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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How you see your self vs how others see you |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 10:10 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 789
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| Before I left my job I suspect that many managers thought I was demanding to be treated differently. The irony was, and it was their loss really, that I was demanding to be treated the same. If my colleague has to do 10x units of work please may I have 10x units of work and not the 5x that I am bein... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's your weirdest fear or phobia? |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 3:42 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 420
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| Stories/Pictures of "Spontaneous Human Combustion" in those Mystery and Unexplained books always used to freak me out as a kid. Still gives me the heeby-jeebies a bit now. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Work Place Saga |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2019, 2:53 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 321
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| ....attitude.... ....my argument.... Bosses don't like either of those. This may help. It may not. I often found the best way to de-escalate a potential argument that is bubbling up is to start agreeing with the other person. You may be right in your opinion, but sometimes it is more prudent not to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Work Place Saga |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2019, 2:43 am
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Replies: 8
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It could be they are wording their concerns in a vague manner and it is not that you are raising your voice per se, but that you are answering them back.
Is it the case that they are asking you to do something and you are saying that you "can't do it because of....." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Driving |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2019, 3:40 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 870
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| I've started being a lot more defensive in my driving. There are so many impatient people about, more so than ever before. I mean the other day I was driving up the left hand lane of a two lane slip road accelerating upto 50mph, which is the speedlimit of the road at the top. I was signaling right.... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Driving |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2019, 12:33 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 870
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| There is an old saying "Practice makes perfect". The more you drive the more natural driving becomes. I have driven over a million miles in my lifetime and it is very natural and not very stressful. As an Aspie I generally apply a couple rules. 1. I always put my full focus on driving. I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Driving |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2019, 11:37 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 870
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| Drive sensibly, but don't dawdle. Leave your self plenty of room in front, but not so much that every one pulls out of side streets on you. Don't drive into closing gaps, and make sure if you are driving into a constricted space you have room to escape to if needed. On your test especially - make th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: If you work : Are you different at home than at work? |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 06 Oct 2019, 3:02 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 426
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| Last year I left my job because the atmosphere had become hostile to me. I needed to get away from the place. So in the meantime I've kept busy with various projects at home. Recently I been starting to look for a job and yesterday it dawned on me that I have not been the person I was at work the wh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Katagelasticism and laughter - an article I found |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 11:46 am
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Replies: 19
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kraftiekortie wrote: These days, there’s always a label for something....even for people who don’t like labels.
Pigeonholeism? The strong desire to give everything a label. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Katagelasticism and laughter - an article I found |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 9:26 am
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Replies: 19
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| Isn't situational humour and comedy always at someone's expense? That's kind of the point. Ok, granted some spoken jokes might not be, but then who walks round telling jokes all the time. I'd rather have a laugh with (and/or at) someone (knowing I'd expect nothing less if the situation was reversed*... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Company move telgraph pole outside autistic child's house |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2019, 10:15 am
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Replies: 0
Views: 239
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| https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/17933657.telegraph-pole-outside-blackburn-house-turned-autistic-boys-world-upside/ A company rolling out internet to homes had to remove a telegraph pole from outside the home of an autistic child. Muhammad-Raihan Master, 10 is profoundly autistic, and when... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: False impressions |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019, 3:25 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 286
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| How a person is online , in a highly verbal environment , may not be a good guide to how they do offline . I can be exactly like that. No. I am exactly like that. My writing can make me appear to be very literate and intelligent. Well thought out and reasoned arguments and comments and opinions and... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wrongplanet makes me look few months older |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019, 2:32 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Did it change on the 12th September? Maybe you've put the date in the wrong format? 12/09/1979 (American format) instead of 09/12/1979 (British format) which the site appears to use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States Format needs to be DD-MM-YYYY I just check... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wrongplanet makes me look few months older |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2019, 1:13 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 260
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do NTs make mistakes? |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019, 8:40 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,012
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Frank Spencer:
Quote: "No man who never did nothing never made any mistakes." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I need some suggestions! |
| harry12345 |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019, 8:36 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,456
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Mountain Goat wrote: What colour carpet did you get?
They are probably onto their third carpet since 2004......   |
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