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I can't figure out how to open the present so I don't know. what's inside.

Never mind.

So you're a parent of an autistic, rather than autistic?

No. The present is me and I can't open me up and figure out what's inside.

Ah, now I get it. I think.

Maybe a scalpel would help. It's probably quite similar to what's in other people, so you might just read about anatomy...

LOL.

Putting myself back together might be problematic.

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A review of that surgery kit says...



So, yeah, knock yourself out... Literally

Anxiety, meltdowns, emotionally sensitive, sensory issues in the ears, loosing friends because of my obsessions, being quiet shy and unconfident, unable to stand up for myself, anger. lack of intellegence, poor memory, no interest in fashion and make-up, ''terrifed'' of toddlers, whiny, weird, being bullied, being misunderstood by NTs and the job centre, the list goes on. Personally I wouldn't consider much things on the list as a gift from God.

Nobody knows what the cause or causes of autism is (are).

ruveyn

sex. autism is an STD (sexual transmitted difference)

no more sex = no more humans = no more autism. simple.

good that that never will happen!

Special interests, becoming a n expert on stuff; fairness; thinking not clouded by common false assumptions; sharp ears; good grammar; above selling myself out just to be popular; less affected by crying children.

I think these things are wonderful.

Special interests, becoming a n expert on stuff; fairness; thinking not clouded by common false assumptions; sharp ears; good grammar; above selling myself out just to be popular; less affected by crying children.

I think these things are wonderful.

I would like it more if 50 percent of the population were NTs and the other 50 were on the spectrum.

I suppose it's hard to say that really because there ain't just NTs and Aspies in this world - there are lots of other neurological conditions too, and lots of strange NTs too, so why should I consider myself different when there are so many diversities?

Magnets!

A whole bunch of people are different in a whole bunch of different ways. That they're different doesn't make you not different; it means being different is normal, and if I try to figure that out right now I'm going to have a meltdown.

I would rather we all simply be known. I would rather it be easier for us to find one another-- but this website does a great job of that. I believe we have the right number of us-- any more and we might be more of a liability than an asset. I just want everyone to recognize that it takes all kinds to make a world.

Say NTs are flour, and Aspies are yeast, and various other neurological oddities are other stuff, like water. (Sociopaths are raisins.) Sure, flour smells nice, and you need a whole bunch of it, and sure, I'll admit you can't have a bread without it. But if you want it to rise, you need yeast. You can't have a nice loaf of real San Francisco sourdough without it. But yeast won't provide gluten. And yeast needs water, too.

You can't have 50% flour and 50% yeast and expect it to turn out tasty. But you can't have the flour form an evil, greedy organization called Yeast Speaks ostensibly designed to transform all yeast into flour but actually only out to make money. Also, it's not helpful when the yeast angsts about how it's not flour, and how sad it is that it didn't get to be all elastic and trap bubbles (never mind that the yeast helped create those bubbles in the first place, and anyway, the flour couldn't be elastic without water). And sometimes it's annoying when people debate what caused the yeast to not be flour in the first place (and why do they never wonder what caused the poor flour to not be yeast, and how they could make the flour become yeast?) as if the yeast was all supposed to be flour.

Yeast is different from flour, water, raisins, salt and kinetic energy. Water is different from yeast, flour, raisins, salt and kinetic energy. Raisins are different from... you get the picture. They're not the same. But that doesn't mean flour is better than yeast, or salt is better than raisins, or whatever. And the fact is that they're all different from each other. That raisins are not only different from yeast, but from salt, water, kinetic energy and flour doesn't make them less different.

And don't even get me started on how water with certain dissolved minerals likes to insist it's not like other water, it has all these dissolved minerals, it's so much more like flour. But it's not the water's fault, not when the flour feels threatened by it and has told water that it's really two different things, and one is good and the other is bad, so the good water can't talk about what it's like to be water, it's not really wet, it's got all these dissolved minerals-- it really has Dampness Syndrome (discovered by Hans Dampness)...

Wonderful? You think all these are wonderful? Having these meltdowns and upsetting my family and making the neighbours think there's some sort of nutcase living in my house? My family wants me out of the house and I can't afford to live anywhere because of the government cutbacks - if I never had this f*****g AS my family wouldn't have started to hate me and none of this would have happened. AS is the biggest curse in the whole world - not for me, but for the people around me. Now I feel shakey and I want to shout more but it's really not fair on anyone else. Why does AS have to involve these awfully uncontrollable mental meltdowns? There is no way I can go on being an Aspie because it's like I'm not allowed. I've just got to constantly put on the charade of being comformist, either that or I get hated by all. Yes - AS is a curse from God. My parents hate Autism, and they wish I was born happy and normal, just like their neices and nephews are. Not one of them even have any signs of AS, and their parents just have to put up with ordinary family arguments, but no mentally abnormal outbursts.
WHY DOES ASPERGERS INVOLVE HAVING OUTBURSTS AND MELTDOWNS?! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

Meltdowns are your way of dealing with stress. Reduce stress. Learn coping/delaying skills. And you can try to learn to keep some control (but maybe you won't succeed; it's worth a try because if you go into it knowing it's still okay if you fail, there's no harm in trying).

Learn to predict them. Keep a diary, maybe, of how you feel each day, each hour, and see if there are patterns that come before a meltdown. And what happens afterward. Look for anything that might let off some of that energy. Videogames might be helpful. And read the Bible.

Autism's not your biggest problem here; your biggest problem here is lack of acceptance. If your neighbors were me, anbuend and Callista, you'd have no problem.

How your parents feel is irrelevant. My mom's a curebie, too. So?

And regarding the things on your first list-- anxiety may be something biomed could help with. Try a B-vitamin supplement, I can't remember which or what dose or anything off the top of my head.

Being emotionally sensitive is a double-edged sword, gift and curse at the same time. Can't help you here, though.

Auditory Integration Training is really helpful. I mean it, really, really helpful. You'll go from moderate or severe issues to mild ones, and it'll last a year or two before it wears off. On the other hand, that's a lot of time and money sunk, but if you don't mind that, this is the closest thing available to a cure for any of your symptoms.

If your friends don't approve of your special interests, they weren't friends you wanted.

Learn to stand up for yourself. Hold your head up, square your shoulders whenever you're in public.

Of course you're angry; from your point of view everything's awful. Make life better and it'll go away on its own.

Lack of intelligence and poor memory aren't due to autism, or if they are, then that's quite odd. But you're really down on yourself. Maybe you're underestimating. Also, if you're depressed, that can induce a mental fog and make your memory not work as well.

Dunno what to do about toddlers. Care to elaborate?

If you're whiny, don't be. "Whiny" means you deliberately choose to whine about stuff. Are you using "whiny" to describe something else, like difficulty modulating your voice, or actually having a whole bunch to gripe about?

Weird is not bad.

Being bullied is not your fault.

Being misunderstood by stupid NTs not worthy to interact with you is not your fault, but some of us are working to fix it anyway.

And having no interest in fashion and makeup is not bad. Why should you care? So you can be superficial? So you can spend a thousand dollars or more on ugly clothes that do little to hide the emaciated body you should be ashamed of? (You, specifically, shouldn't be ashamed of yourself. "Pretty" girls should be ashamed to go out in public.)