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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Movie Characters With Aspergers? |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2012, 8:56 pm
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Replies: 79
Views: 25,191
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| Janet Frame in "An Angel at My Table." The real Janet Frame was most likely on the spectrum, and she certainly seemed that way in the movie. It was kind of like watching myself ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fun quiz-How neurotypical are you? |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2012, 9:46 am
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Replies: 681
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What's with the questions that had, as one answer, neither/both? Those should have been separate answers. There's obviously a significant difference between saying "I like both people and animals" and "I like neither people nor animals." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My body is always tense, AS related? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 9:05 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 10,882
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| I hold a lot of tension in my body. I also grind my teeth at night and I have a habit of holding my breath. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS and sense of direction? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 9:01 pm
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Replies: 78
Views: 16,687
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| I have no sense of direction at all. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Who lives alone? |
| PangeLingua |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 8:55 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,307
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| The perfect balance is elusive. Too alone? Too crowded? In a compromised world, I've found myself more comfortable being alone than crowded. It's easier if you have a sense that you have a choice in the matter, rather than having isolation forced upon you.. Same. I feel lonely sometimes. Usually wh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Favorite Sounds |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 10:59 pm
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Replies: 80
Views: 5,988
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| Hate HATE the sound of a highlighter or marker on paper but love the mellow rumble of a distant K5HLA locomotive horn (c, d#, f#, a#, c), bagpipes and pipe organs, aircraft engines (but can't stand the whine of a lawn mower). The sound of chewing or drinking makes me wince, but I enjoy the determin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Favorite Sounds |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 2:06 pm
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Replies: 80
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| Rain - it is my favorite sound. The heavier, the better. I could listen to rain all day. I should move to Oregon. Rivers, waterfalls. Thunder. Wind in the chimney or outside. Violins and other instruments of that type. The sound my furnace makes when it comes on. Owls and mourning doves. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stim? Tic? What is it? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 1:51 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,546
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| I think it can be difficult to tell the difference between a stim and a tic, but it depends on how much control you have over it. Here's an article that talks about tics: All About Tics Tics can be temporarily suppressible for some people, but suppression of tics can result in an increased burst of ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fear of dogs |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 1:37 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,695
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I kind of like dogs, but I'm always afraid that will bark at me and/or jump on me, get slobber on me, etc. Actually I would rather have them slobber on me than bark at me.
I love cats. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do a lot of Aspies have a particular writing style? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 1:35 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,458
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| I love writing, and I am good at it. I tend towards verbosity, but over the years I have learned to self-edit better. I have also noticed that my writing, especially in essays, has always tended to be more formal than that of my peers. My speech was formal as a child, too - in the way that others on... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Relationship between sensory sensitivity & social diffic |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 11:54 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,979
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| I also have another issue. A lot of empathy consists of asking yourself how you would feel if you were some other person. But since I don't feel the same way about the same things, when I ask that question, I very often get an answer that is only true of me and others on the spectrum... but not of ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Judgement day! (a new study shows autistic adults judge) |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 11:47 pm
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Replies: 27
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| I don't think I'm judgmental, but my dad says I am. I don't understand the article. The kind of questions that come to mind for me are - where did the friend get the poison, and what made him think that it was sugar? Was he carrying poison around with him, or what? What book was he reading that told... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: PDD-NOS/AS vs. Giftedness? |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 11:31 pm
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Replies: 85
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| Having talked with and observed gifted aspies and gifted NT's, I would say there are clear differences. I don't get along well with the gifted NTs - even if they are not preppy judgmental snobs, they are always at a level socially that I can't keep up with and have no desire to try to keep up with -... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Study: aspies superior to controls for creativity |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 11:11 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,779
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What about those of us who are verbally creative?  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Interest obsessions. |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2011, 9:21 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 4,322
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| I think maybe we're more into the informational aspect of what we're interested in, at least I am. Whatever my current interest is, I can absorb and memorize an enormous amount of detailed information about it in a fairly short period of time. Then I feel the need to talk about it to everyone, which... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are Aspies born philosophers? |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2010, 6:02 pm
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Replies: 34
Views: 11,032
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| Also, many people do not memorize any vocabulary, they simply pick it up naturally the same way you learn words like "think," "grandiose," and "banana." Most people don't like people who use "big words," and as someone who allegedly uses them without realizing it, I have to say that people who comp... |
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