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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What is your favorite song and favorite genre of music? |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2018, 10:41 am
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| My favorite song is Heart Of Sunrise, Close To The Edge, and Suppers Ready. They are all Progressive Rock. So Progressive Rock is my favorite genre of music. Fantastic stuff :) I don't know what my favourite song is, there are many. If I had to give one right now, I'd say Mad Man Moon (Genesis). Pr... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What is the importance of "coming out"? |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2018, 7:40 am
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Replies: 13
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| I think it's purely a personal choice and depends a lot on personality. Some aspies like to tell plenty of people because they just enjoy feeling like they have some extra attention, or it makes them look special or whatever, but that's not specific to autism. I've been working with people who would... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Review of Story and Characters in "Atypical" |
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Posted: 30 May 2018, 2:17 pm
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| Thanks for the review. I couldn't believe it when I discovered the show. It was quite accurate. Then I started getting more and more annoyed about how the autistic traits were so "in your face" and some characters were annoying. Still I enjoyed the show. But I'm not gonna say it's a great ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Diagnosis and disclosure story in The Express |
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Posted: 30 May 2018, 1:09 pm
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Thank you for posting this.
I got diagnosed at 37 so I can relate, though I'm nowhere near having kids  |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How Can Anyone "Be Proud" of being autistic? |
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Posted: 30 May 2018, 1:04 pm
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Replies: 201
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| By all means, be proud when you achieve something that is difficult, when you push your own boundaries, when you don't give up in the face of adversity. Hell yes. BUT being proud of something you have no control over... like being born in a specific country, or with a mental condition or the lack th... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Accidental autistic characters |
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Posted: 30 May 2018, 12:56 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,542
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| The bearded guy in The Hangover, though it might not be accidental... He's got loads of other issues though. He's not allowed anywhere near a school from what I remember they say about him in the first movie. And he's taking ADHD meds. The writers probably gave him a few conditions that they thought... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Lonely frustrated female with autism |
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Posted: 10 May 2018, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 33
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magicrabbit wrote: After hearing from my dentist how more germs are in our mouths than in our butts (...)
Maybe.
But one thing I can say for sure, it doesn't taste the same. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Should i tell my shrink i am autistic |
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Posted: 10 May 2018, 3:04 pm
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Replies: 108
Views: 2,249
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PS. Anyone has the key to the thread so we can close it for good?  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Should i tell my shrink i am autistic |
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Posted: 10 May 2018, 2:52 pm
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Replies: 108
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| It's incredible how US people are keen on diagnosis. What the hell, it's only a label on the box, you don't NEED it. I'm not in the US, I'm European ;) You might not need a diagnosis for yourself (some people do and that's OKAY, you have no right to criticise this), but it sounds wrong to say to pe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Should i tell my shrink i am autistic |
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Posted: 10 May 2018, 2:46 pm
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Replies: 108
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| I do want adapted help, I have already made a list of my problems for her (obviously all autism-related). Maybe it is good to tell her I am sure I have autism. Otherwise, we will stand together speaking about the elephant all the time but never naming the elephant. So weird. Good ;) So the nuanced ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Should i tell my shrink i am autistic |
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Posted: 09 May 2018, 4:21 pm
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Replies: 108
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| Arganger, i wonder the reasons. Getting a diagnosis may be harming? Eugenics? or kind of racism towards autism? If this is likely to happen, I would better not tell her... I am however sure that this would help my psychologist to gain time, because i am not speaking a lot and pretending to be norma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How often do you divulge to people that you are disabled? |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2017, 11:56 am
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Replies: 17
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| So far I've only told 4 people I had Aspergers (which I don't see as a disability). Funnily enough I'm in customer service too. There's a few people in my team that I suspect are on the spectrum. At least one of them is quite obvious, but there are some others who are more subtle and might not even ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How have you experienced adulthood? |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 6:23 pm
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| 1. Romance 2. Marriage 3. Children 4. Career 5. Home Ownership 6. Friends 1. I'm nowhere. Had a few short-lived relationships, never worked. but I could do with the company. 2. Don't know about that. Probably never. 3. I wish I could but I don't think I could handle it. I'd love to, though. 4. Nope... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you deal with people who don't believe you? |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 6:01 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Diagnosed at 37, I've told extremely few people so far, so that I don't have to deal with "non-believers". So far I've only told my mom, and two close friends. My dad, brother and sisters have no idea. My housemates don't know either. And I'll never say anything at work, unless there's an ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you smarter than the average nt? |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 1:38 pm
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Replies: 73
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| My grandmother keeps telling me I must have been a child prodigy in some way (very advanced for my age with numbers and language, when I was around 4). And that would be why I was bored as hell at school. Turned out I was just an Aspie with ADHD. Oh yeah, at work I'm better than most at solving prob... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you also have alexithymia? |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 1:23 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,898
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| I'm super lost when it comes to understanding feelings and emotions, even though I have plenty in me. The "funny" thing here is that I learnt about alexithymia a few months before I discovered I had Aspergers. I was reading about brain injury (I had a very bad accident when I was 3) and th... |
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