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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Made an appointment |
| Cassia |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 2:09 pm
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Replies: 9
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| I have my next appointment in the process on Monday. It's with the doctor who does neuropsych testing. The secretary who set up the appointment described it as an appointment to discuss symptoms and determine if tests are appropriate and if so, what tests should be done, and to let me know what to e... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Made an appointment |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 2:07 am
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Replies: 9
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| Your avatar is a platypus, you're an aspie in my book. :-) Why does that make me an aspie in your book? [I'm not in any book, I'm in my house! I'm too big to fit in a book! :-) ] (The platypus is actually a personal inside-reference to when I was first discussing the possibility of me being autisti... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Made an appointment |
| Cassia |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 1:19 am
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| I plan to. I'm not sure how long it will be before I actually get the specialist appointment - the disabled students office at my university which recommended him as the specialist to see said that his waits can be up to 6 months long. I'm trying to remember that I'm not looking for a diagnosis, I'm... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Made an appointment |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 10:44 pm
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Replies: 9
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| I wrote a long list of potentially relevant things, which the medical professional didn't want to look at because it was too long, but I think it was helpful anyways, because it provided me with something to look at to tell her about possibly relevant things, rather than me having to remember them o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone who didn't identify AS in themselves? |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 10:40 pm
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Replies: 32
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| In my last year of undergrad, I wondered if I had Asperger's, but I ended up dismissing the possibility. About 5 years later, I discovered that several friends thought I had Asperger's, completely independently of each other and without me ever having mentioned it to them, which made me actually con... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Made an appointment |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 8:47 pm
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Replies: 9
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| I made an appointment today with my regular medical professional to see about getting a referral to a specialist to get evaluated for something on the autism spectrum. I'm a bit worried that I won't be taken seriously, since I don't think it's particularly obvious about me. Also, I'm wondering how m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers isn't a disorder. |
| Cassia |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:17 am
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Replies: 86
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| There was a study in which language skills were evaluated for the whole spectrum, from non-verbal to people who spoke on time, and it was shown that there is an autistic linguistic style that is distinct from the typical linguistic style, and people who spoke on time did not speak neurotypically ei... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Question for NTs about how you think |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2012, 9:29 pm
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Replies: 219
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| I think largely with an internal monologue. However, back in my teens I became convinced that it makes no sense to say that thinking has to depend on language, or that thinking is just speaking in your mind, because in order to make a sentence, you have to have some idea of where the sentence is goi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Symptoms amplified by late-acquired neurological differences |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 3:49 pm
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Replies: 4
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: HFA, savantism. and the frustrating consequences. |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012, 10:43 am
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| I think Callista gave a good explanation of why these things happen. I wonder if you could use your musical memory as a trick to help you remember other things. Does your musical memory work for the words of songs, or only for melodies and harmonies? If it works for the words of songs, perhaps you c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Help, I'm running out of library! |
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Posted: 08 Dec 2011, 9:04 pm
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Replies: 17
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| This probably only meets some of your criteria, but there are lots of free audiobooks available through librivox at librivox.org. They make free public domain audiobooks by volunteer effort; reader quality varies widely (there are some great readers, and some not very good ones), and the fact that t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is a typical ASD grownup |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 9:25 am
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| Interesting. For most of them I'd put myself in the 75%-95% range, but one in the 50%-75% range. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Who doesn't play video games? |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2011, 2:34 pm
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Replies: 29
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| I don't. Well, I almost never do. A few months ago I played Katamari Damacy at a friend's place, and I think that was the first time I've played a video game in years. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How much IQ subscore scatter is typical for autistic people? |
| Cassia |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2011, 8:23 am
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Replies: 14
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Verdandi wrote: But as far as it goes, each question probably scores on more than one scale.
I guess that makes sense. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How much IQ subscore scatter is typical for autistic people? |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011, 11:30 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Hmm... that's a lot of subscales for a test with only 30 questions. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My AS is getting worse/vent/ question. |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2011, 10:18 pm
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Replies: 6
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| And before the friends came over I was told to turn the TV off, according to my family. Problem is that it took over 24 hours for me to figure out that the phrasing 'you can turn it off' was the same as 'turn it off'. They mean so differnt things to me. I didn't realize that they meant the same to ... |
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