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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hate old people? |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 14 May 2007, 12:16 pm
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Replies: 101
Views: 9,486
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| I work in a residential home for the elderly. I'm not a carer; I just do stuff in the office part-time. I would say I don't DISLIKE the residents any more than I dislike humanity in general. There's some remarkably careful wording for you :lol: I think they have beautiful faces, much more interestin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Don't look! if you are scared of spiders |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 09 May 2007, 12:54 pm
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Replies: 49
Views: 4,475
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| Oooh they're gorgeous :D:D Agreeing with IrishEyes and DingoDv on the identification. I'm certain the second is a nursery web, although the first does look rather like some variant of a wolf spider. What they are NOT are brown recluses. There are no dangerous spiders anywhere in the UK. These guys a... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Does anyone find Wii Sports useful for fitness? |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 09 May 2007, 12:44 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,811
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Not me. I've played it a little but didn't think much of it. I get my daily workout from DDR, which is a lot more strenuous and in my opinion more fun 
Really I've been disappointed with the wii so far. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone here a graphic illustrator? |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 05 May 2007, 12:27 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 870
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| EDIT: scratch that, something came up XD |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: new AS dx and some questions: Monologues, IEP, Tantrums |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2007, 9:42 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,544
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| OK, first off: I was misdiagnosed with all sorts of things as a child (OCD, bipolar...) and have always regretted it; if I'd known what was "wrong" with me I could've asked for some very small adaptations and probably had a much better time at school and university. I'm so happy to see that diagnosi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Social impairment subtypes |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2007, 9:13 am
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Replies: 54
Views: 9,754
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| I'm definitely aloof. (Be aloof, the world needs more loofs!) -may isolate self (yeah, look at me, only showing up here once a month or so XD) -may become electively mute (I'd be so happy if I never had to speak at all) -complete withdrawl from social interactions (yep) -behaving as if other people ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: This Intense Focus Thing... |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2007, 1:59 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,937
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| All I know is I've spent the last week writing a fanfiction (how sad, yeah I know). And I mean the last week, in the sense of from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed my mind is on it. I've blown off everything else and refused to speak to my parents. I'm only just starting to surface now... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I RESERVE HATE FOR WORSE, BUT I DISLIKE NT'S!! !! !! |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 5:29 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,083
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| Re face blanking: From an old school report of mine-- "I will never understand how a child who spends so much time looking out of the window can do so consistently well in exams." :lol: There we go... Difficult to advise, really. Perhaps you could train yourself to hunch over your workstation or oth... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: It's difficult to like people |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 5:17 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,939
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| I tell my friends "There are probably fewer than ten people in the world whom I actively like, and you are among that number." One of them answered "Cool! It's like the world's most exclusive club!" :lol: Yeah, I'm not that fond of the seething masses of humanity either. For the most part there's no... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are We Our Avatars? |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 3:04 pm
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Replies: 104
Views: 7,599
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| Are we our avatars? From a personal point of view I hope not :P Actually it's an interesting question for me, because I don't have an avatar HERE but in all the forums I used to go to (mainly fantasy fiction related) I had not just avatars but fully fleshed-out roleplaying type characters. As did ev... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Before your DX or knowledge of autism.... |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2007, 1:05 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 5,316
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| As far back as I can remember I recall feeling different in some weird fundamental way. I'd look at other children playing and interacting and get an eerie shiver because they looked the same as me but they WEREN'T LIKE ME. If anyone's seen Invasion of the Bodysnatchers , that's how I lived my life.... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: First step accomplished for diagnosis as (female) adult |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2007, 12:30 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,220
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| I think I'm in the right section. This may be of interest to the other as yet undiagnosed adults here. I saw my doctor today and he's agreed to try and get me a referral to the specialist. Don't know how long that'll take on the NHS, but it's a good start! My method was this: I had already put toget... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else work a desk job?? |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2007, 3:12 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,242
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| I work a desk job, but only part time, sixteen hours a week and I still hate it. It's the people part of it that drives me crazy, that and the wretched telephone. And wearing the clothes, I suppose. Smart Casual is not my favoured attire and I would give anything to be allowed to wear sneakers. I'm ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: give a history of your experience in school |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 2:23 pm
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Replies: 41
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| I'm in UK so the schooling periods don't mesh. I've used age to divide instead. Nursery/kindergarten: I was there from the age of two. I don't remember much about it, except my mother told me "You didn't play with the other children, you read to them" in a tone of disgust :lol: Hyperlexia anyone? I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Somewhere I belong... |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2007, 11:07 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,220
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| University wasn't fun for me either. I made a few abortive attempts to get involved in the social scene over the years, but you know you're socially ret*d when even the Wargaming/Roleplaying Society doesn't want you :lol: I ended up just not talking to anybody, and I mean to the extent of keeping a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Telemarketers |
| Freawaru |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2007, 10:42 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,262
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We've put ourselves on some sort of protected list where they're not allowed to call us. We still get occasional market researchers who didn't get the memo, though.
"No thank you, please remove me from your list", hang up. |
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