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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism as a Disability |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2022, 2:19 pm
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Replies: 56
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| I'm disabled----but I am fortunate in being able to be independent. if I wasn't disabled, I would have been a professional person, rather than just a clerk. I'm 'independent' in the sense I live on my own. I do get a fair bit of support to maintain it though.Giving my step daughter 'power of attorn... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2022, 1:13 pm
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| ^ thank you, starrytigress. Also wow, just wow! Another one to add to the list is Rose Friedman. Everyone knows of Milton Friedman, but they wrote books together and from all that I have read it is she that deserves most of the credit for the ideas contained within! An intellectual powerhouse, to b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism as a Disability |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2022, 12:53 pm
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Replies: 56
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| I have explained this elsewhere before, but this kind of thinking is cognitive dissonance and doublethink, basically. You cannot claim to have special needs & requirements and then claim you are not disabled. But isn't that at the heart of what autistic people, and disabled people in general, a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism as a Disability |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2022, 10:00 am
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Replies: 56
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| I have explained this elsewhere before, but this kind of thinking is cognitive dissonance and doublethink, basically. You cannot claim to have special needs & requirements and then claim you are not disabled. But isn't that at the heart of what autistic people, and disabled people in general, a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2022, 9:49 am
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Replies: 44
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| Not sure this is whacky enough, but really into fungi, and also mushroom identification. Love autumn and spring as a result! Plan to learn how to weld so I can build myself a bike frame but scared I will burn the house down :lol: Also love board games and I am nearly finished designing my own one. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 6:34 pm
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Replies: 44
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| My Little Pony. My Little Pony forever, I have loved them since I was 2. And WWII era airplanes, my favorite is the Gruman F4F Hellcat. I love folklore and paranormal stuff. Shih-Tzus, I've loved the breed every since we adopted Peppy. I am also a pop-a-holic. I find it weirdly relaxing, and I also... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Why does every woman dye their hair? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 6:28 pm
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Replies: 50
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| I'm not against people dying their hair, I just wonder why like 99.99% of women around here do (except for hiding grey hair). When you say 'around here' do you mean on the forums here, or where you physically live? Because it might just be a thing that people where you live are in to. I don't dye m... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: How do men do it? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 6:19 pm
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Replies: 177
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| I think it's a mix of cultural conditioning and coping mechanism. The toxic masculinity in our culture discourages men from crying. I think it also depends a bit on personality. If someone yelled at me, I would internalize it and get upset and then need to cry to rebalance my emotions. My (non-autis... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Incels and the Autism defence |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 6:11 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Personally I believe the incels are a product of denying gender differences in mate selection. The solution to being an incel is to man up. But we live in a society where we can't even discuss what that means. You want to make a group of men hostile and unempathetic ignore the fact they can't get l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism as a Disability |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 5:42 pm
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Replies: 56
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| I would like to start this off by encouraging everyone to check out a book called "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" By Roy Richard Grinker (an anthropologist who studies autism among tribal communities in Africa). As for the question, my answer is a bit co... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 5:04 pm
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Replies: 44
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| Not sure this is whacky enough, but really into fungi, and also mushroom identification. Love autumn and spring as a result! Plan to learn how to weld so I can build myself a bike frame but scared I will burn the house down :lol: Also love board games and I am nearly finished designing my own one. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 4:56 pm
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Replies: 44
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| Not super weird but I like Victorian death photography, and Victorian mourning jewellery made with human hair. Photos: (Content warning) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581 Jewellery: https://editions.covecollective.org/content/locks-lockets-and-literature I think it's kinda cool too, alth... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 44
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| My Little Pony. My Little Pony forever, I have loved them since I was 2. And WWII era airplanes, my favorite is the Gruman F4F Hellcat. I love folklore and paranormal stuff. Shih-Tzus, I've loved the breed every since we adopted Peppy. I am also a pop-a-holic. I find it weirdly relaxing, and I also... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are NTs programmed to instantly reject autists? |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022, 7:33 pm
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Replies: 17
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| i learned eventually, how people spot us, it's in the eyes. all the members of my group had that in their eyes, a sort of "wild animal look" for want of a better term. I've only ever heard people say I have a twinkle in my eye, or have beautiful eyes. I've heard the term thousand mile sta... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are NTs programmed to instantly reject autists? |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022, 7:21 pm
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Replies: 17
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| This is why I say that anthropology needs to be a required course at the very least in college. There are a lot of aspects of our culture that are usually considered 'natural' as in having a biological origin, when really we are inculcated into them from a very young age. So there is this idea that ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Whackiest Special Interest in Adulthood?? |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022, 7:08 pm
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Replies: 44
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| My Little Pony. My Little Pony forever, I have loved them since I was 2. And WWII era airplanes, my favorite is the Gruman F4F Hellcat. I love folklore and paranormal stuff. Shih-Tzus, I've loved the breed every since we adopted Peppy. I am also a pop-a-holic. I find it weirdly relaxing, and I also ... |
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