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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's your Autism Quotient? |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2010, 7:50 pm
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Replies: 30
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| 43 as of five years ago. Psych says I'm definitely on the spectrum but as a socially capable but quirky 58 year old how definite a diagnosis do I need? I go to a fortnightly AS support group where some of my fellow ASs need the support services far more than I do so I choose to self-medicate with pl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie terms I made up |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 35
Views: 4,511
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CockneyRebel wrote: I love those terms. What kind of an aspie would I be?
We all know you're a kinkaspie KR.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Auditory Hallucinations at night |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010, 1:56 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 6,960
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| All the time. I work in the media and often get newscasts in my head during the night. They're not like ordinary dreams because when one starts I'm aware of it as an observer rather than a participant and they follow a logical narrative. I check in the morning but none of them appear to have been re... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Dogs or Cats? (Poll) |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2010, 6:04 pm
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Replies: 50
Views: 4,191
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wondering what women with autism think of this. |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010, 10:35 pm
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Replies: 53
Views: 4,258
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| I have nothing to add to what underINK said. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do you think God made you an aspie? |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2010, 3:20 am
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Replies: 70
Views: 5,924
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Because she/he made me in his/her own image.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Acting as an intermediary between AS and NT |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2010, 3:02 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,104
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| Alright, I’m nearly 60 so I’ve had plenty of time to get my head around how Neurotypicals work (possibly because for a long time I thought that was the norm I was supposed to aspire to). But since being diagnosed five years ago, and more recently through interacting with other Aspies through support... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how do you feel about the term "asperger's sufferer |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2010, 2:39 am
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Replies: 41
Views: 4,053
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| About the same way that I feel about the term disorder. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Navigating the airport |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 5:25 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,773
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| When I used to go to the airport to catch a flight I always had to remind myself that the ARRIVALS sign on the freeway referred to people who were arriving by plane not people like me who were arriving by car or bus, and that the DEPARTURES sign referred to people who were departing by plane, not ca... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Some questions I have trouble answering on the AQ test |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 8:07 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,126
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homo_aspien wrote: I suspect I could increase my score by around 10% by answering from my point of view as a five year old. There are responses there that have changed as I've better learnt to understand the world. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How many other aspies here don't have their drivers license? |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 8:06 pm
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Replies: 85
Views: 12,221
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Got my licence at 30.
Having it is as much about identification as driving a car.
I tend to ride my bicycle or use public transport if it's available rather than drive. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Some questions I have trouble answering on the AQ test |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 8:02 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I suspect I could increase my score by around 10% by answering from my point of view of a five year old. There are responses there that have changed as I've better learnt to understand the world. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS and Sexuality again... |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 99
Views: 14,450
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I'm male but fairly asexual (in that I don't feel driven by a desire to have sex, so that on the rare occasions that it occurs it's a pleasant surprise).
A lot of my female friends are Lesbians (no mixed messages there). |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Leaving Home |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 6:54 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I have a young Aspie friend - young as in I’m in my late 50s and she’s in her late 20s - who sometimes uses me as a sounding board She was diagnosed in her mid teens, did well at school, is musical, articulate, and a university graduate. During all of that she has been living with her parents and yo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Building Asperger's Society; Who We Are, Who Will We Become |
| homo_aspien |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2010, 5:03 pm
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Replies: 33
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| The Austistic Spectrum is a bell curve that bisects a larger bell curve that is the human race. Somewhere at sometime in the past someone on the Austistic Spectrum worked out how to hit a rock in a particular way so that it produced a sharp edge. Fortunately the NT's present saw this as useful rathe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you lose things constantly? |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 5:08 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 13,400
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| I have a notebook in which write down the things I have to do. The book goes into a bag with my keys, phone, wallet, pencils, mini street directory, etc. The bag goes with me everywhere. The lists in the notebook also help me map out when and where mundane events, which my partner and others might n... |
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