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25 Sep 2010, 8:16 pm

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Essentially, there are still 2 elements to what was originally said and what I said, as what I said was the thought I had in response to your statement "so it's just really hard for me to understand why some doctor can make a difference in how you feel about the people around you."

I.e. There's a difference between fitting into and feeling comfortable knowing you are in a certain category which explains certain major difficulties and differences in you and fitting into an aspie social after school club or something.


rmgh - I feel like you're reading my mind. You're just better at communicating than I am - and this is an aspie forum so that should be expected.

What really makes me happy is that you guys value self diagnoses, and that actually makes me feel a lot more confident in myself, and makes me feel even more that I don't need a professional diagnosis - so thank you.

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was actually going to say... Weren't you just stating the fact that people may or may not accept you whether you have a diagnosis or not? Whether those people are autistic or not? I think there were just a lot of sweeping generalizations and clichés used... Which is generally a bad idea in a forum full of aspies. I agree, "can we agree to disagree" insinuates a sort of discord or conflict in opinion. I learned that when someone says something you don't want to hear, to not immediately assume it's a difference in sides or even opinions. I try to hear the words as best without reading into intentions....

On a lighter note, who else phonetically sounds out rmgh in their head? Or hears the song yellowledbetter in their head?


Well now I know to NEVER use that phrase again :D
And I'm glad you caught the song reference in my username :lol:



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25 Sep 2010, 8:24 pm

One of my favorites. Love the riffs! Although, Black might be my favorite Pearl Jam song.



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25 Sep 2010, 8:28 pm

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rmgh - I feel like you're reading my mind. You're just better at communicating than I am - and this is an aspie forum so that should be expected.

I'm glad you think that, because usually, what I have posted tends to be ignored, probably because normally, my posts are a meaningless jumble of my thoughts and don't make sense. I don't have much difficulty in communicating through a computer, but when it comes to having arguements just like this one with my mother, for example, every single wrongly chosen word or facial expression can be picked up and taken wrongly and can extremely agrivate the other person.



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25 Sep 2010, 8:30 pm

lovecholie wrote:
who else phonetically sounds out rmgh in their head?

Just as well, because it is abbreviations of names. I have never tried to say it as a word. I imagine it would sound strange.



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25 Sep 2010, 8:33 pm

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One of my favorites. Love the riffs! Although, Black might be my favorite Pearl Jam song

Good choice! Although Garden is my favorite at the moment.

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rmgh - I feel like you're reading my mind. You're just better at communicating than I am - and this is an aspie forum so that should be expected.

I'm glad you think that, because usually, what I have posted tends to be ignored, probably because normally, my posts are a meaningless jumble of my thoughts and don't make sense. I don't have much difficulty in communicating through a computer, but when it comes to having arguements just like this one with my mother, for example, every single wrongly chosen word or facial expression can be picked up and taken wrongly and can extremely agrivate the other person


Yes I have the same problem. I thought I could express myself more clearly on the computer, but it turns out my cognitive processing is much slower than my speaking AND typing. I know what I want to say, but it's hard for me to get the correct formation of words out.



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25 Sep 2010, 8:33 pm

Yeah, at first I thought it was spelled out rrrgh, so it sounded like a grunt. Then I realized it wasn't. But my instinct was to sound it out instead of reading the individual letters. It does sound strange, in my head. Don't know that it would roll of the tongue nicely out loud.



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25 Sep 2010, 8:59 pm

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Yes I have the same problem. I thought I could express myself more clearly on the computer, but it turns out my cognitive processing is much slower than my speaking AND typing. I know what I want to say, but it's hard for me to get the correct formation of words out.

With regards to that, I think my main problem on the computer is my difficulty in reading. I find it hard to process thoughts to words too, and normally people read as they are typing. But for me, I have to give it my best shot and type a whole section and then look over it to read it again and again for corrections and structure.



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25 Sep 2010, 9:00 pm

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Yeah, at first I thought it was spelled out rrrgh, so it sounded like a grunt. Then I realized it wasn't. But my instinct was to sound it out instead of reading the individual letters. It does sound strange, in my head. Don't know that it would roll of the tongue nicely out loud.

Now that you say it, "rrrgh" does sound pretty good. Perhaps like a growl. Hmmm.



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25 Sep 2010, 9:07 pm

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yellowLedbetter wrote:
Yes I have the same problem. I thought I could express myself more clearly on the computer, but it turns out my cognitive processing is much slower than my speaking AND typing. I know what I want to say, but it's hard for me to get the correct formation of words out.

With regards to that, I think my main problem on the computer is my difficulty in reading. I find it hard to process thoughts to words too, and normally people read as they are typing. But for me, I have to give it my best shot and type a whole section and then look over it to read it again and again for corrections and structure.



Yes, that is my problem as well. However sometimes I get a little too confident, and post without reading over what I said.