| Do you need details on most everything? |
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88% |
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| No |
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7% |
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| Undecided/Just show results |
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3% |
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Cornflake
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| his_mom wrote: | | ghoti wrote: | | his_mom wrote: | | By the way, I am unable to see the results of the poll. Can anyone else see the results? |
so far:
Yes 94% [ 32 ]
No 5% [ 2 ] |
Thank you so much! I have clicked on the "see results" tab which does nothing for me. Is there something else I need to do in order to see the results? |
The default "Results" option doesn't work and the usual work-around is to include a throw-away option which I've since added as "Undecided/Just show results".
The side effect of this is that because members are only allowed one vote in a poll, selecting this option still counts as a vote and it will be shown with a score like any other option.
So I'm afraid that if you want to see the results before making a vote - you won't be able to.
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Tamsin
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| Yes, definitely. Vagueries (sp?) annoy me. I want to know the who, what, when, where, why, and how of most things, especially if they involve somebody going through my things and touching all my personal stuff or invading my personal space. Also, I hate when people say "a couple" instead of using a number. For example, my dad always likes to order "a couple" of cheeseburgers at Mickey D's, and it bugs me because "a couple" is not a number. |
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matt
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| his_mom wrote: | | I guess that my biggest worry about this necessity to hang on to stuff is that, at some point when can it be considered hoarding? The thought of someone condemning his home really makes me worry about what effect that might have on him. |
Not all autistic people hoard. Many are actually compulsively neat(as with OCD).
Here is a link to the DSM5 proposed criteria for hoarding disorder.
Autistic collecting comes from having an extreme interest in something. It tends to be focused on specific subjects. Hoarding tends to come from a fear of throwing things away. It tends to be unfocused. |
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SilkySifaka
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Age: 27
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Location: UK
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| I have to know all the details, if I am invited to something that sounds very vague I either try and pin them down on details or I decline the invitation. My social nightmare is when a plan is made, and all the details worked out and then I get a text saying 'Actually, we're not going to the cinema after all, thought we would just meet in town and decide then'. That is when I have meltdowns and can't leave the house. I'm not good when things are short notice either, I need a few days to get used to the idea. |
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redrobin62
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Age: 50
Posts: 3839
Location: Seattle, WA
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| We aspies sometimes go 50-50 on a topic. It's kinda refreshing to see how we all practically agree on this details business. I never thought it was an aspie thing. I figured it's just me. As kids, for Christmas one day, the local fire dept. gave us toy cars. I immediately took the car apart because I just had to know how everything worked in that poor little car. If someone tells me they'll be coming to visit it's an absolute must for me to know the details. That's in stone. |
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yellowtamarin
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Age: 32
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Location: Victoria, Australia
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| Tamsin wrote: | | Also, I hate when people say "a couple" instead of using a number. For example, my dad always likes to order "a couple" of cheeseburgers at Mickey D's, and it bugs me because "a couple" is not a number. |
Well it is, it means two. But people don't always mean two when they say it. They mean "a few". When I hear "a couple" I think of two, and sometimes this results in awkward situations. Like for example if I was at the physio and they told me to bend my knee "a couple of times", I would stop after two bends and they would wonder why I stopped and tell me to keep going. Frustrating. |
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Evinceo
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Joined: Apr 14, 2012
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| "Detail oriented" is the nice way of putting it... I try to make clarifying questions sound sarcastic enough that if they're awkward I can play like I didn't really want an answer. |
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nemorosa
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Location: Amongst the leaves.
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| No, just the stuff I'm interested in. Even if that weren't the case, the details of "everything" presents quite a challenge for anyone, don't you think? |
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SpiritBlooms
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I answered no, not on most everything. But if something interests me, I usually want more details than I get at first. I have to dig for them, research, just keep at it until my curiosity is satisfied. Sometimes it never is.  |
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Callista
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Absolutely! If I don't have a good picture of the future, I get pretty anxious. It's not a direct relationship--the anxiety isn't triggered by not knowing--it's just that when I don't know something, I don't have adequate information to make decisions about it, and I'm caught in the middle trying to understand something without having enough information. That's a very unpleasant situation and the "lost" feeling eventually turns into anxiety. So, finding information about new things is one of my most important life skills.
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Suspie
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| YellowBanana wrote: | Definitely need the details.
And whilst I'm here ... Does anyone have a problem when a friend/acquaintance/colleague says "just pop in whenever". What the heck does that mean? How am I supposed to know when will be convenient or inconvenient for them? Give me a damn day and time please - how difficult is that to do ... |
yes, I am the same. my family thinks it's very "quirky" that I wouldn't even go visit my grandma without calling first to ask if I should go. I think it's makes sense to call first. |
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Frakkin
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Age: 20
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| Yep. I want to know absolutely everything. It's frustrating for me, because everyone seems to underestimate how many details I want, and frustrating for other people, because I constantly pester them for more details. Part of it is because I have a lot of anxiety and I need to know everything possible beforehand so it will go predictably and I won't have surprises catch me off guard. Also simply because I like to have as many variables known as possible simply because it's easier to figure things out with more details and I'll have a better understanding. I don't understand why other people wouldn't want to know all the details. |
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deathsign
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Age: 17
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Yes, totally.
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Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 69 of 200
AQ = 33
Diagnosed AS. Hates having it.
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jackbus01
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Yes, very much! I really appreciate when people use explicit detail. It make me feel more comfortable. I also don't like people touching my stuff. I live alone and am almost 40 and it is a good thing that nobody wants to "straighten things up here".
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jackbus01
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"I am going to change the locks and buy an attack dog and build a moat." |
Funny, that was my gut reaction too! Seriously, nobody enters my place and I like it that way. |
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