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 Forum: Television, Film, and Video   Topic: Movie Characters With Aspergers?

AlfTupper
 Post subject: Aspie Character...
Posted: 24 May 2012, 2:04 am 

Replies: 79
Views: 27,358
Just rewatched the 2008 version of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley ?Matthew Macfadyen one). Mr Darcy, as portrayed by MacFadyen, seems very high-functioning Aspie. Anyone agree?

 Forum: Work and finding a Job   Topic: The perfect aspie job?

AlfTupper
Posted: 18 May 2012, 2:35 am 

Replies: 46
Views: 10,794
Bobbles61 and Yvanna ... Teaching is stressful for just about anybody, for someone with our traits it must be awful. Im a health professional, and 'people stuff' is very hard work. My recent realisation that I have autistic traits has suddenly made sense of this, and explained a couple of burnouts/d...

 Forum: Random Discussion   Topic: Your pets!

AlfTupper
Posted: 15 May 2012, 3:33 am 

Replies: 27
Views: 3,613
Some seriously cool beasties here .. Ive a couple of cats, Fizz and Squeaky, Id send you a pic but Im new here and have no idea how to...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: An Awkward Hello From a Newbie

AlfTupper
Posted: 09 May 2012, 3:13 am 

Replies: 14
Views: 1,505
Hi there, The Canadians Ive met here in New Zealand are generally here to get away from your winters :-) Im new here at WrongPlanet too, and trying to work out how best to get the answers Im looking for. A huge relief not to be alone!

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: How 'Under the Radar' can you get?

AlfTupper
Posted: 05 May 2012, 8:41 pm 

Replies: 29
Views: 4,547
Wow thats a lot of responses, all of them interesting! Out of interest, has anyone ever encountered two people by accident who both knew you separately, both in very different ways. Perhaps one is an old friend who knows you properly and you were planning on meeting that day and the other a work co...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: How 'Under the Radar' can you get?

AlfTupper
Posted: 04 May 2012, 6:17 pm 

Replies: 29
Views: 4,547
New here, do not know how to do the quote thing... SilkySifka got it spot on. It is a huge relief to learn that Im not the only one 'on the wrong planet'. It has always been such hard work keeping up the act sort of thing. For me a lifetime way of coping with relationships has been to let them die o...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Regional Meetup & Networking Thread Index

AlfTupper
Posted: 04 May 2012, 3:37 am 

Replies: 191
Views: 125,542
Anyone out there from New Zealand? Any meetings ever organised here? (Im new to Wrong Planet by the way).

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: How 'Under the Radar' can you get?

AlfTupper
Posted: 04 May 2012, 3:27 am 

Replies: 29
Views: 4,547
Im still working all this out ... I work in healthcare, and 'reading' the emotional aspects of the job was difficult (when younger I was aware I was 'faking' stuff to get by). A couple of people over the years have referred to me as being 'on the wrong planet' (which felt very threatening, like Id b...
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