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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What misdiagnoses have you had? |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 3:18 pm
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Replies: 31
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Psychotic disorder NOS, Borderline Personality Disorder...
The last one is so contradictory to my personality it's funny. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Ever felt controlled/overwhelmed by your special interest? |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 3:03 pm
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Replies: 53
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| When it occupies me to the degree where I lose sleep, forget to do important day-to-day things and fail to prioritize (which I'm crap at anyway), then I'm overwhelmed. All these things can lead me into shutdown, so special interests can be a problem for me if they get too intense. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 13
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If I had a catflap in the house... I'd be tempted to try this on my cat.
Reminds me of the clingfilm over the toilet bowl prank. Except not as messy...  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Selective Mutism. |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 2:52 pm
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Replies: 41
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| A thread on elective mutism can be found here (from what I've read it amounts pretty much to the same thing): http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt97474.html Ahh, thanks for this. I'll take a look through it. :) i tend to stay quiet unfortunately, better to be assumed a fool than to prove it.. This is v... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Selective Mutism. |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 1:52 pm
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| Does anyone else suffer with this? If so, any advice? How do you deal with it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_mutism Anxiety in social situations causes me most of my problems. My inability to properly articulate myself well (or at all in extreme circumstances) is a huge part of that. When i... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: If sleep weren't required, would you ever sleep? |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 1:24 pm
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Replies: 37
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| Small holidays away from the stresses of consciousness are essential to me. When things are overwhelming, the nothingness of sleep is pure bliss. It's just a wonderful escape from everything. Ideally, I'd have an on/off switch. The fact that I find it hard to get to sleep due to an overactive mind a... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 1:19 pm
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| Love it. World domination - A common fantasy of mine. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: autism and medicine |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 1:16 pm
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| Psychiatric medication needs to be prescribed with more care, particularly antipsychotics. They're the modern day equivalent of incarceration and restraint, chemical instead of psychical. Too many people's lives are destroyed by mind dulling antipsychotics, particularly people with ASD. While it may... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and silly talk. |
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Posted: 15 May 2009, 12:21 pm
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| If it's in any way connected, I always made-up nonsense words and names for things. I still do this at home. It must be often enough, because my mother doesn't usually have to ask for a translation when I come out with a made-up word like 'schnoo' when referring to the vacuum cleaner or 'slinky-mali... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does it annoy you when others want to know about stuff? |
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 8:46 am
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| It's just small talk to most people, but I can't help but find it intrusive. I'm also scared people are going to judge me by my answer. Funny thing is, I try to ask these questions myself now (even if I'm not interested in the answer), since it's actually seen as rude not to take interest in other p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Abuse by psychiatrist |
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 8:40 am
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Replies: 25
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| If you could define abuse that would help. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: is there anyway for us not to analyze things to death? |
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 6:14 pm
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| Analysis to paralysis. :wink: I personally think that's the biggest advantage of having AS - we see more than NTs do about the world around us. We can notice little things that other people don't notice - and isn't that amazing? I agree. Sure, without our tendencies to over-analyze we'd have less an... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Don't breed, writer urges mental health victims |
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 1:52 pm
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| When I was pregnant with my eldest child 11 years ago, the psychiatrist put a huge amount of pressure on me to have a 'theraputic termination' and I had to really battle him (and others) to keep her. That's absolutely disgraceful. Nevermind it being totally inappropriate, but is it even legal for a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Trailer for AS movie 'Adam'. |
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 1:46 pm
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CanyonWind wrote: Might be some potential for an aspie western.
The solitary stranger rides into town and...
...and spends the whole movie being a solitary stranger.
Maybe not.
We need a film noir style aspie movie with a typical solitary, alienated protagonist. Asperger's goes cool and gritty.  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: girls and their boob awareness |
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 11:26 am
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Replies: 21
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| My friends will sometimes bump their boobs into boys that they're trying to flirt with. I also see them twirling their hair round their fingers and giggling like idiots. I guess they think the person they're doing it to will enjoy it or it makes them seem more attractive to the person they're doing... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: girls and their boob awareness |
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Posted: 11 May 2009, 10:29 am
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Replies: 21
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| My friends will sometimes bump their boobs into boys that they're trying to flirt with. I also see them twirling their hair round their fingers and giggling like idiots. I guess they think the person they're doing it to will enjoy it or it makes them seem more attractive to the person they're doing... |
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