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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 3:00 pm
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| Hi Lemon , So exciting to hear about your book ! The needle felting I do is with bits of dyed combed wool that you sort of roll into a shape and poke with something that looks like a long sewing needle . It has little barbs on it that make the wool fibers open up and get tangeled together . If you k... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Simple Aspergers research project - Your reply requested |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 2:46 pm
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| I'm an aspie and also think ADD, which is illustrated in my reaction to your questions . 1) I sound them out . I am a horrid speller though and often get my vowels mixed up . 2) I first visualized myself coming into my apartment and then reread the question and visioned myself leaving my apartment .... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2009, 1:15 pm
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| Thanks for looking at my felting Sleepy . I watch what others are selling on Etsy and don't see to much that is like what I do...some are better and some worse but most people do miniature creatures around 2-4 inchs and mine are comparatively large . I just don't have the dexterity to do miniatures ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 6:10 pm
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Love the Allsorts Sleepydragon . Are you selling your work any where now ?
Sorry to hear about the wee birdy Nan.....nature is brutal . |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 6:04 pm
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| Hi everyone. I',m still in the throws of a needle felting obsession.....(and no, I will not call it "special interest" or "perseverance" ,I know what an obsession feels like and that is what I get) . Someone sent me an interesting article about Empathy and Aspergers that I thought some of you might ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Famous people with asperger's - Where's a list of them? |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2009, 4:28 am
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| Saying I am a good person even though I have As just because some other great people did is about as convincing as saying that some actor was a Scorpio and since we are born under the same "sign" we are some how "related" in ability . You are not valuable as a person because someone with the same ne... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Bluntly ending a friendship with an Aspie. |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2009, 7:12 pm
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Bluntly ending a friendship with an Aspie. |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2009, 7:06 pm
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| I know that there are situations where some with As has been misDXed as personality disorder...can't recall the name but something with being egotistical and arrogant . Is it possible that your friend has been misDxed and really has a personality disorder and not AS ? Those behavior traits you descr... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2009, 6:55 pm
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| Just got my 4 pounds of wool 8O for anyone who doesn't know,(like me)...that turns out to me a lot of wool . He is now living in my bathroom storage closet but I'm not sure what to feed him . 3 pounds are natural wool ad one pound is pre dyed some lovely colors...already begin needle felting a new s... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Change.org for autistics |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2009, 6:26 pm
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This is a relatively new site for people on the spectrum to make their voices heard in the "new administration" and hopefully? get some assistance or at least acknowledgeent that we exist .
http://autism.change.org/ |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2008, 10:10 pm
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| Good to hear, all is going well Nan . I traveled a bit in my younger days but my tolerance for the unknown seems to be getting worse with age. I'm proud of you :D Hello to all . It's book binding week for me as Inventor keeps sending me such fun supplies to work with. I've also gotten addicted to ne... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hands up everyone who spent New Year's Eve alone! |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2008, 9:54 pm
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Not me...having a big party with my two cats and BF(of course he is on his computer and I am on mine  )...bought some popcorn shrimp, mazorilli sticks, cinnamon rolls and watching Twilight Zone Marathon...."Let The Wild Rumpus Begin" ! |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: facial recogniton training software |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2008, 9:51 pm
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| I don't know how well this would work for me as I don't really like to even look at peoples faces, at least when they can see mine . My biggest concern with this is that I think aspies often can not only not "read" subtle expressions but also "express" them differently . I am constantly being misint... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Mental Health Insurance Coverage; It's the LAW! |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2008, 9:39 pm
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| Autism is not considered a mental health issue, inspite of the fact that it is often DXed by a psychiatrist and not a neurologist and I had medical coverage from my job that specifically stated that they will not offer any autism related "treatments" . They did cover the Dx but once your Dxed, they ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2008, 7:59 pm
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| Yep, you can rent the seasons at the video store...great show . |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Wanted: creative hermit to live in tower, make art |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2008, 7:54 pm
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Would I have internet connection, preferably high speed ?
There was a time when I would have jumped at this, my aptitude test said my best fit was working in a fire tower in the woods and I do make "art" but now I am bound to an earthling and though I wouldn't mind a break, he would .  |
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