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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting off the phone without finishing the conversation... |
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Posted: 12 May 2012, 6:32 am
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Replies: 13
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| rude? It really depends; if one person is being really angry and refusing to listen to the other person, then I think it is acceptable to end the call. It may make them even angrier in the short term, but then if you let them cool off, the argument/discussion can be continued more rationally at a l... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Am I invisible or do people genuinely not see/hear me? |
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Posted: 09 May 2012, 5:17 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 11,179
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| Some people walk around in a day dream. It's quite possible they haven't heard you, even if others haven't. You've probably done it a few times by mistake too; nearly everyone does. I suppose that's true... I wouldn't keep asking why they're ignoring you; that just sounds a little bit paranoid and ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Am I invisible or do people genuinely not see/hear me? |
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Posted: 09 May 2012, 12:21 pm
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| Some people walk around in a day dream. It's quite possible they haven't heard you, even if others haven't. You've probably done it a few times by mistake too; nearly everyone does. I wouldn't keep asking why they're ignoring you; that just sounds a little bit paranoid and needy (sorry to be blunt).... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: going to try really hard to be "adult" about this. |
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Posted: 09 May 2012, 12:13 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Maybe go, have little to drink (or water as silvervarg suggests), and just have a good time. If there are enough of you there, you may not need to bump into each other. If you do end up talking, maybe you can make up? You sound pretty reasonable about the situation, so maybe she's put things in pers... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do salespeople do this? |
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Posted: 09 May 2012, 11:54 am
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| It's their job. She was doing what she is supposed to do. It's an easy enough situation to avoid, just practise the following responses: "Can I help you find something?" Response: "No thank you." "Is there anything else you need?" Response: "No thank you." This. She was just doing her job & at ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I don't understand. Maybe it's me? |
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Posted: 02 May 2012, 7:29 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I work in an office environment. I think that their is a good reason everyone has different job titles, and responsibilities. As a result, everyone should only do their responsibilities. This whole "team work" business is nonsense! If we are to all do one another's job, how come we have job titles ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: living with housemates |
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Posted: 02 May 2012, 7:03 pm
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| Nah, I think once you've said hello the first time, and maybe chatted a bit, that should be enough. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Is my Aspie son a bully? |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 4:35 pm
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| Sorry to be blunt, but the spitting is completely out of order, and you're kind of just letting him if you say you haven't even talked to him about it, let alone imposed a punishment. AS is no excuse for that kind of behaviour, especially if he's 'intelligent' enough to know better. It's also not a ... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Irregular periods/pregnancy scare |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2012, 6:30 pm
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| You're probably ok. 9 days isn't a huge delay; as you said, it may be due to other factors too e.g. stress, weight loss. If you want to wait till you are meeting your friends to pick up a test, that sounds pretty reasonable. If you take them too early, you may not get an accurate reading. In the mea... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The Onion - Autistic Reporter Michael Falk |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2012, 4:44 pm
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lol at number 3- I've often thought that arguments against jailing criminals because they have AS missed to point...  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: aspies without an obsession |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2012, 6:35 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I have 'negative obsessions' ; things which I really reeeaaally don't want to do, or think about. Ironically, they're often things I used to be interested in but have dragged on too long. Sucks when it's part of work! |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Pharmacology after Psychology? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 11:21 am
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Replies: 3
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| Well I thought this is the best subforum to post this topic since it's about college althought not directly connected to social life, but to academia terms. I've been wondering about this and I think the answer to the main question is afermative. However, I believe there's no better advice than the... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Asperger issues or he is just not that into you...or both? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 10:45 am
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| Reading the kinds of posts that you refer to, I too wonder about the "he's just not that into you" factor, as well as a whole bunch of other interpretations; but it's rare that I am sure about what is truly going on and it seems to me that there is often much 'facepalm' to be had by the obvious lac... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Asperger issues or he is just not that into you...or both? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 10:16 am
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| I have yet to see a 'happy ending' to any of these posts. Me neither, and I've been here a while. I used to point out cases where I thought the guy(or girl) was just not interested in, rather than unable to, attempt to save their relationship. I've found that in most cases, when people are given ad... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Working at a Law Firm |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2012, 4:40 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I met with some fellow students for lunch who worked at the same office last year. They all had really great experiences and formed good friendships while interning. What troubles me is they all appeared so socially capable (I said very little the entire lunch and just tried to be very polite). I d... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Should accommodations be noted on your transcript? |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2012, 4:33 pm
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Replies: 14
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| I agree in part. I don't see it as an unfair advantage to give people with, say, writing difficulties extra time, but I do think it should be noted, with the decision to list the reason why they needed it optional. I know of several kids in high school whose parents got them diagnosed with ADD/Dysle... |
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