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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Famed Women with AS ? |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2008, 11:16 am
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Replies: 21
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your obsession? |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:39 pm
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Replies: 139
Views: 12,340
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| Currently, dogs, especially pit bulls and other bully breeds. Everything remotely dog-related is fascinating to me. This has been going on a while and is a good thing in a way because I work in a dog care facility and my drive to know everything about them makes me good at what I do. That was me fi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Could severe childhood emotional trauma mimic AS/ASD? |
| trashcanpoet |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:35 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,488
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| Interesting thread. I have both. I have AS but was abused as a child (both physically and sexually) and raped as a young adult and have chronic PTSD as a result. What I discovered through years of therapy is that many of my PTSD symptoms and AS symptoms overlap, so much in fact that there are certai... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it just me, or does this annoy you? |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:32 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Yes, yes, yes! When I was younger I used to have panic tantrums in spaces crowded with people. I thought of it as a sort of claustrophobia, only it wasn't small spaces that were the problem but having to share the space with too many. I still can get very on edge and irritable in crowds. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and bipolar disorder |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:30 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,795
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| My father is diagnosed bipolar and though no one ever diagnosed him with Asperger's (it wasn't a diagnosis when he grew up) it's generally accepted in my family that he has it and that's where I get it from, because some parts of his personality are so similar to mine. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old are you? |
| trashcanpoet |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:28 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,487
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| I'm 26 but I didn't answer the poll because I hate check-the-box age questions that divide the 20s into early and late. Why couldn't it be 18-29? Or 20-29? Being in a separate category makes me feel old. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Good poem about us. |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:25 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,597
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What was the "god part"? It was edited out by the time I read it....
It does sound a lot like me as a kid and probably something my mohter would clip out and send to me... but I do agree it oversimplifies a bit. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: i wanna know!! only for aspies |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2008, 10:21 pm
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Replies: 91
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| My first memory - crystal clear to this day - happened when I was just one and a half. My mother confirms that it actually happened and that's how old I was. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Look Me in The Eye |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 10:17 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I do relate to naming as well. I have my own names for my parents and some of my friends. But it's my partner who has a name for me that no one else knows or uses. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Human Dictionary |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 9:12 pm
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Replies: 50
Views: 4,599
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| I always notice spelling errors! I find misspellings in published works. My mom always said I should get a job as a proofreader. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Major purchases anxiety |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 9:03 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I'm actually the other way... I have little concept of money, and this can be sort of a problem for me. I won't keep track of how much is in my bank account until I start to wonder if I have any left at all, then I call the bank and check. I'll sometimes buy things without even noticing how much the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Missing places/times instead of people |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,243
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| Both Temple Grandin and Dawn Prince-Hughes have mentioned this, so I know it's common. I do it sometimes... sometimes when I get sad thinking about other times in my life it isn't the people I miss but the places, and I don't know how to express this without people thinking I'm weird or insensitive ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Weird obsessive hero worship? |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 8:54 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Something I mentioned in the Look Me in the Eye thread got me thinking about this. When I was in my early teens (in the late 1990s) I developed, after seeing her in a movie, a fanatical obsession with Cyndi Lauper. I dressed like her, talked like her, and collected every picture of her I found in a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Look Me in The Eye |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 8:47 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I actually used to do the lying/pretending thing a lot... I remember when I had this weird thing about Cyndi Lauper and I spent two years convincing the school janitor I was from Brooklyn by imitating her accent. I think what got me the most was saying things like Aspies are good with machines (I ad... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your obsession? |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 8:40 pm
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Replies: 139
Views: 12,340
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| Currently, dogs, especially pit bulls and other bully breeds. Everything remotely dog-related is fascinating to me. This has been going on a while and is a good thing in a way because I work in a dog care facility and my drive to know everything about them makes me good at what I do. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Aspie Love Stories |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2008, 8:34 pm
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Replies: 48
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| My partner is a non-Aspie (she HATES being called an NT-- "what is typical and who wants to be it?") But she has always been very understanding of my quirks and traits. She will help explain things to me when I "just don't get it"-- especially in social situations when I miss a cue or when someone i... |
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