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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do we believe autism is "hard-wired"? |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2009, 6:52 am
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Replies: 156
Views: 11,422
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| Autism is a polygenetic condition, it is more than one single gene that causes it. The genetic requirement to develop autistic traits is typically recessive and requires environmental factors or the lacking presence of a dominant trait to replace it. Autism is the general term for a whole bunch of d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: seizures |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 8:40 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,062
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| I usually think of shutdown/meltdown as my catatonic episodes as opposed to my seizures. A typical seizure for me would come about from sensory stimulus. Like one day I was walking out of my bedroom and when I opened my door the bottom of the door brushes across the top of my small toe on my right f... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS and laughter |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 8:11 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,104
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| An undefined suggestive word was the point of it. People would just fill in whatever would horrify them as the meaning if they wanted to be horrified, demonstrating that people choose to be offended. I trained myself to laugh and smile so people would know when I liked things, it took having a girlf... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do we believe autism is "hard-wired"? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 7:44 am
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Replies: 156
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| It is based on CT and fMRI scans. The DSM-IV TR is Old and Busted. Neurobiology is The New Hotness. Explanation of the Neurobiologic Basis can be found here, just check out the first picture on the second page, read that caption for the highlights. This is a little shorty not too in depth article I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What kinds of dreams do you have? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 7:20 am
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Replies: 59
Views: 5,029
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| How about audible and visual and full control as an option? I can (on the odd occasion) control the visual as I am a visual thinker, which I think lends to a great advantage with dream memory and comprehension. There is also the component of memory that takes practice. I am sure many people have vi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Reading issues. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 6:07 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,424
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| It is of course always possible you just need reading glasses. Or a magnifying glass that mounts on the book. Or have you ever tried using a ruler/sheet of paper/straigh thing or a finger to trace under where you are reading? I often use my right index finger to keep my place as I'm reading a book t... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Michael Savage says that "autism is a fraud" |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 5:41 am
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Replies: 97
Views: 13,976
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| I love politics. I simply can not handle or understand partisanship. Agreeing with somebody just because he happens to like the same color ties as you is asinine. I have a dream, one day, all people will be judged by the content of their character, the accuracy of their speech, and the sincerity of ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Reading issues. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 5:33 am
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Replies: 24
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| Have you looked into large print versions of the books? Good libraries have a copy of two of popular books in large print. I'm not sure what kinds of things you are reading. I sometimes find myself yelling at the copy editor of a book for doing such a horrible job. And the publisher for allowing the... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are aspies more likely to be conservative? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 5:08 am
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Replies: 202
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| Pardon, I can't seem to find my Universal Humanism button on the poll.....? I believe in the sanctity of human life as a core tenet. I base all of my political views off of this core inalienable belief that all humans are equal and of one tribe. I believe in the protection of human lives before all ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Reading issues. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 3:50 am
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Replies: 24
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| What you described in your first post is me. I have no problems reading. I have excellent comprehension. When people cluster things up, I get confused and lost and disoriented and can't follow what the heck they said unless I copy edit into an understandable properly constructed document. The exact ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: afraid of my sister/thinking of moving back in with parents. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 3:47 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 4,087
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| And the action of being able to stand in front of them and say "You have no power over me. You do these things that hurt me in the past and now they are like nothings to me, I am beyond your ability to see me now." and have it be true, is the loudest action of all. You don't have to actually verbali... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have any problems that hinder interest |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 3:38 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,298
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| i like model trains but a small apartment and almost no money left after paying bills and sending to my investment account makes doing things about it not really possible i put the investment account first so i can afford to move to a place big enough to build a lay out in so i guess i am working o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Reading issues. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 2:41 am
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Replies: 24
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| If somebody didn't separate into proper sentences and paragraphs, the content is confused. The same words in different forms mean different things, and Wall of Text is a form of Word Salad to me. Everything becomes so jumbled together the signal of the point they are making gets turned into nothing ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have a sense of gender identity? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 1:16 am
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Replies: 122
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| Beaver is slang for Vagina. So it is a joke about how Cunnilingus saves trees because you "ate the beaver so it couldn't eat a tree". As to hetero sex being trite, I find my sexual relationships quite novel and interesting thank you very much, hetero or otherwise. The Birds and the Bees is about mal... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you score on this Simon Baron-Cohen test? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 12:49 am
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Replies: 41
Views: 9,168
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| I have no ideas how to do this. I click on it and it asks me to download it and it just shows me the file with social stories. What am I doing wrong? Can you see the yes/no boxes at the end? There are the yes and no boxes but it's just a file, it's like a paper on the computer and you need Adobe re... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: A Very Rude Customer! :( |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 11:51 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 4,533
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| ret*d means delay or hinder. ret*d means delayed. If I drop something, there was a retardation in the control of my own self that lead to the dropping of an object. It is completely different from attempting to say that a small mistake means your entire psyche is ret*d, but ultimately mistakes inher... |
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