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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Neil Gaiman has come out as autistic! |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024, 8:00 am
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| Everything about Good Omens needs to be thought through again with this in mind…! https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/744334382867890176/thoughts-on-autism (Neil Gaiman is also responsible for Sandman, Lucifer, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, Stardust, Dead Boy Detectives, episodes of Doctor Wh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do autistic people talk to themselves? |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2023, 10:26 am
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| I think everyone does this to a certain extent, but I definitely do it to a GREAT extent. I think part of it is because I'm alone most of the time, and it helps to hear a voice, even if it's mine. Sometimes, I'm fantasizing about being able to tell someone about something, and being able to hear my ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is anyone else participating in the UCSD Spark study? |
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Posted: 05 Nov 2023, 9:55 am
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This is supposedly the biggest study on autism ever undertaken, so I signed up, and I just got my kit to submit my DNA… Has anyone else already done this? I don't really know what to expect beyond surveys and DNA results.
https://sparkforautism.org/portal/homepage/?language=en |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you "missing" some emotions? |
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Posted: 12 May 2023, 10:50 pm
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Replies: 21
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| For me, "good" and "bad" emotions can often feel the same, so for example, if I'm feeling an emotion before something really great is about to happen, it feels the same as if I'm stressing over something terrible that is about to happen... sort of tense and overwhelmed and freake... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you "missing" some emotions? |
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Posted: 09 May 2023, 3:53 pm
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| I don't feel loneliness, although I'm alone most of the time. I don't feel confidence, or lack thereof either. I don't feel pride, satisfaction, embarrassment, all sorts of stuff… Are there any emotions that you don't feel? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you use an activity partner aka body double? |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2022, 11:00 am
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| This is a concept that started in the ADD/ADHD community that has spread into the ASD and general neurodivergent communities. I just found out about it, and felt that relief you get when you discover that something that you always thought was just you being weird has a NAME, and that other people ar... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have your sensory issues changed over time? |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2021, 10:16 pm
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| I'm 50-something, and my touch-related sensory issues, such as anything hot or wool, are unchanged since my earliest childhood memories, but some of the fragrances and flavors that were just unbearable my whole life have suddenly become perfectly fine for me over the past couple of years. What about... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have family photos on display in your home? |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2019, 9:49 pm
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| No. Because I didn't really have a good relationship with my family and I don't like looking at pictures of human beings, even if they are people I am close too. Do you like images of really attractive people, such as models or actors, or just no human faces at all? I like to look at hotties to a c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have family photos on display in your home? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2019, 6:39 pm
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| It's an interesting question because I've never felt the urge to display this sort of thing. Like Dear-one, I never really bonded with my family. I also tend to avoid photo opportunities. I do too! If I'm socially pressured into being in a group photo, I get in the back because I'm tall, and then r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have family photos on display in your home? |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019, 5:01 pm
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| I never bonded with my family, but I do think of them from time to time. To decorate one corner of the house I bought with an inheritance, I have an oil portrait of my mother as a single woman that she commissioned from a friend, along with a recent snapshot of her on her last fun flight. There are... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have family photos on display in your home? |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019, 12:03 am
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| I am an Aspie and I am also face blind. I have many family photographs hanging on the wall and some free standing. Most of these my wife (an NT) puts up. I don't mind them and actually enjoy them. I think it is a common custom among NTs to have photographs on display. On the other hand one of my sp... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have family photos on display in your home? |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019, 7:10 pm
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| My parents have always had school photographs on display when we were kids, and now they have a few photographs of family on display. I like having photos of loved ones on display. I live with my boyfriend now and we have photos of us, and his kids, and his ex-wife's dog on display. Do you have pro... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have family photos on display in your home? |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019, 3:25 pm
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| And if you do, is it because YOU want them there, or because other people who live there want them, or because your parents had them, or other people have them, and you just thought you were supposed to? I was just watching a movie, and consciously noticed that there were several "family photos... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: A term for autistic asexuals and enbies: Endospectrum |
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Posted: 28 Jun 2018, 2:22 am
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| I've been spending a significant amount of time on the AVEN forum recently trying to sort out my gender, which led to me coming up with the following: Endo: within Spectrum: the autism spectrum Endospectrum : A person whose experience of any or all areas of gender, orientation, any kind of attractio... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Recovering from a long string of losses |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2014, 5:59 am
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Replies: 11
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That's a big help, thank you!!  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Recovering from a long string of losses |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 8:08 pm
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| Thank you for all your replies so far; it really helps to know that people understand. ...I got lucky with an amazing therapist/counselor, whom I continued to see for a few years more. Her guidance helped me deal with a lot of issues, deal with my massive grief also, and get back into life again. I ... |
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