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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Overwhelmed by Special Interest? |
| SgtSalt |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 1:40 am
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Replies: 7
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| Do your special interests ever just drain you? For example, I've talked about mine for six hours straight today, and have been thinking about it for eight hours more, and I am so exhausted and my chest and back hurts and I want to cry. I've done this before. I'll just get so intense about my interes... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Difficulties reading/writing? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2014, 1:11 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Flipping letters is a dyslexic thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia I don't know if you have these neurological issues but they are not uncommon for people on the spectrum I was never sure if it was dyslexia or something since I was always good at read... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Difficulties reading/writing? |
| SgtSalt |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 6:52 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I am unsure if perhaps this is related to Asperger's. I have no other resources available to me but what's on the internet. When it comes to reading and writing, I'm typically viewed as above average, but I still have some troubles with it. I can read/w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Giftedness and Misdiagnosis |
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Posted: 13 May 2014, 3:34 pm
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Replies: 59
Views: 4,221
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| I'm still trying to get officially diagnosed. I've been highly recommended by a psychologist to be tested for autism, but my parents keep writing it off as "giftedness" because I'm in high performance. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Twice Exceptional Students |
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Posted: 12 May 2014, 6:18 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,061
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| I wasn't diagnosed until my mid-twenties despite showing extremely obvious symptoms and having fairly frequent meltdowns in school. They were too determined to write me off as a bratty gifted kid to give me help. I don't think that my giftedness covered up my disabilities, but everyone else sure di... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Twice Exceptional Students |
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Posted: 11 May 2014, 10:00 pm
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Replies: 7
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| I was reading an article on them because I find the topic extremely interesting. I always thought I was one but was scared to say it. I was put in the gifted program when I was young and nowadays I show a lot of symptoms for a lot of different neurological disorders (i.e. Asperger's is my most promi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Succeeding and failing at the same time |
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Posted: 09 May 2014, 5:02 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I've been asked to help tutor and inform and lead people before. I don't have the social skills needed to do those things. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Awesome Memory, Terrible Forgetfulness |
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Posted: 07 May 2014, 3:54 pm
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Replies: 11
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| I've seen a number of people have the same problem I do. When it comes to memory, I can tell you what I was doing September 25th, 2012 at 3:22 in the afternoon, but I'll never be able to remember what folder I need to grab for class or what I'm eating that night. Because of it I've suffered through ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Does Autism Appear To NTs |
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Posted: 07 May 2014, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,588
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| A lot of people see me as an obnoxious, obsessive, nerdy, control freak. It's really made my search for friends even harder. |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Where do I fall on the sexuality continuum? |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 7:54 pm
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Replies: 10
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| For many people it's a non-issue, but some make a distinction between one's romantic orientation and one's sexual orientation. I first noticed this with asexuals, who may call themselves something like hetero romantic or pan romantic to signify that they're interested in others romantically but not... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Any body read/write fanfiction? |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 7:43 pm
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Replies: 50
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| My big topics have been Star Wars, The Avengers, and Doctor Who. I haven't written fan fiction in months, though. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Highly Likely Asperger's? |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 7:36 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I admire your perseverance. I think you will find a lot of articles on this site illuminating. It is here that I learned the reason why looking into other people's eyes is so painful: for us the amygdala in the brain is stimulated by eye gaze rather than the limbic system as eye gaze does for most ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Highly Likely Asperger's? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 9:41 pm
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| Then he told me he had worked with many autistic children and told me I act just like them and he really recommended me getting checked out for it because I most likely have it. I agree with the one therapist (the non-flop one), you definitely have many traits of Asperger's. Of course there's a dif... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Highly Likely Asperger's? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 7:26 pm
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| Hello, I'm new! I'm Emily and I'm still in high school so I'm fairly young. This post will get pretty lengthy. I've been told I have an awful habit of not knowing when to stop talking, so knowing me this will take a while, especially when it comes to talking about Asperger's. I could literally talk ... |
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