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 Topic: highly educated? and Aspergers? |
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:41 pm Subject: highly educated? and Aspergers? |
You think Aspies can't get good educations? D:<
According to his profile page, he has AS, so I would not take it as an insult so much as general curiosity. |
| Topic: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:56 pm Subject: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
And welcome to an ongoing differance between those who are seeking their own type, and those who would lump us with the entire funny farm. AS, HFA, is a world apart.
My understanding is that the di ... |
| Topic: Have you had any luck meeting other Aspies? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:40 am Subject: Have you had any luck meeting other Aspies? |
| Me and this one guy have this aspie gaydar kind of thing where neither of us have admitted to having AS or talk about it, but we both know that it's true. This is a great aid to me when I'm looking f ... |
| Topic: Useful bookmarklets |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:03 am Subject: Useful bookmarklets |
| Bookmarklets are bookmark links that will do something useful when you click them. You can make them run just by copying and pasting them into your address bar, but they'll be most useful if you add ... |
| Topic: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:19 am Subject: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
Separate but equal just doesn't work. Period.
To respond, I will put your statement in the context of U.S. history. Segregation was an unjustified kind of separation that was almost unanimously un ... |
| Topic: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:53 am Subject: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
| ... it is time we stopped letting the future of our kind be compromised by regular human 'understanding' and began to develop systems and societal structure for our own furthering and future. We CAN'T ... |
| Topic: Concerned sis very new to the idea of Aspergers |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:53 am Subject: Concerned sis very new to the idea of Aspergers |
| If I were in your shoes, I would start by finding famous people with Asperger syndrome. Though most lists of this on the Internet should be taken with a grain of salt, they should be fine for your pu ... |
| Topic: Pretty Sure I'm An Aspie |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:10 pm Subject: Pretty Sure I'm An Aspie |
| It looks like you are thinking of "Asperger syndrome" as an umbrella term that you could fit under. The truth is that you could be any one of a number of things. From what you've said, you could eas ... |
| Topic: can a person with an ASD become emotionless? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:39 am Subject: can a person with an ASD become emotionless? |
The trick is to just be honest with yourself and with others about emotions.
Would you mind elaborating on this idea? I think that I agree with you halfway; trouble has never come from me being ho ... |
| Topic: Asperger's is a made up disease. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:57 pm Subject: Asperger's is a made up disease. |
| I can see how AS can be difficult to come to terms with. Self-diagnoses (which the Internet have generally laughed at) have increased in number at a time when funding for Asperger-related studies has ... |
| Topic: The Rules of WrongPlanet |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:48 pm Subject: The Rules of WrongPlanet |
| If that was ever original or clever, you have destroyed something beautiful. |
| Topic: can a person with an ASD become emotionless? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:30 am Subject: can a person with an ASD become emotionless? |
| I think that all of the responses and the eHow page are interesting because they all draw subjective conclusions about flat affect. I am convinced that it is just as much of an umbrella term as the w ... |
| Topic: Does anyone else do this? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:32 pm Subject: Does anyone else do this? |
| I have this weird memory for anything that I've touched throughout the day, so I probably couldn't forget what I was holding even if I wanted to. |
| Topic: What colleges in addition to Marshall U are best for Aspies? |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:08 pm Subject: What colleges in addition to Marshall U are best for Aspies? |
| I have heard that Ithaca College is good... |
| Topic: Is self-diagnosis reliable? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:28 pm Subject: Is self-diagnosis reliable? |
And the point of claiming that you have it (past point one that you mentioned) would be...?
Two things come to mind that may be affected by going with/without diagnosis:
1) Insurance costs
2) ... |
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