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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Where do we lie on the Social Totum Poll? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2010, 7:39 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,098
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I like to believe I'm somewhere in the middle of the pole. I can talk to people, but I prefer keeping to myself.
In reality? I'm a teenaged girl who doesn't care about fashion/bands/hot guys/etc., so I'm not on the totem pole at all. At most I'm on the low end of it I guess. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: On the matter of Meltdowns . . . |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2010, 8:59 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,933
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| Once there is a trigger, which is most often being yelled at for being "rude" when I thought I was being perfectly polite, I can feel the meltdown coming on through these signs: 1. Fast breathing, gasping for air 2. Everything becoming much louder and brighter 3. Tears welling up, which just makes 1... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Synesthesia! |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2010, 8:36 am
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Replies: 46
Views: 3,894
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| I see things in "shades", good things automatically have a "brightness" to them and things I don't like are "dark". Sometimes it's a little weird, like when I'm pressing arrow keys in a game and suddenly one of them goes "dark" and I don't like to touch that key anymore because it doesn't feel corre... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why are you trying to diagnose yourself? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2010, 12:57 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,025
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| Because no one here has even heard of AS, unless they've read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time or House Rules. And based on the traits displayed by the characters with AS in those books, I'm very mild. I don't scream when touched, I can make fleeting eye contact (after much effort),... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Rants |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2010, 9:38 am
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Replies: 9,452
Views: 705,079
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| School is burning me out. I'm slipping away, losing all the progress in interaction that I've made, returning to my own little bubble in the world where reality and dreams are the same thing. I wake up exhausted although I get 7 hours of sleep (5 is the average for most people) and I've lost interes... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and a heightened sense of psychic abilities |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 4:15 am
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Replies: 102
Views: 22,767
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| Sometimes I find myself actually "predicting things". I don't really know that I'm doing it until it happens, then I realize that my actions before the thing happens affects the results. For example, before a test/exam, I occasionally find myself inclined to put more effort into a certain topic. I d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did your parents ever train your social skills? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2010, 10:05 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 4,809
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| My mum teaches people how to communicate effectively, so she kept reminding me to "make eye contact" and "don't interrupt someone when they're speaking". It definitely helped a bit although I still don't like eye contact and occasionally interrupt people. But my ramblings about things (continuously ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2010, 9:32 am
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Replies: 35,580
Views: 1,981,584
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| -7. I need to scream and cry but I can't, so I'm overstressed. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Rants |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2010, 9:19 am
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Replies: 9,452
Views: 705,079
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| I hate school. I envy people in the US because they have IEPs, but if I were to be diagnosed with AS I doubt I'll get any help. Probably I'll get kicked out of my "elite" school for having a developmental disability. Although I know that a diagnosis will not help me in any way, I still want to know.... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Anyone here GREAT at science but TERRIBLE at math? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2010, 9:13 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 27,969
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| Great at science, but maths has brought me near tears many times and I have had meltdowns due to maths. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Which subject is most difficult to understand? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 7:57 pm
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Replies: 71
Views: 25,213
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| Literature and Geometry are terrible. I can deal with algebra now after a lot of practice, but the visual aspect of geometry is just murder to me and if I don't understand something, I take it literally, which means I often come close to failing literature because I can't see the deeper meaning. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Dear "You"...From "Me"-Letters Unsent |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2010, 9:01 am
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Replies: 4,982
Views: 567,374
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Dear self
Your Aspie traits are showing.
Make them stop showing so you can have a peaceful life
Also stop procrastinating because you have important tests coming up in the next month
From,
Me |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do self-diagnosers ruin it for the rest of us? |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2010, 11:05 pm
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Replies: 121
Views: 11,753
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| I'm self-dxed because: 1. It's next to impossible for me to go and see a specialist on my own because I'm 15 2. My parents don't know what an ASD is and I am often scolded for having Aspie traits 3. I can lie to people straight in the face because I don't make eye contact, so I can lie to my parents... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How can you interest a 15 year-old in school? |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2010, 10:44 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,345
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| I'm 15, and my parents never supported me in school. I worked my non-existent tail off and didn't get rewarded, got good grades and got scolded because they weren't good enough, so I lost a lot of motivation. I now motivate myself by convincing myself that if I do well at school, I have a better sho... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The emotional experience of women with AS |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2010, 9:39 am
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Replies: 59
Views: 7,058
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| Pretty accurate description of me up until the second last paragraph (the one about woman/daughter). I've never felt compelled to start a family when I'm older and I refuse to conform to society's expectations in this aspect. However, in school, I've learnt how to be a chameleon. It takes me time to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hosting visitors for school event |
| Winterleaves |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 7:07 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 688
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| I have been forced into helping to host some visitors for an event being held in my school. Part of my (compulsory) after-school activity. I'm particularly worried although I did this last year for these reasons: (I could handle it last year because it was only 1.5 hours long) 1. It's on a Sunday, f... |
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