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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What are "social cues"?

laustcawz
 Post subject: missing social cues
Posted: 10 Apr 2013, 6:18 pm 

Replies: 10
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I've heard a lot about this, too, that autists/Aspergians "miss social cues". Whose social cues are these? Are they easy, obvious things to follow & recognize, or are they arbitrary social formalities that non-autists came up with?? I'd also suggest that the so-called "lack of empathy" may be su...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Zoroasterianism and Bahai faiths

laustcawz
 Post subject: Bahais
Posted: 14 Sep 2012, 3:25 pm 

Replies: 26
Views: 4,831
I was raised almost exclusively by a single mother who was born into a Jewish family, but converted to The Bahai Faith when I was still a toddler. It's a long story, but the ultimate impression I get from this religion is it's just an intense, empty, ongoing ultimate exercise in junctist/passive/agg...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Penn and Teller on Vaccinations and Autism

laustcawz
Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 4:01 am 

Replies: 52
Views: 7,527
So Penn & Teller are magicians/comedians (or as Penn has said, a couple of guys who can "do a lot of cool stuff")? Official news reporters get paid, too. Just because they're expected to be taken more seriously doesn't make them (or their sources) infallible. Many people have come to consider "T...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What are physical health problems that go with Asperger's?

laustcawz
Posted: 22 Feb 2011, 9:03 am 

Replies: 173
Views: 60,744
I've never gotten an official diagnosis, but it's been speculated that I'm an Aspie & I think I must be, for a variety of reasons. Something that comes up again & again in my life is that I seem to have ultra-sensitive vision & hearing compared to many others. This has led to numerous in...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: The Opposite of Asperger's Syndrome?

laustcawz
Posted: 24 Sep 2009, 5:47 pm 

Replies: 75
Views: 54,578
Just to be clear, I've been diagnosed with an unspecified "personality disorder", but there's been speculation within my family that it's Asperger's Syndrome. As for posters commenting on the opposite of autism, consider that, in 1944's "Autism & Asperger's Syndrome" (written by Hans Asperger &a...
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