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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Sensitive or insensitive to nonverbal mannerisms?

draeve
Posted: 22 Jan 2009, 2:06 pm 

Replies: 24
Views: 2,907
I went with most of the time. Since I work in the retail world I'm exposed to dozens if not more people in a day. Since learning of my AS I've learned how to interpret more of the subtleties of non-verbal communication. Not too long ago I ran into my ex-girlfriend who is now married and we got talki...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Coming out as an aspie

draeve
Posted: 21 Jan 2009, 4:05 pm 

Replies: 11
Views: 1,458
For me I often keep my AS to myself. I really see no reason to tell complete strangers about my AS when its likely that most people may not be informed about it. Fortunately those few people I do tell think that I don't appear autistic to them when I tell them of my AS. Over the past eight years sin...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Over engaging and overdoing things

draeve
Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 5:07 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,227
I can easily relate to this. I have had times where I start to go past the point where most others would have stopped. Fortunately I am now better able to know when I'm going to far in projects or taking the conversation too far. The best example of when I took things too far was when I was writing ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: The lessons life has taught you.

draeve
Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 4:47 pm 

Replies: 32
Views: 2,501
Being nice can take you far but don't let people take you for granted. Know your limits, don't promise on what you can't deliver. Don't always assume that people know what we're talking about when we go on a rant. This is the one that has made a difference in my life: Don't let the fact that we have...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Theory of mind

draeve
Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 4:33 pm 

Replies: 52
Views: 5,548
First of all I'd like to say hello to everyone. It feels great to know that there are forums for aspies to talk about the issues that are important to us. Issues that those who are NT may not notice/care about. This has been a problem for me for quite some time. Even before I found out that I had AS...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Sensory things that drive you nuts that no one else gets...

draeve
Posted: 15 Jan 2009, 4:00 pm 

Replies: 174
Views: 12,868
I have the same thing going with my sense of smell. Mine is with cigarette smoke. I can tell if someone was smoking in a room even if it has been hours after it happened. What's worse is that my dad tells me not to let it bother me. He doesn't get that there's nothing that I can do about it.

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: What's up?

draeve
 Post subject: What's up?
Posted: 03 Dec 2008, 2:43 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 751
I'm Matt. New to this forum. I was diagnosed with Asperger's eight years ago. Since finding out about this disorder I have worked hard at behaving "normally". I've been able to get quite a good hold on my AS over these past 8 years. I've also read several books about AS and how it affects those arou...
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