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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Tips for aspie guys to get their first date |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2010, 12:04 pm
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| Everything in the original post is excellent, but there are a couple things I'd like to point out and that is HYGIENE!! ! There are many wonderful guys out there that are not being noticed by girls (even if they do all you've said) because of things like: greasy hair body odor green, gunky, seriousl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anger |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2010, 10:57 am
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Replies: 5
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| I like your description of "0-10 with nothing in between". I totally know what you mean! I feel mostly calm all the time and then I'll get mad and just *boom*... usually screaming. Sometimes I pound my hands on the table or something, in frustration. My oldest son does the same thing- I said to his ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Anyone from Travis County Texas? |
| monkeybutt |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2010, 5:23 pm
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Replies: 4
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Thanks Descartes, appreciate the response  |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Anyone from Travis County Texas? |
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Posted: 21 Jun 2010, 5:31 am
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| We are looking to move to Travis County (Austin, Texas) and are uncertain of what can be offered to our sons as far as education goes. Looking online doesn't help much, as the public schools typically describe themselves in amazing and wonderful ways without actually telling you anything, and, all t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self DX vs. real DX -a new perspective for me! |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2010, 5:48 am
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| Anyway, for many women the traits are less severe(not to mention how difficult it can be for an adult women to get a DX anyway. I'm sure if I waited until I have a nervous breakdown they'd gladly give me one but I really don't need to do that). I was more of a classic Aspie as a child but I don't t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hello new fascination: manga |
| monkeybutt |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2010, 9:15 am
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Replies: 1
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| It started out as "what on earth are my kids reading?" And so I read a bunch of comic books. Then I read the entire Watchmen series. And I discovered I had a lot easier time reading comics than I did watching television or even movies. Hey, I liked it even better than reading a regular book! And so ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Calling all anime/manga otaku! Do you have this problem? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2010, 9:08 am
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Replies: 11
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| Yup... I have the same problem. I'll be reading along and then suddenly can't figure out what is going on in the fight panels. I'll have to look at them for a while to figure out who was hitting who, or what happened in general. I think it's just there are so many lines I can't see the pattern (whic... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: male to female ASD ratio: 15 to 1??? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2010, 9:04 am
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Replies: 23
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| From what I understand, women get diagnosed less often because we usually manage to imitate others around us better and fit in more, so we get missed. Also women tend to be more empathetic than men (just from physiology) and therefore that particular Aspie trait (of being non-sympathetic or non-unde... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Sociopath maybe? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2010, 5:53 am
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Replies: 7
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| Since sociopaths are supposed to have no empathy, and people with Aspergers tend to have low levels of empathy for other people, I can see where the idiot got confused. However, they don't use the term sociopath anymore, it's just plain psychopath now (look it up!). So if you have a good look at tha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Maybe not having Aspergers?? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2010, 5:36 am
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Replies: 12
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| Maybe perfectionism and OCD are just autistic traits. You can have autistic traits and still be NT, many people do. If you don't have a lot of other traits then maybe you are still NT. I feel like a lot of these seperate disorders are just autistic traits manifesting themselves in NTs. I don't thin... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: OMG! Dead Air! imustfillthisspacenowwithallmynervouschatter |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2010, 11:28 am
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Replies: 11
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| What Jamesongerbil said about the revealing info is what I think bothers me the most. I can spill out my entire life story, my thoughts on just about anything, and tell everyone all about myself in five minutes flat even though my brain is screaming for me to shut it. I'll have to try what Mgran sug... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Replacing an unwanted habit/fidget/stim |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2010, 5:35 am
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| if that is the case you can try picking at play doh or putty or hold a tangle (best place to get them is at officeplayground.com) in your hand. For the hair pulling you can find a doll and pull its hair out. I cracked up at the hair pulling suggestion. I like it. As for me, I'm a cuticle picker! I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is this just a ME thing, or..... ?? |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2010, 5:28 am
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| I grab stuff too. Yesterday when feeling freaked out in a group conversation I was holding an empty coffee cup before I finally just reached over and got my Tangle (and then I twiddled it under the table). When I don't have something to hold I end up sort of squeezing my fingers. I have this Tangle ... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: OMG! Dead Air! imustfillthisspacenowwithallmynervouschatter |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010, 3:24 pm
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Replies: 11
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| That sounds absolutely draining. I'd feel like I was in a truck wreck by the time I got out of a situation like that. When I run into people I know out shopping, I get that deer-in-headlights hysterical mutism and can barely speak. It definitely feels that way- I feel like an animal trapped somewhe... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: OMG! Dead Air! imustfillthisspacenowwithallmynervouschatter |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010, 2:14 pm
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| Anyone else feel an incessant urge to talk? I feel like an introvert with a forced extrovert side and it's malfunctioned. This is what happened: My husband and I went to the bookstore. I was about to make a beeline for the science/math/nerd section and he was aiming for graphic novels. Unfortunately... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self diagnoses = "fake AS?" |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010, 2:01 pm
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Replies: 72
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| I must point out I like your very thorough response to MotownDangerPants. I think I agree with just about everything you have said. Most likely, my reluctance to get properly diagnosed is that it would be used against me by mean stupid people. Then again, I guess that would just make them mean stupi... |
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