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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I think my marriage might be coming to an end. |
| LankyBrit |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2011, 11:02 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I was diagnosed Aspie a month ago, although I've known something was wrong with me ever since I can remember. My son is also Aspie, and together we've put one hell of a strain on my marriage. Finding out what was wrong with me took a weight off of my shoulders, and I let my guard down and stopped pl... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can a guy catch a break here? |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 5:07 pm
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Replies: 6
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| My friends too live very far from where I live. At the moment my boyfriend is my best friend. Same here. Well, not exactly as I don't even know your boyfriend. However my wife IS my best friend :) She always has been right from the first time I met her, so much so that I don't even include her in m... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can a guy catch a break here? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 11:55 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I've found that one easy way to make friends is to participate in a social group like your local church choir, or by reaching out to people around you like the folks in your neighborhood/community or at work! I've had the church suggested to me by SO many people. The one problem with that is that I... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Anyone Interested to be my Online Friend? |
| LankyBrit |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 9:52 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,132
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| I'm always up for a good online chat, so feel free to PM me. Brit here that fled blighty eleven years ago and now lives in Chicago, USA. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can a guy catch a break here? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 9:02 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I moved to the US from England eleven years ago. In all that time I managed to make one friend. You know, the friend that you feel truly comfortable with, that for some unfathomable reason you don't feel the social paralysis with, that one friend that doesn't mind the silences in the conversation, a... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: My story |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 8:56 pm
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Replies: 16
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| A lot has gotten better, but still a challenge trying to figure out what triggers out son to go into a bad mood. From all this new infomation I have seen in myself that I fit several of these traits of being an aspie. Now I am confilicted about how I should change my life, help my son, repair my ma... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What do you think of bars, night clubs, and drinking? |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 12:26 am
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Replies: 89
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Bataar wrote: jackshephard wrote: Not my idea of fun. I do enjoy sipping whiskey at home though. Amen
Used to love a nice Oban, but it doesn't mix well with my current medication. *sigh* |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What do you think of bars, night clubs, and drinking? |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 12:37 pm
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Replies: 89
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| P.S. Funny story - first time I ever went to a club (and I'm talking back in the 80's here) I had my bum pinched by a girl I was walking past. Had absolutely not one single idea what my response to that should have been, so just kept on walking. What were your thoughts on that at the time? A mixtur... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Describe your sense of humor |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 12:03 pm
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Replies: 18
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| I'M COVERED IN BEES!! ! lol - I love that sketch. "My father was a beekeeper before me, his father was a beekeeper before him. I want to follow in their footsteps, which were like this: Aaaaa! Aaaaaaaaaa! I'm covered in bees!" Have you see the Madison Square Garden concert? Just came out on Netflix... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Describe your sense of humor |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 11:37 am
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Replies: 18
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| I'M COVERED IN BEES!! ! lol - I love that sketch. "My father was a beekeeper before me, his father was a beekeeper before him. I want to follow in their footsteps, which were like this: Aaaaa! Aaaaaaaaaa! I'm covered in bees!" Have you see the Madison Square Garden concert? Just came out on Netflix... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Describe your sense of humor |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 11:19 am
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Replies: 18
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| Self-deprecating, dry, sarcastic, and actually quite quick witted (which to me at least is odd, as I'm monstrously awkward in social situations apart from this one case.) My biggest problem is that I'm often laughing at something three-steps-ahead in the conversation or my chain of thought, and I ha... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What do you think of bars, night clubs, and drinking? |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 11:14 am
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Replies: 89
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| I can't stand bars/pubs/clubs - they embody everything that I have trouble processing. There's too much auditory and visual stimulation, not to mention crowds of people, which in sum means that my anxiety ramps up to extreme levels. The only way I have any hope of following what someone is saying is... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi , in Essex UK |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 10:19 am
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Replies: 7
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NT's certainly can be a mystifying bunch, that's for sure. Welcome to the group!
BTW - used to be based in Essex, UK myself. I've been based in Chicago, IL for the last eleven years though. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Skeptical... |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 10:14 am
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Replies: 14
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| Oh boy, now I'm second guessing myself as to whether that came across as funnily as it sounded in my head. For the record, that was meant to be ironic and cheeky, not insulting in any way. Isn't having absolutely no idea of what's socially acceptable, or how any given statement will be read fun? It... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Lots of newness. |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2011, 9:48 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,726
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Skeptical... |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2011, 9:27 pm
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Replies: 14
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| 40 years of practising... This is just great...an aspie community, so when I fail here and end up alone and depressed here too, than I am really _f_u_c_k_e_d_ I guess. Yeah, I guess that's technically correct, but maybe not the most auspicious way to get into this. What makes you believe you're des... |
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