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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What autistic people never do..... |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 7:03 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,481
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| They don't throw great parties. They don't get elected entertainer of the year. They don't fight back nearly enough when someone takes advantage of them. They never forget when someone takes advantage of them. They don't live on this planet. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Would you want to be cured if you could? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 6:55 am
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Replies: 76
Views: 6,908
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| I voted yes. The only qualification would be "as long as I could keep my writing skills". I don't see my aspie-ism as part of my identity but more as a prison in which my identity exists. For me a cure would make the difference between living my life rather than just existing, with continual anxiety... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are people with autism just doomed to be lonely? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 6:46 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,297
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| Yes, I do feel that. I mostly enjoy my solitude, (as long as at least one lovely cat keeps me company at home) though it wasn't the way I would have preferred to live for nearly all of the four decades of my adult life. I accept that I will always be alone from now on. Outside of my family and my NA... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do Aspies tend to be scatterbrained? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 6:25 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 7,058
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| It's particularly bad when I am rushed, distracted or anxious. Tonight I was all three on the way to a meeting and lost a valuable ring on the way :(. It;s not everyday. Somedays I forget to eat and only remember when I begin to feel woozy from low blood sugar. I am easily distracted - for example i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Songs that resonate with you AS-wise |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2013, 4:18 am
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Replies: 193
Views: 78,189
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| I'm affected very much by the tones in the voices of the song singers, recently have 'tuned in' to the Lioness CD of Amy Winehouse. Sadness, wistful regret, I connect with that. Most favourite though for me is Ray Charles: Particularly "You Don't Know Me" and "Still Crazy After All These Years". The... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: ways of coping with your depression and building self esteem |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 5:22 am
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Replies: 355
Views: 228,677
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| Currently living with both kinds of pain, physical and emotional. It gets to me, especially just now. Having an operation soon hope the pain will be better by the middle of the year. Be good to be able to go for a walk again when I recover. The isolation has become painful lately. Both hips need rep... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Do You Prefer Major Key or Minor Key? Why? |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 5:03 am
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Replies: 43
Views: 22,329
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| yes, minor keys resonate with me emotionally too, although I am unsure what or which emotions they resonate with - this may sound silly but I really don't know. It goes to a level of me deeper than thought, it's an instinctive set of responses. I've been in a very long relationship with a jazz music... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Thrift stores |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2013, 3:18 am
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Replies: 173
Views: 17,176
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| There are a lot of reasons I like them: No pushy sales assistants bugging me to buy Can browse as long as I like, no one minds I collect vintage lingerie and occasionally make a major find No nauseating muzak Sometimes I find objects to 'rescue' - neglected things that with repair and tlc are restor... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Anyone 50+? |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 4:45 am
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Replies: 96
Views: 48,220
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| I'm 65. In one way it's a good age for me because my son is in his early 40s, and he is the one adult in my life with whom I can express myself openly, and that works both ways, he still needs a mother but not to be mothered, and I need help sometimes when my health goes through a bad phase - I had ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Do You Prefer Major Key or Minor Key? Why? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2013, 7:04 pm
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Replies: 43
Views: 22,329
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| Or favourite minor keys? Mine are D and E and they profoundly resonated with me from the age of 8 when I didn't even know what they were. They really touch base with me emotionally, especially in music written by Mozart and Chopin. Have you had any similar experience? |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Favorite Music Genres |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2013, 5:41 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 19,668
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| Piano (Mozart most) jazz (Piano players like Errol Garner and Oscar Peterson) mostly piano in any form and singers with great pitch accuracy of any persuasion like Pavarotti, Johnny Mathis. Showing my age again.. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2013, 5:54 am
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Replies: 489
Views: 337,148
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| I would appreciate hearing from anyone who may have had the experience of performing music without any conscious awareness of doing so. This happened to me during a music exam a long time ago. I took my seat at the piano and suddenly couldn't seem to make any sense of the keyboard, as if I had never... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Say something positive about yourself. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2013, 5:42 am
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Replies: 2,644
Views: 290,587
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I am very kind to animals
I fight injustice
I am a good writer
I am academically clever
I am a good friend
I am generous
I like my green eyes
I love music and was a gifted piano player once
I have an extraordinary memory
I deserve love |
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Forum: Stats Topic: Why are you on WrongPlanet? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2013, 12:27 am
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Replies: 70
Views: 29,179
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| Lonely isolated and only place I will ever be understood by my own kind |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The worst thing a bully has done to you |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013, 6:46 pm
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Replies: 417
Views: 52,162
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| I was adopted from an orphanage to replace a dead child. There was a natural child five and a half years older than me who was the apple of his mother's eye. He soon learned he could do whatever he wanted to me. Examples: forcing my mouth open and spitting down my throat. Tying me to a tree and usin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: You Might be an Aspie if... |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013, 6:19 pm
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Replies: 4,649
Views: 627,692
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| You're the only kid in your class who is never invited to birthday parties You have been misdiagnosed at least five times Psychologists are of no help whatsoever or very little help People keep saying "You're so...." (literal, serious, unusual, different..) The unusual is their 'polite' way of sayin... |
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