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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: who's making a living from their aspie talent ? |
| andrew_w |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2011, 5:21 am
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Replies: 57
Views: 5,590
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| I am currently stuck doing a general labor job and am not making any money from what is currently my only "active" major interest (computer programming), because there are relatively few programming jobs in my area, and the vast majority of the ones that there are are internal business application d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you process emotions? |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2011, 2:04 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,683
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| I definitely feel my emotions, but in what I believe is an unusual way. My mind is divided into separate thinking and feeling layers (I suspect that for most people, thinking and feeling overlap almost completely, whereas for me, they more or less occupy parallel spaces with only partial overlap). I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is there some sort of 'test' for Asperger's? |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2011, 1:36 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,724
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| Yes, AQ test is definitely more scientific, IMO. The Aspie quiz is based upon a theory that the autistic mind is more in tune with our caveman ancestors (or something along those lines)--a theory that has yet to be proven. The AQ is a good scientific test. While not designed to give a diagnosis, it... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: skills and talent mean nothing to NTs if you cant sociallize |
| andrew_w |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2011, 3:12 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,446
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| That's certainly the impression I get of much of the IT industry and office environments in general (I also suspect that non-office settings might be more likely to be more focused on the actual work rather than on people). I am wondering if I will ever be able to find computer-related work, despite... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: New Brain Imaging Research Shows Why Autistic Individuals... |
| andrew_w |
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Posted: 05 Aug 2011, 3:34 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,471
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| This confirms my hypothesis that atypical sense of self is an important factor involved in autism, and is probably a major cause of the social deficits seen in autistics. My own thinking style is definitely consistent with an atypical sense of self - I have a strong sense of self, but it is rather "... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Multitasking for Aspies impossible??? |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011, 1:21 am
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Replies: 58
Views: 11,240
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| Internally, I actually have a fairly strong capacity for certain forms of multitasking. My mind is divided into multiple semi-independent sections, each of which has a different purpose (each also has characteristics of a different personality type, but my form of compartmentalization is just looser... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS Thinking vs. NT Thinking: An Analogy for the Masses |
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Posted: 13 May 2011, 1:26 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,367
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| One problem with this analogy is that Windows hasn't run on top of DOS since Windows Me. All versions of Windows since then have been completely standalone (a cut-down version of DOS is included with 32-bit versions, but it only runs when you run a DOS application and even then it runs in a compatib... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and synesthesia? |
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Posted: 03 May 2011, 1:07 am
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Replies: 66
Views: 15,024
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| While I don't have true synesthesia, I have something sort of similar. For me, emotions and sensory experiences are part of the same continuum. One result of this is the fact that I experience a kind of "associative" emotions that are associated with particular places, situations, objects, or people... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Extreme male brain theory: do you believe in it? |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2011, 1:28 am
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Replies: 61
Views: 8,508
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| I am very skeptical of both parts of the extreme male brain hypothesis. First, not all autistics can really be characterized as "hypersystemizing". What about autistics who default to thinking in a purely sensory way? What about autistics who are more artistic than logical/mathematical? I wouldn't e... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AUTISM SPEAKS |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2011, 1:07 am
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Replies: 82
Views: 13,645
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| Somebody shove a link to this thread on Autism Speaks facebook page. Maybe open a few eyes, there's a lot of disgusting human beings there, all talking about how much they wish their kids were normal and doing nothing to help it. I think they're scum, just an opinion (: Someones gotta be wrong when... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone obsessed with gender development? |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2011, 3:04 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 652
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| While it's not exactly a major interest for me, I do find psychology of sexuality and gender fascinating, due to my own unusual sexuality (I'm asexual, with an unusual kind of nonsexual fetish). I'm probably not exactly the kind of person you're looking for, but you can still PM me if you want. One ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How many ways of thinking for Aspies/Autism? |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 3:36 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,718
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| Two more modes of thinking found in autistics are motion/kinesthetic and what could probably best be described as "metasensory patterns". Rather than one universally preferred method of thinking, I have two groups of modes of thinking that are essentially localized into upper and lower layers. The u... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Anybody else here who is good with computers, but... |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2011, 3:19 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,389
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| would probably be culturally incompatible with most IT jobs, and would be unlikely to be hired for an IT job due to multiple factors? I enjoy computer programming, as well as collecting operating systems and older computers, and would like to get a computer-related job of some kind (preferably progr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Myth of Autism - What do you Think? |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 1:46 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 8,190
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| Yet another person who makes the mistake of assuming that autistics are dysfunctional typical individuals. It's unlikely that such a cause could be responsible for the complex atypical traits found in most autistics. Also, I suspect that autoimmune disease would have other symptoms besides autistic-... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is autism a sort of inborn lobotomy? |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 1:30 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,458
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| You are sort of right, but you are also sort of wrong. It is likely that autistics usually have somewhat looser integration between emotions and intellect, but the vast majority still have some integration, and we certainly aren't emotionless robots (however, I suspect that most autistics have a con... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: For aspies... "aspergers" or "autism" |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2011, 1:48 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,495
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| I think that my official diagnosis is just "autism spectrum disorder", but I fit the stereotype of Asperger's very well (at least externally). I usually prefer "autism" over "Asperger's", since I don't think that the distinction between "autism" and "Asperger's" is meaningful (that, and "autism" doe... |
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