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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is driving with aspergers challenging |
| conchscooter |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2014, 1:39 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,628
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| I like driving but I love riding motorcycles. Control of my environment, total concentration on one thing and traveling efficiently adds up to a perfect experience for me. I passed my test (40 years ago!) after my family stopped trying to teach me and i took lessons from a pro. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is driving with aspergers challenging |
| conchscooter |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2014, 1:38 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,628
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| I like driving but I love riding motorcycles. Control of my environment, total concentration on one thing and traveling efficiently adds up to a perfect experience for me. I passed my test (40 years ago!) after my family stopped trying to teach me and i took lessons from a pro. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Will this happen! |
| conchscooter |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2014, 2:35 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,199
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| Everybody is irritated at everything, even Europeans about their welfare states but in the civilized world medical care won't drive you into bankruptcy. That pleasure is reserved for the US where we try to pay for surgery with bake sales and fight insurance companies to cover 80 percent of our medic... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What People Don't Know About Asperger's |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2014, 2:17 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,244
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| I fear this may make me sound as perverse as the people you describe but I, like so many, have run up against this attitude to Asperger's and autism and my conclusion is that the stupid ones are the ones that can't deal with it. its a gross generalization but it helps me to feel better when I hear t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Judging people on appearance |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2014, 2:12 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,559
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| It's what people do. We have Asperger's so we just get it worng. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Eye contact:Love it or hate it? |
| conchscooter |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2014, 2:10 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,598
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| It's the giveaway that there's something wrong with you if you don't do it and when you are in a tense situation you lose if there is "something wrong" with you. I struggle with it at work especially when I'm getting constructive (argh!) criticism (double argh!!). I stare right at the bridge of my b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: why do some people consider low functioning inferior ? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 9:00 am
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Replies: 279
Views: 18,351
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| "Who said anything goofy that got "beat down" for it? " Clearly not I. "Meant to provoke" is a broad assumption, and if that was the intent you lot fell into the bear trap head first. Umm, I guess I shall follow your cheerfully shared advice, and leave you lot to keep beating each other up. In my ow... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: why do some people consider low functioning inferior ? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 2:00 am
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Replies: 279
Views: 18,351
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| Finally one finds a neuro-typical- style beat down drag out fight on a forum operated by and for people on the spectrum. I prefer knowing that if I comment here I will not be beaten up but will find empathy. Saying something goofy on an NT forum leads to bad places, we all know that. Saying somethin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it an aspie trait to be accused of trolling? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 1:09 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,701
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| Well, If I really were trolling I'd have to ignore you to leave you stewing so let me put you out of your misery: the answer is a decided Yes. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it an aspie trait to be accused of trolling? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 12:47 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,701
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buffinator wrote: I disagree #Victory #myopinionmattersmore
Wrong! Wrong!! Wrong!! ! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it an aspie trait to be accused of trolling? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 12:02 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,701
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| Its possible to be perceived as trolling if you dump an opinion and don't get involved in the back and forth of debate, after all you know whereof you speak, you have shared your logical wisdom and logically therefore you move on. NTs online aren't like that, they want to "make friends" and do so by... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is an official diagnosis worth the effort? + My story |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2013, 11:57 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,027
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| One of the annoying things about dealing with NTs is their refusal to see Aspergers for what it is. At this stage in my life, I'm 56, when I come across the "everyone does that" response to the quirks of Aspergers I take it as a mark agianst their character not mine. An official diagnosis wont chang... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How many people hate Christmas? |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2013, 10:46 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,316
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| I dislike seeing people who can't meet expectations getting all torn up about the holiday (you can have empathy with Aspergers, see?) but I tell anyone who listens I don't care about Christmas and I expect nothing which relieves my stress. Happy Festivus I say, let the airing of grievances begin! Oh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When people INSIST you don't have Aspergers... |
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Posted: 07 Dec 2013, 8:51 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,418
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| That sort of talk is an easy way to know who you don't need to be communicating with online or in person. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stimming Suggestions--alternatives to theraputty? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2013, 6:15 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,594
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| Muslims call them worry beads (in English) and Catholics call them rosaries. Used as prayer prompts they are beads on strings or small chains. You could reproduce a secular version at a craft store to avoid offending all those easily annoyed religious sensibilities, all for very little money and mak... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I am still having social epiphanies |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2013, 5:34 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,253
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| I'm 55 and groan every time I trhink of the lost years wandering in a wilderness of social blunders. They've got better but half a century to learn how to imitate NTs seems rather excessive to me. I was blind as a bat at 30. |
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