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 Topic: What "social rule" do you dislike the most? |
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:18 pm Subject: What "social rule" do you dislike the most? |
| Glad to see so many others are mentioning the "How are you? Fine, and you?" social paradigm. It seems so unnecessary, and I feel embarrassed when I realize I've answered the question without the exp ... |
| Topic: What is a Panic Attack? (Explain in your own words) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:35 pm Subject: What is a Panic Attack? (Explain in your own words) |
I went through a period frequent panic attacks, and after researching my symptoms I found that my official condition was called "Panic Disorder" (appropriately).
Panic attacks for me involved rap ... |
| Topic: Meteoropathy |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:10 pm Subject: Meteoropathy |
| Hot weather is miserable and makes my brain feel sluggish. Having moved to Chicago from Florida last year, the intensely cold, dry winter was heaven. Very brisk and invigorating. |
| Topic: Do you look young for your age? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:05 pm Subject: Do you look young for your age? |
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| Topic: rendering your thoughts to speech |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:45 pm Subject: rendering your thoughts to speech |
| I can relate to this difficulty. I speak articulately but with many pauses interspersed so as to think about which words to say next. I never would have guessed that I spoke slowly or in spurts if i ... |
| Topic: The neanderthal theory....any dispute facts??/ |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:10 pm Subject: The neanderthal theory....any dispute facts??/ |
| The Neanderthal genome has been mapped, as has that of Homo Sapiens. Scientists were able to then demonstrate that they are in fact two different species with a common ancestor, Neanderthals are NOT ... |
| Topic: Intelligence counts for nothing |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:00 pm Subject: Re: Intelligence counts for nothing |
| Do you sometimes feel that no matter how intelligent you are, or how good you maybe at a particular subect or subjects of interest that it means absolutely nothing just becuase socially you may be awk ... |
| Topic: Laughter during conversations |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:04 pm Subject: Re: Laughter during conversations |
One of the things which confuses - and annoys - me most about two people chatting is the way that the participants break out into howls of laughter at practically every other sentence, when I either ... |
| Topic: Laughter during conversations |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:51 pm Subject: Laughter during conversations |
| There is a NT socialized response factor in much conversational laughter. They frequently make small remarks in jest within the context of conversation that are, to another NT, expected to elicit some ... |
| Topic: Atheists plan ad campaign on side of London buses |
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:57 pm Subject: Atheists plan ad campaign on side of London buses |
again, atheism is a belief system as much as any organised religion. And again, I do believe in a God or Gods or whatever but I'm not religious at all.
Again I have to take issue with that state ... |
| Topic: Atheists plan ad campaign on side of London buses |
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:49 pm Subject: Atheists plan ad campaign on side of London buses |
It just seems so... childish to me, as so many militant atheists do.
I mean, really, why do they care so much what people believe? Why do they need to go around bashing religious all the time? Is i ... |
| Topic: har-de-har-har-har (test scores!) |
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Forum: School and College Life Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:22 pm Subject: Re: har-de-har-har-har (test scores!) |
| I also had an extremely similar discrepancy. I know how you feel. Math is well within my grasp but not nearly as intuitive as language skills. |
| Topic: Faces |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:58 pm Subject: Faces |
I look at the mojuth. Eye contact makes me very uncomfortable. Over the years I've trained myself to make some eye contact but it's draining.
What makes looking at the eyes draining?
It seem ... |
| Topic: weight loss |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:32 pm Subject: weight loss |
| I have no idea whether this is good or meaningful advice or not, but one thing I do is to simply not give myself the choice of backing out. If I do not allow myself the option of not going, there is ... |
| Topic: The Neanderthal Theory |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:16 pm Subject: The Neanderthal Theory |
| It was an interesting hypothesis, and it seems to have a lot of intuitive appeal to people with asperger's due to the feeling of being so different. With the recent sequencing of the neanderthal geno ... |
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