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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and Lack of Empathy |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2022, 3:38 pm
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Replies: 49
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| I think it sometimes has to do with how one expresses empathy. During my assessment, the assessor told me about when her summer house got broken into once. I replied with a story of when my car was broken into. To me, that was a way of telling her that I understood the trauma and how hard it can be ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Bank holidays being used as your annual leave days |
| mohsart |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 8:17 am
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Replies: 5
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| It's interesting how it works in different countries. We used to have a system that counted 6 days off if the time spanned over a week end. One week=5 days, two weeks=11 days. Also, if we took time off during winter, we'd get an extra day off per week. Overtime is another thing, in some countries it... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment study |
| mohsart |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 7:49 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 4,257
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| Some thoughts... Herbal medicine is in every country, it's not TCM specific. TCM includes a lot of aspects that were common in the middle ages in Europe, like balance of fluids. Thus the practice of drawing blood by cupping or with leeches. TCM includes a lot of IDK projecting? Like eating a snake o... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Bank holidays being used as your annual leave days |
| mohsart |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 3:35 am
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Replies: 5
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| But isn't 20 days = 4 weeks? That's an absolute minimum here, I have 8 weeks, bank holidays not included. In fact, when the national day occurs on a week-end, we get to take an extra day off, to compensate. Plus we can take (payed) time off for burials of close relatives, moving house, and something... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What embarrassing things did you do as a teenager? |
| mohsart |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2022, 4:32 am
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Replies: 21
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| When my facial hair started to grow I only shaved the front of my face, I don't remember if I was afraid to shave my neck, but I suspect I wasn't, I probably just didn't understand that I should shave off all of it. In 8th grade, some of the least unfriendy girls in my class instructed me how to swi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone Want To Talk About Our Interests? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 32
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| ^You would probably like Herman Melville's works, then. I do like Moby Dick, don't know of other works by him. Goldings Rights of Passage is quite nice, and also We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen. And of course the Hornblower books. But as for fiction I'm mostly into Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft and s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone Want To Talk About Our Interests? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 10:42 am
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Replies: 32
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Boats, in particular smallish work boats from 19th century onwards.
And foremost sailing boats.
The interst includes history, building methods, sail making, rigging, rope work (including fancy work like macramé, rope mats etc).
/Mats |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and IQ |
| mohsart |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2022, 7:56 am
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Replies: 151
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| Regarding music, The Swedish system was (is?) like this: You first take a couple of lessons playing the recorder, and depending on how well you do you get to go ahead with the instrument of your choise, second choise, third choise etc. I was so bad, I had to stick to the recorder. I've always had a ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Poll of bullying |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2022, 4:34 am
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Replies: 28
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Bullied age 7-17 and from age 50.
I think it's more to do with what kind of people I have around me than with me and how I behave, since I stayed clear of being bullied for such a long time.
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and IQ |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2022, 4:17 am
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Replies: 151
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| IQ is one factor why I have always been against the use of Spectrum as a descriptor. I think it gets perceived too easily by all sorts of people as a range or scale, and I think the various diagnoses, while maybe having interconnectivity, belong nowhere on a scale. I'm not sure what I would replace... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How not to be a lonely Misanthrope? |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022, 5:48 am
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Replies: 10
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| I would like to live like that, too. Unfortunately I went from being quite independent to almost unable to organize my life or even do things I enjoy on my own. These last three years have been extremely challenging, and I think that's why I'm not functioning so good anymore. Hope some upcoming cha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and the Covid Vaccination: anyone been vaccinated? |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 10:47 am
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Replies: 208
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| I'm now eligible for the booster, but I think I'll pass. This may come as a surprise to some, since I've always been very positive to the vaccine. There are two reasons: 1. With Omicron, and with two doses of the vaccine, plus that I'm fairly sure I've had Covid at least once, I'm really not worried... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How did you make friends during childhood? |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 6:41 am
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Replies: 29
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| 1 - When I was about five I was obsessed with the little girl across the street from me. Her mother told me that she had gone to another girl's house to play. I was so jealous I went marching over to the other girl's house by myself, to bring my friend back. I didn't watch for traffic and I got hit... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Becoming sensitive... |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 3:01 am
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Replies: 10
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| I can relate a bit, I think. I feel that my behaviour has changed a little since my diagnosis, or since a bit before it. I'm still trying to figure out if and when, and why, I'm masking. Some people dislike me, but most don't. Nobody has ever showed any signs of being afraid of me, except for one wo... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Music and sensitivities |
| mohsart |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2022, 9:27 am
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Replies: 5
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starrytigress wrote: I listen to metal. Mostly eclectic metal (like symphonic metal, folk metal, and eve n a cappella metal)
Have you heard Kenny Håkansson/Kebnekajse?
While not quite metal, I think that you may like it.
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Small talk and social hierarchy |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2022, 9:15 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,110
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| It's always been puzzling to me why some people don't greet the cleaning staff, or other "low ranking" individuals. Or another example, "high ranks" refuse to empty the dishwasher and expect receptionists or other "low ranks" to do it. I never thought about it being a N... |
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