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 Topic: Do aspie adults have a difficulty in "growing up"? |
TTRSage
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:48 pm Subject: Do aspie adults have a difficulty in "growing up"? |
I'm gonna either have to learn to grow up, or grow more comfortable with the idea of being a middle-aged manchild.
Heaven forbid, don't ever allow yourself to grow up or you will lose some of the w ... |
| Topic: Do aspie adults have a difficulty in "growing up"? |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:47 pm Subject: Do aspie adults have a difficulty in "growing up"? |
Grow up? Why would anyone ever want to grow up and be like all those cynical adults out there? I am 60 years old myself and am still a kid at heart.
Speaking of driving, I didn't want to learn to d ... |
| Topic: Symbolism as a Communications Form |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:37 pm Subject: Symbolism as a Communications Form |
| Does anybody else here have any experience with using symbolism as a form of communications. I live near an Aspie whom I have been trying to get to know for over a year now. He is so avoidant that I h ... |
| Topic: When did you accept Asperger's? |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:52 pm Subject: When did you accept Asperger's? |
I started looking it up online and immediately saw a spooky reflection of myself staring back at me.
Exactly what happened with me too a year ago. AS gives you the drive to really research things i ... |
| Topic: Imitation |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:47 pm Subject: Imitation |
I've always been really good at mimicking other people.
While my story is mocking rather than mimicking, your comment reminds me of something I did in 7th grade that got me the only D that I ever d ... |
| Topic: Valentine's Day |
TTRSage
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:38 pm Subject: Valentine's Day |
I saw hearts and roses sitting among the meat in a butcher's window. It made me giggle. 
After reading your post I was looking for such things when I went to the store today. I saw bouquets of fl ... |
| Topic: "I know, I could tell by his eyes" |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:13 pm Subject: "I know, I could tell by his eyes" |
You can tell by his eyes.
http://www.mushroommusic.com.au/img/news/web-news-craig-nicholls.jpg
I always though Craig 'looked' autistic. And he was diagnosed before I even knew what Asperger's wa ... |
| Topic: Glasses. |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:16 pm Subject: Glasses. |
| I was very near sighted as a child and was given a pair of glasses to wear during the summer between 2nd and 3rd grade. The optometrist thought he was being cute when he gave me a toy gun holster to c ... |
| Topic: Imitation |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:08 pm Subject: Imitation |
Cheers Sage, very helpful.
I don't know if the twitching is stimming. I can control it, but when I loose concentration (as when sleeping) it happens all by itself. I thought stimming was voluntar ... |
| Topic: Valentine's Day |
TTRSage
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:51 pm Subject: Valentine's Day |
I think it's just immature to hate or boycott a holiday just because you're considered excluded from it or it has no reference to you. Should I be boycotting Hanukkah because I'm not Jewish? Sho ... |
| Topic: Imitation |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:55 pm Subject: Imitation |
You are talking about three separate Aspie traits here.
The retention of sounds (like a song replaying in your head) is an obsession related trait. Thoughts get stuck in your mind and go on and on ... |
| Topic: "I know, I could tell by his eyes" |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:36 pm Subject: "I know, I could tell by his eyes" |
| Its called Aspie Eyes and I ran across a YouTube video about it one time (Google Aspie Eyes and you will find it somewhere). Aspie's may be able to compensate sometimes, but not all of the time and wi ... |
| Topic: Aspergers humbling? |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:25 pm Subject: Aspergers humbling? |
| I think I know exactly how you feel. The fact that you are separated from the world gives you an independent viewpoint that is not polluted by being too close to the trees to see the forest. It does n ... |
| Topic: When did you accept Asperger's? |
TTRSage
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Views: 3732
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:19 pm Subject: When did you accept Asperger's? |
| I accepted it immediately upon realizing it at age 59 because it answered so many confusing and unanswerable questions about my personality that I had known about for decades. Specifically I began rea ... |
| Topic: overly attached friend? |
TTRSage
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:01 pm Subject: overly attached friend? |
| I currently find myself in the exact opposite situation. I am an Aspie (and gay) who has become intensely attached to another Aspie (who has shown apparent gay interest towards me). But he is so extre ... |
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