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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's your special interest? |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2024, 2:10 am
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Replies: 115
Views: 6,415
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| Cognitive abilities (humans animals and AI), neurological development, IQ test metrics |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Describe your meltdowns |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2024, 12:43 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,738
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| 1. Usually when too much is going on in the background stressing me out, combined with something in the foreground upsetting me. Looking back at the past after I put myself into behavioral therapy as an adult, change in my life (moving homes, starting high school, cancelled plane flight, etc.) seems... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What odd sensory issues do you have? |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2024, 1:22 pm
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Replies: 81
Views: 6,581
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| I don't think this particular sensory issue is odd (noise), but my reactions to it and some of my other triggers probably are. it seems like when there's a lot of noise in a room for an extended period of time I often start to get a bunch of involuntary tics before I become emotionally overwhelmed,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Has Autism Blessed You? |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2024, 4:14 am
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Replies: 48
Views: 6,356
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| Questions like these seem to be used to state that autism is not a disability (it very much is), but to answer the question I do so happen to fit the stereotype of strong (factual) memory, pattern recognition and detail-orientation. All of those traits seem to be a lot more prominent in me than anyo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What odd sensory issues do you have? |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2024, 3:39 am
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Replies: 81
Views: 6,581
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| I don't think this particular sensory issue is odd (noise), but my reactions to it and some of my other triggers probably are. it seems like when there's a lot of noise in a room for an extended period of time I often start to get a bunch of involuntary tics before I become emotionally overwhelmed, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Socially unacceptable" special interests |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2024, 3:19 am
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Replies: 75
Views: 6,395
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| Ima definitely have to say IQ tests. Not just my own but other peoples' too. I actually programmed an entire world of about 10 million made up WAIS-IV IQ profiles with different genetics (not going to get into every trait so that I don't get cancelled, but categories of neurological conditions are o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2024, 5:20 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| I'm a total catastrophic thinker. But maybe I wouldn't be as much if the world wasn't one big catastrophe. If you can't change the world (for the better) then you can't change the way I think. See here's the thing, I know the world is a catastrophe, but I also realize that the chances of it collaps... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: little girl |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2024, 2:39 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 826
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| Oh, you started randomly getting those royal guard videos in your feed too XD? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2024, 5:59 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| My brain is mostly not reliable. Here's what I feel; My limbic system is a fricking whiner that I wish it should shut up. My frontal cortex is almost always half asleep for reasons nothing to do with the brain. My cerebellum is at least half the time overworked and possibly very strained. My hippoc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2024, 5:44 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| I do seem to have trouble controlling my emotions over little things when I move homes, or really most changes to my life, just like the character in the movie (except i would be worse and actually escalate to a full-blown meltdown sometimes), however I only recently realized that (research and beh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2024, 4:09 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| I watched the first inside out movie years ago, it seems like a lot of her thoughts were trauma-based in the movie, whereas mine seem more interest-based. I also wasn't really able to relate to the other commenter who said her brain is her enemy where she has a lot of negative memories and intrusiv... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 11:10 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| I think you mean your "self" rather than your brain. I have been speaking to my "self" since I was probably 5. I don't necessarily feel the need to compare my self to other people but I have come to rely on my inner voice to validate what other people say and/or what do when fac... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 5:31 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| I should clarify I didn't fully read the original post, but I got the gist of it. While I do enjoy being social sometimes, my brain can be a great companion. When I'm bored I can spend hours in my imagination, not paying much attention to the world around me. Lately when I'm bored I find myself rea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's the weirdest obsession you've had? |
| J.J. |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,907
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| Impossible to answer. Almost all of mine are/have been weird/socially unacceptable. The depth that I went into a couple of them would probably get me cancelled given that this is 2024 and a left-leaning forum, so I'm not going to even try to guess. Actually, on second thought I completely take that... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My brain is my best friend |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 5:47 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,556
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| At this stage in my life I've realized that I'm relatively comfortable being a loner, since there aren't really people harassing me/picking on me randomly like there were in middle/high school, and I can finally feel safer being by myself since it seems like the adults around me are more understandi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's the weirdest obsession you've had? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 4:46 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,907
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| Impossible to answer. Almost all of mine are/have been weird/socially unacceptable. The depth that I went into a couple of them would probably get me cancelled given that this is 2024 and a left-leaning forum, so I'm not going to even try to guess. |
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