| Author |
Message |
Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism fundraiser - go or not go? Please advise. |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 09 Sep 2010, 2:27 pm
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 1,674
|
| Here’s a weird one. I’m posting it in two forums – General for advice and political for same…My fiancée wants me to go to an autism fundraiser concert. I don’t want to go at all. I have been to two autism fundraisers – one a dinner theater, the other a motorcycle bike night (and I am a bike junkie a... |
|
 |
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Need advice - autism fundraiser her, go or not go??? |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 09 Sep 2010, 2:18 pm
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 1,212
|
| Here’s a weird one. I’m posting it in two forums – General for advice and political for same…My fiancée wants me to go to an autism fundraiser concert. I don’t want to go at all. I have been to two autism fundraisers – one a dinner theater, the other a motorcycle bike night (and I am a bike junkie a... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Going on first international trip - HELP! Terrified. |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 12:49 am
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 1,006
|
| First leg - Asheville, NC to Tampa, FL, 2nd leg cruise ship. Please offer ALL thoughts, dealing with security, crowds, packing, dining, potty breaks, Aspie awareness clothes, seasickness, anything at all. Scared, confused, thinking of cancelling - but excited too. Sound off please, nothing too stupi... |
|
|
Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I do not understand people - again. :( |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 21 Dec 2009, 6:30 pm
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 1,419
|
| FIRST _ to all of those who helped me with my relationship issue, thanks!! ! I am in a much better place now. But a new social question for you …I recently befriended a woman who is a member of what Kurt Vonnegut would call a grandfaloon. A group that exists only in the loosest terms and only for th... |
|
|
Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Ever feel left out by your "friends" ??? |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 21 Dec 2009, 6:29 pm
|
|
Replies: 32
Views: 11,441
|
| This happens to me all the time, too. I suspect that the NTs really don't get us and just side step the issue rather than dealing with us. The ones I hate are the ones that flatter me, talk nice to me, and tell me how wonderful I am to my face and then disappear or avoid me the rest of the time. Or ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wow! I published my book! |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 3:50 pm
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 1,630
|
| I wanted to take a moment to answer some of the people who congratulated me on my new book and to answer the questions I remember – and I will happily answer more but be patient because time is something I do not have a lot of… Oh, and I am in Western North Carolina and my publisher is James A. Rock... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wow! I published my book! |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 10:11 pm
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 1,630
|
| I had this posted at random discussion and was told I needed to post it here...so here tis. That’s right, my book Who Better To Play the Devil?, a collection of short stories will go on sale at bookstores everywhere and at Amazon and Barnes and Noble online by Christmas. I am so excited! I've sold i... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: WOW! I JUST PUBLISHED MY BOOK! |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 10:04 pm
|
|
Replies: 16
Views: 1,780
|
| Appreciate it. Tallyman - they are dark fantasy, cyberpunk and horror. One of my online fans calls the "Stephen King nuggets" :D Pakled - oh, man, yup - the public speaking stuff and the signings, the author photo and the radio interview with the local public station are all on the calender and all ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Advise please... |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 9:58 pm
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 1,311
|
my rent is $400 a month
My disability is $400 a month |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Musical instruments?.........play any? |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 4:05 pm
|
|
Replies: 32
Views: 3,017
|
| That Ibanez is a sweet axe. And Victor Wooten, wow! Flea is out of my league right now. I play jazz standards mostly but I also subscribe to Bass Player magizine and try to learn the riff of the month - oddly enough that includes Wooten's Palmystery and some Esperanza Spalding (she plays upright, bu... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Advise please... |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 3:49 pm
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 1,311
|
| Help needed times three… Does anyone have advice on any of the following… Going to the dentist? I usually get to scared or have to be tranked. Other options? Personal space? My fiancé says I take up to much room but the truth is I don’t actually have a room of my own. Any tips for sane sharing? Disa... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: WOW! I JUST PUBLISHED MY BOOK! |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 3:44 pm
|
|
Replies: 16
Views: 1,780
|
| That’s right, my book Who Better To Play the Devil?, a collection of short stories will go on sale at bookstores everywhere and at Amazon and Barnes and Noble online by Christmas. I am so excited! I've sold individual shorts or essays before but this is the big time. I have also arranged with my pub... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Musical instruments?.........play any? |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 3:40 pm
|
|
Replies: 32
Views: 3,017
|
| Yup. French horn, trumpet and bass guitar. My bass is a Rogue 4 string and I use a Peavey 112 amp. I play classical on the horns and jazz and funk on the ax. |
|
|
Forum: The Haven Topic: At its worst, what was your depression like? |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 06 Sep 2007, 8:18 pm
|
|
Replies: 12
Views: 2,428
|
| At it's worst, my depression actually led to a suicide attempt. I've been officially dead. I don't recommend it. After that, treatment finally got serious with doctors, therapists and so seeming to finally awaken to the fact that I really was that low. I just deeply regret it ever went so far. On he... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do your parents "get" you? |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 06 Sep 2007, 8:14 pm
|
|
Replies: 17
Views: 1,992
|
| My parents disowned me. I grew up in the home of two very good friends and I consider them my family now. I am now thirty and engaged, so my current frustration is that my boyfriend/fiancee rarely gets me. Despite a lot of joint counseling sessions and so forth. I'm not sure what if anything can be ... |
|
|
Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Do you want to subscribe/contribute to an AS magizine |
| samizat |
|
Posted: 06 Sep 2007, 8:09 pm
|
|
Replies: 14
Views: 1,819
|
| Whilst I am not a professional editor, I have a little experience. My "straight" job is as a researcher and archivalist so I know a little about organization - and I guess the biggie is that I "published" an actual physical "intellectual elitist" magazine in high school and college and served as it'... |
|
|
| Sort by: |
