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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Which engineering degree is best for an aspe? |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 9:25 pm
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| Thanks for your reply. I think I understand the meaning of #5 now and know an area I may need to focus on. In the right environment (when you find it) those around you will eventually get used to the fact that you are brief, to the point, and do not "beat around the bush". This is an advantage in go... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Which engineering degree is best for an aspe? |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 4:31 pm
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| ozbiker, thanks for your valuable post. i get the sense that you have a lot of experience behind your words. i have a question about the following 5. Forget about reporting and report writing. AS does fine at this although the reports tend to be somewhat breifer than NT reports. The facts - that's w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Myself with AS ***Please Read*** |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 4:02 pm
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| yes, except my grades have been pretty good and now i am getting back into computers. i think it's important to accept that you can't accomplish everything in computers. i have had to do that. i will probably not singlehandedly write a program that passes the turing test. most likely you will be wor... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone ever been tested for having the Fragile X genome?? |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 3:53 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,939
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| Interesting. It is certainly plausible that those with Fragile X who have normal and above average IQs end up being diagnosed as Aspies in some cases. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Jaw problems?? |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2008, 12:40 pm
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| antidepressants work to reduce the jaw pain if it is caused by stress. i am diagnosed with tmj and some anxiety. i can vouch for that. a low dose may be all you need, if jaw pain is your only issue. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Part way through semester and plunging downward... |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2008, 2:09 pm
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Quote: Part of this is due to the fact that this time I am:
1- accepting and understanding about my ADD/HD
ADD High Definition, coming to an Aspie near you! |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Is Economics a Good Career for an Aspie? |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2008, 1:55 pm
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| Just noted it because Mason had two economics noble prize winners. jerry hatake and alex plank also go to george mason. My s/n isn't my real name but anyway you go to Mason too? No, I don't go to GM, but I have looked at some of their computer science research before and happened to notice that you... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Here is the list of majors available to me |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2008, 10:35 pm
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| Computer Science -- jobs that are good for people lacking social skills Computer Engineering* -- see aboveyou would likely be qualified for some of the CS jobs, but keep in mind that electronics and computer production has moved to Asia, and the engineering work on computers is in the process of mig... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Financial aid situation |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2008, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I hope that before dropping those classes you had a reasonable, strong feeling that you were going to get an F in both of them. I've dropped a couple of classes before for stupid reasons besides grades, and I wish I had not been so hasty about doing so. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Is Economics a Good Career for an Aspie? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2008, 7:23 pm
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JerryHatake wrote: Just noted it because Mason had two economics noble prize winners.
jerry hatake and alex plank also go to george mason. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: It's official: my friend is weird. |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2008, 1:35 pm
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Quote: He said a couple days ago that he watched that Fairly Oddparents special "Fairly OddBaby"
Getting him to watch what we like is the first step, roydgerdodger. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I have decided to change my major |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2008, 4:17 pm
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Geography seemed like a subject that would be natural for you, Tim, to study in college, given your past work and education in GIS. I've heard that both the geography and the foreign language fields do have a lot of job opportunities available for them.
Best of luck. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: South Florida people, where are you? |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2008, 10:24 am
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| I don't live in south FL, but you seem oddly familiar. Check your PMs, AzureFlames. Oh, and I've been to Disney twice (the second time, I saw the LAST group go, before us, through It's a Small World before they sut it down) and Universal several times. I like Universal more. The earthquake ride, th... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Finding an Aspie friendly major when you suck at math |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2008, 9:47 pm
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| Is Business extremely hard? I plan on going for that at Brown University or Harvard. Temple Grandin, a high functioning autistic and expert on autism, mentions business majors as not good for Aspies. However, she also recommends Accounting as a major and career for Aspies, and it is technically a b... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: South Florida people, where are you? |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2008, 8:29 pm
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| I don't live in south FL, but you seem oddly familiar. Check your PMs, AzureFlames. Oh, and I've been to Disney twice (the second time, I saw the LAST group go, before us, through It's a Small World before they sut it down) and Universal several times. I like Universal more. The earthquake ride, tho... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: count to a million |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2008, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 38,173
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1689-- Nothing that I can recall happened.
* Something that I do not recall may have happened. |
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