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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Going to summer camp, camping outdoors and your own space |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:21 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 706
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| Ah, I get it. Highly scheduled group travel is something I hate even more! Recipe for frustration for me. Sounds like there is promise of making it your own, only if you can hang on through the initial phase. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Going to summer camp, camping outdoors and your own space |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:08 am
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Replies: 5
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| When I was young, although I loved the outdoors, I really hated camping. Some of the same things as you--never got any sleep in the wretched sleeping bag, gagged at the food I was served (which I classify as "kid food", which I never ate even as a kid), and sharing close quarters with noisy crowds t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Left-handedness? |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 02 May 2008, 7:51 am
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Replies: 64
Views: 5,688
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| Right-handed for almost everything, but also left-eyed, left-eared, left-footed. |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Throwing and catching. |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 11:46 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,653
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| FWIW, this has always been my experience. I can distance run and do archery very well. I even used to do triathlons, but can't catch or throw to save my life. It's not a depth perception thing. I had a lot of pressure during my last job to be on a softball team, but that would just have been humilia... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Another Asperger's question... |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 2:32 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,481
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| In my case it is as much a help to my spouse as to me. I had a lot of the characteristics as a kid, apparently learned to cope and pass as NT, until a brain aneurysm in my 40's caused a stroke in my cerebellum. The stroke took away some of those coping skills. Some of my "new" traits alarmed my husb... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: my "quirks"...what's yours? |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 7:27 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 4,307
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| if I have to tie one shoelace on one foot I have to tie the shoelace on the other foot. so they feel the same . Had to smile at this. I'm a runner and spend as much time as necessary to make sure the pressure from my shoelaces are "even" and that both sox feel the same. All the sox are the same mod... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: WP COMMUNITY WRITING CHALLENGE |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 2:55 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,460
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| This is somewhat off-topic, but one of the writers of the original film, Dan O'Bannon, had done a very funny film that forshadowed (some parts of) Alien. The feeding-the-alien scene in Dark Star is one of the funniest scenes I can recall. Sort of gives a new slant on the hunt-for-the-alien scenes in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do aspies tend to become more neurotypical as they age? |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 7:28 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 5,378
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| There is indeed individual variation here! I think, had the diagnosis even existed when I was a kid, that I might have been diagnosed in the early 1950's. By adolescence (1960's), I'd learned to adapt and it wasn't readily apparent. At the age of 40, I blended in well (but still knew I was different... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Triathalons? |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2008, 7:54 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,155
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| Yes, I used to do them! (Also did marathons, although I am pretty much devoted to trail running now.) I did sprint distance (I didn't start doing them till I was 46) and enjoyed them very much. I think, had I started earlier, that I would have enjoyed adventure racing as well. I have done a lot of l... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Another new arrival |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 12:06 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 976
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I appreciate the welcome. Simply realizing that AS applied to me was a huge relief, as it explained so much, including many little things I never realized were connected.
Anna |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Another new arrival |
| AnnaLemma |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 11:21 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 976
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| Hello to all! I am just self-diagnosed and trying to figure out how this all works. I am female and almost 60. I'm sure this sounds like a very old story to you all—I knew that I processed things quite differently in a lot of ways and was quite out-of-step with others (as is constantly pointed out b... |
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