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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it true that people with Aspergers have perfect pitch...? |
| fiddlerpianist |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 8:13 am
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| The number I had heard was that close to 1 in 20 people on the spectrum had it. That doesn't sound high, but that's much higher than the general population. Here's my belief as to why that is. There's pretty good evidence that people with perfect pitch acquire the skills for it early in life. They u... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Subcultures and Asperger's--Worthy of Study |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2011, 9:14 am
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| I agree about playing music, less about the music subculture itself. I love playing music while people are grooving to it and having a great time. I don't like to take breaks, though, because if I'm not careful, someone I don't know tries to chat me up. I'd rather sit in the back and play tunes by m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Superiority Complex |
| fiddlerpianist |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2011, 9:40 am
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Replies: 38
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Poke wrote: hester386 wrote: I never brake the law Except the law of homophones, of course.
More specifically heterographs. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: TYPES of ASD individuals from a professional source |
| fiddlerpianist |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2011, 3:10 pm
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Replies: 161
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| Very insightful, anbuend. Thank you for that! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: TYPES of ASD individuals from a professional source |
| fiddlerpianist |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2011, 1:52 pm
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| I was once hit by a bully on top of the head with a book that left a welt so large it stayed for a long time and actually hurt. While we're on the subject of bully stories (sorry) I had my head throw into a locker and it bled all over the place. Heads do that, though, when cut. It was more shocking... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: TYPES of ASD individuals from a professional source |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2011, 12:51 pm
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| Perhaps I was more "bullied" by kids and I did not realize it? I wonder about this, too. Certainly there was name calling and ostracizing, but when you don't really care whether you're ostracized, that's not exactly punishment. :) I don't consider myself to have been bullied (well, very much at lea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Im just not making any progress socially and im lonely |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 11:30 am
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| Women see confident men as good mates. Confident men don't put up with BS. Confident men are somewhat arrogant (or at least act like it) Confident men dress well Women also look for competence in the men they seek as mates. That means you go and do things you are good at when looking for women. If ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Im just not making any progress socially and im lonely |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 10:59 am
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| He will lead a happier life if he does. Simple as that. A giant, enormous assumption which might be rooted in the AS tendency to think that one's own path to happiness is implicitly everybody else's path to happiness. BS. If the idea is to pick up girls, Gideon's advice may work. But there's a good... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anyone else here with aspergers dislike/hate gym? |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 10:38 am
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Bethie wrote: iamnotaparakeet wrote: With the exception of riflery, I hate sports in general. I like knitting. 
+1!
I actually like some individual sports (cycling, swimming, etc.). No predicting other people's actions and compensating accordingly. (Guess who got faked out almost effortlessly in team sports?) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Gym Class - Did you participate? |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 10:35 am
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| I hated it in almost every respect. I got As in gym, but that's because the grade was entirely (and I mean ENTIRELY) attendance based. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Flow State |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 9:24 am
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| I'd ask the reverse question. How often does someone neurotypical enter into the flow state? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A somewhat convoluted question about socialization... |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 9:21 am
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| When I was growing up, I can remember my mother telling me every year before school started, "Now I want you to try and make one new friend this year." I remember on one occasion she was trying to not break out in tears. The thing is that I consistently didn't make new friends. Occasionally I'd have... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Optical illusion? |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 7:05 am
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Huh. The mouth did because that jumped out at me. You can't ask a question like that and then specify WHICH part jumps out at you.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Im just not making any progress socially and im lonely |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 7:01 am
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| Take something you like to do (or think you might like to learn more about), and then find others that like the same thing. It could be an activity, club, book group, bird watchers, etc. It helps to choose an activity which is somewhat tolerant of eccentricities. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: kingdom of introversion website |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 6:55 am
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| Shift Journal reposts many entries from Kingdom. Mark's original post on the matter speculates that, in this context, "introvert" is a code word for "autistic." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: TYPES of ASD individuals from a professional source |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2011, 11:27 am
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Replies: 161
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| The problem with this classification system is that it creates discreet categories that should be independent in their theory but really aren't independent in practice. It doesn't really take into account the fact that cognitive social intuition / social performance difficulties, behavioral difficu... |
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