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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you good at problem solving? |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2024, 5:17 am
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,295
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Technic1 wrote: What are some examples?
No, I give up far too easily. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Living with AuDHD (Autism and ADHD) |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2024, 5:16 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 439
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| I’ve lived with ADHD and autism all my life – this is what it’s like to have both Imagine having a brain that is at constant war with itself. Desperate to fit in, yet determined to escape social situations. Obsessively creating complex structures for stability, but just as predictably smashing them... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are all people with autism picky about food |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 02 Nov 2024, 3:00 am
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Replies: 86
Views: 104,757
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Sillylilgoober wrote: or is it a stereotype
Don't know, but I definitely have ARFID. As if life wasn't a pain in the neck already. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The Greetings Thread - Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! :) |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 29 Oct 2024, 6:10 pm
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Replies: 29,630
Views: 1,101,199
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you UNHAPPY today. |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 23 Oct 2024, 7:21 pm
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Replies: 33,224
Views: 1,219,604
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| Still suffering from the f*****g flu. And having to work anyway. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you UNHAPPY today. |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2024, 5:59 pm
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Replies: 33,224
Views: 1,219,604
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Got Anything Random To Say |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 11:33 pm
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Replies: 121,730
Views: 4,319,368
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| I don't have hobbies or interests. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: managing social skills is like fixing a boat at sea. |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 11:26 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 959
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bee33 wrote: I seem pretty good at it but man is it an exhausting juggling act.
Is it any wonder then, that us autists are exhausted all the time? |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: A simple question about being a genius |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 6:47 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 818
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firemonkey wrote: Can you be a genius if your executive functioning is significantly impaired?
I don't think so. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sleeping |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 6:47 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,804
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| Sleep is nice. Means we get to be unconscious for a while. Like a non-existence simulator. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: managing social skills is like fixing a boat at sea. |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 6:45 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 959
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| I feel like since discovering I am autistic I am constantly questioning my instincts, and trying to find a new way to look at the world perhaps through a more adapted Theory or Mind kind of gaze, but I am constantly bumping into things and refactoring old strategies and it's exhausting. Bleb. That'... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The Greetings Thread - Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! :) |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 6:44 pm
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Replies: 29,630
Views: 1,101,199
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| It's Sufferday mourning. Another pointless weekend of emptiness, self-loathing and ennui awaits. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The Greetings Thread - Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! :) |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2024, 7:52 pm
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Replies: 29,630
Views: 1,101,199
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Got Anything Random To Say |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2024, 5:51 pm
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Replies: 121,730
Views: 4,319,368
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| We're all doomed to want what we'll never have. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The Greetings Thread - Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! :) |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2024, 5:50 pm
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Replies: 29,630
Views: 1,101,199
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| Woenesday mourning, and many more such miserable mournings to drag ourselves through. Isn't life grand? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have comfort objects or places? |
| pokeystinker |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2024, 6:42 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,211
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| Do you have objects that comfort you, like maybe a stuffed animal or blanket, or even a favorite mug? Or comfort places, whether within your house like a favorite armchair or outside under a tree or by a lake? I really wish I did, but I find that inanimate objects don't bring me comfort because I a... |
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