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 Topic: What is Your Longest Running Intrest and Why? |
EmaN
Replies: 43
Views: 2793
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:22 pm Subject: What is Your Longest Running Intrest and Why? |
| Science - astronomy in particular, maps. |
| Topic: Would you rather be right or happy? |
EmaN
Replies: 60
Views: 3639
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:16 pm Subject: Would you rather be right or happy? |
| I'm of two minds as well. It depends on who the person is I'm talking to. A small child that believes the moon is made of cheese or who believes in Santa Claus--it's not my job to correct them on th ... |
| Topic: verbal vs performance iq |
EmaN
Replies: 65
Views: 11235
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:02 am Subject: verbal vs performance iq |
Does anybody else have low working memory but high verbal reasoning score?
I only had a few performance and working memory subtests, which showed that my working memory was very low (retarded range ... |
| Topic: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
EmaN
Replies: 21
Views: 1245
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:47 pm Subject: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
I'm NT but my mum (who is bi-polar) did/does a lot of this. We see her with caution.
EmaN - have you read about co-dependency? That emotional push/pull of your mum's sounds quite similar?
I've ... |
| Topic: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
EmaN
Replies: 21
Views: 1245
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:12 pm Subject: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
| That's how my parents are. I've been called cocksucker, Motherf***er, piece of (feces) and many other things by my father, and my mother just tells me that I can't do it, whatever it is. She is far ... |
| Topic: Would you say I'm a dumb guy? |
EmaN
Replies: 27
Views: 1413
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:08 pm Subject: Would you say I'm a dumb guy? |
| Often it's not as black and white as 'smart' and 'dumb'; people can be smart in some situations (say, negotiation at work) and awful when it comes to others (i.e. not falling for advertising ploys), a ... |
| Topic: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
EmaN
Replies: 21
Views: 1245
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:16 pm Subject: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
| My mom, who seems to be an Aspie, often offended me when I was a child. By offending I mean using very hurtful expressions like telling me to kill myself, saying that I should have been aborted, that ... |
| Topic: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
EmaN
Replies: 93
Views: 6051
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:07 am Subject: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
| I'm not going to argue it at length, but there are other ways to understand the world than a particular thing that gets called "reason" and another particular thing called "emotion" and "irrationality ... |
| Topic: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
EmaN
Replies: 93
Views: 6051
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:09 pm Subject: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
| I'm not going to argue it at length, but there are other ways to understand the world than a particular thing that gets called "reason" and another particular thing called "emotion" and "irrationality ... |
| Topic: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
EmaN
Replies: 93
Views: 6051
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:05 pm Subject: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
| I don't know if 'scared' is the right word, though I do feel a kind of fear/sadness considering that my own conscious existence will perhaps come to an end. I don't think I have any phobia-level fear ... |
| Topic: Moments where you've said the wrong thing. |
EmaN
Replies: 50
Views: 5754
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:02 pm Subject: Moments where you've said the wrong thing. |
People usually think I'm crazy when I try to joke in my own way.
For example, saying 'A hobo stole my bike today'.
It also seems like I said some impolite stuff while thinking it was polite severa ... |
| Topic: Some questions |
EmaN
Replies: 10
Views: 672
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:33 pm Subject: Re: Some questions |
-I'm unable to talk with the opposite sex, because I simply don't know how to. Even if I wasn't shy, (Yes, I'm shy) I still wouldn't know what to talk about with girls. Virtually everyone in our cla ... |
| Topic: How do you score on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient test? |
EmaN
Replies: 189
Views: 25878
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:09 pm Subject: How do you score on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient test? |
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| Topic: This Empathy Thing |
EmaN
Replies: 7
Views: 825
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:07 pm Subject: This Empathy Thing |
| Yeah, I have an impaired feeling of empathy also. I remember when my grandmother was talking about how her mother died before she could meet me when I was a kid (and she wanted to a lot) I said 'Stop ... |
| Topic: Some questions |
EmaN
Replies: 10
Views: 672
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:14 pm Subject: Some questions |
The laughing thing sounds like you don't understand your emotions. I just know I did that a lot when I was younger.
That actually sounds very true. I can relate closely to this statement.
Is i ... |
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