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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why do people hate talking to me? |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2015, 9:17 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Learning to interact socially with NTs is important, I agree. It takes a lot of practice and concerted effort, and a key to leaning to enter conversations and engage in group settings, in my experience, is to understand the role that nonverbal cues play in NT social interactions. We tend to not only... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What message do we give off? |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2012, 4:54 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 4,701
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| The weird thing is , I have the intellect to understand almost every situation, I just can't do it in real time. The speed of processing just insn't there. I can relate to the inability to process all the social signals in real time. I kind of think this relates directly to our inability to process... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anybody else annoyed by "Bless you"? |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2012, 3:48 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 10,765
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| I find it silly and don't say it myself. I do recoil at the word "bless". I find the whole superstition repugnant, that some supernatural force "blesses" some while apparently "cursing" others (the poor of the third world, maybe?) I prefer gesundheit (innocuous - "to your health") or better yet, no ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you able to withstand loneliness? |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2012, 3:38 am
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Replies: 74
Views: 8,787
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| I'm always most lonely when I am surrounded by others. Odd, yes, but it makes sense. I can relate perfectly well on the phone, exceptionally well even. That is because the phone is a strictly verbal medium, no non-verbal cues require. But with others, in small groups even, I am the odd man out no ma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does crying over empathy mean I don't have AS? |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 2:41 am
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Replies: 47
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| I notice that I have more empathy for some people/characters on TV than people in real life. I find that a bit odd. :? Me too. Very odd. I have noticed this too and have given it a fair amount of thought. I think the reason we often feel more for fictional characters is that their emotional states ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspies and society |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 2:20 am
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Replies: 29
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| NTs can be diverse but their "normal brain functions" allow them to adapt to the society they created whenever they want too. When I decided to be "normal" I suddenly became the awkward kid nobody wanted to deal with or approach. The only way I could be social-able was in an annoying way that would... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Already booked my cruise. Now feeling apprehensive. |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2012, 1:08 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I would say you are definitely overthinking it, but then I know I would be overthinking it in my own obsessive way if I were the one planning the trip. Heck, the fact that you are even considering going into the clubs alone makes you quite a bit braver than me. But aside from the clubs, I'm sure you... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: NY Times Article: "I had Asperger's Syndrome. Briefly.& |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2012, 8:32 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Yes, what a poor quality op-ed to publish in the NYT. And they published it in tandem with another editorial piece entitled "Over Diagnosis". Hard not to see an agenda at work here. An agenda, I would guess, driven by the common perception of over diagnosis combined with the budget-slashing mania th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is autism just extreme nerdiness? |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012, 7:42 am
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Replies: 45
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| Yeah, I believe this whole "autism/Aspergers is just a form of nerdiness" is really just more bluster from simplistic thinkers who refuse to accept that the world is more complex than they would like it to be. Some just want everything to be black and white, good and bad. Those who work hard succeed... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I can pass as NT if I get vitamin D. |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012, 7:03 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 3,309
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| All I know is too much vitamin D taken as a supplement can shorten your lifespan. Could you elaborate on this? I can find nothing relevant via google. I think it's possibile she is be referring to taking multivitamins. There have been some weak correlations found in observational studies between ta... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Socializing is so frustrating! |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012, 6:31 am
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Replies: 5
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| Yeah, you are definitely not alone, I have experienced the same types of frustrations with socializing. One thing I would say is that it's hard in general when you first meet somebody you are interested in romantically, then for whatever reason it doesn't work, and THEN you decide you are open to ju... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I can pass as NT if I get vitamin D. |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012, 6:08 am
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| Everything I read talks about reclassifying Vitamin D, because lumping it in with the other vitamins gives a false impression of how freaking vital it is to almost every process, and, conversely, how sick one might get with a serious-enough deficiency. This seems to be true (vitamin d is technicall... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: First Post: Can anyone relate to this? |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 6:05 pm
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| Hi baaaark, Pretty much everything you have written rings true to my experience. And I do believe it all fits well into the profile of somebody with AS. As mar00 wrote, there are more elements to an Aspergers diagnosis than those that you have described so far, so you might want to investigate a bit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What do you do if you feel like you are being left out? |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 3:02 am
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Replies: 13
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infinitenull wrote: I sometimes wonder if they are aware of that skill, or if it comes naturally lol
Believe it or not, I think many of them are aware of it. And I bet most actually have to learn it... except for a few social savants... and some psychopaths  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sense of humor = theory of mind |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 2:46 am
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Replies: 27
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| Oh, and I got so wrapped up in my diatribe on Theory of Mind that I forgot to add that I'm not entirely sure why people are so quick to judge us on "how autistic" we are or aren't. If I had to guess, it has something to do with them trying to determine how free they are to criticize us for our eccen... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sense of humor = theory of mind |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 2:32 am
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Replies: 27
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| From everything I have experienced and read, I've come to conclude that whole notion of aspies lacking "theory of mind" is really a load of rubbish foisted on us by Simon Baron-Cohen and fellow researchers who focus solely on specific sets of attributes (like difficulty with cognitive empathy) rathe... |
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