meet, one was set up by the autistic trust uk and another had a mixture of other people with other conditions. Even though I went to them, I still felt like I didn't fit or want to be there, I felt like the only one who was mild... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I don't fit in with social groups for others with autism |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 7:27 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,423
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| I've been to a couple of places in which others on the autism spectrum meet, one was set up by the autistic trust uk and another had a mixture of other people with other conditions. Even though I went to them, I still felt like I didn't fit or want to be there, I felt like the only one who was mild... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Two way street |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2025, 8:05 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,367
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| You have no idea how many times I have dealt with one-sided situations that it's not even funny. Until most recently, I had been attending a local autism group that was put on by two people who were supposed to be my friend. I felt like I was expected to bend over backwards for these people and thei... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I am getting tired of being let down |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2025, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,373
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| Hi Baby Bird: The one where I get discouraged a lot is driving a car and I am tired of it. I also have seemed to get the responses about being a receptionist. Yet, no one at work has seemed to care what I feel or what I really want. I want to be a psychologist and I want to teach. Yet, I have seen s... |
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