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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Engineers and Autism |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 07 Dec 2006, 12:52 pm
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| My engineer brother sent me this link to an article in the IEEE (organization of electronic and electrical engineers) newsletter Spectrum: http://spectrum.ieee.org/dec06/4763 "Getting into other people’s heads requires empathy, a virtue that sometimes does not come naturally to engineers. Our profes... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Shut-down, brain-freeze, Crash? |
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Posted: 22 Nov 2006, 12:48 am
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Replies: 23
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| When I read the word "Meltdown" on this site, I finally understood something that has happened to me again and again through a long working life (I'm over 60 now). I am very intelligent, and am very good at working out efficient systems for everything from how to load the dishwasher to how to anlyze... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Face Recognition Test |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2006, 12:11 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,899
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| Face blindness has a medical term, prosopagnosia. I read about it in a newspaper this summer, which was one of my clues to being AS, as it part of the spectrum. This private site about it is very interesting. http://www.prosopagnosia.com/. On the Interactive page there are a number of quizzes and te... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Are there other gray-haired Aspies out there? |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 13 Nov 2006, 4:34 pm
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Replies: 34
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| I've really enjoyed all your replies, and I'm enjoying the forums. I have added a couple of things in the General on Autism Forum as well. I got my first gray hair at about 21 and was pretty much all silver by 40, but I have now survived many ups and downs to reach 63! I'm thinking that we mature As... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: hi, i am new at this site and believe myself to be an aspie |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006, 2:37 pm
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Replies: 13
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| Willkommen, Manuel! I used to be a German teacher in Denmark, but teaching languages was very difficult for me, because of my difficulties with interpersonal skills I expect. I am a newly self-diagnosed Aspie, which I find answers a lot of questions about myself through the years. One thing I've dis... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006, 2:26 pm
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Replies: 948
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And then there's Amos in 9 Chickweed Lane http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/
In fact there are a number of disfunctional characters in it, as well as an elderly farmer who is in his own separate spectrum. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What are your motor skills like? |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006, 1:56 pm
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Replies: 90
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| I HATED gym because I ws so uncoordinated in group sports, even though Mom got me to join the girl's softball team and field hockey teams in grade school. I love walking, biking and some running, and I used to be good at serving the ball in badminton and volleyball. I just couldn't return it ever. T... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006, 1:43 pm
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Replies: 948
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| My favorite Aspie by far is the kid Caulfield in "Frazz" http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/ , who is always asking the teacher impossible questions so he can get out of doing the work, which bores him. Then he gets to go to detention with Frazz, the poet janitor. He reminds me so much of my own son... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Maybe we're Da Vinci's! |
| bonbayel |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006, 1:30 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,411
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| What I think the book could give are some coping skills to learn how to get our "brilliance" out where it can be useful. Right now my great ideas seem to be invisible, unheard, ignored. Sometimes I feel that people are afraid of my ideas because they go too far from their comfort zone, even though I... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Are there other gray-haired Aspies out there? |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006, 1:22 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Not much room for the disabled, the old, the foreigners who look wrong, or people who can't speak fluent danish. In fact, it's not just the "foreigners who look wrong", it was any foreigner. I was never allowed to think for a second that I was Danish, and my Danish is quite fluent. Even my daughter... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic author: "Animals in Translation" |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 8:03 pm
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Replies: 11
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| When I read Thinking in Pictures I kept thinking, I'm sort of like that, too! I knew I wasn't as strongly AS as Temple, but I kept seeing issues she had that I have also had to contend with. I think I have learned to cope with a lot of it, but I expect that most of my apparant "normalcy" is a charade. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Maybe we're Da Vinci's! |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 7:46 pm
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Replies: 16
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| When I described my self diagnosed AS condition to my son (who I expect is also AS), he sent me a book called "The Da Vinci Method", which you can read about at http://www.davincimethod.com. They claim there is a special "Da Vinci gene" DRD4 that makes people extra creative, etc., artistic, neurotic... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Are there other gray-haired Aspies out there? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 7:14 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Another way to get to know me is through my pictures, of here in California, Denmark, a trip with my Chorale to Mexico, etc. at www.flickr.com/photos/bonbayel/. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Are there other gray-haired Aspies out there? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 6:57 pm
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| Hi Corcovado! Great to hear from a fellow "Dane"! It's interesting you see Denmark as a conservative society. You don't mean politically do you? In many ways, I feel probably just as Danish as you do, having studied, worked and lived there for 29 years, and with my daughter being very Danish and my ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Are there other gray-haired Aspies out there? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 1:11 pm
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Replies: 34
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| I guess I am pretty low-level Asperger's, since I have managed to get this far without figuring out that my problems might be more than just being "smart". I lived in Denmark for 29 years, but divorced my Danish husband after 12, and went many years until my present husband found me again. All those... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Are there other gray-haired Aspies out there? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 1:49 am
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Replies: 34
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| I'm an Aspie grandma. At least I finally think I figured out why I can't keep a job (they have all ended in my hysterics!), avoid leadership roles (although I do fine as Treasurer, Secretary, Webmaster or Newsletter editor of various organizations I have happened into), never could sell anything and... |
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