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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Aspieness, Truth-telling and Grad School in the Humanities |
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Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 4:56 pm
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Replies: 8
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| In the end, though, I am more interested in expanding my knowledge of the truth rather than expanding the argument-- I liked the way you put that. I'm not interested in playing power games; I usually lose those anyway. I think learning is fascinating, even if it's focused on some tiny detail that n... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Aspieness, Truth-telling and Grad School in the Humanities |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2009, 12:49 pm
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| I am wondering if there are any other Aspies out there struggling with grad school in the humanities. I realize that Aspies tend to be drawn to Science/Math/Engineering fields -- and so was I for a while. I'm a self-diagnosed female Aspie who got her undergrad degree in Computer Science back in the ... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Aspergers and Chronic Diverticulitis |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2009, 10:14 pm
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| Have anyone ever heard of a possible link between Aspergers and intestinal complaints, particularly chronic diverticulitis? I'm a self-diagnosed 45-year-old Aspie who is truly struggling with diverticulitis. My first attack (severe, w/o microperforation of colon) came when I was 37. The perplexed sp... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Stress before meetings |
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Posted: 04 Aug 2009, 10:42 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I'm not sure how practical this is (probably not at all), but here's what I did to get over my fears of/problems with public speaking when I was younger: I memorized everything I had to say, then I practiced while watching myself in a mirror. Then I imagined every possible question someone might ask... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is life easier in the big cities? |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 12:56 am
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Replies: 37
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| JPMoney, Here's an idea: Have you considered college towns like Ann Arbor, MI, Madison, WI, Gainesville, FL, Ames, IA, etc.? Very often in these kind of places you get the best of both worlds ... a relatively large open-minded, intellectual population + culture without all the problems of the big ci... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an Aspie? |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2009, 10:07 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,337
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| The specific disability that characterises aspergers is in real-time responsiveness, usually in reception of, and immediate response to non-verbal signals. I don't know if that helps your uncertainty, but - if you can effectively keep up with other people's feelings in the everyday social hurly-bur... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an Aspie? |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2009, 9:48 am
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| One of the things I found hard about the diagnosis was moving from a world view in which how I was was my model for how everyone else was to a different one - where nearly everyone else had access to an information source I'd never known anything about. Yeah ... a real feeling of sudden exclusion, ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an Aspie? |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2009, 11:35 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Oh yeah. I tried that Aspie quiz and got 130/200. It said that that score was in the Aspie range. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an Aspie? |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2009, 11:24 pm
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| I'm not formally diagnosed nor am I a doctor but you sure sound like you have AS to me. The meltdowns and sensitivity to sound are what are most obvious to me. Do you do anything that might be considered stimming. Like rocking, hand flapping, ect.? I'm not sure if hair-pulling and picking at my sca... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an Aspie? |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2009, 9:58 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Hi all, I'm a 45 year old woman. For years, my mother has been saying that she thinks I have mild Asperger's. More recently, however, a couple of other people have made a similar informal diagnosis. So, I went to check things out on line. I took all of Aspie tests I could find and scored within the ... |
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