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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media opportunity: Seeking sources |
| Amicitia |
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Posted: 08 Dec 2023, 8:12 pm
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Replies: 11
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| MatchboxVagabond - Nifty! Our readers are mostly interested in more low-key accessible outdoor recreation, but I sure would love to tell a story about how disabled people are capable of tackling true back-country experiences. IsabellaLinton - Definitely we can use pseudonyms. And I want to push on h... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Media opportunity: Seeking sources |
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Posted: 07 Dec 2023, 9:10 am
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Replies: 11
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| Hi everyone - wow I have not been here in a long time. I work for an environmental nonprofit that has its own magazine. I've been asked to write an article about disabled people doing outdoor recreation. Would anyone here be interested in sharing a story about what it's like to be autistic outdoors?... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Difficulties with professors |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2016, 6:24 pm
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Replies: 7
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| This seems like something you might be able to reframe in a different light, that would be easier for professors to accept. I've done a lot of thinking around this, actually. From a behavior change perspective, telling people why what they're doing is bad is often less effective than telling them w... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Difficulties with professors |
| Amicitia |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2016, 4:49 pm
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| Is this an actual academic department, with a chair, or is it an interdisciplinary program with a director (and so falls between the departmental cracks)? It is an interdisciplinary program. It has a chair, who is on my side, but has repeatedly declined to be my advisor because he is extremely busy... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Difficulties with professors |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2016, 3:06 pm
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| You would think so! The Environmental Studies program I'm in requires students to have an advisor when they apply. However, nothing prevents the advisor from quitting at a later point. The chair of the program (who knows me well and thinks I'm a great student) has said that the university is not res... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Difficulties with professors |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2016, 12:48 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Hello, friends. I haven't been here in years, but I could use some advice from a different perspective. Here's the general situation: I am a grad student in my fourth semester. I have completed all of the course requirements and written most of a thesis. I'm required to finish the thesis in order to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Leaving Telephone Messages---ughhh |
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Posted: 21 May 2009, 2:59 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I'm not sure whether your question is really about phones, or about following directions, but... for me the worst is when I don't know whether or not it will be a machine. I have to have a script for leaving a message, and a script for talking to someone, and keep both of them in my head, and then t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you consider AS a formal "disability"? |
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Posted: 21 May 2009, 1:17 pm
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Replies: 64
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| I'm bright, and know that I could have been earning a lot more money doing jobs I was really suited for, if only I didn't have AS. I admit to feeling somehow cheated. I feel cheated too, but not because of what I'm not receiving - because of what I'm not giving . I'm too smart to be sitting around,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you consider AS a formal "disability"? |
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Posted: 19 May 2009, 4:50 pm
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Replies: 64
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| I'm struggling a lot with this. There's hardly anything that I want to do, which AS categorically prevents me from doing. If there's nothing I can't do, then in what sense am I disabled? But if I'm not disabled, then why is everything so hard? :( I don't feel that my AS makes me unable to work. But ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS and sense of direction? |
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Posted: 19 May 2009, 4:14 pm
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Replies: 78
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| 3.5 - I'm female, AS, and have a mixed sense of direction. When I travel with other people (either on foot or in a car), I completely fail to pay attention and don't learn the route. When I travel alone, I'm fine, and know where I am in relation to other things. I'm able to picture places (on large ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Us or them |
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Posted: 19 May 2009, 3:54 pm
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Replies: 15
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| Everywhere I look I see us or them mentalities. How can we pretend these lines exist, in which everyone is clearly defined as one or another. You're exactly right. Everyone seeks to help "us" and exclude "them". It's a simple rule that dictates group behavior and drives history. Once my anthropolog... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 25 and I dunno what to do with my life: Aspie thinking? |
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Posted: 13 May 2009, 4:18 pm
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Replies: 6
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... Are you sure you're not me?
I wish I had answers to these questions. I'm not good enough at the things I love and I don't love enough the things I'm good at. This makes it very difficult to come up with a realistic career plan.
I hope somebody else replies to this... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Much Of A Hermit Are You? |
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 5:19 pm
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Replies: 116
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| I am also wondering where does a clinician draw the line between an autistic just being happy alone, and agoraphobia? I was diagnosed as agoraphobic when I was a teen. It never made sense to me. I just don't like loud places, and lots of noise. I guess I do fear sensory overload, but I don't fear b... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: No Love for Nerds |
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 3:47 pm
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Replies: 8
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This article says that nerds are not, in fact getting ahead. (Allegedly, having three friends is more valuable than going to college.)
Also, an Onion video: The Today Now hosts are confused about the difference between giftedness and autism.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being a Well-Rounded Individual. |
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Posted: 12 May 2009, 3:41 pm
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Replies: 36
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| Sorry to revive the topic, but... it happened again. Today I was talking to a job coach (whom I shall call #2) and he told me that my resume was pretty awful. In self-defense, I told him that the things he was complaining about, I did on the advice of another job coach (whom I shall call #1). #2 gav... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being a Well-Rounded Individual. |
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Posted: 08 May 2009, 2:17 pm
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Replies: 36
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| Yeah, I know. Some ridiculously high percentage of people actually admit to lying every day, and yet I go on assuming that people are honest. It just doesn't occur to me to think otherwise, until much later when it's both obvious and too late to do anything about it. It all seems really defeatist, i... |
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