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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Following special interests through to their end! |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 1:49 pm
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| Monkeybuttorama I really like the way you break it down into ideal goals and practical goals. That helps as I've always had a tendency to lump everything together into one then wonder why I never seem to achieve that "ideal" goal. I will give this more thought I believe it's at least part of the an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fireworks- what's your plan? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 12:46 pm
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Replies: 39
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| Rrrrg. People have been shooting them off for *weeks* here. I don't so much care about the fireworks themselves, although I find it quite annoying, but it wakes and upsets my parrots, which upsets me, because then they start screaming (for the record, they were my mom's, I inherited them, and I find... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Following special interests through to their end! |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 12:36 pm
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| Thanks that's practical advice. But looking back I don't think any of those things were insurmountable. I spent 8h a day for 3+ years studying the special interest I was interested in writing a book about. I knew the topic well and could even see mistakes in the work of other more established schol... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What were/are your biggest problems in school? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 10:46 am
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Replies: 35
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| It was fitting in until I stopped giving half a crap what people thought about me, now, in college, it's time management. I hate spending forever on stuff, and usually wait until the last second or forget to do it at all.. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Following special interests through to their end! |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 10:43 am
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Replies: 10
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| It seems, and I mean no offense at all, that your end goals are somewhat impractical for your current stage in life; you don't have access to equipment, you don't have the money, and writing a book takes a lot of time and a huge amount of study (I'm not saying you couldn't have done that one, just s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I can't be the only one right? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 9:56 am
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Replies: 23
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| Does anyone still have an active imagination when you're alone? For example, when cleaning the yard after a big storm recently, I found some perfect "sword fighting" sticks and when I got alone in my room, it was no longer my room. I was in the middle of an apocalyptic battlefield and I was kicking... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone Else Have Problems Handling Liquids? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 9:52 am
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Replies: 19
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| Not any more, unless I trip over my own feet (happens frequently) Years of getting myself coffee and having to carry it wherever I was going, not to mention having done so on a ship, has given me decent no-spill-skills ^_^ (As they say in the Navy "you can pick out a chief because he's the one with ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Best and worst reactions to your ASD |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 9:47 am
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Replies: 39
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| Worst Response #1: Being called a "demon incarnate" by a fundamentalist Christian woman. 8O Worst Response #2: Being touched and made to look in the eyes of my grade school teachers, even though they knew of my AS. hehe I've been called that, as well, though I suspect for very different reasons :D ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you feel about phone calls? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 9:41 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 6,118
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| I don't like them for socializing, but I don't mind them for important stuff, though I do pace constantly when I'm on one of those calls. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Without music, is life worth living? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 12:56 am
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Replies: 58
Views: 6,266
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| I honestly couldn't care less if I had music or not, I'm just as happy (sometimes moreso) with silence. The only time this changes is when I'm driving, and that's just because I need something to take my mind off how stressful the activity is, but I've had the same CD on repeat (no radio) for over t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Best and worst reactions to your ASD |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2012, 8:58 pm
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Replies: 39
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| Thank you all for sharing your stories ^_^ I enjoy learning the good and the bad, some of the posts have been very enlightening; very few people say anything negative about my behavior, but some of their non-verbal responses make more sense now. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do we tend to do this? |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2012, 12:49 pm
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Replies: 17
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| A lot of times, people's intentions and what they *say* their intentions are are two different things, and we generally have trouble picking up on that, or we don't pick up the non-verbal cues that tell other NTs what the intentions are. A lack of Theory of Mind doesn't help, either, and many of us ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: do you make eye contact in your dreams? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2012, 10:48 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,743
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| Most of my dreams are non-pictorial. The very few which are "visual" dreams are so scattered I wouldn't begin to know, but they often don't involve other people at all, and if they do, it's not close-contact and I don't interact with them. They are basically scenery. I believe this is because of th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Little things you do that are unique, even to other Aspies |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2012, 10:41 am
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Replies: 60
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| I am obsessed with things that glow in the dark, and with monkeys. I cannot walk on anything I can see through, such as sewer grates and glass (like aquariums that pass under a walkway) I cannot sit with my feet on the floor, instead, I put one leg completely over the other and sit semi-cross-leg. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I have found a new stim... |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2012, 10:18 am
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Replies: 18
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EstherJ wrote: Watching milk float and swirl in coffee. It's absolutely MESMERIZING. This does not bode well for the idea of my coffee habit decreasing....  Anyone else?
Have you tried this with dripping food coloring into clear water? Equally awesome, IMHO ^_^ |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: do you make eye contact in your dreams? |
| Monkeybuttorama |
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Posted: 02 Jul 2012, 10:13 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,743
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| Most of my dreams are non-pictorial. The very few which are "visual" dreams are so scattered I wouldn't begin to know, but they often don't involve other people at all, and if they do, it's not close-contact and I don't interact with them. They are basically scenery. I believe this is because of the... |
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