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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2010, 6:40 pm
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Replies: 60
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"No man is useless. He can always serve as a bad example."
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
| Dear_one |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2010, 4:05 pm
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| I wrote that before your own reply appeared, so it was really in answer to the previous post. I was hoping you were used to people reacting to their own private hallucinations when they see other people, especially hard to really imagine types like us. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2010, 3:44 pm
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| RainingRoses - I suppose in NYC you get used to people with many different perceptions and develop a thick skin? So many people assume that everyone is like themselves, and can't imagine the side-effects of a brain that had to get custom-programmed for communication, etc. My ex is notorious for seei... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What support would have made your life easier? |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2010, 10:23 am
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| In BC, my wife was driven mad when the tenancy laws were enforced in a tenant's favour, and I went mad when I couldn't have them enforced against a landlady. It is a crazy-making place in other ways, and the most corrupt province in Canada. I'm real glad I left. My recovery rate from trauma has been... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
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Posted: 13 Nov 2010, 11:11 am
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| [quote="Amajanshi"]I can answer your questions as I've experienced the same!Us Aspies already know about this coz we're neurologically wired to do everything MANUALLY, nothing on AUTO-PILOT, so we can see all the flaws and social BS that NTs engage in because we find that most of the thing... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2010, 3:34 pm
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| Well, at least now we have tests for different types of intelligence. The traditional type of IQ is just the aspie favourite. When I try those little puzzles involving some liars and some honest players, I quickly get lost. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Adult Diagnosis of Aspergers, seeking others' experiences. |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2010, 2:49 pm
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| 4) Now that we have developed a complex world, with complex ideas that should really require a lot of knowledge and thought, somehow it has become acceptable to not have a level of knowledge appropriate to the complexity of our surroundings. It is chaotic to have people living in an environment they... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010, 5:37 pm
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| Yesterday, my counselor mentioned that her son in University was struggling with his logic course - it was like doing math. Logic is as easy and subconscious for me as social stuff is for him, and vice versa. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Fed up as all hell with neurotypical stupidity and ignorance |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010, 1:11 pm
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| If everyone says NTs have empathy and can know about other people's feelings and emotions, then how come they are so ignorant against how people like us are feeling? How come it's ''normal'' for people to be like that? Most people can only imagine other minds that are similar to their own. We all g... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Rejecting people as friends. |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010, 5:43 am
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| Before I totally cut off contact with my former friends and "support group" I heard that they were often wondering "what happened" to me, but they obviously were not reading all the explanations I had agonized over to explain things. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What support would have made your life easier? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010, 5:26 am
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| Where are you hoping to find help? Any preference on location? |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Zuckerberg, Facebook and Autism on Care2 |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010, 5:19 am
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| http://www.care2.com/causes/education/blog/dumb-and-dumbed-down/#comment-1307605 Facebook and Web 2.0 make you dumb? Certainly there's been lots of speculation about the internet making us dumb (on Discovery magazine and at the Wall Street Journal). Facebook, with its apparent capacity for keeping u... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does anyone like parties? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2010, 3:19 am
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| I have spent maybe an hour a year with my family since I first left, so it does not matter to them that I'm alive. If I'm at a party or other noisy place where I have to start guessing at what people are saying, I leave quickly. One time, I didn't realize that most of the people at a party were civi... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Contacted an ofd friend on Facebook (Details in post) |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2010, 1:42 am
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Replies: 7
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Cool Avatar, L-wolf.
Teachers usually like knowing they have made a difference, but all their time is taken up dealing with new challenges. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feelings. Nothing more than feelings. |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2010, 1:32 am
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| When I was in grade 9, one of the other kids was killed in a car. I found it odd that people expected me to feel sad about that for two reasons. One, I'd been told all my life that Heaven was a better place. Two, the planet was a happier place without that bastard. Even people with great faith in th... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Any Self-Help Books For Helping People Convey Anything |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2010, 1:13 am
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Replies: 3
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| Only a few NTs can understand a range of other NTs, and they get a lifetime of practice to build on basic commonality. St. Francis recommended seeking to know others, rather than to be known, and while that is the end of a dream for me, it seems like good advise. Everybody in my former community com... |
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