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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What'z up with these hoarders? |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2013, 9:43 pm
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Replies: 56
Views: 5,467
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| Hi, I am an aspie/hoarder/compulsive collector. My house and my finances are both at crisis point (again!) Believe me, in my case it has nothing to do with any traumatic "trigger" event - it's to do with pursuing my special interests/obsessions with having "complete sets" of as many things as possib... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did I finally do something "normal"? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 8:24 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 787
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| Trust me it doesn't work that way. One incident changes nothing in the long run unless maybe it's huge. Yes, I realise that. What I mean is, I feel I suddenly had a glimpse of the NT world, & it felt so warm & friendly! But it was only a glimpse, because I don't know how to prop that door o... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: For adult aspie women and parents of.... |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 8:19 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,046
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| Hi Lucy, Your daughter sounds a lot like me too. I was very academically advanced for my age - I could read fluently before I went to school and was way ahead of the rest of my class in maths. I skippped the last year of primary school & went to high school a year early, despite the reservations... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did I finally do something "normal"? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 7:47 am
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| It was my birthday the other day, and because I share the same birthday with my boss, he is usually the one to buy cakes for the people in the office, which is the custom where I work. This year I offered to do it because he is going through a rough time, so I bought some cakes & emailed everyon... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you feel fake asking people how they're doing... |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 7:37 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,485
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| Yes & yes. I only ask people this question when I haven't seen/spoken to them for ages, or I know they've been ill or something, i.e. when I really want to know how they're doing. It really irritates me when people ask me how I am when I only talked to them the day before! I have even been known... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 40+ |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2008, 6:54 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,777
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I'd say degenerated because emotionally & lifestyle-wise I'm a young 20-something, whereas all my peers are married with kids etc, so I don't really fit in anywhere.
Plus I'm stuck in totally the wrong job & can't seem to escape. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pro or anti abortion? |
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Posted: 02 Sep 2008, 2:47 pm
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Replies: 187
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| None of the pro life people here have answered my question - I wonder why? It is an uncomfortable one isn't it, but some people are sadly forced to make decisions like the one I mentioned above. Things aren't black and white there are shades of grey, so I ask again if your baby was going to be born... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The NTs. The ASD, and THE THIRD KIND |
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Posted: 02 Sep 2008, 2:10 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,273
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| Sounds like my friend. He scores as NT on the quiz except for one huge spike on the AS side! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What social cues do you tend to miss? |
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Posted: 02 Sep 2008, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 35
Views: 3,972
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| Knowing what the other person expects me to say or do. To me I'm acting "normally", but to them, something is off. I don't know how to initiate conversations, I don't do the smalltalk thing - well occasionally I remember, but it just seems so ridiculous to ask someone how they are when I only saw th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pro or anti abortion? |
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Posted: 02 Sep 2008, 2:03 pm
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Replies: 187
Views: 15,822
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| Anti. The baby is as much a human being before it is born as after. No woman should have the "right" to kill another person just for her own convenience. Sorry, but if you insist on making it "safe", all you are doing is removing the deterrent. If there was a 95% chance that having a abortion would ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Urgent question for IT experts... |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 9:13 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,991
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| outlook's emails are usually sent to computer's harddrive. Ah - this might explain it - we use Groupwise, not Outlook. So maybe they got confused..... There is no way they could be on the hard drive though - if they were, how could they be accessed from multiple terminals? good luck and if still no... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Urgent question for IT experts... |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 4:59 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,991
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How?
We hotdesk, so we can already log in at any terminal anywhere.
Why would this change? |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Urgent question for IT experts... |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 4:41 am
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Replies: 10
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| Hi, I am at work and we are about to have an office move to another part of the same building, which is on the same network. We have been told to archive all our emails, but none of the NT sheep in the office thought to ask WHY we needed to do this. The emails are currently on a network drive, NOT t... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2008, 12:10 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,425
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| Yes, OK, it was a tangent - but originally a relevant tangent! Please understand that the real point being made here is that what an NT considers "special" in an Aspie (i.e. in the original post) is only what an Aspie would consider "normal". Hence my lack of understanding of why a "average" child w... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 1:45 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,425
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| even though its well known children can't grasp the concept of subtraction until they are around 7 years old. Huh??? That's bizarre! I suppose they must be talking about NT kids, because it certainly wasn't true for me. For me reading & maths were both completely intuitive, just as the social s... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: 9yr old aspie increasing agressive behaviour |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 1:16 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,226
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| As far as he is concerned, all he is doing is the equivalent of "swatting a fly", i.e. something is irritating him so he has to lash out at it to stop it. It is as straightforward as that. This suggests that his problem is with impulse control - he feels the urge to hit out & so he does it. This... |
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