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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you feel about dentists? |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2017, 7:23 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 828
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| When I was growing up there were two recurring visits that I dreaded; the dentist and the hairdresser. Now, decades later, the dentist has got better (because they now use anaesthetics) and now my dread of hairdressers outweighs my dread of dentists. For the simple reason that you can't be expected ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory Perception Quotient |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2017, 9:36 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,972
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| I just started taking the questionnaire, and I think it's complete garbage! The questions do not translate to sensory issues whatsoever, in my opinion. I have quite severe sensory issues, and virtually none of them are being tested by this questionnaire. Furthermore, most of the questions are very ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory Perception Quotient |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2017, 7:49 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,972
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| If I were creating a test for sensitivity, I would create different sections for each of the senses. So that if you highly sensitive to light but undersensitive to sound the two would not cancel each other out. I would also give different scores for a strong or a minor response. I would probably us... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory Perception Quotient |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2017, 11:26 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,972
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| I went through each question and hit “disagree” for all of them and it still gave me a score of 46. That, at least, is reasonable! That means that they have avoided "response bias." The questions have presumably been designed so that in half of them the high-sensory-sensitivity response c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory Perception Quotient |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2017, 9:25 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,972
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| I just started taking the questionnaire, and I think it's complete garbage! The questions do not translate to sensory issues whatsoever, in my opinion. I have quite severe sensory issues, and virtually none of them are being tested by this questionnaire. Furthermore, most of the questions are very ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia poll |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2017, 10:26 pm
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Replies: 73
Views: 4,148
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| Many aphantasics dream in pictures and some see flashes of imagery under certain circumstances, such as just before they drift off to sleep. So although they can’t consciously control their mental pictures, the capacity itself doesn’t seem to have vanished. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2083... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia poll |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 9:39 am
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Replies: 73
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| Perhaps it's a cognitive deficit with me ,but for me one knows whether one sees images in one's mind's eye or not. I don't really get all the talk about "frame of reference" etc . I think the problem is not knowing what people actually mean by the words "seeing an image in one's mind... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia poll |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 9:34 am
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Replies: 73
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| Hey! You guys who have aphantasia, I'm really curious about something. How is dreaming for you? That is an interesting question. I am never left with the impression of anything but rather hazy images, when I recall my dreams after waking. It is difficult for me to be absolutely certain whether thos... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia poll |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 7:29 am
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Replies: 73
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| As for Aphantasia, I have no idea, largely because I have nothing to compare with. I can certainly recall being frustrated in elementary school when the teacher told us to picture something in our mind and I couldn't seem to do it, but then I was likely taking the teacher literally and actually wan... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: American Professor Couple Identify Major Cause of Autism |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2017, 7:05 pm
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Replies: 74
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| As I posted about, here, in November of 2013. Science is slowly catching up to my experience, findings, and hypotheses. I’ve learned several things since but have yet to really write about them - some minor details, some significant experiences that confirmed a few things. Someday I’ll write an upd... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sound hyp[o|er]sensitivity |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2017, 9:12 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 453
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| I am hypersensitive to certain kinds of sounds; anything that is very loud, but also specifically "human-generated" sounds, where the human is actively involved in making the noise. This includes chewing, coughing, snuffling, whistling, rustling sweet wrappers, revving up engines on motorb... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R) |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2017, 4:08 am
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Replies: 10
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| ErwinN: Well, maybe I am misinterpreting the sentence "The total RAADS scores ranged from 44 to 227 in the ASD subjects and from 0 to 65 in the comparison groups." which, presumably, was a quote from the RAADS paper. Read literally (as I am wont to do!), it appears to make the very strong ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R) |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2017, 7:06 pm
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| "The total RAADS scores ranged from 44 to 227 in the ASD subjects and from 0 to 65 in the comparison groups. By ROC curve analysis, we determined that the best threshold for distinguishing between the two groups was a score of 65. Using this value, all 578 comparison subjects were correctly pr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time/Unfairly accused |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2017, 3:37 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 4,075
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| My apologies for what follows. I know this is a serious topic, and one where people have genuinely suffered through being blamed unjustly for things they didn't do. And please don't let my comment deflect from the purpose of this thread. However, being somewhat obsessive about these things, I cannot... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you disorganised/messy/untidy? |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2017, 2:33 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,653
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I am reminded of something allegedly said by Albert Einstein, in response to comments about his untidy office:
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?" |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do people in your dreams speak? |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2017, 1:50 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,310
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| I have known for a long time that I can't write about fictional characters, and now I realize that I can only remember having one dream in which other people spoke. What is your experience? I honestly don't think I know for sure whether people in my dreams speak or not. I experience dreams where it... |
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