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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Inner dialogue |
| Elovic |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2008, 6:41 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,312
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| All the time. My inner world is much more real than the real one. I'm constantly talking, laughing, singing to myself. It's not all pleasant though but I can' switch it off. My father was the same, he'd have long arguments with himself, out loud, pacing back and forth. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: So... what's the dumbest thing you've said today? |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2008, 6:30 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,186
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| Yesterday when I was out walking I stopped in the street, squealed, pointed to a window and exclaimed merrily: "Toaster!" Then I saw that the crossing street light was green whereas I squealed again, pointed at the light and exclaimed merrily: "Green light!" and started running. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How is your eye contact? |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 11:37 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 4,910
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| Here's some input from your friendly, neighborhood troll. My kid used to have no eye contact at all. Zero. Zilch. However, that doesn't mean he wasn't comprehending what people were saying to him. Even with a lack of eye contact teachers were would say that sometimes he was making an effort to foll... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: is this wikihow article accurate? |
| Elovic |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 3:21 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,083
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| Doesn't these "rules" apply to trying to get in touch with anyone, not typically aspies? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How is your eye contact? |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 3:05 pm
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Replies: 44
Views: 4,910
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| I've been told I make very good eye contact. But I don't like it too much, only when I feel very comfortable or if I want attention from someone. For me looking someone in the eye really means something, but for most it doesn't. When I was little kinder garten teachers locked me into a room with the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Visual System in Autism |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 2:56 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,621
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| Well I can't drive, I can barely ride a bike, I can't catch balls or jump over things, I hardly see any movement or depth or size even on a good day. I always have to choose between being active - like talking, reacting etc - or passive and seeing. If I'm with a friend for instance I shut off most o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Knife and Fork Question |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 10:18 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,848
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| I eat like I'm left handed, and I'm quite clumsy. I always manage to turn the knife so it's upside down when it's time to use it for cutting. Chopsticks is completely impossible! I eat "European style", but like a lazy clumsy European! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Visual System in Autism |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 6:27 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,621
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| For me it's a lot like that, I've always had great problems with seeing and have had to teach myself to see through memory and systems. Still I have good days and bad days, and when I work too much I start loosing my eye sight, temporarily. For example if I draw too much I start losing all depth vis... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Our Bedrooms |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2008, 5:55 pm
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Replies: 41
Views: 4,176
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| http://www.bjornsbytare.se/pics/285904/6.jpg?1202388887 http://www.bjornsbytare.se/pics/285904/7.jpg?1202388963 These pictures where taken a while back ago, when it was so dark outside most of the day that I had to put up extra lamps to prevent my plants from dying. I've moved my stuff around a bit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Burial or cremation? |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2008, 5:37 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 3,904
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| I pick cremation so my family and relatives doesn't have to tend to a cemetery plot after I'm gone. We don't tend to our deceased family members graves anymore, and I hate thinking about them, all weedy and neglected and how the family members in question have paid for them to be seen to by stranger... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2008, 4:13 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,416
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| A friend of my once said that she'd only cry over minor things. When it came to the bigger things, like losing someone for example, it's like it's beyond tears, it's bigger than crying. And that's how I feel too. When I lost my father it took quite some time before I cried, but I never felt I wasn't... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your first memories of being "different"? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2008, 9:33 am
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Replies: 68
Views: 6,466
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| I remember standing when I was 5 years old and stare at the other children and wonder why I was so different, so I must have been aware of it by then. They all seemed so confident like they took everything for granted. I thought everything was scary and uncharted territory, I could take nothing for ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Guilt problem |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2008, 8:35 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,942
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| I have experienced similar things, well I still do, but I don't think about it a lot because I'm so used to it. It's more when something bad happens for example, that these bad thoughts surface. Well, in short I've always felt that I exist less, on a lower level, than everyone else. I know I was cer... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Introducing myself |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2007, 6:03 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,230
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Hi,
thanks for a warm welcome! I look forward to getting to know you all better!
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Introducing myself |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2007, 6:48 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,230
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| Hi, my name is Elovic and I'm 30. I have been diagnosed as having Asperger traits or some sort of "Asperger light", as I like to think of it. I've also been said to have ADHD. What complicates my diagnosis is that I have another handicap that where I live is so rare it doesn't have a proper name. I ... |
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