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PeteMaguire

Post subject: Re: Humor in Autism...

Posted: 11 Jan 2017, 3:50 am

Replies: 20
Views: 1,386

For most of my life, AS just wasn't an available diagnosis. Our only hope was to avoid a misdiagnosis. I remember one interview where I saw the guy starting to make up his mind, so I changed my personality to confuse him and avoid getting drugged. No professional wants to discover a condition they ...

PeteMaguire

Post subject: Re: Humor in Autism...

Posted: 11 Jan 2017, 3:22 am

Replies: 20
Views: 1,386

This is a very touchy subject for some people. Many people on the spectrum were bullied in school. Children and adults laughed AT me and my social blunders. I did not think it was funny. I was confused, frustrated and overwhelmed. Why was it acceptable to laugh at my disability but not laugh when a...

PeteMaguire

Post subject: Re: Humor in Autism...

Posted: 10 Jan 2017, 3:41 am

Replies: 20
Views: 1,386

Thanks for replies. I don't mind what form they take, even if it is go away. There is part of me that feels like a journalist who is sticking a microphone in a soldiers face after a conflict: "So how did the battle go, son? How was the killing, did you find it brought up emotions for you?"...

PeteMaguire

Post subject: Humor in Autism...

Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 6:31 pm

Replies: 4
Views: 993

Hi, I am an Individual Needs Assistant in the UK who works 1-1 with a 5 year old boy with autism in a mainstream school and part time 1-1 with a 3 year old boy with autism in the attached nursery. I have been doing this for a year. I started the job without any experience and without any particular ...

PeteMaguire

Post subject: Humor in Autism...

Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 6:06 pm

Replies: 20
Views: 1,386

Hi, I am an Individual Needs Assistant in the UK who works 1-1 with a 5 year old boy with autism in a mainstream school and part time 1-1 with a 3 year old boy with autism in the attached nursery. I have been doing this for a year. I started the job without any experience and without any particular ...

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