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 Topic: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 139
Views: 11937
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 Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:32 pm Subject: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
Just because I personally don't do well socially doesn't mean that I don't understand the rules. I just find it impossible to follow them most of the time.
I've written two novels in the past yea ... |
| Topic: Display your Artwork |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 745
Views: 37293
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:23 pm Subject: Display your Artwork |
i like the gnarly spaceship
wonder if you work with a sketch or a model?
Thanks.
I don't work with either. It's just imagination based. A lot of my early stuff was based on pics I found on ... |
| Topic: Do People Ever Accuse You Of Staring At Them? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 26
Views: 778
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:32 am Subject: Do People Ever Accuse You Of Staring At Them? |
People used to say that in conversations all the time when I was younger. "Please stop staring at me."
I'm not, I wanted to tell them. I'm just looking. Is that staring? How else are you suppos ... |
| Topic: Anyone memorize all the wrong facts for the school tests? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 6
Views: 470
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Forum: School and College Life Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:22 am Subject: Anyone memorize all the wrong facts for the school tests? |
| I'm always studying the wrong things; especially in math/science classes. I totally feel you on that. |
| Topic: Right brain or left brain? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 23
Views: 641
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:06 pm Subject: Right brain or left brain? |
| Anti-clockwise. And then I watched her lower foot, the one on the ground and suddenly everything switched. Weird. |
| Topic: Verbosity |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 14
Views: 378
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:56 pm Subject: Verbosity |
| I'm not sure delayed verbal development is an absolute when coming to a diagnosis. If I remember correctly, from the stuff I've read, there is no delay in verbal development as part of diagnosis. Th ... |
| Topic: Get in here if you've ever taken Effexor or Wellbutrin or... |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 18
Views: 673
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:47 pm Subject: Get in here if you've ever taken Effexor or Wellbutrin or... |
Well, I'm on effexor, but it took a few weeks for it to really get going. Once it did though, it took away the suicidal urges and left me remarkably more like myself.
Good luck. |
| Topic: Which songs echo in your heads constantly? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 38
Views: 1357
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:33 pm Subject: Which songs echo in your heads constantly? |
| Carol of the Bells. No joking. It's been in my head constantly for the past 6 or 7 years. I even start whistling it softly when I get nervous. And then I don't even realize that I'm doing it. |
| Topic: Hyper sensitive to smells? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 13
Views: 449
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:28 pm Subject: Hyper sensitive to smells? |
| I think he might have overreacted, however, I can tell you that I am VERY sensitive to smells...It's funny because I'll go somewhere and say, "wow...it smells like my school in 4th grade in Austin"... ... |
| Topic: Anyone else terrible at math? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 47
Views: 1183
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:55 am Subject: Anyone else terrible at math? |
| I have a mathematical block. Unless the numbers apply to something, they're meaningless to me and it all looks like Chinese (I don't read Chinese). I'm doing well in my Statistics course, averaging a ... |
| Topic: Anyone else terrible at math? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 47
Views: 1183
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:52 am Subject: Anyone else terrible at math? |
| "Children with the nonverbal learning disorder type of hyperlexia overlap with Asperger's kids, who have a very low social perception. The characteristics of the nonverbal language disorder hyperlexia ... |
| Topic: AS / ADD and anti-depressants |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 15
Views: 585
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:44 am Subject: AS / ADD and anti-depressants |
I'm on Adderall for ADD. I just got dxed with ADD back in February, so I'm new to the meds angle as well.
So here's what I have to say. If I could only take one kind of medication for the rest o ... |
| Topic: How did you find out about Aspergers? |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 62
Views: 2043
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:29 am Subject: How did you find out about Aspergers? |
| The major irony for me was that on the day we covered it in class (I'm a music therapy grad student), I also went to see my psychiatrist and he suggested it as a possible dx. Oy. And then I research ... |
| Topic: Maybe we should stop badmouthing NTs |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 36
Views: 1022
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:24 am Subject: Maybe we should stop badmouthing NTs |
| Course, then if you're making categories of people, you also have to include the artsy NTs, which is just an entirely separate topic . . . and those I have almost no problem with (for the most part). |
| Topic: NaNoWriMo |
lastcrazyhorn
Replies: 10
Views: 432
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:16 am Subject: NaNoWriMo |
I did it and won it last year. I'm doing it again this year.  http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1000012 Here's a great thread to get involved with. They're all nutty and fun and welcoming. ... |
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