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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A Different Type of Autism? Help! |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2010, 12:41 pm
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Replies: 56
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| Maybe you should look up autism because there is more to it than what you described. Read deep into it because most people read a short discription about it and go "Oh that's me, I don't like to talk to people when I don't feel like it" or "Oh that's me, I tap my foot" "Oh that's me, I have difficu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you feel your difference? |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2010, 11:43 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,392
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| Now that it's been confirmed I'm autistic I feel different all the time. Before I just felt quirky, and only disabled when in groups of people I didn't know. I've had problems with relationships, but I didn't see my part in it. And I thought everyone was as confused about feelings as me. I have no ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Involuntary roleplaying |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2010, 11:17 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,148
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| I've done this before, like being inside this other world and you just accept it as your own. I do that a lot with books, and movies will hang with me for a while like a shadow. I tend to imitate accents and conversations that I hear also, kind of where I learned to kind of talk to people and deal w... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Is anyone here a Philip K. Dick fan? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2010, 3:38 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Yeah, I like Philip K. Dick and have read quite a few of his works, many of which were more like novella length, really, but anyway, yeah, the alienation and dislocation in his stories, the need to connect to make something right or real, are all conditions or situations which I can identify with. H... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: trouble with finding the words you are trying to say |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009, 11:22 am
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Replies: 27
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| I'm fine when I'm typing stuff as well - perhaps because I'm free to take as long as I like to correct the words and because I've got everything I've written in front of me so I can easily pick up my ideas again if I happen to blank out. Yeah, I find typing so much easier as well. If I could speak ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you try not to give up? |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2009, 11:01 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,995
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| I am kind of biased at the moment considering I had the worst date experience of my life last night. She was absolutely horrible to me. She treated me like dirt, absolute dirt. Its times like this that make we not want to try any more. I'm sorry you had this experience happen to you. I've been ther... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: trouble with finding the words you are trying to say |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2009, 12:02 pm
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| I jumble up words a lot. If I'm at home talking out loud to myself I say the wrong words entirely or out of order, and I have a huge problem explaining something to someone at work (or complaining to a supervisor at work that I'm getting picked on again) and so it makes people think I'm dumb but I'm... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you try not to give up? |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2009, 11:58 am
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Replies: 16
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| It feels like a miracle if I get invited anywhere besides work functions. Yet I still dimly hope that I will find my 'niche'. Somehow. I don't do much though. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Employment Agency for Aspies? |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 11:38 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,146
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| If I ever became premier of Alberta or Prime Minister of Canada, I would make it so Autistics and Aspies get hired more in the public service and beauracracies.It would make our public service more efficient than what we have now with a bunch of NTs wasting precious time gossipping by the water coo... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Don't feel like I belong anywhere |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 1:07 pm
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Replies: 24
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| Jul, Thanks to you and the others who have contributed here I am so glad I decided to give WP another try - when I first joined it wasn't long after my 'official' diagnosis and my feelings were all over the place, I am slowly coming to terms with it now and talking to about it here is definitely a ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Employment Agency for Aspies? |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 12:39 pm
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Don't feel like I belong anywhere |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 1:11 pm
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Replies: 24
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| Intense, I'm so glad I found your post today. For the first time I don't feel utterly alone. I share so much with what you and Jul both have said and feel like it was me who said it but it wasn't. It was both of you. I too am recently diagnosed and going through a similar crisis as well, and also d... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Don't feel like I belong anywhere |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 12:47 pm
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| Jul - thanks very much for the reply, you are absolutely right nobody understands what we're going through as individuals everyone's experience is different - I guess it's the understanding that I'm looking for - in a way I've been misunderstood my whole life and it does ware you down over the year... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: People liking you but not asking you to hang out with them |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2009, 12:25 pm
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Replies: 47
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| In my experience, people are very cliquey in general. It seems as though the HS mentality just continues on ad infinatum throughout life. If you're not part of the in-crowd in any particular setting, then you're a nobody. The whole social networking thing seems to really exacerbate this. Lately it ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Don't feel like I belong anywhere |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2009, 11:52 am
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| A lot of what you have written, I agree with and in fact I've gon through similar stuff. I joined WP about a year ago, but I also started posting about a month ago again. I don't have very many posts at all, as you can see, but I do feel a kind of link to people here only because I feel there isn't ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Declaring War on Bullies |
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Posted: 25 Nov 2009, 1:00 pm
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Replies: 96
Views: 8,188
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| I just got a recorded message from the school that D. had an "unexcused absence". :roll: That's just silly -- they know darn well why he was absent! I am sorry that D. got in trouble. I don't think he deserves to be blamed for this entire incident, but that the school should see that he is not acti... |
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