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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: IEP accommodations for auditory hyperacuity |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 11:06 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 983
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| My daughter is having sensory issues, particularly auditory sensitivity. The computer fans at school are painful and disturbing for her to hear--she says the teacher lectures while they are working on computers and she cannot understand the teacher's words at all. The sound is literally sickening to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Tinnitus and Visual Snow |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 10:42 pm
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Replies: 56
Views: 30,570
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| I've had something that I think is a bit more than visual snow for as long as I can remember. This isn't just like TV snow.... whenever I have my eyes closed or I'm in the dark, I see on the blackness, a pool filled with all sorts of different shapes and patterns. It doesn't look like TV snow, it l... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Why this Parents' Board is different |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 11:13 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,417
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| I agree, momsparky. The writer does say it pretty clearly at the end of the first paragraph: I’d prefer that self-determination and the right to be included in conversations that concern your own future be reason enough, but just in case it isn’t, here are some answers of how it really does help par... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Strategies for dealing with obsessive anxiety |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 7:20 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,072
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| Thank you, sidney! This is an excellent framework for working at this--I am going to start using this immediately. In fact, I think I have been using these elements, but without the organization this system provides. Last night I had to sit by his bed between 11pm and Midnight, calming him down so t... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Why this Parents' Board is different |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 7:00 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,417
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I found it hard to look at because of the orange italic headlines.
The tone is certainly strange--it's as though the author imagines an audience consisting only of one kind of person, inferentially negating the existence of others. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Strategies for dealing with obsessive anxiety |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2013, 11:54 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,072
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| I think DS needs to find a "reason" to be anxious: he often doesn't see anxiety coming, and will then find something to attach it to, just so it makes sense in his head. This makes tons of sense. I suspect I do very much the same thing! Thanks for the insight. My son has been on a long flight to th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Emotion and TV. |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2013, 7:44 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,164
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| I cried when I saw the "autism reality" movie. I think the music had something to do with it, but I don't quite understand the emotion that produced the tears. It had something to do with Alex's parents talking about the school. But I think the scene that caused an emotional response was when Alex i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Study reveals no significant genetics for ASDs |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2013, 1:00 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,557
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DVCal wrote: It isn't clearly just genetic, nor is it clear genes play the biggest role, not a single gene has been identified that positively causes autism.
Agreed. Epigenetic factors influence the effect of genes and gene clusters. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Study reveals no significant genetics for ASDs |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2013, 11:48 am
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Replies: 12
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23067556
It's a bad idea to leap to conclusions or speculate deeply on the basis of limited research.
ASD is clearly genetic and hundreds of genes are involved. It's very complicated, and the best molecular biologists are struggling to work it out. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: birthdays |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2013, 7:22 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,670
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| Other people's birthdays were the first place that anything seemed wrong in my life... The idea seemed like fun. The idea of the games was great, but in practice, all the other kids were doing something that I wasn't part of. And I discovered they could be very mean. Lots of tears and hurt feelings,... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: faces in a crowd |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2013, 6:59 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 7,329
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| I used to think I did not have this, but then realized that I sometimes do--it's not regular, but perhaps associated with a relatively high degree of fatigue. Then I just can't recognize the person in front of me, even though I know them quite well. I think I really offended and disturbed a couple o... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: My son's IEP meeting- Funny? |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2013, 5:32 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,289
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This story makes my day--and week.
Way to go, Cash! |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Strategies for dealing with obsessive anxiety |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2013, 5:08 pm
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Replies: 23
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| Thank you for the great suggestions, Bombaloo. InThisTogether and ASDMommyASDKid! I already tried the grandkids and grandparents, and he knows this, because he has flown to visit people--but the news upsets him. He is aware of the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea... Las night his sister glee... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Strategies for dealing with obsessive anxiety |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2013, 12:26 pm
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Replies: 23
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| My son has an obsessive fear of aircraft. He is gripped by fears of an apocalyptic war and imagines that any and all aircraft may be about to rain destruction on the area. This is a fairly big problem because we live in the greater New York City airea, and hear aircraft on approach or departure from... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers syndrome is a disability plain and simple |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2013, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,454
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I don't believe it is accurate to say that ABI and ASD are the same thing.
Arguments based on this equation are unsound. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I am in a melancholia you might understand... |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2013, 8:29 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,097
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Can you restate what you are asking in more direct or clear terms?
It's a little hard to understand. |
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