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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When did you realize people don't like you? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 9:41 am
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Replies: 62
Views: 4,536
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| I had been given that impression from 1971 when ABA was inflicted on me for 3 years without the autism diagnosis which I would ultimately been given 32 years after and especially in April 1974 when I was about 7 or 8 when I left Wakefield Lodge. Especially after 1977 when I was put into mainstream s... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Get Interviews But Not Jobs |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 8:15 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 877
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| There have only been two times I have been successful in an interview for a job. One was back in 1985 for a job which I applied for which looked interesting. I got that after a stressful interview and a seizure when I got back home. In that interview I was accused of not listening by the interviewer... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Is it worth getting a diagnosis later in life? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 7:27 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 89
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| I have been discriminated against since 1967 with the GPs misdiagnosis of brain damage that he give me because he put me on valium as a baby hence the misdiagnosis. No one even considered the possibility that I was autistic in my family. I went into after playgroup which itself was for special needs... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Math Question - Did anyone have to memorize squares to 30 |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2024, 6:49 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,928
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| I didn't do algebra at school only long multiplication, addition, subtraction. I was even put a year behind at school and only left with foundational qualifications. The maths teaching I had was worse than useless. What I needed to learn the necessary maths wouldn't have been invented for another 40... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Favorite Class |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2024, 7:31 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,772
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| I like history at school but was bullied about every day at mainstream school by pupils and teachers alike. The extra humiliation was when I was mainstreamed in 1977 I was put a year behind. Not only that I was put in with the less able kids at the time and had to do that work. I really didn't enjoy... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Worst Article I have read in a long time |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2024, 1:16 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,961
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This sort of stuff is usually a work of The Daily Mail. Pure ableism there with stereotypes and projection. It is usually the right wing papers which print this kind of anti autistic propaganda.  |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Mathematic as an individual with asperger. |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2024, 11:56 am
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Replies: 43
Views: 22,441
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| I didn't do proper mathematics at school at an advanced level. back before 1988 there were 2 types of 16+ qualification Certificate of Secondary Education (abbreviated to CSE) and the General Certificate of Edecation Ordinary Level (abbreviated to GCE/O level) informally just called O levels which w... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What are you doing this Valentine’s day? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2024, 3:46 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,491
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| I had my girlfriend over from Monday to Tuesday. She was on duty in her job this Valentine's day so we had a meal at a Beefeater on the Monday washed down by going twos on a bottle of wine. St Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Miscommunication with my line manager |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2023, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,176
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| And if you do a rush job on that 1 you would tire yourself out and get overloaded and 2 do a poor job anyway. It is like that you couldn't win. So no wonder you feel the way you so. I had similar experiences with the neurotypical person who came into our self advocacy group and tried all the making ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: BPD or Autism? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2023, 10:25 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,630
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| I was misdiagnosed with a lot of conditions from type 2 intellectual disability as a baby because the GP inappropriately prescribed valium. in 1988 I was given a misdiagnosis of schizoid personality disorder and put on an overdose of carbamazepine. I only had temporal lobe epilepsy and absence seizu... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I give up with recruitment agencies! |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 05 Aug 2023, 8:01 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,447
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| In 1986 I applied for a job as a lab technician or something similar. I was told by the agency the job had been filled. I just left it at that. I had a phone call later from them saying they had work available which was nothing to do with the position loading lorries with sweets from the Mars firm i... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are you eating?/Last thing you ate? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2023, 7:06 am
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Replies: 20,274
Views: 856,937
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Ben n Jerry at half eight.  : |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Bullied into adulthood |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2023, 10:10 am
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Replies: 118
Views: 33,163
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| I have been bullied since 1974 by family and everyone else in my neighbourhood when I was growing up didn't want to be friends so I really haven't had genuine friends. I also think there is a spectrum of exeriences of societal bigotry that can be encouraged. When I have spoken about this when I was ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What medication helps you? |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2023, 2:43 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,649
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| When I was about 21 I was diagnosed with epilepsy on which my neurologist put me on ethosuximide for simple absence seizures which progressed from temporal lobe epilepsy. I ended up on 800 mg of carbamazepine for seizures which the medication left me feeling like a zombie or often drowsy. I was stil... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: An epilepsy question. |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2021, 11:36 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,613
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| I had my first seizure in 1974, the second one I had in 1977 and another one a few months later, these would have been labelled or thought of a temporal lobe epilepsy. A few years later then they developed into absence like seizures then and then falling over ones which weren't really tonic clonic s... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Predator Blindness |
| Aspiewordsmith |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2020, 9:37 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 12,191
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| Since 1974, nearly everyone just pretended to be friends only to see what they could get out of me and nothing more or pure bullying and hate even from my own family have acted as social predators by making sure I was surrounded by such people, either predatory or parasitical. Anyone who called them... |
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