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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Do you feel like you SHOULDN'T be interested in the arts? |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 12:14 am
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| I'm an Aspie who has an Arts degree and came top of the class in English (language and literature) at high school. I liked reading Jane Austen novels (I am a male, by the way) and Shakespeare's plays, and indeed like reading all sorts of things - classic English novels, linguistics, philosophy, psy... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Do you feel like you SHOULDN'T be interested in the arts? |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2015, 7:15 am
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| I'm an Aspie who has an Arts degree and came top of the class in English (language and literature) at high school. I liked reading Jane Austen novels (I am a male, by the way) and Shakespeare's plays, and indeed like reading all sorts of things - classic English novels, linguistics, philosophy, psyc... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What time is it now, where you are? |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 4:00 am
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Replies: 16,688
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What age are most people diagnosed with aspergers? |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2015, 6:52 am
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Replies: 56
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| I was 56 when I was diagnosed with AS. Bear in mind I was about 40 when AS was added to the DSM, and 26 when "infantile autism" was officially added to DSM in its own right (previously it had been a variant form of "childhood schizophrenia"). So I was never going to be diagnosed ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Adult Diagnosis |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2015, 5:24 am
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Replies: 75
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| I took myself off to a clinical psychologist who specialises in ASD. I didn't have a referral from my doctor, so I didn't claim it on health insurance. I did a questionaire/test that he sent, had a two hour interview (life story etc), then my partner did the same questionnaire (but about me, not abo... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Would you rather be 5 ft 3 or 6 ft 8? (men only) |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2015, 4:53 am
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BTDT wrote: I wouldn't need new clothes--I'm 5' 2"
Me too. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are you eating?/Last thing you ate? |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2015, 4:28 am
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Replies: 19,223
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| A handful of plain almonds. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND? |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2015, 4:24 am
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| I am listening to the sound of the fan inside my PC and the muffled sound of the TV in the room next to mine - and the occasional car passing our house (quiet main street). |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wanting to do thesis on Autism representation |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2015, 1:53 am
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SpaceAgeBushRanger wrote: I would be so happy if a novel about autism and written by an autistic became a bestseller.
What about: Stim and Kaleidoscope?
The author (Kevin Berry) is on the spectrum.
Not sure how many sales are required to become a "best seller", but I bought and read them both. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Eating one thing at a time ? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2015, 1:44 am
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Replies: 118
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| I always eat my foods in specific order - my least favorite, all the way up to my favorite food last. It's the only logical way to eat. I am nearing retirement age, and I have been eating that way all my life. If you start with the food you like the least, and work your way up to your favourite foo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fork sounds |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2015, 1:41 am
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| Misophonia? Yes, it sounds very much like misophonia. People with misophonia react to very specific sounds, and each person can be different in what sound or sounds "trigger" them. A fork scraping on a plate would be quite a plausible trigger for some people with misophonia. In addition t... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Aussies Unite - A forum for any Aussie Aspies |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2015, 3:57 am
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Replies: 702
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| The real problem though is getting visibility within the "Aspie community" - marketing it to people who could use it. Yes - it is a circular problem. The people who are isolated, who most need such a network, cannot be easily identified and contacted to join one. I was able to connect up ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Aussies Unite - A forum for any Aussie Aspies |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2015, 9:30 pm
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| Hi all, I'm an aspie from Sydney. I have been lurking on WP for quite a while. I am currently feeling a bit lonely as my social life generally revolves around Facebook and the group I hang out in on there has become painfully toxic. I am thus in the process of trying to form some new social connect... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Aussies Unite - A forum for any Aussie Aspies |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2014, 9:09 pm
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| I forgot to mention I used to do machine code on the Z80. On my bookshelf I still have the book "Programming the Z80" by Rodney Zaks, with long descriptions of the Z80 instruction set. Mind you, I didn't get very far with machine code on the Z80, but I definitely understand the attraction. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Aussies Unite - A forum for any Aussie Aspies |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2014, 8:02 am
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| One-A-N, like your Tux avatar. Went through quite few Linux variations for my webservers before settling on CentOS. CentOS is a community distribution of RHEL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is so incredibly stable, secure and free. I am familiar with CentOS - at least at second hand. I started with... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Aussies Unite - A forum for any Aussie Aspies |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2014, 12:15 am
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Replies: 702
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| You both sound slightly more hardcore than me, but I could follow all the details. I don't do Cobol, but can (or could once) write simple Fortran IV code. I learned Basic on an Apple IIe and slowly added more languages - C especially (without the plus signs for a long time), but even PL/1 (well, it ... |
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