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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: ADHD Anxious Gifted Kid |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2024, 12:23 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,288
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| Thank you all for your responses. Your thoughts are very much appreciated. I had a lightbulb moment reading Fenn's response. Especially these parts: All the clever, time consuming tedious rote learning exercises he learned nothing from (he naturally picks up spelling just by reading) but they all re... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: How can you distinguish autistic obsessions from OCD? |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2024, 10:49 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 6,557
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| Autism special interests should recharge your batteries. An anxiety related interest would be draining your batteries. People like myself who are not on the autism spectrum and do not experience more than regular everyday anxiety do not have any special positive OR negative energy coming from intere... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: ADHD Anxious Gifted Kid |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2024, 10:37 am
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Replies: 6
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| I just got back my 10 year old's Iowa test scores. He has ADHD and anxiety and is homeschooled. It turns out that the subjects he dislikes the most are the ones for which he has a special talent. He thinks he is bad at math and reading and it seems to be unpleasant for him to practice these things, ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Employment frustrations from a mom’s point of view |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2024, 10:12 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 13,542
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| When I was working, before my last couple of degrees, it was in IT and I was a low level manager. I am NT. My husband has worked in IT for over 20 years. He is autistic. He started in a low position after he got an associate's degree and has slowly moved up to one of the highest positions in the dep... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Lack of situational awareness in adult child on the spectrum |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2024, 9:53 am
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Replies: 5
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| I am neurotypical (and "type A"- or a controlling type, lol), my husband is autistic (a strong but lazy personality), and my 10 year old has ADHD (also a strong personality, who dislikes authority). What I have learned from living with the two of them is that I need to put myself in park s... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Comforter and emotion regulation |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 10:22 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 11,299
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| I have a master's degree in sociology with a concentration in autism. I have not been working due to a physical disability and difficulties raising my child with ADHD. So my knowledge is not current. That being said, when I was doing research, there were a lot of papers about how some young children... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Hand washing- ASD transition help or OCD? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 10:10 am
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Replies: 10
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| My son has ADHD and anxiety and has been doing this hand washing thing since he did a few months of ABA therapy over a year ago. They tried to teach him how to wash his hands and now he won't stop doing it. Like 30 times a day. His hands are red and dry. He's moved down to just using water and no so... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: There's no such thing as 'looking autistic' in film, TV |
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Posted: 25 Jun 2023, 7:24 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,123
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| It's mannerisms, not physical characteristics. The foot thing is a springy, walking on the toes deal. I used to sit outside my sociology building in grad school, or in the food services building, and enjoy watching people either openly autist-walk, or sometimes see me looking at them and MASK their ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Support/Service dog for a dog-resistant teen |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 12:57 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,551
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| I am a cat person, but many years ago I reluctantly got a pit bull. I wanted to beat him to death many times when I first got him. I would be very stressed out and he would choose that time to sit in front of me and whine for a walk. NO! I'd say, but to shut him up, I'd get the leash and we'd go wal... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: How do i get rid of a mouse. |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 12:33 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,892
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| Did the mouse situation ever resolve? If not, I was going to suggest one of those plug in sonar devices. But be forewarned, some people with very sensitive ears can also find them unpleasant. But you'd just have to unplug it if it turned out you could hear it too. It should simply make the mouse lea... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: How far to go with medical care |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 12:30 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,529
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| Can they give him something like Ativan or Xanax? Something for stress that he doesn't need to take daily but can take as needed before something very stressful? I'm sure they don't want to medicate him if they are testing his blood, but the heightened anxiety itself is going to throw off results. M... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 12:09 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 1,685
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| I thought maybe this would be the place to discuss it. If anyone is interested. I am not religious, I have no opinions on paranormal or supernatural phenomenon, and I don't pretend to know what happened to me. I was on a historical tour at an asylum/mental health facility. Both of my parents had bee... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you get along best with other ND people? |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 11:57 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,721
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| I am what someone described as an assertive NT, but I am also overly sensitive. I feel drained if I have to interact with other NTs too much. I find autistic people to be wonderfully kind and relaxing to be around. Most of them do not push me to be more friendly than my batteries can stand. They are... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do we know where ASD ends and comorbids begin? |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 11:52 am
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Replies: 65
Views: 2,811
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| Which of these things are diagnosed by observable behavior, and which are diagnosed by observable differences in biology, which then result in some kind of effect? If it is just behavior, you don't really know anything. EX) Sally has been observed to avoid eye contact. *Does Sally EVER look at anoth... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: J.J. Vallow Murder - Mom just found guilty |
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Posted: 22 May 2023, 11:35 am
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Replies: 1
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| Maybe I searched incorrectly, but I didn't find an existing thread. J.J. Vallow was the little 7 year old boy who was killed by his adopted mom Lori Vallow Daybell, her late brother, Alex Cox, and then buried by the mom's cult leader new husband, Chad Daybell. The mom was just found guilty of his mu... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Default Parent + ASD |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2023, 11:54 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,122
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| My now 9 year old has rather severe ADHD, sensory issues, and anxiety. I used to think that he was socially gullible, because he was unable to tell me what happened to him throughout the course of the day, and when he did, it never seemed to match what others said. I pulled him out of school and got... |
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