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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How do you make friends? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2010, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,305
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| This is a topic I'd really like to see more input on! This and the other topic floating around right now about topics for small talk. What are effective ways of making friends and keeping them? These are two commonly reported problems that people with AS face. Impairment of the abilities of making f... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Do you fit in or stand out? |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2010, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,826
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| I think the answer to such a question, for any person, depends on who there is to fit in with. I don't think the most social of NTs can hope to fit in with everyone, people have differing and opposing mindsets to each other. Those with AS have a significantly different neurology than the vast majori... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you go to family gatherings just for the food? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010, 1:01 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,975
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| When my family had them, I used to go because I was expected to. The food's definitely a plus. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone have weird sleeping habits? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010, 12:14 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,772
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My sleep schedule is non-existent.  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Who else can't do work while listening to music? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010, 12:05 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,311
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| I can't listen to music and do anything that requires some measure of concentration (reading, writing, meditating). It's either one or the other. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you look tired or do ppl say you look stoned? :() |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010, 7:48 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 12,197
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| I recall a time in high school when I was walking home, and some random woman who apparently worked in a store on that block stopped me to tell me she had seen me walking past plenty of other times, that she had been watching me (!) and she could tell I was on drugs. She kept going on about how she... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Or Out of Sight, Still in Mind? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010, 7:26 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,730
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| Out of sight, somewhat out of mind. There are a few things to understand about this. Firstly, it isn't out of intentional rudeness or lack of care. Secondly, at least in my case, I find it annoying when people try to 'keep in touch' with me (more about this below). I, and I suspect many others here ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: First time in history!! !! The NT/AS open hotline ! !! !! ! |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010, 10:26 pm
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Replies: 2,515
Views: 795,246
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| Hey everyone! I've really enjoyed this topic, it's given me some insight into both the behavior of NTs and how they interpret my behavior. I've been thinking about empathy a lot. Recently, it has occurred to me that when NTs are talking about something (especially true of small talk), the conversati... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Who DOESN'T have a facebook/myspace? |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010, 9:24 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,568
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| I used to have both a MySpace profile and a Facebook profile. I got rid of my MySpace when one day I looked at my profile and realized how 'stupid' (my opinion) I was being...having a decorated web page, posting esoteric interests, being vain...when I came to have that understanding, I decided it wa... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Biochemistry, Biochemical Physics/biophysics, nanotechnology |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010, 8:48 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,051
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| Hey, mysassyself! As someone deeply interested in biology, I can tell you that biochemistry is going to be a very important foundation for our understanding of the brain, of pathologies, and of the molecular functionality of life. Biology is a science of structure, and structure is a function of ene... |
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