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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Teach me about your special interest(s) |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 4:20 am
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Replies: 23
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Dear_one wrote:
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Teach me about your special interest(s) |
| shyteddy |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019, 2:38 am
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Replies: 23
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| Hi there. The title is pretty self-explanatory: I'd like to know all about your special interest(s). Tell me why you enjoy the things you enjoy, what about them strikes you as interesting, what should I know if I want to appreciate them as well, are they ordinary or eccentric, how devoted are you to... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: I experience a strange emotion that no other human being has |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2018, 5:46 am
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Replies: 2
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| I'm disappointed this thread hasn't received a single reply, not even a firm denial or indication that anybody read or was intrigued thereby. I'll reply to give it another chance at the top for a little, in the event it was glossed over. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: I experience a strange emotion that no other human being has |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018, 10:53 am
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Replies: 2
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| ...or at least, that's what I'm lead to believe, based on experience. Nobody else has ever shared a description of a feeling even remotely similar to it, and all my years of reading on psychology and studying the machinations of the human mind I've never come across anything similar. I'll describe i... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Biological Sex is a Social Construct |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 5:22 am
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Replies: 22
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| It's a person with XY chromosomes who don't respond to the appropriate male hormones and instead develop female secondary sex characteristics. They're usually presumed to be female until a failure to start their period reveals their condition. HUH?! I have an 'XY' combination in my 23rd pair, and I... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Biological Sex is a Social Construct |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2018, 4:21 am
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Replies: 22
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| Yes I know the title sounds like post-modernist drivel, and it seems I have a hard point to try and sell you. Nonetheless while others here are musing on whether gender is a societal construct, I figured I should ramp it up a notch by explaining how sex is also a construct. I'm not a madman, just b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I feel no connection to other Aspies |
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Posted: 13 May 2018, 5:29 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Much ado about nothing. Half of what you're saying are statements like this. "I never get anything out of WP, never mind the fact that I never put anything IN to WP to earn getting anything out of it...boo friggin hoo.". The other half are complaints about how shocked you were to learn th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I feel no connection to other Aspies |
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Posted: 12 May 2018, 3:32 pm
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Replies: 20
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| I’ve encountered challenges when seeking out a compatriot with my proclivities that resulted in counterproductive communication I’d be a liar if I said otherwise. I’d also be dishonest if I said it doesn’t get difficult even demanding. However, given the breath of a moment of internal disease as op... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I feel no connection to other Aspies |
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Posted: 12 May 2018, 1:45 pm
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| What was the position you espoused? I promise: I won't "eat you alive." Well, believe it or not, you were one of the responders. Your response wasn't hostile but it was pessimistic, although you mentioned it was "well written" and you'd shake my hand. I don't blame you for not r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I feel no connection to other Aspies |
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Posted: 12 May 2018, 12:46 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Continually, I believe that the colloquial term would be ‘rare bird’. At least that has been the common theme among others I have discussed this issue within my immediate circle. Most people aren’t open minded even though they believe themselves to be, most don’t engage in logic, most don’t want to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I feel no connection to other Aspies |
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Posted: 12 May 2018, 2:26 am
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| Even though many push for an "autistic identity" and solidarity as Aspies facing a world that is not accommodating to us, noble as it may be, I feel neither a sense of unity nor belonging among other Aspies any more than I do Neurotypicals, simply as a virtue of us being autistic. Maybe it... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Where should an absolute beginner get started with Art? |
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Posted: 08 May 2018, 2:25 am
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| I've never picked up a paintbrush or drawn anything more complex than a naked stick figure. Nonetheless, of all the skills man can cultivate under heaven there's none I desire more firmly to emanate than to put my imagination to canvas - and be able to draw, paint, or sketch my ideas with a degree o... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Who else hates the phrase "What's up?"? |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 2:32 am
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| Ranting ahead, fair warning. God how I utterly despise that inquiry, it makes my blood boil with indignation and racks my mind with confusion. It's as sardonic and obnoxious as it is confusing and irrational. After 19 years of being alive I have yet to find a proper reply thereto and I don't believe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone not have a 'special interest'? |
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Posted: 12 May 2017, 7:30 am
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Replies: 21
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| I have intense interests but no special interest. When something catches my attention I will hyperfocus, obsess and talk about it (for any amount of time from minutes to months or even years) till I solve the problem/know all there is to know about it/get pissed off by it/get pissed by people expec... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do we hate ourselves? |
| shyteddy |
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Posted: 05 May 2017, 6:49 am
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Replies: 34
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CockneyRebel wrote: I love myself and I enjoy celebrating my autism. I don't hate myself at all. I'm sorry that you feel the way that you do. I'd rather get out there and have fun than sit around at home, feeling sorry for myself.
I didn't say I hated myself, I addressed my comment to those who did. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do we hate ourselves? |
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Posted: 04 May 2017, 5:40 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Traits of Asperger's is not the same as actually having Asperger's. I... think you're just nitpicking there. That's like me saying "Having psychotic breakdowns does not actually make you psychotic..." Well that might be true incidentally but a majority of the time it's a pretty good indic... |
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