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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does it take you time to know what you need to say? |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010, 12:39 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,132
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| Oh, big time. I usually pause for a long time while I'm trying to put my thoughts together. This annoys my wife to no end. This becomes even worse if we're having an argument. She'll say something, and while I'm trying to process what she's said and figure out my response, all she sees is a blank ex... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: ADAM - New movie about someone with asperger's |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2010, 4:05 pm
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Replies: 91
Views: 25,182
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| My wife and I rented Adam last weekend, and we were both a little bothered by the ending. I liked (and could relate to) the movie for the most part, but I found that Adam did a bit of explaining his behavior to the audience. My wife leaned over to me and said "a real Aspie wouldn't say that". As for... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: The Amazing Race |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2009, 8:58 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,042
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The teams just got announced for the new season of The Amazing Race and there's someone with Asperger's competing this year. I know who I'm rooting for already!
Read the team bio here. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone else here have this communication problem? |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2009, 12:07 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,394
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| This annoys my wife to no end. She finds the long pauses between the end of what she's said and me trying to figure what my I'm going to reply with extremely frustrating. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do You Tell Your Employer You Have AS? |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2009, 11:59 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,073
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| I didn't realize I had Asperger's when I applied for my current job, and am somewhat reluctant about revealing that information now (almost 3 years later). I'm worried about getting passed over for a job position because they won't think I'm capable of doing the work. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does Anyone Else Find Themselves Wasting Time? |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2009, 11:56 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,596
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| Yeah, I find myself doing this. I know I should be doing things around the house, but the chores tend to get pushed back in favor of being online (not really doing anything, either....just browsing) or watching a DVD. I know I'd be better off getting my work out of the way first and THEN relaxing an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you catch a ball or key-ring? |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2009, 11:50 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,864
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| Sometimes I can catch something that's thrown at me, but for the most part no. I'm just not all that coordinated about predicting where the ball (or keys) will end up. A couple of years ago there was a street juggler at the local art fair. He stopped me and said he could teach me to juggle on the sp... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ''Wow; I was a real social dunce back then.'' |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 9:07 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,724
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| There have been times when I've thought back on things that happened 20-25 years ago, and it suddenly dawns on me that a girl was trying to show she was interested in me. I don't pick up on subtle hints, so all of that was completely lost on me at the time. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Much Do Your Hands Shake? (If Any) |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 28,872
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| My hands pretty much always have a slight tremor to them. I first noticed it when I was about 14. Whenever people ask me to take a picture of them, I'm always worried about it being blurry from not having a steady hand. If my wife's with me, I usually get her to do it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sitcoms |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 8:51 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,597
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| I love sitcoms. Some favorites are The Office, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier, and Everybody Loves Raymond. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: What do other Aspies think of 2001: A Space Odyssey? |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 09 Jul 2009, 7:11 pm
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Replies: 55
Views: 7,748
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| It's one of my favorites. Why does there need to be a reason for HAL malfunctioning? Computers malfunction all the time for no apparent reason. HAL bragged about the fact that "no 9000 computer has ever made a mistake, they are fool-proof and incapable of error." Yet HAL clearly made a mistake and g... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and music obsession |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 129
Views: 50,013
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| Anyone else catagorize their cds in alphabetical order and in the year each album from a particular band was released? Yeah, my CDs are alphabetical by band (with each album by a single band arrangled chronologically). Various artist CDs and soundtracks are kept separate (also alphabetical). People... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Boxsets |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2009, 4:52 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,716
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| The Adventures of Indiana Jones The Alien Legacy Back to the Future The Brady Bunch seasons 1-5 Brazil (Criterion Collection 3 disc set) Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons 1-5 Christmas Television Favorites Essential Directors: Martin Scorsese E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Gift set The Fantasia Anthology... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: do you look like a popstar, celebrity, Actress or actor |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2009, 4:29 pm
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Replies: 96
Views: 20,644
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Laconvivencia wrote:
do you have a picture of yourself.
Not at the moment. Sorry. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Films |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2009, 4:21 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,950
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| I generally don't have a problem following films, and sometimes I'm able to put the pieces of the puzzle together before my wife does. What does trip me up sometimes is trying to keep straight how all of the different characters relate to each other. I'm also very bad at trying to put into words wha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Mainstream understanding of "lack of empathy" |
| eeyore19 |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2009, 12:40 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,671
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| I can sense when my wife's upset, but never really know what to do about it. I mean, I know to hug her and comfort her physically like that, but I'm pretty clueless as to what to say to her. There have been times when the standard "everything will be okay" response hasn't worked and just made her mo... |
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