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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Do you think with a voice in your head? |
| Torak |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2007, 7:30 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 984
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| I usually think with a voice unless having a depersonalization attack or working on a computer programming project. When programming I use visual thinking to create program structures and to work on object oriented program components. I also use it for normalising databases. It works well with low l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your aspie-score? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2007, 12:12 pm
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Replies: 197
Views: 23,097
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Aspie Score 131/200
NT Score 40/200
Very likely an Aspie. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Visual thinking |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2007, 5:02 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,395
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| This is quite hard to describe, so bear with me. If I'm relaxing I tend to get lost daydreaming in visual thought chains and this is too easy to fall into when I'm supposed to be working. Working and casual thinking involve lots of internal monologue thinking. If I'm reading will get completely abso... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Does unconditional love really exist? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2006, 8:52 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,433
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| You'll have to excuse my being cynical. Love? Junk. The women I have met use 'love' both as a weapon to bleed money and attention from you (and to hurt you afterwards), and as a status symbol to brag about to their friends. I prefer being single. I have no soap opera crap going on which requires me ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Handling stress. |
| Torak |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2006, 8:07 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Torak........Im not sure if this is the same thing you are describing ....but I have a feeling(more so when I was in school.walking down hallway,reading allowed in front of people,driving in an area that I dont know well,in a job interview)when I get a buzzing in my head and feel like I am "out of ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sometimes I think it's the NTs that have a problem, not us. |
| Torak |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2006, 6:55 pm
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Replies: 58
Views: 5,010
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| Its because your comparing my statement that you shouldnt give up hope on non-prescription medication without trying it and my pessimistic attitude towards people :P Two different kettles of dolphin. And it does make a sort of sense when you consider the fact that Im primarily against prescription ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Handling stress. |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2006, 6:50 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,010
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| I can't handle stress. It can trigger strange 'out of body' borderline Mr Spock experiences if it happens with other people around. Very hard to describe. It's not the epilepsy, it's an intense degree of paranoia but my brain slows down, going '1,2,3' through my usual routine very slowly and ice col... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sometimes I think it's the NTs that have a problem, not us. |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2006, 6:31 pm
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Replies: 58
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| Between NTs and Aspies... A former school teacher of mine met my brother-in-law last year and said that I was the most intelligent student she had ever met (and she was in her 50s when she was my teacher). I was quiet, an underachiever, but one thing that tipped it for her was a class project studen... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How quiet are Aspies |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2006, 6:51 pm
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Replies: 42
Views: 4,742
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| I will go for long periods of time without saying anything except that required by either my job or common courtesy (where I remember it). I do not do 'smalltalk' (as source) as it just never occurs to me and I would only start talking about my hobbies (reading, computers, studying). I can join in s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How bad is your Aspergers? |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2006, 9:42 pm
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Replies: 63
Views: 7,350
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| I'm curiuos what you will make of my symptoms. Sensory: Too much visual or auditory input at any one time makes me very short tempered. Environmental: When my safe spot (bedroom) is disturbed... If I am being nagged about it by my parents then I have spectacular explosions of temper, what I would de... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Epilepsy? |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2006, 5:41 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 3,624
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| I've had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy all my life (I'm 33) and take medication (Carbamazepine). The seizures have never been controlled by medication and I still have them. Every couple of weeks I will have a simple partial seizure (ringing in the ears, confusion, also jamais-vu & panic attacks on occasio... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Learning To Program |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2005, 9:14 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,330
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| Set yourself a target to acheive. I started by writing a relational database management system. This was done in C++ (linux) but with the intention that the code be portable between 32 & 64 bit processors and also between little-endian and big-endian processors (I have 2 pc's, a Sun Ultra 30 and an ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How Did You Explain Your Social Difficulties to Yourself? |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 6:53 pm
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Replies: 72
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| I attributed my unpopularity as a child to several factors: 1) I was the class computer geek and computers were a really sad 'geek' thing in the early 1980's UK. 2) I am very intelligent and this seemed to cause resentment. 3) I had no interest in joining the other children in their social activitie... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self diagnosis and my parents... |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2005, 7:52 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Furthuring from my earlier topics, I am now convinced of AS on my father's side of the family after talking about it with my parents in depth for the first time. My cousin (fathers brothers son) is identical to me with regards to needing space, social problems and obsessions (he is into music, a DJ ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Talk like Yoda thread |
| Torak |
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Posted: 05 Nov 2005, 9:25 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 5,346
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Sucumbing, this thread is, to the dark side of The Farce.
Better gags we are needing. Too corny are mine. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Talk like Yoda thread |
| Torak |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2005, 3:57 pm
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Replies: 55
Views: 5,346
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Amusing this is, young padawan.
Using The Farce we are.
"Only One Kenobi" my apprentice is called, as in his pocket his lightsaber went off. Embarrasing it was. |
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