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 Topic: Solid Advice for Parents: From an Aspie |
NowhereWoman
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 Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:18 pm Subject: Solid Advice for Parents: From an Aspie |
| ((OregonBecky)) No, you are NOT being arrogant. Nobody knows your daughter better than you do, and that's a fact. I don't care whether it's an AS parent with an NT child, an NT parent with an ASD chil ... |
| Topic: Films |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 16
Views: 363
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:34 pm Subject: Films |
| It depends. If there are a lot of specific details in combination with fast-moving action, yes, I have to watch it a few times. I lose the plot when the screen is filled with what I see as distraction ... |
| Topic: Solid Advice for Parents: From an Aspie |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 17
Views: 1212
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:27 pm Subject: Solid Advice for Parents: From an Aspie |
| OregonBeck, I'm sorry I made you feel uncomfortable about expressing yourself. Trust me, non-NT parents don't have it all wrapped up either as far as parenting non-NTs, so I don't want to sound superi ... |
| Topic: NLD Information and Support Thread |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 189
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:01 pm Subject: NLD Information and Support Thread |
| Oh...I also have some weirdness about...remembering things visually. I don't necessarily recognize a person's face the next time I see him or her...or, I sort of do but can't be sure it's the same per ... |
| Topic: would you consider the following to be stims? |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 9
Views: 504
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:44 pm Subject: would you consider the following to be stims? |
Yes, those sound like stims.  (I saw what you wrote above about NLD, by the way! I will answer you up there!) The thing about stims is that everyone stims. I once read something an autie wrote point ... |
| Topic: Uncomfortable experience with a psychologist. Part 2 |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 24
Views: 1014
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:38 pm Subject: Uncomfortable experience with a psychologist. Part 2 |
| Aspie1 and AmberEyes: YES! I too believe many therapists are really, really trying. I mean it is after all their life's work. They simply can't believe our answers are necessarily the real answers...t ... |
| Topic: Do you have problems with proprioception (body awareness)? |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 94
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:34 pm Subject: Do you have problems with proprioception (body awareness)? |
| Yeah, most days I feel like I zipped my body on that morning but must have selected the wrong size. I have never felt "at home" in my body. I used to give myself little ahead-of-time prompts for thing ... |
| Topic: Scintillating Scotomas |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 18
Views: 681
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:00 pm Subject: Scintillating Scotomas |
| Scintillating Scotomas...? I always heard of this called an aura. Mine precede and herald a migraine. |
| Topic: Uncomfortable experience with a psychologist. Part 2 |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 24
Views: 1014
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:38 pm Subject: Uncomfortable experience with a psychologist. Part 2 |
| its a key phras how does it make you feel? in psychology because it makes the patient talk outwardly of themselves so that they will logically get to the rawness of that emotion because the patient LO ... |
| Topic: Happy holiday, USA WrongPlaneters! |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 14
Views: 231
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:10 pm Subject: Happy holiday, USA WrongPlaneters! |
| Thank you, Greentea! Just grilling some food at home, and my husband and kids are periodically watching a Star Wars marathon. |
| Topic: Why is it easier for NTs to feign? |
NowhereWoman
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:14 pm Subject: Why is it easier for NTs to feign? |
It sounds like you have more of a problem establishing healthy boundries than you do with your AS.
There's one little itty bitty problem with that. NT's generally do not accept our boundaries. If w ... |
| Topic: Uncomfortable experience with a psychologist. Part 2 |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 24
Views: 1014
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:04 pm Subject: Uncomfortable experience with a psychologist. Part 2 |
| ^ Ha ha, my husband and I use that phrase all the time to joke around. Like, he might drop a frozen steak on his toe getting it out of the freezer and I'll go "And how did that make you FEEL?" After h ... |
| Topic: Question for Greentea and others-Employment |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 8
Views: 324
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:02 pm Subject: Question for Greentea and others-Employment |
| My freelancing is all non-fiction, even though I love to read fiction, but it has to be very "realistic" (i.e. historical fiction, NO romances, ugh). I wish so much that I could write fiction, but it ... |
| Topic: Why is it easier for NTs to feign? |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 138
Views: 3129
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:01 pm Subject: Why is it easier for NTs to feign? |
| ^ Now THAT totally makes sense. Thank you for the explanation, granatelli. |
| Topic: If you've learned to "fake it"...why do you? |
NowhereWoman
Replies: 60
Views: 2190
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:58 pm Subject: If you've learned to "fake it"...why do you? |
| ^^ WOW! I ALWAYS knew it was self-invented. However, I did exactly the same thing: I copied behaviors. In fact, the one thing I did that I probably didn't outright know I was doing, at least in so man ... |
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