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 Topic: What does eye contact actually do to you? |
Sedaka
Replies: 95
Views: 2775
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:26 am Subject: What does eye contact actually do to you? |
Pain, fear, overload. Destroys the ability to even think.
I agree with a lot of things here.
I can make quick eye contact, but mainly focus on the mouth, nose, eyebrows and such. I try to stay ... |
| Topic: Remembering In Chronological Order. |
Sedaka
Replies: 8
Views: 195
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:32 pm Subject: Remembering In Chronological Order. |
This type of memory consolidation has to do with the hippocampus, which has been implicated in autism.
It's interesting that there can be so many variations in function. We don't really know how t ... |
| Topic: Other Antisocial Disorders... |
Sedaka
Replies: 19
Views: 675
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:33 pm Subject: Other Antisocial Disorders... |
| A person who has Huntington's has Huntington's from birth. But that's not the point... The point is they don't start showing symptoms until later in life. That was the issue of personality disorder ... |
| Topic: Is there such thing as 'mild' Aspergers? |
Sedaka
Replies: 120
Views: 24603
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:08 pm Subject: Is there such thing as 'mild' Aspergers? |
| I don't think there's such thing as "mild AS". The genetic part of AS is consistent, and the rest of our social difficulties come from experience. So yeah I guess it also depends on how often you go ... |
| Topic: SF ISO SM, PLZ POST UR PERSONAL AD HERE |
Sedaka
Replies: 11
Views: 699
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:42 am Subject: SF ISO SM, PLZ POST UR PERSONAL AD HERE |
| a list of all males seems pretty conducive for a single female. |
| Topic: What would the effect of a "cure" be? |
Sedaka
Replies: 12
Views: 375
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:37 am Subject: What would the effect of a "cure" be? |
| As an adult, social ability wouldn't be any better (see: feral children). Sensory sensitivities and the repetitive behaviours would move to a normal level. Other symptoms will go too. Overall produ ... |
| Topic: Math's and Science |
Sedaka
Replies: 27
Views: 630
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:21 pm Subject: Math's and Science |
love science... and as long as i have a calculator... i'm cool with math  |
| Topic: How would you describe your ASD? |
Sedaka
Replies: 32
Views: 792
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:19 pm Subject: How would you describe your ASD? |
too normal to be obviously wrong.
too emotional; so i'm obviously blatantly and intentionally irrational
wrong wrong wrong alone
i will disappear into the wild yet. |
| Topic: Presentations. |
Sedaka
Replies: 10
Views: 561
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Forum: School and College Life Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:38 pm Subject: Presentations. |
| I've had a lot of teaching experience which helped, so I don't care anymore. Used to LOATHE it, however. powerpoints are awesome casue i don't need notes... just look at the slide and i know what i ... |
| Topic: Frequently Not Understood. |
Sedaka
Replies: 19
Views: 615
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:33 pm Subject: Frequently Not Understood. |
| Ya, I come off as irrelevant or tangential at best. hard for people to follow my "line" of thoughts. |
| Topic: is being hungry a big problem? |
Sedaka
Replies: 10
Views: 369
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:48 am Subject: is being hungry a big problem? |
| low blood sugar and tiredness always make me awnry. probably all it is... stress. |
| Topic: Aspie vs. Autie: a new idea on classification |
Sedaka
Replies: 15
Views: 498
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:45 pm Subject: Aspie vs. Autie: a new idea on classification |
| Think Temple Grandin even points to this aspect a little bit... Especially when she talks about the cognitive abilities of lower functioning autistics... meaning that their main issue is sensory relat ... |
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