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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: if there was a cure......would you take it? |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 12:55 pm
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Replies: 84
Views: 6,556
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| Absolutely not. I would be fearful on how the cure would change me. I would rather be alive and autistic, than dead and not autistic, or comatose and not autistic. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Musical Savant |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 12:46 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,070
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| Unless you can do something like only needing to listen to a song once to memorize, then IMHO, you shouldn't be considered "unusual". I know that disabled people having talent astonishes people enough that there are technically lower levels of savantism (splinter skills and talented savants), but I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: stimming |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2013, 12:26 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,189
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LizNY wrote: should i mention that i do this stuff at work...? that i sit at my desk and feel my hair while trying to not do these odd things..?
It's okay to do those "odd things", if the only reason why you're not doing it is because it's odd. |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: At what age were you diagnosed with AS? |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 11:02 pm
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Replies: 64
Views: 28,974
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| Female, diagnosed with PDD-NOS at 19. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: My heart took another hit tonight |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:57 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,409
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| It sounds like he's moved on and you haven't. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What is it about Gemini girls......... |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:55 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,470
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It's probably all in your head, like a placebo effect. In other words, you think it will work, and so, it will. But, that means it does work.  Good luck! |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: do you find the jigsaw piece symbol offensive? |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:53 pm
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Replies: 61
Views: 13,400
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| I find the Jigsaw symbol offensive. I am a person. I don't have jigsaw puzzle pieces cut out of my face, because I am a person, and not a puzzle piece. |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Which Classic Monster Are You? |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:50 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,866
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autistic ownership of the media |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:46 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,547
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| I'm doing a theoretical project on the Autism movement. This is mostly for HFA/AS because of the unemployment and more severe nature otherwise, so I was wondering what things can be theoretically like if people with HFA/AS gained powerful positions in the media (either mainstream or other). What ar... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hey Everyone :) |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:42 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 634
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: stimming |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:25 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,189
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LizNY, I think the most important is your own opinion.
People stim for different reasons--sensory stimulation, mental stimulation, comfort/self-soothing, or simply because it feels good. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ADOS TEST |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:22 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,803
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| My mom took that test for me over the phone 4 years ago. And yeah, it's normal in our society to teach young girls how to be "ladies", so what ends up happening is that the social skills that go over the head of many autistic boys are taught to, and learned by autistic girls. That could be why you a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Einstein's brain and AS |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 10:19 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,636
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| Curiously this also describes a prominent pianist in Australia named David Helfgot who is considered by many to be a musical genius. Both David Helfgot's and Albert Einstein's families have rejected the autism label despite both having speech delays as children. You know, maybe we shouldn't call th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Skype group |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 7:54 pm
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Replies: 76
Views: 16,025
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I'm willing to PM my screen name.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is there a type of art Aspies/Auties Like? |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 7:52 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 3,711
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| I tended to draw people when I drew as a child/teenager/young adult. Now, I draw trees a lot, or I'll take a picture of myself and edit it to oblivion on iPiccy.com. My avatar is an iPiccy'd version of a copyright-free azalea. All of my "art" pieces in my apartment are two posters of animals, a prin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you like a horse? |
| emimeni |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 7:48 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,192
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| I can relate a lot to animals. I suppose I can be more like an animal than a human at times, particularly since it feels like, at times, that I have the flight-fight-freeze system of a prey animal. I can't identify with one particular animal, but I've always had people (99% of the time it's my paren... |
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