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17 Jun 2019, 11:15 am

Mountain Goat wrote:
Umm. Is there a name for it?

Yes. Our feelings of body-position and embodiment largely come from a sense called "proprioception" (there are more than the five senses taught at school!) Like all of our senses, autistic people can have greater or lesser sensitivity to this than most people. Click here for a thread which looks like a good introduction to it (NB: necro-bump warning; it's a rather old thread!)


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17 Jun 2019, 4:12 pm

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Persephone,

Are you of Greek ancestry? Very nice name.


I am. It's not my actual birthname, but rhymes with it :wink: I've also been using it for a while because I do feel I was paroled from hell.


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17 Jun 2019, 4:16 pm

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I wish we had a like button, thank you for your comment.

Thankyou, you're welcome - and thankyou for putting the question; it's one that's too rarely considered, IMHO. It puts me in mind of something I quoted here a little while ago; neurologist and author Oliver Sacks writing in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat about his work with patients who had acute neurological conditions; "...we were far too concerned with 'defectology'". If research wasn't directed so exclusively at our "impairments" and "fixing" them, I have a feeling that we'd find many examples of circumstances where autistic traits are beneficial - that is, beyond trite anecdotes about hyper-focus making genius computer coders more productive, and the like.


I'm expecting my nurse monitoring group to try and send me to some ABA therapy (I don't know what it's called for adults) to try and mold me into a better socializer. I don't want to go. I am worried they will see me as defective. Trying to stay in the day, not borrow trouble that isn't yet mine.


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17 Jun 2019, 4:19 pm

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Anybody else ever wonder if the way our brains are wired has helped? [...]
It helped me, but only after I started making my own way.

Case in point: Calculus has to be one of the most difficult subjects in any school, especially the way it is taught. You must follow certain methods (and no other) in a certain order (and no other) and produce the correct answer, you must show all of your work in the approved format (which changes from teacher to teacher), and you must turn in your 'scratch' paper with your exam answers or earn a zero for that exam and a notation of 'Cheater' on your permanent record. It wasn't until I started using the 'unapproved' methods that I really began to understand what they were trying to teach, but I still had to take the exams in the approved way. It got to the point that I would first do the exam my way, and then go back and write up my 'scratch' sheets their way, essentially taking the same exam twice! It still took me less time than what was allowed, but all that extra work just to avoid the stigma of being called a 'Cheater' was aggravating to no end.



I have thought about taking classes I was previously really intimidated by. I'm best at sciences and writing, verbal stuff. Math is on my bucket list... MATH! Not France, or Hawaii, but MATH! :heart:


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17 Jun 2019, 4:21 pm

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It's not helped me at all. It's caused me to be bullied even into adulthood, considered a "pothead", unable to succeed even at a community college, and has made me isolated from social interaction.



Gosh, I'm really sorry. I'm glad you're here.


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17 Jun 2019, 4:28 pm

Persephone29 wrote:
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It's not helped me at all. It's caused me to be bullied even into adulthood, considered a "pothead", unable to succeed even at a community college, and has made me isolated from social interaction.



Gosh, I'm really sorry. I'm glad you're here.


I used to want respect and support from society but now I hate that I am on the spectrum and wish for a cure. It's the only way I'll ever have a girlfriend and to have a life that goes the way I want it to go.