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 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Hello..self diagnosed newbie....Any toe-walkers out there??

MikeUK
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 3:35 pm 

Replies: 21
Views: 2,960
Welcome from a fellow clumsy toewalker, with curled fingers as well! I was diagnosed with mild Cerebral Palsy as a kid and had years of physiotherapy which really helped

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: "Emotional meltdowns"?

MikeUK
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 3:18 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 2,637
Cordelia I sympathise. I bad social phobia and panic attacks when I was younger and I just got .... ever...so...gradually...better Part of my anxiety was the fear that my presence was unhelpful and that I was imposing myself and dragging the group down. I found that I gradually learned the rules of ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Having Longer Conversations

MikeUK
Posted: 10 Mar 2007, 8:17 am 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,814
A good analogy is to treat a conversation like a game of tennis. Try to keep the volley going, and avoid the premature end to the conversation that happens when you miss the ball, or hit it out of the court... Perfect. I couldn't have put it better myself. This is what I try to do when a conversati...

 Forum: Adult Autism Issues   Topic: Do you want to have children?

MikeUK
Posted: 10 Mar 2007, 8:03 am 

Replies: 68
Views: 1,621
I voted "yes", but having said that I'd need to get the relationship first - and heaven knows that will be a struggle. Having said that if AS really is genetic then I'd have to think carefully :( (apologies for being such a noob that I don't know) Up until 3 years ago the answer would have been a de...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Can You Empathise...

MikeUK
Posted: 10 Mar 2007, 7:50 am 

Replies: 33
Views: 3,437
I also "freeze" with emotions. (Its bad enough with grieving but if you do it when someone you feel attracted to comes on to you it totally ruins your day...) With grieving I've never been able to comprehend the whole NT thing of "someone I work with has lost someone close lets say how sorry I am". ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: clubbing & pubbing alone & getting depressed

MikeUK
Posted: 04 Mar 2007, 1:20 pm 

Replies: 48
Views: 9,087
Hi Psybot, I think you're really brave to go clubbing on your own, but I agree with Dundunduuun, its not a great way to meet people unless you're confident about how to do it. I've never really figured out how to do it. If on the other hand you go to dance to the music and forget yourself for a few ...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Hello

MikeUK
 Post subject: Hello
Posted: 04 Mar 2007, 12:47 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 1,188
Hiya, I live near Cambridge in the UK I'd suspected for awhile that I might be somewhere on the Autistic spectrum, then UK radio serialised "Born on a blue day" recently and parts sounded like my life story. I'm 35 chronologically, and probably around 17 emotionally - I was painfully withdrawn at Sc...
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