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24 Jun 2018, 8:10 pm

it is tough to live in the uncanny valley. :alien:



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24 Jun 2018, 8:25 pm

That should be our clan name. The Moderates of Uncanny Valley.


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24 Jun 2018, 8:26 pm

skibum wrote:
That should be our clan name. The Moderates of Uncanny Valley.

:hail: :wtg: :star:



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24 Jun 2018, 8:35 pm

:D


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24 Jun 2018, 9:07 pm

Moderate functioning here too. Ski you are so right that our needs go out the window.



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24 Jun 2018, 9:18 pm

We need to find ways that we can start to help each other. We had talked about creating our own crisis helpline awhile back. We should start to get creative about anything we can do to serve one another. Even small things can make a huge difference.


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24 Jun 2018, 9:21 pm

^^^mebbe an email chain?



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24 Jun 2018, 10:04 pm

I'm with you on this, Ski



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24 Jun 2018, 10:40 pm

Great idea, Ski



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24 Jun 2018, 11:54 pm

Some of my skills are not close to the same level which throws some professionals off...I still live with my mom and was barely able to complete mainstream high school (without special education or an aide).


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25 Jun 2018, 9:24 am

Yesterday, I went for a walk in the woods, treated myself to a take-away curry, and wrote a few hundred lines of computer code. I was high functioning. The day before, I sat in a beautiful garden having a lovely one-to-one conversation with a dear friend.
So I'm high functioning?

Today, I needed to get the bus to the shops and bank and to make a phone call to my social worker, and the groundsman of the golf course next to my home was using an incredibly loud hedge-trimmer. I became overwhelmed by the people and voices in the bank so had to skip most of the shopping to avoid a meltdown, got interrupted and talked over for most of the phone call and couldn't find the words for what I needed to say, and had to barricade myself against the noise outside my house and stim rather than preparing lunch.
So I'm low functioning?

I am not high, medium or low functioning. I am variable functioning; inconsistent functioning; contextual functioning; don't fit any over-simplified box-ticking for-the-convenience-of-others category functioning.


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25 Jun 2018, 9:43 am

Trogluddite wrote:
Yesterday, I went for a walk in the woods, treated myself to a take-away curry, and wrote a few hundred lines of computer code. I was high functioning. The day before, I sat in a beautiful garden having a lovely one-to-one conversation with a dear friend.
So I'm high functioning?

Today, I needed to get the bus to the shops and bank and to make a phone call to my social worker, and the groundsman of the golf course next to my home was using an incredibly loud hedge-trimmer. I became overwhelmed by the people and voices in the bank so had to skip most of the shopping to avoid a meltdown, got interrupted and talked over for most of the phone call and couldn't find the words for what I needed to say, and had to barricade myself against the noise outside my house and stim rather than preparing lunch.
So I'm low functioning?

I am not high, medium or low functioning. I am variable functioning; inconsistent functioning; contextual functioning; don't fit any over-simplified box-ticking for-the-convenience-of-others category functioning.
Yes to this


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25 Jun 2018, 10:49 am

To the guy in the UK, you are extremely relatable to many of us.

P.S. I'm an Anglophile....I love the way people in the UK live and talk.



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26 Jun 2018, 5:30 am

rowan_nichol wrote:
I dislike the lables because they both patholigise us.
Low Functioning : Excuse to write a person off as worthless
High Functioning : Excuse to ignore all the struggles a person may have had to be able to fucntion, ecuse to deny any reasonable adjustment and excuse for refusal of any support.


I too dislike these high and low labels that the world gives us because most people take these descriptions to the extreme on both ends and it doesn't do either of us any justice whatsoever.

Because I am high-functioning does not mean I don't need support and I don't have the incredible struggles that all Autistics have on a day-to-day basis. Nor does a low functioning person mean that they aren't capable of accomplishing anything of value in life.

In a world where people rarely take into account the so-called "gray areas" it is always the extremes the people pay attention to and these Autistic labels are just another example of that unfortunately.


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28 Jun 2018, 9:26 pm

skibum wrote:
We need to find ways that we can start to help each other...


I can help by donating money or teaching people how to trade stocks. Otherwise I am entirely useless. If I am called on to help people through their emotional pain then I will end up making them feel worse. I don't have a way with people.



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28 Jun 2018, 9:33 pm

Arevelion wrote:
skibum wrote:
We need to find ways that we can start to help each other...


I can help by donating money or teaching people how to trade stocks. Otherwise I am entirely useless. If I am called on to help people through their emotional pain then I will end up making them feel worse. I don't have a way with people.

for those of us who aren't bu$ted flat, the stock trading tips would come in handy.