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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's the right answer to "how are you?" |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012, 1:29 am
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Replies: 135
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| I just reply honestly regardless of who they are. I'm not one to enjoy small talk very much, and if the honest answer makes them stop asking about how I am, then that's one less thing I need to avoid. Or I point out bluntly how useless the question is and they tend to stop asking. So far for me, it ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Panic Attacks |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012, 1:07 am
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Replies: 33
Views: 5,520
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| Similar to the others. Starts off initially with difficulty breathing. If advances from there, I lose every bit of ability to think or rationalize what is around or what to do. My legs become useless and numb and weak, and my arms and whole body has this whole sense of something that can only be des... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Having Mental Stability Problems; Need Therapist? |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012, 12:54 am
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| I'm going to hope that most of this makes sense since explaining any of these concepts further in depth would be tedious. Does anyone know of a way to locate local psychologists that specialize in mental disorders? The Thoughts from Mind are becoming too much to bear. I'm lucky to fully go through a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm an Aspie, and I Have Trouble with Emotional Empathy. |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2012, 1:26 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,438
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@The Sun
It seems a bit much to say that the early infantile difference is what determines the breakdowns.
@pensieve
Think it might be what opal and dianthus says? That you just don't see a reason to emotionally care for that? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Could I be an aspie? |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2012, 1:21 pm
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Replies: 30
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I feel ya on the test things. One of the iggest flaws I see in those kind of tests is that they are pretty good at evaluating whether you initially have Aspergers, but after working on improving it for some time, the test is able to confuse us with an NT  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Could I be an aspie? |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 9:16 pm
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Replies: 30
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| There isn't really enough information to say. You mention a lot about emotionally emphatizing with others, but that alone isn't sufficient for an autistic diagnosis. I recommend looking up a list of Aspie traits and then seeing if you can give information on which ones you think you have and then an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm an Aspie, and I Have Trouble with Emotional Empathy. |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 9:23 am
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| So then, does being autistic exacerbate any natural stoicness, or is that completely unrelated at all? That's what I'm wondering. I have not found other people who are quite the same way as far as being so emotionally detached. "I can understand what other people are feeling from an intellectual per... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm an Aspie, and I Have Trouble with Emotional Empathy. |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 7:24 am
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Replies: 15
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| Glad to know I'm not the only one at least! The parts you both mention about injustice has happened to me about a total of three times over the last four years. It is extremely infrequent and the amount of intensity necessary for any kind of reaction to happen is astronomical. Do you suppose it has ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: aspie's sense of humor |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 2:15 pm
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Replies: 12
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| @b9 The humor in the "chicken crossing the road" joke is in its anticlimax. It is a form of joking called Antijokes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor When people tell jokes, they expect there to be a very clever punchline. An anti-joke says "I don't care about a punchline!" and that is what m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm an Aspie, and I Have Trouble with Emotional Empathy. |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 1:56 pm
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Replies: 15
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| I seem to be able to cognitively figure out what emotions people are feeling now by just using a bunch of stereotypical mental rules of thumb to sort out how they're feeling. Usually if even a minor thing appears to be different about someone, I just ask them if they're quite alright and they tell m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My Autism Blog; Personal Rule System Included |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2011, 11:58 pm
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| I have recently "come open" about being autistic and no longer hide it. As part of that, I have been blogging every day about something related to being autistic whether it's about a daily experience I have or writing about another one of the rules within the Rule System. http://aquadragon.tumblr.co... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Afraid of eye contact? Click here for advice |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2009, 2:41 am
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Replies: 33
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I also prefer the mouth. Not only is it much easier to maintain contact of then the eyes, you also get to note some pretty interesting things about people's teeth  |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is this a bad thing? |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009, 6:06 am
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Replies: 4
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| @fredozindo People with Aspergers have only a slightly higher range of intelligence then regular people. Not everyone who has Asperger's is super intelligent, and it is fully possible for an Aspie to be about as smart as any other normal dude. Now with that aside, I don't think either of these are a... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Giving up on friendships |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009, 10:18 pm
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Replies: 20
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| I try to never give up on any friendships that I'm going to make. PERSERVERANCE! Perhaps it's because I feel that 6 hours of boredom or mental torture is totally worth even the smallest amount of happiness, and to me, having friends and people you can talk to (not that I actually TALK to them) makes... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Rude roommate |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009, 9:58 pm
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Replies: 8
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| To be frank, it seems like you are having a serious overreaction to what he does. -Telling you to calm down during a movie isn't something to get ticked off about. You gasped from it happening, and he was just reminding you that a little kid wasn't ACTUALLY hit by a bike, because he may have thought... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Isolated... |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009, 5:14 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Your school wouldn't happen to have a speech and debate team would it? |
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