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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: My therapist thinks I can just learn social cues...

Reed
Posted: 09 May 2024, 2:58 am 

Replies: 44
Views: 9,432
We do have hard wired social responses. Or at least most humans do. No we don't. No such thing :wtg: Humans are not hardwired like that. Not even NTs. This is demonstrated extensively by the fact that feral children don't spontaneously manifest social skills once they're introduced to society, ethn...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: My therapist thinks I can just learn social cues...

Reed
Posted: 09 May 2024, 2:53 am 

Replies: 44
Views: 9,432
My doctor “prescribed” me the YouTube channel Charisma On Command. It hasn’t been helping me learn social skills because most of the content is presented as “hacks” and “tricks”. I’m not buying into it because it feels like I’ll be dishonest/inauthentic if I do. But maybe there is someone in this fo...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Charisma On Command YouTube channel

Reed
Posted: 09 May 2024, 2:39 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 5,847
A doctor prescribed/directed me to frequent the YouTube channel Charisma On Command. I believe he did so because he thought I might benefit from the information presented therein. Frankly, though, I’m not getting anything out of it. It seems like it should be helping me with social skills but I find...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: I have "The Doubt"

Reed
 Post subject: Re: I have "The Doubt"
Posted: 08 May 2024, 10:49 pm 

Replies: 5
Views: 789
Your use of the English language is amazing.

Some of us seek a formal diagnosis but some do not.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: I feel like I'm not being myself and this is exhausting.

Reed
Posted: 19 Dec 2018, 11:52 am 

Replies: 15
Views: 743
My whole life I tried to alter my every move to pass as nt and to fit in. I plan everything, I am not myself I can't just let it go and live my life as this is like a habit to me right now. When my planned move backfires it saddens me deeply. I don't know who I am anymore. I'm very obsessed with ev...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What do you think it takes to be happy?

Reed
Posted: 18 Dec 2018, 3:47 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 726
Many years ago I worked for a while on a Crisis Hotline. Over the years I talked with about 4,000 people regarding almost every possible problem you could imagine including about 400 who were attempting suicide at the time. After that rather educational experience, I attempted to put in writing som...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What do you think it takes to be happy?

Reed
Posted: 18 Dec 2018, 3:39 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 726
Many years ago I worked for a while on a Crisis Hotline. Over the years I talked with about 4,000 people regarding almost every possible problem you could imagine including about 400 who were attempting suicide at the time. After that rather educational experience, I attempted to put in writing som...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What do you think it takes to be happy?

Reed
Posted: 18 Dec 2018, 3:26 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 726
What do think is required to be happy? What does it take to be content? "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" outlines the physiological/ environmental/ sociobiological / psychological/ emotional/ mental/ spiritual/ social requirements for contentment and potentially optimized happiness in a fair...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: picking skin...?

Reed
 Post subject: Re: picking skin...?
Posted: 17 Dec 2018, 8:12 pm 

Replies: 20
Views: 4,187
I have gone through phases where I pick at my scalp to the point of creating scabs and then I'll pick at the scabs when they are solid enough to come off in large pieces. Very delightful. But then I get embarrassed when I realize that sometimes the locations have been picked at for so long the hair ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Do you ever feel like you're trapped inside yourself??

Reed
Posted: 17 Dec 2018, 7:08 pm 

Replies: 79
Views: 16,869
Why yes, yes I do
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