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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Gender identity issues and being an aspie |
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Posted: 31 May 2013, 1:53 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 26,690
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| I am also FTM. There have been numerous studies over the last few years showing a high correlation between autism and transgenderism - actually when I visited my gender specialist last year, I noticed a poster on his wall about it, and if I recall correctly it stated the figure of co-incidence was a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List of 22 SAFE SITES for People On/Off the Autism Spectrum |
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Posted: 29 May 2013, 5:42 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 6,318
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| Here is another one for you: http://www.aspiestrategy.com/ It is another blog with some wonderfully insightful articles for adults on the spectrum and which I have found very helpful and illuminating. It also includes several excellent articles aimed at helping Aspie/NT couples, which I haven't seen... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Hormones in the womb |
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Posted: 21 May 2013, 3:30 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,670
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| Puddingmouse, please be assured that that is NOT the future. The idea that homosexuality (and other related gender-incongruences) are caused by something so simple and that homosexuality could be turned on or off by hormone administration is laughable. It is also an extremely dangerous idea to mess ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Apparently Asperger's will continue to be diagnosed in UK |
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Posted: 19 May 2013, 6:16 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,722
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| I'm in the process of diagnosis at the moment and I was puzzled when I asked the psycotherapist I'm seeing about the changes and she said there wouldn't be any until 2015. I guess the fact that the UK uses a different system explains it (I didn't realise that at the time). I'm irritated by this too ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do others grow up too fast? |
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Posted: 06 May 2013, 11:15 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,818
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| I also felt like I was left behind by everyone else my age as I was growing up. I just about got away with it up until the transition to high school, but at that point all the other kids started trying to be grown-up, and I was completely baffled by it. Suddenly everyone started talking about pop mu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How important is the parental input in an adult diagnosis? |
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Posted: 02 May 2013, 2:12 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,239
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| I'm a little bit concerned about this too (having assessment soon with input from my mother). I know my aspie traits have been blazingly obvious throughout my adolescence and adulthood but, while I remember a few things which suggest it, I don't have much memory of my childhood, and my mother also t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Box: deprivation, escape, control |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2013, 3:42 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,799
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| I also think it is interesting, and I know a couple of troubled people who fit neatly into the first and second columns. I also fit the third one quite accurately and my behaviours were indeed motivated by the need to escape from painful situations. It's a pretty good theory of archetypes, though of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The internal monolog that never shuts off or gets tired |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 3:18 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,297
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| I apologize for hijacking the thread, but I experience very much the same thing as OP. I feel like I pretty much have to take myself to exhaustion every night if I want to sleep properly. There's so much spinning around in my head it makes it rather difficult. Any particular recommendations as far ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The internal monolog that never shuts off or gets tired |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 1:17 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Darn, beaten to it. Yes, try meditation. That helps you learn to quiet the mind. You will probably find it difficult at first if you have a particularly noisy brain, but that's all the more reason to practice. When you are going to sleep is a great time to practice it as you are naturally drifting i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Overidentifying anger and negative emotions in others |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 5:32 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,582
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| I think this comes from the combination of an inability to read emotion signals correctly + the subconscious survival mechanism developed from a history of people reacting negatively to social errors (or other autism-related mistakes). Intuitively perceiving all ambiguous situations as being negativ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ASD visual memory: If I can't see it, it doesn't exist |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2013, 5:15 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,019
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| This is an interesting post and I experience the same thing. It's due to the working memory difficulties autistic people experience (you can't "hold" things in your head unless they are in front of you, written down, etc). Unfortunately this is a less talked-about autistic symptom because the mechan... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: sensory issues all or nothing? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2013, 4:50 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,846
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| Every person with AS is different. One may be sensitive to sound, another may be sensitive to light, and another may be hypo-sensitive to sensory input instead of hyper-sensitive (that is, under-stimulated instead of over-stimulated and not noticing them at all). Some people with AS don't have probl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: are aspergers and hfa the same thing? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2013, 4:41 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,267
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| It can be confusing because people do actually refer to Aspergers as high-functioning autism (in terms of the words used, that's a correct description of what it is). However, when people differentiate between AS and HFA, they are usually referring to childhood speech development. It's considered AS... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how do you explain a shutdown? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2013, 2:00 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,745
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| how do you explain a shutdown to the average person? Maybe they'll get it if you liken it to shock. The temporarily non-verbal issue and shutting out the world while you're 'away' is fairly similar despite them being different reason and different reaction, and despite the fact that for me at least... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Someone was in my bedroom today while I was at therapy. |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2013, 11:01 am
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Replies: 46
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| Verdandi, This is definitely an autistic thing - I've noticed that many autistic people are extremely protective of their personal space, and often view it as an extension of ourselves. I think this may be because the world outside that space is vast and confusing and overwhelming, but our space is ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: strategies for cleaning a whole room? |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2013, 11:20 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,124
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| InThisTogether's post is very good. I will add a couple of things which I find helpful: As an autistic person you probably have difficulties with motor planning, which means that your mind lacks the ability to automatically create a sequence of actions to carry out what you want to do and perform th... |
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