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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Australians! Where are you from? |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2007, 5:03 am
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Replies: 43
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Help with social adequacy please? |
| Rory |
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Posted: 27 Sep 2007, 3:19 am
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Replies: 8
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You could knock on somebody's door with some excuse like asking to borrow something, it could break the ice and give you a chance to introduce yourself and talk for a moment or two at least. After that it could build up when you saw the person again in the corridor. Just an idea.
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Aspergers and social phobia |
| Rory |
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Posted: 25 May 2007, 5:23 am
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Replies: 80
Views: 12,550
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| I know, without a doubt, that I have social phobia, because I cannot be in a group without getting really really (and I mean really) nervous. Actually for me its not so much a matter of getting nervous, it's more that I find it a very unpleasant situation, lots of people sitting around making super... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: nothing in my box |
| Rory |
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Posted: 25 May 2007, 5:08 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,870
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"There are no letters in the mailbox,
and there are no grapes upon the vine;
there are no chocolates in your boxes any more,
and there are no diamonds in the mine."
- Leonard Cohen, "Diamonds in the Mine". Play it any time you want to get depressed. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Information Overload |
| Rory |
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Posted: 25 May 2007, 5:03 am
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Replies: 24
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| It's a big problem for me. Typically at a social event there will be heaps of background noise, different conversations all going on at once, and I cant even hear what people are saying to me, let alone concentrate on it. It's not because I'm deaf, I can hear fine if there is no interference. But in... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Any other Aussies here? |
| Rory |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2007, 4:51 am
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Replies: 50
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| I'm originallly from Adelaide, now living in Victoria. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling unwanted |
| Rory |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 39
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| I want me so it works out. Santa, you're OK, everyone wants you, especially at Christmas :D Seriously though, it raises the issue of just how often people "want" you just for something they can get out of you. It might be money or sex or some kind of assistance or support, or approval. In that sens... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The in my pants game |
| Rory |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2007, 5:51 am
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Replies: 41
Views: 4,065
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Rolling Stones - I can't get no satisfaction in my pants
Beach Boys - Good vibrations in my pants
Beatles - I wanna hold your hand in my pants |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling unwanted |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2007, 5:42 am
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Replies: 39
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| It partly goes back, for me, to being bullied at school and left out of kids games because I was hopeless at sports and athletics and very bookish; also, my father was a teacher at the same school. Eventually I had to be taken away from that school and put in another, where things were not so bad - ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I have little to no will to live |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2007, 5:34 am
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Replies: 10
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| I have no idea what to do or where to go for help. I have no friends, no one to talk to, no hope, a huge debt from my suicide attempt, a family who hates me as much as I hate them... I can't gather the will to do anything... I'm so f***ing alone. Nothing will change this. I'd welcome death. I don't... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How do you make friends? |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2007, 7:31 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 6,873
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| Just talk to them. Let them talk about themselves for a bit. If you like them and they like you there's a good enough chance you've made a friend there. This is what I usually do - I'm a good listener - but it doesn't seem to work. People like to talk about themseves (did you know the most common w... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling unwanted |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2007, 7:27 pm
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Replies: 39
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krex wrote: I have had a few people seek me out for friendship...they tend to fall into either the very mentally ill(some of whom I have liked), or the "care takers"
That is well put. I wish I had thought of putting it that way! |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling unwanted |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2007, 5:53 am
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Replies: 39
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| i get this all the time.... i understand what you are going through... i used to think it was because i was hidiously ugly... but people on here have told me otherwise im just as stumped as you as to why people dont want my company, im accepting of everyone else and would spend time with anyone... ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling unwanted |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2007, 5:14 am
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Replies: 39
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| Does anyone else have this issue of always, or at least nearly always, feeling unwanted? I do. Nearly all the time I feel that people don't want my company, if they do tolerate my company it is only out of feeling that they ought to be nice to me rather than because they really want me around. A few... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: A little help? |
| Rory |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2007, 5:00 am
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Replies: 7
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| I've never really had any real friends, people I counted as friends were really just using me. But some months ago I started to hang out with a girl in school, and recently we've been meeting outside school too. At first I was only there as "an extra" for her, I was only accepted when her best frie... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do I apologize too much? |
| Rory |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2007, 6:22 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,663
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| I apologize too much. I even apologize when it's somebody else's fault, e.g. if somebody treads on my toes. Then I feel like a fool afterwards. Which maybe I am! |
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