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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Do you find "person first" language to be stupid? |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2019, 3:18 pm
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,848
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| Sometimes, I think that "person first" language is a smokescreen to distract people from more important matters, such as the lack of services. Not only could the effort spent in pushing for person first language be diverted toward services people actually need (such as home support, employ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: We Want To Help You Get A Job! |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2018, 10:15 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 887
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| Oh, one more question (sorry)! What is your funding model for services? Do you require that someone already has employment-related disability funding such as Ticket to Work or Vocational Rehabilitation? If someone doesn't have such a funding source (or has the "wrong" funding source), but ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: We Want To Help You Get A Job! |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2018, 9:54 am
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Replies: 15
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| That is what I feel makes us different. We do not hire people with autism into ONLY technology jobs. Yes, we do have those opportunities, but just because someone has autism, doesn't mean they want to sit behind a computer! We have been very successful with a manufacturing partner, for example. We ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What accommodations would NT's need to live in a ND world? |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2018, 9:23 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 773
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| In our world, we have a perennial debate on Autism "services" - vocational rehabilitation, ABA, sheltered workshops, special education, etc. If the situation was reversed, and NT's were a minority in a world primarily populated by neurodiverse people, what accommodations or services would ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Free housing in New Mexico |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2017, 9:58 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 633
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| Do you offer (or use by default) adapted or alternative hiring procedures? I (and many people on this site) can have lots of skills that we have difficulty expressing in a job interview in a manner that is acceptable to most employers. In other words, should I worry about spending five hours doing r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: IMHO the weirdest side of being on the ASD spectrum. |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2017, 11:36 am
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Replies: 25
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| The weirdest side of being on the ASD spectrum, is that our "cure" resides in people around us, that is, in being accepted by others. I know that saying this out loud sounds as self-pity. But, what is acceptance about? Isn't it about tolerating and supporting each individual? Are we sick,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Eight Pages of this Sewage! |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2017, 7:19 am
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Replies: 88
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| Pages of garbage again on GAD, 8:20am CDT. Surely time to prevent multiple postings by new "users"? Actually, just automatically banning users who include "91" in their subject line would solve most of the problem at the moment! Better yet, simply require moderator review for an... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Nurses with Aspergers, how do you cope? |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2017, 12:55 pm
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Replies: 50
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| I have been thinking about going to nursing school (I annihilated the TEAS entrance exam, math and reading FTW!). I do think (as someone above mentioned) that I might not be best in an environment changing minute-by-minute, so I have been thinking that a nursing home path would be much more ideal fo... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: National Telecommuting Institute |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2017, 12:30 pm
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Replies: 2
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| You may be encountering a perennial problem with so-called "Disabilities Jobs" - they are shockingly one-size-fits-all, or in reality, one-size-fits-most, one-size-fits-everybody-but-you, or one size-fits-the-stereotype-imposed-on-us-by-our-funding-source. Sure, those jobs may be great for... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does an Autism spectrum diagnosis expire or abate? |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2017, 1:52 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,313
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| ...Diagnoses like PDD-NOS are considered lifelong unless the diagnosis was mistaken based on new behaviors, characteristics and comorbids. Certain changes in diagnostic criteria might also affect a prior diagnosis. If your PDD-NOS was changed by another clinician, that usually means that you no lon... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does an Autism spectrum diagnosis expire or abate? |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2017, 4:49 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I recently discovered that I received a diagnosis of Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) in childhood, most likely around 1990 or so under the DSM-III-R. That diagnosis was soon "changed" by my doctor to ADHD, and I received an "adult" ADHD diagno... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Learning social skills in the manner of verbal language |
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Posted: 13 Dec 2016, 12:36 pm
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Replies: 0
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| Is there a social skills (or soft skills, or nonverbal language, or social cues, etc.) curriculum, study program, tutorial, course, or similar thing that is based on the pedagogy of learning verbal language or literacy? For example, this could involve studying body language by reading books, memoriz... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are AS people more likely to be conservative? |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016, 5:06 pm
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Replies: 41
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| Yeah, it's not black and white. Ironically I used to slightly sympathize with fascist or authoritarian policies, though this was a lot more theoretical and mentally-masturbatory than practical. I wonder if this could be due to a desire for structure. Many authoritarian systems seem to promise that ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: How has the Department of Rehabilitation helped you |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 3:55 pm
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Replies: 23
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| ...I sorta have an idea of the type of career/job I want to land (Social Media Manager). I wanted to know, how has the Department of Rehabilitation helped you to secure a stable job/career? What else can they do to help me out? If you read many of the other Department of Rehabilitation-related thre... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Having all the traits except having good social skills. |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2016, 8:23 am
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Replies: 9
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| Hi! Could you be more specific as to what you mean by "good social skills" and "struggle with very basic tasks"? How specifically do you know that you have "good social skills" if you don't have any friends? Did you score high on a "social skills" test? Did a ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Reasonable accomodations in job application: job try-out |
| RobertColumbia |
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Posted: 02 Nov 2016, 12:37 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I would guess that it only works IF you already have the functional skills to do the job they are hiring for rather than someone who needs some amount of in-house training. Many jobs take people they feel will "fit" and train them in how THEY want the job done. Thanks, and you may be righ... |
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