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SamAckary
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Location: Berkshire
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I've always had a wide vocabulary and most people i know say that i'm the most intelligent person they've met, as a kid i refused to read and my mum was sure that i was intelligent though because i was always working out everything like how cables in a room connect to others and how lightbulbs and gravity work and such, but the people at my school thought maybe i was retarded or something because i wouldnt read, but when i was about 5 i came home and read a ready meal packet which said 'Authentic Indian Cuisine with Almond Sauce' on it perfectly, no issues with the pronounciation at all, so my mum was glad that i could read really well and in year 5 i had a special needs person come see me and she said my reading age was about 17+ when i was ten which was pretty good,i think i got this from my dad, he definately has AS but refuses to acknoledge it and doesnt think i have it either because that would mean he does, his IQs 150 and he's in mensa and hes pretty much a human calculator, he can work anything out very fast, but i suck at maths, im a scientist i suppose, its my favourite subject to be honest, i think that not all AS people have to be super smart or brilliant speakers/readers beacause everyone will be different so who knows?
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2ukenkerl
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: So true |
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| Sorenna wrote: | That is so true! I get that, too.
I actually take my Dad with me to the Dr.s because it is like I am speaking a different language. I look norma, I think, but I don't get across what I am trying to say.
Your weedkiller example was great. I understand completely! |
Do you find it easy to type here, and have the ability to sound intelligible at normal speed? No offense, I'm just curious.
I never realized how much it happens to me, but it didn't really happen when I was younger, though I think I ALWAYS had better comprehension when I am talking.
But there is a place here I LOVE! The name is "culver's". They have a policy of providing everything with basically NOTHING on it! If you want ANYTHING you have to STATE EVERYTHING! I THINK I could just say "the works", but am scared of what I might get. Anyway, I always get tounge tied the first few times. I never thought too much of it. But I sometimes have to intersperse what I am saying with what I am thinking. |
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Sorenna
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Joined: May 13, 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: writing |
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Yes, I can write very well. There are times verbally I am totally stuck but I can write. I have about 27 years of diaries. Maybe it is like what happens with strokes.
One of the hardest things about being a "hybrid" is that people want you to be black and white. You can talk! You are not autistic! Or why can't you talk in school but you can at home? Faker!
That is why I was so adement about getting tested at a well known center that specailizes in autism. I know I am weird, but I am even -it seems- a weird autistic.
So I just have to try to analyze it. I have some theories. |
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2ukenkerl
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: Re: writing |
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| Sorenna wrote: | Yes, I can write very well. There are times verbally I am totally stuck but I can write. I have about 27 years of diaries. Maybe it is like what happens with strokes.
One of the hardest things about being a "hybrid" is that people want you to be black and white. You can talk! You are not autistic! Or why can't you talk in school but you can at home? Faker!
That is why I was so adement about getting tested at a well known center that specailizes in autism. I know I am weird, but I am even -it seems- a weird autistic.
So I just have to try to analyze it. I have some theories. |
If I was a few times more sensitive, I probably wouldn't be able to talk outside of my family either! I could see how that could happen even in someone with AS, and I DON'T think it would be a basis of dismissing it. Hybrid of WHAT?
You certainly can't mean autistic and AS, as that is a given. There is a line someone sets in a couple or three catagories. If you are far enough to the right on average, they will generally say AS. Stray a LITTLE too far the other way, and it is HFA. It is WHERE the lines are, and how they are weighed that is the question. |
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Sorenna
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: Hybrid- |
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I meant of Autism and NT. But meant in a good way  |
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pakled
"Bless his Heart"
Joined: Nov 13, 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I did fine; I had trouble in 1st grade for a few days with reading; then something clicked, and I could read. I just couldn't stop... I remember making 630 on my SATs in high school on the English part (only 490 on math...
I have a very good vocabulary, know many words, but getting them to come out of my mouth right...
Contrast this with the missus; horrible vocabulary, most sentences are like "go over there and get me that thing"
"What thing?"
points, obviously annoyed. "That....that...(long pause)..butter knife...
contrast that, though, with the ability to go up to total strangers and make them friends in 5 minutes, have their life stories, etc. A mixed blessing. |
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