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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: When you meet other aspies... |
| Dandelion |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 1:06 pm
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Replies: 44
Views: 5,328
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| I have mixed results, meeting other aspies. A couple of them have ended up being very close friends. But often I find other aspies difficult to be around, because they remind me how I look to others, which can be painfully embarrassing. I am working on being more tolerant, but I have not perfected i... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: How/when do you talk to your aspie about puberty? |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2006, 7:33 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,800
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| My mum never told me at all. At some point I decided I should know all that stuff, and read an entire medical text on women's health at the library. Very informative, and fascinating to know the mechanics of it all (which I'm not sure my mum could have explained half so thoroughly). If your daughter... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 'Rehearsing' |
| Dandelion |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 5:44 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 3,557
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| Yep. Especially for telephone conversations. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers, adhd and capd |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2006, 12:04 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,880
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| Yes on the CAPD. My audiologist, after asking me various questions about other things (intolerance to food textures, certain fabrics, bright lights, tickling, swings, etc.) grouped it all under "sensory defensiveness" which is apparently just another way of saying SPD. It's near impossible to rememb... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: do you feel jealousy toward other females? |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 7:02 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 8,694
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| I sometimes feel jealous of women (men, too, actually) who are good at schmoozing and socializing and are well-liked because of it. It's not really that I want to be like them... I just wish sometimes that my good qualities (honesty, reliability, loyalty, intelligence) had the same immediate social ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is there info on female AS please |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2006, 3:56 pm
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Replies: 67
Views: 4,500
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| I've always thought I got away with a lot of my unsociability by being designated "shy." I understand shyness is more acceptable in girls than in boys. But I also wonder if there isn't some behavior difference between males and females with AS. Not sure how to clarify that without some sweeping gene... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspies with synesthesia? |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2006, 9:40 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,300
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| Yes, I have colored hearing (see certain colors and shapes when I hear certain sounds), and lately have noticed that I also see colors for certain tactile sensations. I strongly associate colors with letters and words, but don't actually see them. I read somewhere that synesthesia is more common in ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Obsessed with Grammar |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2006, 1:19 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,059
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| I always carry a permanent marker to correct the apostrophe errors on advertising posters on the train. I go into a berserker rage when I see inappropriate apostrophes on professional signs and businesses: "You paid hundreds of dollars for a sign and YOU DIDN'T EVEN PROOFREAD IT!" There is a local t... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Tactile sensitivity and...er, that time of the month |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2006, 11:44 am
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Replies: 19
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| TubbyChef: that's awful! Even at my worst, the bad effects of my cycle only last for a couple of days, and have never made me suicidal. And I've never heard of antidepressants having that particular effect. Interesting. I do that with my glasses, too. I absolutely cannot stand to wear them on the fi... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: How old were you when you first went on a real date? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2006, 4:18 pm
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Replies: 46
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| 23. I haven't talked to him since. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: What's your favourite cartoon series? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2006, 12:18 pm
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Replies: 68
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| Definitely Cowboy Bebop. With Dexter's Laboratory a close second. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Things We Love About Greenland |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2006, 9:06 am
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Replies: 15
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| It has amazing fossil beds |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic sensitivity to the cold |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2006, 8:56 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,158
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| I don't usually notice the temperature at all until I start sweating or shivering. I just don't feel it very much, I think. But I have noticed that I find it harder to type when the temperatures are cold, which made it difficult for me to use the computers in my old library. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and Religion |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2006, 12:41 pm
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Replies: 93
Views: 8,560
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| Actually really religion is what this country was founded on. umm..... I had the distinct impression the US was founded on a hodgepodge of greed, imperialism, religion, slavery, free enterprise, indentured servitude, fur trade, and genocide, among other things. Plymouth gets all the press, but it's... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and Religion |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2006, 6:22 am
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Replies: 93
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| I'm not offended by religion either, but I want it the hell out of my government. I really resent having to stand up and pledge allegience to God every frikkin' morning at school, for one thing. I opt out of that, these days, *because* I'm religious. "One nation under God" smacks of Dominion Theolo... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Getting my girlfriend to trust me |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2006, 8:19 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,914
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| The problem is that you have broken a cardinal rule of dating: Do not discuss your exes with your current girlfriend/boyfriend. It doesn't have to make sense, just don't do it. If you must discuss your exes for whatever reason, do so only with people you are not currently dating. |
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