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02 Sep 2022, 9:36 am

You have the same song on repeat for three nights in a row.


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04 Sep 2022, 6:18 pm

You rent too many movies from your home region's public library system.


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04 Sep 2022, 6:25 pm

HeroOfHyrule wrote:
You listen to the same song for eight hours straight at work, two days in a row.


I played the same song for 11 hours of driving when I moved two weeks ago.


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05 Sep 2022, 2:34 am

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...people of any religious community (only if you are an Aspie who is religious)
see you as nothing more than a threat to their collective's well-being.



I experienced this too many times. But I prefer to see myself not religious but faithful. I am a monoteist. I dont do worship things. But I pray sometimes.



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05 Sep 2022, 2:44 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:
Your ASD assessment doctor asks you about your friends.
You name some people you knew more than 40 years before, in Kindergarten.
You haven't talked to them since.


This is great !



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05 Sep 2022, 2:55 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:
When the teachers tell everyone to line up in ABC order at their high school graduation.
You realise you don't know anyone's name.
You don't even recognise anyone.
You have to ask for help to know where to stand.


When I was at university, I always forgot the names of students.

But I never forget faces and voices of people, even after a thousand years later.



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05 Sep 2022, 3:02 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
You have the same song on repeat for three nights in a row.


I do this too.

Because

Every time I listen to it, I listen a different music.

Or

Every time it is listened to, it is listened to by a different person.



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05 Sep 2022, 7:54 am

You click on the live news updates before it gets auto-updated.



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05 Sep 2022, 7:36 pm

You've seen every episode of your favourite TV show 20 times.


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05 Sep 2022, 8:28 pm

Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Your ASD assessment doctor asks you about your friends.
You name some people you knew more than 40 years before, in Kindergarten.
You haven't talked to them since.


This is great !



She told me that's a really common response from autistic people.
We remember the first people who were "supposed to be" our friends at school.
Then we draw a blank because we don't have other friendships.


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05 Sep 2022, 10:22 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
She told me that's a really common response from autistic people.
We remember the first people who were "supposed to be" our friends at school.
Then we draw a blank because we don't have other friendships.

I remember my friends from early elementary school, and from middle school, but that's it. I can't come up with anyone that I've been "friends" with since middle school. lol



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05 Sep 2022, 10:31 pm

HeroOfHyrule wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
She told me that's a really common response from autistic people.
We remember the first people who were "supposed to be" our friends at school.
Then we draw a blank because we don't have other friendships.

I remember my friends from early elementary school, and from middle school, but that's it. I can't come up with anyone that I've been "friends" with since middle school. lol


Me too -- I remember some people from middle school.
The middle school people really hurt me, so I don't think of them as "friends".
The kindergarteners were my "friends", bc I made them Valentines and went to their birthday parties.

8)

Shouts out to Kathy M, Cathy H, Carolyn C, Jane B, Jennifer J, Sandra G, Nicola E, and Penny.


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05 Sep 2022, 10:45 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
Me too -- I remember some people from middle school.
The middle school people really hurt me, so I don't think of them as "friends".
The kindergarteners were my "friends", bc I made them Valentines and went to their birthday parties.

8)

Shouts out to Kathy M, Cathy H, Carolyn C, Jane B, Jennifer J, Sandra G, Nicola E, and Penny.

In kindergarten I was "friends" with this allistic girl, who was also the first kid my age that I had a proper interaction with. I later became friends with this autistic/intellectually disabled kid and the one girl stopped talking to me, and then I eventually became friends with another allistic girl that was picking on me at first. lol

I had maybe two or three "real" friends in middle school, the others were friends of my friends and they picked on me a lot for being socially inept.



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06 Sep 2022, 3:32 pm

You are mocked by any distant relative (in my case my two bigoted uncles) who believe that the spectrum isn't real and that you are making it all up.


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06 Sep 2022, 3:43 pm

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You are mocked by any distant relative (in my case my two bigoted uncles) who believe that the spectrum isn't real and that you are making it all up.


This also belongs in the "Your relatives might be fools if .. " category.


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06 Sep 2022, 9:27 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
You are mocked by any distant relative (in my case my two bigoted uncles) who believe that the spectrum isn't real and that you are making it all up.


This also belongs in the "Your relatives might be fools if .. " category.


Is there such a thread here on Wrong Planet? :?

Anyway, getting back onto topic, you might be an Aspie if teachers during your adolescent years saw you as an easy target for intimidation because they believed your social awkwardness was a just reason to made you feel as if you had no place in the student population of your school.


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