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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: overwhelming frustration |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 02 May 2017, 12:19 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 592
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| Maybe some part of your subconscious is chewing on something? Or maybe your sensitivity to the world is extra high, and you're perceiving difficult things about the world that you usually manage to supress ignore? Or both at the same time? Sometimes I find that periods of extra frustration and sensi... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Newly Diagnosed |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 01 May 2017, 12:05 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 869
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| I know this is probably overwhelming for you, but I also think this is a wonderful opportunity for you to understand the daughter you love even better. Everything you knew about her pre-diagnosis is still true today! Everything you love about her is still true! And now you know a new "fact"... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie Low Pain Tolerance |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 11:51 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 538
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| Many people with autism/aspies are very very sensitive, especially to sensory and body stuff. Weird feelings in your body being nearly intolerable aligns with my own experience. For me personally, flu wouldn't trigger it, but everyone is different. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Learning how to program in C |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 11:44 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,582
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| I second the recommendation to learn Python if your goal is learning to program. There's a lot of good online tutorials and free courses for python, and its a very practical language for accomplishing day to day tasks. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: people who pity us |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 11:41 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 835
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seaweed wrote: sometimes i feel like people are treating me like a charity case, to boost their own moral standing.
Ugh, that sucks. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Health Anxiety Common in Asperger's? |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 11:40 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 814
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Test it and you might find that if you try NOT to exhale, your body will force you to. That might be comforting.
What you're going through sounds very very stressful, I'm so sorry this is happening to you. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Panic attacks while sleeping |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 11:39 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 396
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| Maybe lookup PTSD? I suspect many people on the spectrum have some aspects of this. If you're very sensitive (imo most aspies etc are in many respects) the traumas could be something NTs would consider "normal". |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Health Anxiety Common in Asperger's? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 10:50 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Breathing issues are very anxiety related. /VERY/ anxiety related. Anxiety is fear, and extreme anxiety/fear produces a highly excited "fight or flight" type of state, which causes all the muscles in the body to tense up in preparation for, like, fighting a tiger or climbing a tree or some... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Is there something "off" about the way we look? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 10:36 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,657
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I think a lot of aspies with resting b*tch face are just concentrating really hard, trying to figure out what the right thing to do is  Being aspie is like playing reality in hard mode. Hopefully we get extra points or something. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Health Anxiety Common in Asperger's? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 10:31 pm
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Replies: 9
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| A lot of aspies experience anxiety, and a lot of people with anxiety get worried about health issues, yes sometimes to the point of generating somatic symptoms. Anxiety is not surprising for aspies, since every minute of every day we face a world that doesn't really understand us. We always wonder i... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Feet Problems |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 10:25 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 419
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| I know this sounds silly, but maybe you can ask your feet what they need/want? Sometimes if I think too much about my body, I can't figure it out, but if I talk to it, I stop overthinking, and can figure out what I need to do. Are you saying that one of your feet, the toes point out farther than the... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Learning how to program in C |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 10:20 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,582
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| The best thing for learning programming is a personal project, nothing else will teach you as much as something you're interested in improving and fixing. I know it can be tricky to think up a project, and C can be a difficult language for that because (unlike say Javascript, where you can make webs... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Is there something "off" about the way we look? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 9:52 pm
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Replies: 25
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| I do think mental habits, emotions and emotional patterns are often reflected in the body (general body, posture, and facial tension).... e.g. think about how your shoulders get sore if you are nervous or tense. If you do that a lot (i.e. if being tense is a common emotional pattern for you), you de... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: weird reaction |
| mountainwizards |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 9:35 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,065
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| I can often tell if somebody else is (even mildly) autistic by seeing them walk around.... mind-body connection and all that, certain thought patterns reflected in certain uses of musculature, etc. But its something I've thought a lot about wrt to myself, so its something I'm particularly sensitive ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are low voices common for Aspie/Autistic women? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 7:21 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 8,097
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| Our speaking pitch is far from a simple biological thing, its very much culturally proscribed. For example, I notice that many women born in South East Asia (I grew up there) speak at a /much/ lower pitch than Americans with SE Asian ancestory. I suspect that owing to mass media, the culturally pros... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: people who pity us |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2017, 7:08 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 835
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| Agree, its especially hard because some of the stereotypes are less about us, and more about ways the modern world is messed up, ways that many NTs shrug and take for granted when maybe they shouldn't. But being angry probably won't help you out in the long run? :evil: They're probably just using th... |
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