| Author |
Message |
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sympathetic towards non-living things? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 15 Mar 2012, 1:58 am
|
|
Replies: 43
Views: 5,747
|
Pandora_Box wrote: Jory wrote: Animals > inanimate objects > people.
In general. There are always exceptions. lol same.
Same here too. |
|
 |
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: thumb sucking and blankies |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 15 Mar 2012, 1:10 am
|
|
Replies: 41
Views: 6,765
|
I never sucked my thumb, but I still have a blanket. It's not the original blanket I had when I was a baby, however I've had this one since I was around 5 years old. I'm almost 21 now.  |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else irritated by eating noises? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 15 Mar 2012, 1:02 am
|
|
Replies: 46
Views: 7,149
|
| I can't stand the combination of sounds that come with people chewing and breathing. It irritates me to no end, often to the point where I eat my meals alone. |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone have food issues? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 3:18 pm
|
|
Replies: 46
Views: 5,586
|
| I've got a lot of food things. My biggest one is that I don't like my food to touch. Yeah, I know it goes to the same place but I just don't like it touching. No one really seems to get that. I also tend to eat the same kinds of things for weeks on end for meals - with the exception being dinner bec... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Comforting things... |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 3:11 pm
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 3,236
|
| I do a lot of the same things other people do. I remove myself from a situation. I crawl into bed and under the blankets. I'll read a book and listen to music. Sometimes I find taking a shower or a bath to be really nice too. When I'm overwhelmed, I like to be alone. Sometimes, if I have the gas for... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have any out of the ordinary ailments? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 3:15 am
|
|
Replies: 53
Views: 5,435
|
| I wouldn't call his an ailment per say, but I have a skin condition called dermographism. Honestly, as far as skin conditions go, I think it's pretty cool. It's known as the "skin writing" disease. Basically, if I go and scratch an itch, I will break out into hives/welts in the pattern that I scratc... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Special Interests? (Or "Obsessions"?) |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 8:20 pm
|
|
Replies: 76
Views: 9,085
|
| I have a few interests but there are two that I divulge in more frequently than the others. They would be astronomy and North American birds. I also like rocket ships, Native American things (my grandfather was Cherokee), dinosaurs or anything 'ancient earth,' weather, earth sciences in general, roc... |
|
|
Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: What job do you have? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 2:06 pm
|
|
Replies: 41
Views: 6,966
|
| If you have a job, what is it? What do you do? Do you like it? If you don't have a job, what job would you like to have? I am an English tutor at my college. Basically, I do whatever the professor tells me to do which is usually help students with grammar questions or facilitating group discussions ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else have issues with reading out loud? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 1:57 pm
|
|
Replies: 24
Views: 26,726
|
| When I was in elementary school, we had to read out loud a lot. Back then, because we read out loud often, I did not have a problem with reading out loud. Now that I'm in college where I don't have to read out loud for class at all, I do find that I am slower about it than I was when I was a child. ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Things changing once you tell people about your condition? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 07 Mar 2012, 10:37 am
|
|
Replies: 12
Views: 2,590
|
| I think for me, the people who are in the "can you please not have this/be weird" category for me are my own family, which is why I haven't branched out and told them just yet. I would rather wait until I have a diagnosis in my hand, that way they cannot deny it. The people I consider to be acquaint... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think Online friends = Friends? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 07 Mar 2012, 2:01 am
|
|
Replies: 86
Views: 8,029
|
| I consider them to be friends if I've been talking to them for a certain length of time. I've been talking to some of my online friends since before I graduated high school which was well over 3 years ago now. We met on a RP site and, since we still talk every day even though that website has long s... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Things changing once you tell people about your condition? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 07 Mar 2012, 1:33 am
|
|
Replies: 12
Views: 2,590
|
| While I haven't been officially diagnosed yet, I do show a lot of the spectrum traits. One of those, is my inability to stand being touched or any physical contact, unless it's on my own terms which is rare. My whole life, people have used this against me in order to poke fun at me. Friends of mine ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you miss people? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 7:44 pm
|
|
Replies: 49
Views: 8,470
|
| Here I was thinking I was weird because I don't miss people - not even my best friend or my family. Like others, while I don't miss them, I get happy or excited whenever I see someone I haven't seen for a while. I know someone who starts getting really sad and missing someone when they haven't seen ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Finally approved for Social Security Disability |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 11:29 am
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 1,703
|
| Congratulations on getting your life back together! I'd like to know what you're studying too. |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you try to avoid confrontation? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 3:39 am
|
|
Replies: 48
Views: 7,519
|
| I avoid confrontation even if it's something I could win. For example, I was charged $10 from the bank for transferring money too many times out of my savings account. The money in my savings is for school, and since it was getting close to the beginning of the semester, I was constantly taking a li... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone ever relate to this...? |
| StarBird |
|
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 3:30 am
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 1,560
|
| I can see where you are coming from. For me, it was more that I saw adults could fix everything and were always good just like super heroes. Then, I got older and I learned that a lot of adults aren't as good as I used to think they were, nor can they fix everything for you. I think it's just a part... |
|
|
| Sort by: |
