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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Counterstrike: do you have SOCIAL imagination |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2014, 12:04 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,237
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| I have fairly decent social imagination; I do often imagine how other people will react or what they will say (there is also the whole "intense inner fantasy word" going on). The problem is that my social imagination often isn't very accurate ; I tend to expect that people will react much more harsh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'd rather have Aspergers than.... |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2014, 7:54 am
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Replies: 90
Views: 3,920
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I'd rather have AS than BS. 
In all seriousness, though, "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Tips for college |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2014, 7:52 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 535
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| To elaborate on 1. of Marky9's post, getting a private dorm room, if at all possible, would be immensely helpful. Study rooms may also be useful if no one else is in them at the moment. An understanding professor may even allow an overwhelmed student to hang out in their office during office hours. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Maybe I am NOT an Extreme Introvert? |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2014, 3:06 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 937
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| It may be that you are actually an ambivert--someone who is driven by both introversion and extroversion. Here are some articles on ambiversion, if you want a more in-depth description: here and here . I often test as very introverted on most assessments, but I do derive some energy from positive so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: For those of you with kid sides, how is it for you? |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2014, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,606
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| I scored 103, which is about average, with the ability to determine other's emotions and what would be the most appropriate response for a person in a given situation in the 90th percentile but with the ability to manage my own emotions and responses in the 30th percentile. My emotional responses a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: For those of you with kid sides, how is it for you? |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2014, 1:34 pm
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Replies: 23
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| Though I'm technically an adult, I consider myself a child with an "adult" side. :cat: I attend to my academic obligations well enough, and I can sometimes tell myself to "be brave" and deal with more mature things such as renewing a lease for my dorm or correcting a parking ticket, but I feel that ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: To the Dreamers |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2014, 1:14 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 637
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| Whether or not my characters have names depend on their closeness to my "avatar" character (the character that most strongly correlates to my actual person). Those that interact most with the avatar are eventually given names (though some of these names are flexible and change; the names before stab... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: World Autism Awareness Day |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2014, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 3
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Happy World Autism Awareness Day to you, too!
That is a very well-constructed and inspiring message from Ban Ki-moon. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "You two would make good friends" |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2014, 9:20 pm
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Replies: 13
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| In some cases, it can also be that the other person perceives some deficit in the number of friendships you have and is suggesting a possible remedy to that deficit. My father, for example, fears that I am lonely at university, so he will sometimes point out any person of my age and gender as someon... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is my father doing right or wrong? |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2014, 1:17 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,089
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| My father is much the same way as yours, bobba. Now, he genuinely cares for me , as is made evident by years of him bending over backwards to meet my needs and, when possible, fulfill my wants, and I've been told that he worries himself almost to tears over me, but his communication style can be rat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm tired of people criticizing me for being sensitive |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 2:19 pm
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Replies: 15
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skibum wrote: Londonopolis, Is there a link to your site? I may have overlooked or missed it. I would love to see it.
[url=londonkittycane.com]londonkittycane.com[/url] |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm tired of people criticizing me for being sensitive |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 1:04 pm
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Replies: 15
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| I absolutely love your website. Your writing style is eloquent, yet accessible to most readers; also, you are extremely kawaii. :albino: The post about the trip to WalMart really touched me. You are incredibly strong for dealing with what you deal with, and you deal with it in fairly good stride, I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: common conditions in families with autistic individuals |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 22
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| Many of the aforementioned disorders (autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia) share some common genetic links [article] . My mother's side of the family seems to have the schizophreniform/Broad Autism Phenotype disposition; most of the cases are mild enough to b... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Its ok to not have any sense...... |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2014, 9:17 pm
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Replies: 1
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| To a socially acclimated world, social skills is "sense," whereas the "sense" you speak of (the ability to utilize rational thought, I assume) is a useful but ultimately optional accessory skill. More people have innate social abilities than innate logical processing abilities, so the former is seen... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Socks |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2014, 11:46 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 3,327
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| As a child, I strongly disliked the way socks constricted my toes or the way that the seam at the toe part of the socks felt; nowadays, however, I am so hypersensitive to the cold that I almost always am wearing socks, even when I am not wearing shoes. I guess I habituated to the feeling of toe cons... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How is this offensive? |
| WerewolfPoet |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 2:30 pm
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Replies: 65
Views: 3,980
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| In these situations, I would not at all be offended, as I would also be glad that their circumstances were milder than mine. That being said, some individuals may be offended not out of this being the "wrong" response but out of it not being the "right" response. The "right" response to someone havi... |
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