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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Putting off going to the bathroom |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 07 Oct 2005, 10:55 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,868
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| I go whenever I have to...I have to go, it's ALL I can think about. I just go to get it over with. I have a lot of difficulty knowing when the bladder is actually full, though, and often it seems like it comes on suddenly. My neurology is a bit whacked out in that area. I probably visit the restroom... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Parties |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 03 Sep 2005, 11:24 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,348
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| I have never seen the point of getting together with a bunch of other people just to get drunk. For the most part I find drunk people to be obnoxious and boring (especially when all they talk about is how drunk they are). I'll take a Friday night in my living room playing video games rather than a l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have I been brainwashed by NT's? |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 02 Sep 2005, 10:48 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,660
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| Heh...in that situation ("Christmas is getting more religious every year!") I would have taken the person literally as well! I do realize that Aspies aren't the only people who take things literally -- we just seem to do it more often. I do it a LOT more often than everyone I know and it is so stran... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have I been brainwashed by NT's? |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 01 Sep 2005, 9:40 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,660
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| I definitely do not think that everyone who "really" has AS will have the same interests or personality traits, etc. When I first encountered the literature on AS and autism, I kept going through phases where I would mentally say, "Yes, that's me!" and other phases where I would start second-guessin... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hypochondria, Facetious Disorder, and Identity Disturbance |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 9:16 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,189
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| I'm wondering how an individual could determine whether they are somehow suffering from an identity disturbance or genuinely autistic / Asperger's. The way I see it, something like AS cannot really be faked since by definition it manifests in early childhood. I know I was a proper little Aspie as a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Manipulative Personality? |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2005, 10:52 pm
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Replies: 41
Views: 3,780
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| I am very anti-manipulative, actually. I never even knew until this year that people acted in certain ways in order to influence the actions of others. To me, most people have always seemed very unpredictable and I really have better things to do than try to influence them. When I was little and peo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Gender Genie |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2005, 12:10 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,781
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Gender Genie |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2005, 2:25 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,781
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| I've put in huge chunks of my LJ and it pretty much always guesses me as male (I'm not.) I also scored well into the "male" range on the BBC gender test (I'll hunt down the link if anyone is interested). I am not really surprised by any of this -- because of my AS or genetics or *something* I have a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Saying stupid things |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2005, 9:44 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,351
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| I say silly things all the time but generally I don't realize it's silly until someone points it out. I chalk it up to having a lack of common sense. For instance, in 6th grade we went on a trip to the state capital (Hartford, CT when I lived in CT) and they had a big bronze(?) statue of Nathan Hale... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: surreal sense of being |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2005, 9:37 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,652
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| I look at my hands and I know they are my hands - this isn't a psychotic thing - but I don't feel any more connected to them than to my cell phone or my SUV This is exactly my experience -- very nice clear way of expressing the sense of "detachment" from one's body. I have a bit of a cyborg / trans... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: surreal sense of being |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2005, 11:40 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,652
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| I have often felt a bit detached while growing up, and I had a major "derealization" episode 6 years ago, when I was 20. In my case, it seems to be a state I can induce in myself by "thinking about thinking" and wondering how the heck human consciousness works in the first place and feeling as if I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Yet Another Online Autism Test :) |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2005, 11:47 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,154
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Telling manager I have AS |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2005, 12:45 am
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Replies: 21
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| I recently was in something of an "emergency" situation at work (basically, my socialization and communication deficits were attracting unwelcome and odd attention, as well as a change in job description) so I ended up explaining to one of my bosses that I had a "neurological condition" that was rat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: risperdal I feel so calm now (like normal calm) SO AWESOME! |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2005, 11:13 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,958
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| I think risperdal might be beneficial for some people, but for others it can be disastrous. That was actually the first psych med anyone ever tried me on -- I was 17 and it ended up being a very horrible experience. I was especially scared when I read the drug literature and saw that it was a treatm... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Would you wear Aspie clothing in public... |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2005, 10:39 pm
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Replies: 104
Views: 8,273
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| A neat symbol would be cool, but I would want to make sure it was unique -- that is, not something that would be confused with another group / cause / concept. I read something about orange bracelets a while back and thought that was a decent idea, but then I read somewhere else that orange bracelet... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What we Eat are we |
| azalynn |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2005, 11:31 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,020
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| Peter: looks like super-awesome tasty food! I am a big fan of vegetables / nuts / fruits mixed together. These things look extremely nutritious. |
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