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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sarcasm? |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 3:51 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,238
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I use sarcasm but often people don't realize I'm being sarcastic and take me literally.
Other times, I'm being literal and am "read" as joking or being sarcastic.
I often miss sarcasm in others but pick it up maybe half the time?
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Synaesthesia |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 3:46 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,403
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| Personalities for numbers is a form of synesthesia, yes. It's called Grapheme personification (a.k.a. Ordinal Linguistic Personification) and represens almost five percent of cases of synesthesia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personification I have personality -> smell synesthesia... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The worst thing a bully has done to you |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 3:08 pm
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Replies: 417
Views: 52,177
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| Same here. My teachers and my parents told me that the bullying was my fault, that I brought it on myself by "insisting on being different all the time." My fourth grade teacher made me sit in a big cardboard box for most of the year. It was a big appliance box and she put my entire desk in there a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The worst thing a bully has done to you |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2012, 7:58 pm
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Replies: 417
Views: 52,177
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| The teachers were always on the bullies side because they claimed that I made myself a target by being different. Sometimes the teachers themselves would call me, "stupid, dumb, incapable of doing anything useful, and other horrible things." Same here. My teachers and my parents told me that the bu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The worst thing a bully has done to you |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2012, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 417
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| It's hard to decide what was the worst. Some bullies put a live venemous snake in my mail box. A bully boxed me in the ears; I still have partial hearing loss as a result. A girl pushed me naked out the fire door while changing for gym, leaving me in the parking lot facing a busy street with no clot... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: "I just want you to be happy." |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2012, 10:13 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 6,371
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| If I said it, I would mean it. I've actually thought about that before -- what if my boyfriend had a chance at true happiness that didn't include me? I would want him to take that opportunity! I would cry and cry and cry, but I'd rather lose him to his happiness than keep him at the expense of it. S... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Bouncing step. |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2012, 11:04 am
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Replies: 4
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| In my case, I bounce because I frequently toe-walk. Being up on my toes and either not touching the ground with my heel at all or only touching down lightly with my heel makes my entire gait more springy and bouncy. I find I can take that bounce out by wearing shoes that prevent me from toe-walking ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Is it worse for Aspies to have high self-awareness? |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2012, 11:02 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,284
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| I don't know if this is what you were asking, but in some ways my AS has been easier to deal with post-diagnosis because I understand better what's going on but in other ways my AS has been much harder to deal with post-diagnosis because I understand better what's going on. That is to say, I had all... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: WP is filling my head with BS |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2012, 2:28 am
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,998
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| How good was it for YOU to be told you've gotten 'worse' since you found WP? I've never been told that, but Amanda baggs does address the idea of autism "getting worse" after one spends time with other autistics, learns more about autism, etc. in this excellent (and rather long) essay: "Help! I See... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: vestibular hyperacusis and sensory issues-- noise spasms |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2012, 7:42 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 7,108
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In some ways, my vestibular hyperacusis is sort of like synesthsia because sound is being perceived as motion.
(I also have actual synesthesia where I smell visual inputs.) |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Does it matter if I have Asperger's? |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2012, 4:12 am
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Replies: 8
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| I don't know - I haven't discussed all the differences with my psychologist. Possibly executive function problems could be an issue as well - and maybe other aspects of AS too (sensory? communication?). I was focussing on the alexithymia angle because (a) it certainly affects me, and (b) it is an o... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Eharmony: Am I The Only One They Say is Unmatchable? |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 2:49 pm
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Replies: 23
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| Finally, OkCupid.com used to have a blog post on "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating", but it seems to have disappeared since they sold out to match.com (The old url was http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dating/ ) Here's the article in the Internet Archiv... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Am I BI or Panexual? |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 7:13 am
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Replies: 17
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Sparrowrose wrote: I know the bi pride colors. I have some necklaces and stuff in bi colors. I thought you meant there were pan pride colors, too.
Ah, I searched and found a pansexual flag (don't like the colors) and a pansexual symbol (why does it look so much like an anchor?) |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Am I BI or Panexual? |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 7:07 am
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Replies: 17
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| I know the bi pride colors. I have some necklaces and stuff in bi colors. I thought you meant there were pan pride colors, too. |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: "You think too much." |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 2:46 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 4,475
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| There is a point here, analytical thinking is great, however you need to be able to train yourself to break out of it when it is getting out of hand and taking over your life. You need to be able to apply it selectively as a tool. I agree with you 100%. I also ended up with a scene from Big Bang Th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: did you ever meet someone who was ambiguously NT/AS? |
| Sparrowrose |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 2:00 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,126
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TommyTomorrow wrote: Sounds like a non-spectrum individual with a profoundly low IQ.
Someone with a profoundly low IQ couldn't work as a janitor.
My aunt had a profoundly low IQ and was unable to speak, unable to even sit up unassisted.
To me, he sounds MUCH more like someone mildly to moderately challenged. |
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