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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: copying people, things.... etc |
| xemnasfan |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2011, 12:04 pm
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syrella wrote: Emulating the world around you is normal, I think, so long as you don't take it too far. Don't drink your car off a cliff because you saw someone do it in a movie! 
ok, i guess i feel better about it. i can't drive so i can't do it and i don't ever want to try.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: copying people, things.... etc |
| xemnasfan |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2011, 1:00 am
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| I kind of think everyone does this to an extent. It's hard not to emulate things we see when we would like to be more like them. but people do that on purpose, this happens to me randomly and beyond my control. i seem to take on their character when i least expect it. and i know i'm doing it but i ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: copying people, things.... etc |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 11:26 pm
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| does anyone else do this because i've been doing it all my life. and by copying i'd don't mean copying something someone does, like someone drives a truck into a lake and then you go and do the same thing. i mean you see a character\person talk or acting a certain way and you copy them. like when i ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2011, 1:57 pm
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| ok that makes sense, it's cool that we are all different. i don't know who temple grandin is, but to me it seems the internal tv is kinda rare, it may have something to do with dreaming. but i just find it cool. my mom says she can only see pictures in her head, like if she's trying to remember some... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2011, 11:15 pm
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| so that got me thinking are there different types of aspies, and not just different severities of aspergers. not just high or low functioning. but different combinations of the symptoms. I think this is true just by the definition of different PDDs in the DSM, both AS and Autism are defined as havi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2011, 7:21 pm
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| i seem to have both as well as well is the extreme chaotic mood swings. the more and more i read i wonder if i'm on the more severe side. when i was dxed it was when i was 15 or so, back then i was mild. once i turned 18 and up i knew i was getting worse, the story became it's own entity, i started ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2011, 7:04 pm
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| Hey bro, this video may explain some things that I hope you will find helpful http://www.caetextia.com/pages/defaultnetwork.html context blindness', a chronic disorder manifesting in the inability to adjust behaviours or perception to deal appropriately with interacting variables. The site reviewed... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2011, 6:44 pm
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| i watched the link of the video, and i couldn't understand it one bit. he said that aspies cannot daydream, or don't have the internal tv or something. i was thinking um i do do both of those and i am an aspie dxed. course alot of what he said i couldn't understand because of his accent or the audio... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2011, 12:29 pm
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Replies: 39
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| Hey bro, this video may explain some things that I hope you will find helpful http://www.caetextia.com/pages/defaultnetwork.html context blindness', a chronic disorder manifesting in the inability to adjust behaviours or perception to deal appropriately with interacting variables. The site reviewed... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 10:04 pm
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| AFAIK, when, in the 1980s, some researcher begin to explore the concept of "Asperger's Syndrome", the idea was, exactly, to have a name from some "patients" who have impairments similar to autism, but that are "active but odd" instead of "aloof" - basically, sociable and verbose autistics (more or ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 7:47 pm
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| yeah people by nature are unique, and thus every aspie as also unique, i only ran into 1 other person though with internal tv, or knew about it in some way. be nice if their were more people like that. back when i was on jetfox my old account i started talking to others about things i did or felt et... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Who thinks aspergers should be renamed? |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 4:00 pm
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| But I don't want a girlfriend. :roll: What is it with people being so utterly obsessed with finding somebody they can lock lips with? Really? There's more to life than that. You are a self-proclaimed asexual, therefore you can't understand. What I can't understand are the asexuals who disregard the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 3:49 pm
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| so that got me thinking are there different types of aspies, and not just different severities of aspergers. not just high or low functioning. but different combinations of the symptoms. That's the sort of thing I expect to hear from the undiagnosed who do not actually have AS but want to believe t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 3:29 pm
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Replies: 39
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| so that got me thinking are there different types of aspies, and not just different severities of aspergers. not just high or low functioning. but different combinations of the symptoms. That's the sort of thing I expect to hear from the undiagnosed who do not actually have AS but want to believe t... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: rift is the mmo i have been searching for |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 3:16 pm
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| heh no kidding, once you get to lvl 50 it reverts to that horrible system wow has. where you have to ask others for help, i will never do that not in a game or in real life. if i want something done or if i need to get something, i will do it myself. i can't and won't trust anyone to help me. but i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: types of aspies |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2011, 3:05 am
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Replies: 39
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| i was on aspies for freedom, terrible site because they are against treatment for this illness. but one person said i have more of the classic symptoms of aspergers. so that got me thinking are there different types of aspies, and not just different severities of aspergers. not just high or low func... |
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