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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you be shy with aspergers or am I just shy? |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 7:53 pm
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| I've never seen any statistics, but my guess would be that a majority of Aspergers people are shy. One of the problems with shyness is that it isn't a medical diagnosis. It's just one of those things that you can't really define but we all know it when we see it. I believe we shouldn't get too hung ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sounds that make you cringe |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 6:40 pm
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Replies: 27
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The sound of any group of people talking, especially if they are behind a door.
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Not respecting authority - Aspie trait? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 6:35 pm
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| Yes, I think it's an NT thing - I think they have it in their genes because they started to develop tribal societies tens of thousands of years ago, while our kind remained in little independent hunter-gatherer families (among the few hunter-gatherer families left, it is well known that members spen... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you still believe in the Autistic Community & Culture |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 6:22 pm
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| Well, to me 'Autistic Community' is something of an oxymoron, since the core characteristic of Autism, according to some psychologists including Kanner and Asperger who coined the term Autism. is the desire to be alone. We're not good candidates for any community and I'm not surprised that only 8 pe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Extra senses |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 6:13 pm
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| I know exactly what you mean. I have a good sense of direction all my life and I suspect it's common in autistic people, at least high-functioning ones, probably because we have a good visual sense. Autistic kids outperform NTs on IQ tests that are visual rather than verbal based. Last spring I went... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old is Autism? |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2009, 8:12 pm
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Replies: 37
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| Actually, in anything in which I'm able to judge (like most of the sciences) I've found Wikipedia both accurate and pretty up to date. Wow - a soulless mass of flesh that should be smothered - I suppose they do treat autistic people better now. But I can't say it makes me feel better about how we're... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old is Autism? |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 7:27 pm
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| Yes, well I didn't mean that we didn't survive, or that autism was in some way lethal. I mean in the distant past the NTs were lethal to us, because they didn't like us. What is all this 'war on autism' stuff but a disguided continuation of that. While we may have once been the dominant human form (... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old is Autism? |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 7:15 pm
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| Yes, well I didn't mean that we didn't survive, or that autism was in some way lethal. I mean in the distant past the NTs were lethal to us, because they didn't like us. What is all this 'war on autism' stuff but a disguided continuation of that. While we may have once been the dominant human form (... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Baseball cards: Did other aspies do this too? |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 6:39 pm
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| Back in the late 1950s I collected Hockey cards (i'm Canadian), plus Wings (aircraft) plus Rails and Sails (trains and boats) - I was obsessed with them, spent hours examining them, and I wouldn't trade anything that wasn't a duplicate. But they disappeared somewhere along the way, and it hurts when... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old is Autism? |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 6:28 pm
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| I'm just getting back to this and I see it's produced a lot of interesting posts. Re IMForeman's idea that we (Homo Sapiens as a whole) might be evolving to a lower intelligence - I think that happened when collective tribalism appeared about 50,000 yrs ago (give or take a few) - specifically, I thi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is being fake a social skill? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 7:32 pm
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| It is absolutely a social skill, including all the other varieties of lying. I've lived and worked in the business world for more or less 40 years - it's a survival skill there, so if you intend to go there, be ready to learn. As DonkeyBuster says, it appears to be an instinct for the NTs - they do ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old is Autism? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 7:06 pm
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| I think autism is an evolutionary step from the distant past. The autistic animal behaviour scientist, Temple Grandin, argues that all, or at least most, mammals are hard wired for autism, that it is the basic mammalian mind set. So the early Hominids, 2-6 million years ago, were probably all autist... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Many People Here Are actually Autistic or have Aspergers |
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Posted: 08 Dec 2008, 8:46 pm
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| It depends on how you define autism, doesn't it? Psychologists still argue among themselves about what autism and Aspergers are, so I think we're free to define it broadly. The 'traditional sense of the word' (assuming you mean how the media approach it) is what we need to get away from. When the pu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your first memories of being "different"? |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2008, 8:37 pm
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Yes, I find this topic fascinating too. These are great stories.
Like EvilKimEvil I was confident until age 5 too. I really liked the world - trees, dogs & cats, birds, squirrels, insects, flowers, sky, clouds, rain, snow - I loved the world until I ran into people.
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your first memories of being "different"? |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 7:45 pm
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| Kindergarten for me too. That first morning waiting outside for the school to open, with pandemonium all around me - kids shouting, pushing, teasing, running around - i hid in a corner of the schools walls watching them & i think that was the first time I felt like i was on the wrong planet. Fif... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm having a hard time believing that I'm doing this. |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2008, 11:34 pm
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| That's a good question. I come here because i'm studying the 'autistic spectrum' - who and what we really are and where we come from. I get a lot of ideas here. I've written one novel (self-published) in which I've explored the subject & i'm in the middle of the second one. In their own way, I s... |
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