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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Melatonin? |
| palindrome |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 3:58 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,538
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| Corroborating what others said about it, basically. I only use it a couple times a week max though. On nights I'm not starting to feel tired an hour or two before I want to go to sleep, I take one about 30-60 before sleepy times and do something relaxing and don't fight the urge to fall asleep when ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Favorite Christmas movie and/or TV special |
| palindrome |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 3:27 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,108
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| Die Hard is the best Christmas movie. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Hannibal (the TV series) premiered last night |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2013, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 18
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| I really liked the first episode. I've only seen Silence Of The Lambs, and never read any of the books, but that was an interesting start for the show. I liked the line about why Will doesn't like eye contact. Felt very familiar. I'm worried about getting too invested in the show though just because... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Whitehouse proposes spending 100 million on Brain Disorders |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2013, 11:28 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,098
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| The head of the NIH was interviewed on the Colbert Report last night about the BRAIN initiative. There isn't really anything autism-related in the interview a brief mention aside, just a general overview about what they're trying to map and stuff. Still maybe worth watching if you want to know some ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Concert Etiquette? |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2013, 12:43 am
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Replies: 13
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| I used to go to a lot of rock shows, though for the last 6 or 7 years, it's been mostly dance and electronic stuff for me (and I do go out kind of a lot). I used to have issues with crowds, and still can under various circumstances, but kind of learned over time how to handle them just fine up to a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I Can't Lie |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2013, 10:47 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,032
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| I'm a terrible liar. I can lie by omission, I guess. But having to not just realistically sell a lie with my tone of voice and everything enough to convince someone of something but THEN remember the details of what I've told someone so I don't later give myself away? Ugh. I can't handle the added e... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I wish I could just straight up say... |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2013, 5:58 pm
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Replies: 28
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| Oh, I definitely wish I knew better when it was/wasn't okay too. After bungling it a few times rather badly when I was younger, I've basically defaulted to never saying anything no matter how badly I might want to unless/until the other person initiates it (as then clearly it's okay). :( In my exper... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I wish I could just straight up say... |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2013, 5:44 pm
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| What makes it weird or unwanted can frequently have to do with where and when it's said. A lot of girls I know deal with street harassment from time to time and there's always the possibility of someone getting angry/violent/hateful in response to even the most polite response on their part. And tha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Question for Male aspies. |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 1:16 pm
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Replies: 36
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| For a little while, particularly for a couple years in high school, I noticed how far short of the "masculine ideal" I fell on all sorts of levels. It messed me up a bit. Luckily, I eventually started to notice ... I wouldn't call them heroes of mine or role models exactly, but just... People who we... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Worried a diagnosis will change my life. |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2013, 7:28 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,610
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| Hopefully it will change your life for the better! Increased self-knowledge/self-awareness is a good thing, not a bad thing. You'll still be you (you always have been and will be, with or without the diagnosis)... But hopefully you'll have or be able to develop better ways of coping with things you ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do people make you feel like you're wrong? |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2013, 6:38 pm
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Replies: 16
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| Yeah. I hate that feeling, and it's so frustrating when you check later and find out you're right because in my experience the wrong person won't take it well if you bring it back up. Instead of seeing it as a correction to wrong thinking or bad info, it gets read as petty know-it-all stuff. Took me... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: New Aspie Quiz (one with eyes) |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 4:36 pm
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Replies: 23
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rdos wrote: OK, to clarify what I did with the eyes, which is derived from Simon-Baron Cohens test.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is diagnosis for? What does it mean? |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 1:37 pm
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Replies: 30
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| Phone calls are a thing I have big problems with too. Best of luck with all of that. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is diagnosis for? What does it mean? |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 1:00 pm
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Replies: 30
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| I am not trashing Tony Attwood's book, or his knowledge overall, I am pointing out where he has made ridiculous comments. He is not autistic and he can never know how it feels to be autistic or to cope as an autistic person. Autism is with you for life and how you are coping should not prevent you ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is diagnosis for? What does it mean? |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 10:56 am
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| That's not taking me out of context at all, and your rephrasing of Attwood is what I've been trying to rephrase as well. I think we both understand what he's saying to be the same. I'm not really sure what the roots of the notion of something being "sub-clinical" or why you'd want to hold off on dia... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is diagnosis for? What does it mean? |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 9:10 pm
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Replies: 30
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| I'm fed-up with minimisation of the effects of Asperger's just because it's an 'invisible disability'. I feel like you're being overly harsh based on a few tiny snippets out of context. Like the thing about having a partner, or some traumatic personal life experience making symptoms more apparent i... |
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