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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NTs saying "you just need to get laid". |
| Callista |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2015, 1:20 am
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Replies: 30
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| No, I do not need to get laid. Nor do I want to get laid. Yes, asexuals exist, and no, you cannot magically turn me into a non-asexual; it doesn't matter how sexy you think you are. It's not you, it's me. Really. Jeez. Get the point already. (It's not like people are actually trying to seduce me eve... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Should i contact the special ed teacher at school? |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2015, 7:31 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 660
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| Sounds like you can't lose anything by asking for help. I wouldn't expect much, but you never know. They can't all be useless muppets. This, yup. I'm not sure what a learning disability that gives you trouble with pictures would be called, but if your visual-spatial skills are really bad compared t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's is entirely different from autism? |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2015, 7:23 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,548
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| ...But according to the latest DSM-V , we don't exist no more ? It is a puzzlement . :? No, no, we still exist just fine. It's only been simplified so that it's all the same name now. If you had a diagnosis of PDD-NOS, Asperger's, Autistic Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder beforehand, the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Am I an auistic person? |
| Callista |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2015, 7:12 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 803
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| The "Humans are hypocritical" statement you make is really far off the mark. Some humans are, some of the time. Neither all humans, nor any humans all of the time, are hypocritical. That you're making such global statements and talking about "strategy" when socializing says to me... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Does anyone live in India (or visited India)? |
| Callista |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2015, 1:38 pm
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Replies: 0
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| TW: Fatal child abuse. I've been doing some research for the ASAN day of mourning site (disabled filicide victims), and one story that's been in the news is that of Chaitanya Balpande, a boy killed by his mother. He lived in Pune, Maharashtra, in India. I've come across some terminology that I don't... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory issues and showers |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2015, 10:09 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,995
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| Yes, I hate showers. I only take them because I hate being dirty more. One thing you should do is get a shower head that comes attached to a hose--you know, the kind that you hold in your hand and point away from you when you turn the water on, while you get the temperature right. That way, you don'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosis at 43. Help? |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2015, 10:02 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,073
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Awww, thanks, you're making me feel warm and fuzzy inside 
Seriously, though, autism is one of my special interests. That's the benefit of special interests; we become experts on them. I bet OP can tell you anything you like about his music or the vinyl it comes on. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: noise sensitivity |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2015, 10:00 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,654
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| White noise does help, to some extent. It helps cover up the unexpected noise with expected noise. I find that unexpected noise is harder to deal with... but no noise is best of all. Muffling it helps; so does covering it with predictable noise. Temperature: Wear as little clothing as possible. If y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Diagnosis at 43. Help? |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2015, 9:53 am
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Replies: 25
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| "Eccentric" means that you have unusual behavior, but no impairment. You're right; they don't diagnose people with being eccentric, as there's nothing wrong with them. :) Texture/taste sensitivity: Normal for autistics; yours seems to be mild to moderate. Playing with words, focusing on si... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why is autism a disorder? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 10:56 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,760
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| Yeah. I agree; people who say "it's not a disorder" often do have mild, primarily social symptoms, and their distress does come mostly from the way they are treated by others... But I don't want to assume that these people are short-sighted. They're legit suffering from a whole bunch of pr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When Eros meets autos: Marriage to someone with autism spect |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 10:43 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,683
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| I think she's the kind of person who makes other feminists wish she'd just shut up and stop making everyone look bad... I notice she didn't interview even a single couple where the female is the one with the ASD. Look, I know women have been oppressed in the past, but that's no reason to try to oppr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why is autism a disorder? |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 7:54 pm
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Replies: 31
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| *snip* Stop taking for granted that disability/disorder means universally negative, and you come up with some surprising conclusions. Is being gay a disorder? Is being black a disorder? Is being left-handed a disorder? I see what you're saying, and I think you're partly correct--but not entirely so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When Eros meets autos: Marriage to someone with autism spect |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 10:28 am
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| Oh my god the sampling bias. My poor little statistics-loving brain is cringing away. Drawn from couples seeking therapy. By a therapist who believes in the "Cassandra" thing. Yeeeeah. No sampling bias there. (Heavy sarcasm.) So let's see: Basically, they found the most troubled couples th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Body hygiene |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 10:23 am
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,236
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| These days I'm also pretty good about changing shirts each day. I keep a pile of fresh t-shirts thrown into a chair so grabbing a clean one is super easy. If I had to fetch one from a closet or drawer it would not happen. I keep mine on a shower-curtain rod wedged across my hallway. I hang them the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why does everyone say "we can't diagnose you here"? |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 10:19 am
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Replies: 74
Views: 2,597
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| When I say, "I can't diagnose you over the Internet," that's exactly what I mean: Can't, as in, unable to. First of all, I'm a psychology undergraduate, not a professional psychologist; I may know more about autism than most professional psychologists, but I still can't tell whether someon... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why is autism a disorder? |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2015, 10:08 am
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Replies: 31
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| The good therapies don't squelch special interests. They might teach you how to get yourself away from them when you need to (like, you really should know how to take a break to eat and sleep and go to school or your job); but the good therapists don't try to extinguish them. Autism is a disorder be... |
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