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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: If Autism is a ''good thing'', why do most have anger? |
| skywatcher |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2011, 10:57 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 6,430
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| I tended to have worse anger issues when I was younger, but it was actually more of a sensory overload issue than actual anger. People with Asperger's and especially autism tend to get their circuits overloaded, perhaps not more easily but with everything they go through more often than people witho... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Looking for Info on Asperger's Services near Public Ivy's |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2010, 11:40 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,189
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| I may be posting in the wrong forums... to the moderator, please repost this to the correct forum if its necessary, and my apologies if that is necessary. I'm looking for some information about places that have good services for people with Asperger's. An additional criteria is that there has to be ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Genetic Overlap Between Autism, Schizophrenia and Bipolar |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2010, 5:15 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 11,706
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| From what I know about all three disorders, they seriously cannot be related. Schizophrenia results in a different neural architecture that is measurably different from autistic neural architecture (I know this partly because in the childhood quest to rule out everything and anything they did an MRI... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Has anyone else read this? |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2010, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,854
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| The only thing I can think of that may make the rain hypothesis work is seasonal affective disorder... its pretty bad for people with ASDs, and in a rain soaked place people with ASDs may happen to exhibit symptoms earlier and worse than other places on average, simply because its always dark and da... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone the only aspie in their family? |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2010, 1:57 pm
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Replies: 100
Views: 11,188
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| On my Mom's side of the family I'm the only one diagnosed with AS. On my Dad's side of the family I have a sister diagnosed with AS and a cousin with classical autism. However, I was raised almost exclusively by my Mom and her side of the family, so I can relate to the feeling of not having family w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think IQ test are a fraud??? |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2010, 5:18 pm
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Replies: 65
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| IQ tests just measure your ability to take IQ tests. Yeah, I know that is a flippant tautology but the point remains. There is an assumption that "intelligence" is this singular thing, which is wrong. "Intelligence" is like "Consciousness" or "God", a fuzzy word that everyone talks about but nobody... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think IQ test are a fraud??? |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2010, 5:09 pm
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Replies: 65
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| IQ tests measure what they measure. They don't actually measure intelligence. I sometimes think the reason I test so well, and got high scores when I was a kid, is because I read so fast I have more time to actually think about the questions and I can get through more of them. What the tests really... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think IQ test are a fraud??? |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2010, 4:22 pm
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Replies: 65
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| Do you think IQ tests are a fraud??? I do. I've been tested multiple times in my life, and it seems there's always a different answer. And the answer it seems is never quite what I expect compared to my abilities and accomplishments. Especially online IQ tests. I either never finish those because I ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Can you be Asperger's and still be "cool"? |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 4:23 pm
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Replies: 78
Views: 16,772
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| According to most people who know me, I'm the "coolest person they've ever met". As an Aspie, I've found that being an Aspie and being cool isn't mutually exclusive, they go hand in hand. Different is today's cool, if applied properly. Cool today isn't about fitting in with the crowd, its about stan... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why is it so hard for us to make friends our own age? |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 4:05 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,038
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| I've found that in my life I was either friends with people much older than me or younger than me. I think it has to do with getting along with people who are at our maturity level. When I was a kid, and even a bit into my teens, I was a bit "young" for my age... though I also admit I was at the sam... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Shooting At Alabama University |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 9:16 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,359
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| Yeah, I taught at the Shelby center as a Teaching assistant. The school sucked for disability services, part of the reason I flunked my classes and lived a terrible 5 months that semester... wound up moving back to Ohio after that. Not fun at all. BTW... Its the University of Alabama in HUNTSVILLE .... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Your dream house? |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2010, 3:22 pm
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Replies: 16
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| Built into the side of a cliff, overhanging a river, is a bunker, with the capability to survive many types of disasters, having self-sustaining abilities such as hydroponic farms, a research lab, medical bay, multiple levels, even the ability to seal off sections of the house if compromised, and a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and Asperger syndrome underdiagnosed in women |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010, 1:38 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,597
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| I've known a considerable amount of women who should have been diagnosed with an ASD, probably as many or more than males I've known. Most seem to have that female emotional sense to the degree that they can at least get by well enough to not need a diagnosis (or never get diagnosed). I've known one... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are aspies cheapskates? |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2010, 8:34 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 3,235
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| Well... I tip really well, but other than that, yeah, I don't buy anything unless I have to. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NVLD and AS- What's the Difference? |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2010, 8:31 pm
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Replies: 28
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| bicentennialman wrote: I'm interested in the answer to this question, too (if there is one). I'm diagnosed with both Non-Verbal Learning Disability and Asperger's Syndrome, so I think there is a lot of overlap. There is alot of overlap, and on an individual manifestation it is often very similar, t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Facebook for Aspies |
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Posted: 06 Feb 2010, 8:19 pm
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Replies: 100
Views: 12,739
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| I've made tons of friends on facebook. I've reconnected with nearly everyone I know. Its a really good way to keep in touch with people. However... I've also made several enemies on facebook. Everyone I graduated college with I'm no longer "friends" with on facebook, on account of either me p'oing t... |
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