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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Working as a cashier with Aspergers |
| quivara |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 7:43 pm
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| Yikes, to cashiering! I was thrown, due to poverty, into working at a Wal-Mart "Supermart" (sometimes up to 500 customers per day on certain days of the month/holidays). I could handle the $ and the computer/scanning (got highest honors ever in that last one). But, the stress of the interpersonal re... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and victim complex |
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Posted: 03 May 2014, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 363
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| Dear Bleh - Thanks for your input. There is however another aspect to what I'm dealing with w/ASPD types which I never had a term for before. It's called "Daminato Memoriae" (damned/erased through eternity). This began in the '90s for me as I separated from business from the others. By '97 I was exi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and victim complex |
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Posted: 03 May 2014, 12:59 am
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| Thanks, Bleh. So you've seen it and lived it too. Like the book "A Grief Observed" one can't "know" til one's been through it. "The Sociopath Next Door" is hard to comprehend. Re narcissists, I've observed a number of types. The super dangerous are the "malignant narcissists" - con artists, manipula... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and victim complex |
| quivara |
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Posted: 02 May 2014, 8:51 pm
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Replies: 363
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| Thanks. Bleh. This whole situation has me in a spin. My new "counselor" is young, not highly educated or experienced - very green, into forms and simplistic tests. Just one horrible example is that she decided I had agoraphobia - I had to show her pictures of how I grew up on the range and vast open... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and victim complex |
| quivara |
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Posted: 02 May 2014, 6:30 pm
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Replies: 363
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| I'm deemed "mild" AS, which still seems in dispute as to definition, but I've had life-long "social problems" along such lines. Re bullying, from pre-K to 12th grade, only the 7th grade was bully free. I'm intorvert and HSP too. In combination, I think that makes me a target -is being an antelope be... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Are you very high-functioning? |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2014, 2:42 pm
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Replies: 171
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| KW33n and the rest of you, I too relate to much of what you said. Perhaps, "conditionally high-functioning" might be more appropriate. I can kind of fake the social scene for brief periods, but the whirl of such commitments drains me to as you have said. However, NT intoverts complain of the same th... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Are you very high-functioning? |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2014, 6:43 pm
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Replies: 171
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| Thanks, Jenesen, for the article. It can help those that are interested. None one, AS or NT, can function outside their own ranges well fro long. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Are you very high-functioning? |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2014, 5:13 pm
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| Dear Kingdom - Greetings, again! It is good to hear of your great work with NHS and your overcoming the limitations of your designation. If I may be so bold as share that the overall situation may be more than just an IQ cut-off, although that is part of the story. Anyone who has been to Mensa group... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Are you very high-functioning? |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2014, 7:56 pm
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| Hi, you all.. Well, I've been dealing with this "mild/high-functioning" ASD dilemma for some time. (I'm 61.) A fellow member here has shared many helpful things with me, some of which I've asked her to post to you - a clinical study for one. I'm rather where you have been, or still am so, in many re... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: what is happening to our country? this is unimaginable! |
| quivara |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2013, 1:18 am
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Replies: 61
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| Yup, this is basically true as I've been on both ends of the spectrum To see how the US has become a true police state now, check www.infowars.com & do searches along such lines. Hardly Andy & Barney. Happy New Year! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is "Mild Autism?" |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 5:29 am
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| Ah, absolute relativism to the ends of nowhere! Absurd, illogical, rude & crude! Temple Grandin & the Rain Man have it worse than I, baby, but sometimes it ain't so good for me either. Are thermometers all at zero point, my dear? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is "Mild Autism?" |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2013, 4:19 am
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| Enough already w/disputes over terminology. I've found out enough now & met enough other Aspies to know I'm not as bad off as some of them. Does that make me feel great? Am I now Hillary Clinton? Is it HIGH functioning or is it MILD? (During shakey, crap-in-the-pants meltdowns is doesn't feel "m... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: what is happening to our country? this is unimaginable! |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2013, 8:21 pm
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Replies: 61
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| Hey, where are the troops? You say it's all scary sick, but how much do you know & what are you prepared to do about it? Check various sites, some sensationalist, some questionable, but in the mix you can filter out the truth. That the CIA did kill JFK is a known fact b/c only they had the scope... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Strategies for reducing internal meltdowns? |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 12:13 pm
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| Another idea. Long ago I tried this Chinese herbal tea called Essence of Tienchi Flower. It was plesant tasting & had a strange calming effect, no-drowsy. Others tried it reported the same. I see it's for sale on-line rather cheap too, but you must use the flowers! It sooths the nerves & tak... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: what is happening to our country? this is unimaginable! |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 11:41 am
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Replies: 61
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| Yeah, black helicopters have run drills over LA & in FLA. Remember all the drones too. Plus getting "black bagged" under the NDAA & Patriot Act. Also UN Agenda 21, Trans-humanism, taking our guns, TSA gropes, fusion centers, road side cavity searches, constant taser use, a corrupt court syst... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: what is happening to our country? this is unimaginable! |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 8:09 pm
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Replies: 61
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| NM action horrible! Many similar going on all over US - constantly! Broadly scan news, please! The wars are a lie! Our people & innocent villagers abroad are being killed for nothing , but "No bid contracts"! The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will take the last of our soverignity as their ruli... |
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