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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Saying someone's name, or mentioning it. |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2005, 4:28 am
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| Isn't it stange (but kind of reassuring) when a thread like this reveals you are not the only person to think that way. I (subconciously) avoid addressing people by name and always have. I didn't refer to or address my parents as mum and dad at all through my younger years. Even now I don't do it of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: clothes shopping... |
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Posted: 09 May 2005, 4:34 am
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Replies: 33
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| Clothes shopping is no fun! Sometimes it takes me half-an-hour to decide what to wear in the morning because I feel I look a mess compared to a lot of people. Shopping for new clothes is such a frustrating process because I need things to feel right (not to tight or too loose, too long, too short et... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I forbid my son to stim - am I bad? |
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Posted: 06 May 2005, 8:08 am
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Replies: 52
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| I'm 23 with a three-year-old daughter (who has no traits of AS at all). I can pretty much control my stims now (sort of wait until I get home, or back to the car) but as a child I would become aware that I was doing something without having been conscious of it. I am very poor at explaining what I m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The trial of Ghosthunter and future HFA'rs? |
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Posted: 06 May 2005, 7:49 am
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Replies: 30
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| Briefly - Ghosthunter STAY, I enjoy reading your posts and those who don't are not obliged to do so. STAY |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A Beach |
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Posted: 06 May 2005, 7:16 am
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Replies: 20
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| I love hearing all the broken bits of shells crunch under my feet and holding the small smooth pebbles. I actually have a collection of pebbles in my house and car because I like them so much. The beach in the winter is magic. Big waves (although pretty distant where I live as the tide seldom comes ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I forbid my son to stim - am I bad? |
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Posted: 06 May 2005, 6:41 am
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| Perhaps he doesn't stim during his 'free time' because he is not under much pressure at those times. When he is feeling stressed or over-stimulated (even if he is not conciously aware of it) it may calm him to stim. If his stims are along the same lines as mine were as a child (and still now to a le... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: You Might be an Aspie if... |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2005, 7:50 am
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Replies: 4,649
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| ...you went online for five minutes to check an e-mail and are still there five hours later ...you responded to a colleague announcing they were pregnant by saying 'was it planned?' whilst everyone else was saying 'congratulations', 'when's it due?' ...other kids at school only spoke to you when the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Favourite quotes |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2005, 6:54 am
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Replies: 25
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| It's a case of mind over matter - if I don't mind, then it doesn't matter! Not sure who said that one but I like it. This one we use in Scouting, again not sure who first said it though: Yesterday is history - forget it Tommorrow is a mystery - don't worry Enjoy today, it is a gift - that is why we ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What were you like in school? |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2005, 10:42 am
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Replies: 59
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| I was sent to three different playgroups as my mother tried to find me somewhere I could settle. At nursery I was a loner. I once got stuck on a big rocking horse and even though the teacher was stood right beside me I couldn't work out how to tell I was stuck. I was up there for ages. At infant sch... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: paranoia |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2005, 9:32 am
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Replies: 28
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| I get paranoid about lots of different things. When people laugh I am convinced I have done something stupid or that they are talking about me. When I am out in the street I become convinced that people are watching me all the time. Staring becuase I am behaving oddly or because they think I am stra... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: To return to uni... or not? |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2005, 11:01 am
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Replies: 16
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| Duncvis - I can heartily reccomend the OU! I completely failed to cope at 'mainstream' Uni when I was 18 but I am now in my second year of an OU degree (in human geography actually!) and it is great. It does take discipline because you have no-one regularly checking up on you but I have so far found... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Speaking Too Broadly? |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2005, 4:53 am
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Replies: 8
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| I find myself saying things twice. Re-phrasing myself I guess. Also giving examples and analogies. Think it it a learned response to a lifetime of people misinterpreting me! Also I find myself going to great lengths to explain the background detail of what I am talking about but then I get distracte... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I tried spontaneous social interaction, Now I'm confused... |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2005, 4:45 am
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| This is just the sort of interaction I find myself involved in virtually every time I attempt small talk. I say something I think is relevant and along similar lines to what other people say and I am met with confusion. People replying with an irritated 'what?' or pulling faces at me. I have pretty ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Which sorry? |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2005, 6:06 am
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Replies: 12
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| 'Sorry' is one of those phrases that I often fail to respond to at all. I don't really know what context people are saying sorry in and so don't know what to say in reply. If someone knocks into me and says sorry then I say 'It's okay' but other than that I am usually thrown. Wish the English langua... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Writing difficulties |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2005, 5:56 am
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Replies: 17
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| My actual handwriting is impeccably neat. So much so that one psychologist said that I couldn't possibly be AS because my writing was too neat! :? I attribute this to excellent teaching of writing styles at Primary School. However, I have always gripped my pen 'wrong'. Despite the neatness I can onl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What types of stims do you folks use? |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2005, 6:58 am
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Replies: 73
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| I chew the edges of my fingers all the time. I also crunch my hair between my teeth. I used to this continually as a child without realising. When I was 6 or so my teacher tied the two braids in my hair together to stop me (she suceeded until playtime when I untied them!). My mother used to tell me ... |
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