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 Topic: Hello everyone (long winded post!) |
vetivert
Replies: 2
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 Forum: Getting to know each other Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:18 am Subject: Hello everyone (long winded post!) |
| arashi, a lot of what you say resonates with me. i'm 42, never fitted in, etc., etc. i'm waiting for a diagnosis (forever, probably), but knowing that i probably have AS is a relief in a way - i'll ... |
| Topic: Bullies |
vetivert
Replies: 34
Views: 5747
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:11 am Subject: Bullies |
two things:
1. i'm a teacher working with kids with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD), and i work with a lot of bullies and their victims. bullies are really low on self-esteem, and th ... |
| Topic: Further proof that I don't play well with others |
vetivert
Replies: 10
Views: 2198
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:40 am Subject: Further proof that I don't play well with others |
hi, animallover.
i know what you mean! i'd like a list of all the different ways something can be done (like answering the phone to a client, etc.), so i know where i am. this, unfortunately, is i ... |
| Topic: Here I am.... |
vetivert
Replies: 4
Views: 1111
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:58 am Subject: Here I am.... |
your poem is lovely, scoots, even if it made me feel sad. keep writing.
V. |
| Topic: Just so you all know |
vetivert
Replies: 12
Views: 1813
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:31 am Subject: Just so you all know |
happy birthday! welcome to the world of "adults", although what that is, exactly, i've yet to work out... (never managed it).
v. |
| Topic: One trip, two stories |
vetivert
Replies: 7
Views: 1137
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:29 am Subject: One trip, two stories |
| sleep grabs me after eating and reading a book (i sort of have to read while i'm eating). blood rushing to stomach to digest food, i believe, so makes you tired, which is why you're not supposed to s ... |
| Topic: Greetings and salutations... |
vetivert
Replies: 4
Views: 1175
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Forum: Getting to know each other Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:50 pm Subject: Greetings and salutations... |
just read your thingey, and nearly had heart failure - i read "13 months" without the "months" bit.....
am going for a lie down...
V. |
| Topic: technophobe alert... |
vetivert
Replies: 2
Views: 1134
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:33 am Subject: technophobe alert... |
thank you, thank you, oh thank you. is this beginning to be a two-way correspondence? ho, ho.
V. |
| Topic: Just summoned up the courage... |
vetivert
Replies: 7
Views: 1631
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Forum: Getting to know each other Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:31 am Subject: Just summoned up the courage... |
"my arm"? my foot!
aspie acronyms (a.k.a., AA's?):-
this one's from personal experience: OITSISTHBYIAC - oh, i'm terribly sorry - i seem to have bored you into a coma.
or: IMBJTSROMOTYBIFTM - ... |
| Topic: technophobe alert... |
vetivert
Replies: 2
Views: 1134
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:13 am Subject: technophobe alert... |
| help! can anyone explain how to use the chatroom to an ageing luddite? it keeps logging me in as anonymous. perhaps if someone explained it to me very slowly and carefully (feel free to patronise m ... |
| Topic: Talkative Aspies |
vetivert
Replies: 50
Views: 4307
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:24 am Subject: Talkative Aspies |
then the trick is to talk them into stunned submission, and then leg it before they interrupt... (smiley emoticon thing, with perhaps just a hint of a devilish grin).
V. |
| Topic: A question |
vetivert
Replies: 10
Views: 1363
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:21 am Subject: A question |
| that's probably the point, civet - everyone else (aspie or NT) sees things in us we don't see in ourselves, positive and negative. i suppose one of my missions in life is to find out as much as i can ... |
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