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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is it normal to just not 'get' the social interaction connec |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2013, 5:31 am
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Replies: 12
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| Are you professionally diagnosed with AS? You certainly don't reason that way. Also, if you read carefully, you would have noticed that sarcasm is not something I understand very well. Why would you infer that I used it? Your reasoning appears fallacious. The use of inverted commas indicates the imp... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Bipolar Disorder and Intelligence |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2013, 4:53 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 13,644
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| Even people with ADHD have varying result with these tests. I'm surprised that certain countries still insist on students sitting them and that scores are requested when applying for tertiary level studies. Correct me if I'm wrong, but all those tests focus on verbal and non-verbal strengths. What a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Small talk: why people engage in it? And why? |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2013, 4:39 am
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Replies: 18
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| Thank you all for the replies, and no, this is the correct forum. Awesomelyglorious, I do appreciate your input into this topic. Thank you for discussing each point in-depth. Very AS. I have learned most of these things, so it's not a matter of not knowing. I just question the use and validity of it... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Small talk: why people engage in it? And why? |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2013, 12:10 am
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Replies: 18
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| Dear Wrong Planet Sages Small talk has always confused me. Why do people emgage in discussions about the weather when I live in the same country, same town, even same street as them and we are living through the same day? Yes, I know it's cold, hence the padded jacket... If it was another country, t... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is it normal to just not 'get' the social interaction connec |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 11 Jul 2013, 11:49 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Are you suggesting to learn from the 'real world'? Or is it sarcasm? And no, I'm not trying to be funny, I would like to know for certain. If you're serious: how do you suggest one can proceed to learn all these different social interactions from 'real world' society? Especially when one misreads bo... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Bipolar Disorder and Intelligence |
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Posted: 11 Jul 2013, 10:04 pm
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| Hi All Interesting discussion. As far as I know intelligence is difficult to measure accurately in people with disorders and mental ilness as you don't exactly know when that person is at their best and focussing properly. I have Schizoaffective and AS, yet when tested as a young child (unmedicated)... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is it normal to just not 'get' the social interaction connec |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 11 Jul 2013, 9:45 pm
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| Thank you everyone for the responses, helpful. Any suggestions on how to actually MAKE friends? Over the years I have notoriously somehow (I don't know how), scared them off. Also having a Mental Illness has added to the estrangement. I struggle making small talk and understanding many cliches. The ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is it normal to just not 'get' the social interaction connec |
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Posted: 11 Jul 2013, 3:49 am
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| For years I have struggled making friends and just coping with ordinary social situations. Afterward, and sometimes during the conversation, I feel nauseated, irritable and desperate for air. I'm not that young anymore and thought that with experience would come improvement but I'm practically a rec... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: So, I had a "schizophrenic" thought today... |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2012, 2:47 am
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Replies: 7
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| It's just a thought. You don't need to be concerned. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hello there |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2012, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Thank you guys for your replies. I have a Mental Illness as well so I do get meltdowns and anxiety is a huge problem for me. Especially around people. I find it very difficult to chit-chat and gossip as I've said before and I am incapable of keeping a secret. It always comes out. Many times when peo... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hello there |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2012, 1:54 am
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| I have not formally been diagnosed with AS but I have always known that I have a struggle socially. It doesn't seem as if I fit in and I don't care for chit-chat or gossip. I find talking about people the most boring subject on earth. Another thing is that no matter how hard I try to fit in, it neve... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Misdiagnosis |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2012, 3:30 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Thank you for your many replies. I have found that the specialists ask only certain questions and when you answer them in a certain way they think they've ticked all the boxes and they give you a diagnosis that has nothing to do with what is actually going on. I do know a lot about psychology as my ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Misdiagnosis |
| LIzelle |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2012, 3:11 am
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Replies: 12
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| Three times I have been misdiagnosed now and I'm getting a bit tired of professionals slamming all sorts of labels on me, while my children have been correctly diagnosed. They pay no attention to what I tell them and they have not spoken to my husband to find out what I am like. I have often found t... |
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