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 Topic: What's so wrong with monotone? |
mechanicalgirl39
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:23 pm Subject: What's so wrong with monotone? |
Most of them, not knowing about ASDs, react to us with the same set of assumptions that they'd use for a typical person- and in a typical person, flat affect often means hostility
I always assumed ... |
| Topic: Why do we look younger? |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 229
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:13 pm Subject: Why do we look younger? |
| I don't look physically young at all. I'm 19, but I was asked last night at the sports centre which of the child gymnasts was my daughter, lol!! |
| Topic: Eating because it tastes good |
mechanicalgirl39
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:12 pm Subject: Eating because it tastes good |
Guilty as charged. I eat a lot of stuff I don't need because it tastes good. I can get away with it though, I have a cranked up metabolism  |
| Topic: Work embarassment - caught rehearsing conversation |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 11
Views: 195
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:03 pm Subject: Work embarassment - caught rehearsing conversation |
| Another self talker here. I once accidentally blurted out 'shut the f**k up' to someone in a supermarket while talking to the air...He was understanding about it, though |
| Topic: What's so wrong with monotone? |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 61
Views: 909
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:49 pm Subject: What's so wrong with monotone? |
I also think the opposite is true. I believe that the AS community could teach NTs a lot-- if they took the time to figure out how to get their messages across.
Exactly. The whole "NT's should lea ... |
| Topic: anybody else feel this stuff? |
mechanicalgirl39
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:12 am Subject: anybody else feel this stuff? |
1. Yup
2. Yup
3. Yes - Mildly so |
| Topic: My weird tactile addiction.. |
mechanicalgirl39
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:08 am Subject: My weird tactile addiction.. |
| I'm trying to figure out where you mean. Beside the spine but at about the point where the ribs in front begin? It may well be a neural pathway because if anyone touches me there they may have to scra ... |
| Topic: What's so wrong with monotone? |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 61
Views: 909
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:07 pm Subject: What's so wrong with monotone? |
But I seriously doubt that it could leave out half the message.
Maybe it depends on the sentence.
Half the message in gestures is a lot.
Actually, it may be much more than half the message. If y ... |
| Topic: What's so wrong with monotone? |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 61
Views: 909
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:06 pm Subject: What's so wrong with monotone? |
| This is just my POV (and I am NT), but a monotone comes across as phony and uninterested to me. My bf's son is very "robot like" with his monotone voice. When I first met him, and didn't know anythi ... |
| Topic: Multitasking |
mechanicalgirl39
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:39 pm Subject: Re: re: multitasking |
| I have a hard time wrapping my mind around what multitasking really involves. Sometimes I think people use the term incorrectly. In my view multitasking is the ability to say listen to music and wri ... |
| Topic: What's so wrong with monotone? |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 61
Views: 909
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:17 pm Subject: What's so wrong with monotone? |
My vet always explains stuff to me in a slow monotone when I take my cat to him. 
I'd say it's actually a good thing if your voice is on the 'too flat' side. Monotone is easy to listen to. Heavi ... |
| Topic: The Blame Game |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 15
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:09 pm Subject: The Blame Game |
| I'm not one of them. I can't stand when people get blamed for their suffering unless they genuinely did something to deserve it (for example if they chose to start a fight). I wouldn't blame someone f ... |
| Topic: Oxitocin ENDS asperger life! |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 48
Views: 1467
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:32 am Subject: Oxitocin ENDS asperger life! |
| It seems all the chemical does is make you more attentive to other people. That's just one aspect of AS - it won't take away things like literal thinking, mono-processing, sensory over- or undersensit ... |
| Topic: It's A Girl Thing Too |
mechanicalgirl39
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:27 am Subject: Re: It's A Girl Thing Too |
This article about autism in girls appeared in my local paper, The Sydney Morning Herald and seem to be a reprinted of an article that appeared in the UK paper The Independent.
They seem to be su ... |
| Topic: Aspie women and weight |
mechanicalgirl39
Replies: 36
Views: 867
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Forum: Women's Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:25 am Subject: Aspie women and weight |
| i used to have an eating disorder, and sometimes it comes back. I get obsessed with counting calories, restricting calories and exercise. I am 5"7" and I used to weighed as little as 104 lbs. I know t ... |
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