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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Supermarket trouble |
| AlexUK |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2009, 5:38 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,679
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| Its quite heartwarming when i read about how people feel and the similarities that a lot of people feel about grocery shopping. Where i live there are a lot of fairly big supermarkets and what i DO like about supermarkets is how anonymous you can be as opposed to walking in a country/village store o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Supermarket trouble |
| AlexUK |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 8:24 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,679
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| This is probally of no great interest to anyone but i just had to post and say what a terrible evening i had having to shop in my local supermarket (I apologise as i dont know if there is a U.S. version of the term). My wife and i always after she fineshes work ona monday and and of course its the b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS e-pals, buddies, pen-pals etc |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 7:16 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,314
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| It may seem a bit "old hat" nowadays what with video posting and instant messaging and the like but where is the best place to look for AS 'e-pals' or the like that is for adults as well as kids because although i know i can post on here you never get the one to one contact where people can comunica... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: are you an unusually fast walker? |
| AlexUK |
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Posted: 25 May 2008, 6:33 pm
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Replies: 91
Views: 7,678
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| I walk fast especially in a any form of crowded area as to just shut out everyone around me and just steam straight through to where i am going. I may walk up a supermarket aisle but if there are people looking at the product i want to pick up then i wont even slow down, look or wait i will just kee... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are things getting worse ?? |
| AlexUK |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2008, 9:10 am
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Replies: 1
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| I love my family with all my heart and am fortunate to have a good sizable and respectable family and yet just the other day i was at a family gathering of about 10 and i found it too hard to cope with so i stayed in another room mostly on my own. And i am really desperate to get the hell out of my ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Imitation of voices |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,695
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| Copying characteristics and voices is something i have always done and have never been able to help. If i watch an actor in a film i can then become and almost act like that person the same as i can perfectly imitate my favorite rock star as soon as i have a guitar round my neck. Accents is another.... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Glass doors in the night..... |
| AlexUK |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,025
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| A typical place would be a petrol/gas station where inside its all warmly illuminated and bright and then you go to leave and you pull open the door someone else is coming through that you haven't seen because you cant see out through the glass because all you see is your own reflection and on top o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Depressed Aspies |
| AlexUK |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2008, 7:51 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,773
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| I look upon it as not so much as depression but a feeling of just being bitter and twisted......Bitter against everyone else and twisted by the difficulties that we all know and have that no one else can understand. Yes i understand and sometimes have depression but on a day to day basis its just a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Real life Heroes |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2008, 5:29 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,503
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Oh and i forgot another kind of Hero......Hans Asperger 
Couldn't forget him ! !! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Real life Heroes |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2008, 7:43 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,503
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| I thought of this the other day.... Real life heroes who have actually lived or are living as apposed to say a fictional person like Superman, Doc Brown or Han Solo.... I have quite a few and these are people that really mean something. Something that i will always bring up in conversation as a refe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Underweight aspies? |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2008, 5:55 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 6,924
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| I have no interest in my own weight or mass or whatever it is but all i know is Ive lost a lot of weight over the last year. Ive never been overweight but i am now finding it hard to keep the right size clothes long enough. OK so i dont eat greens and stuff but i am the sort that if i am busy with m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anaemia & AS |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2008, 5:49 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,415
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| Thanks for the posts and comments, i appreciate that. But medication, vitamins, blood, etc etc is something i just can not get my head round. Like owning a car and not knowing what is wrong with it until bit by bit you start to realise its the "on-board computer" (the brain) or the "fuel injectors" ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anaemia & AS |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2008, 8:13 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,415
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| I will eat oxtail soup but no other. Potatoes but as chips or cheap mashed spud. Noodles but only the real cheap microwave ones. Crisps, Custard tarts/cakes, Crisps, fagots, burgers Crisps, the odd bit of chocolate, beans(but that takes too much time and its too messy), eggs(but not for a long time)... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anaemia & AS |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2008, 7:53 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,415
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Thanks. I read about the lack of Iron and that would because Ive hardly ever eaten a single vegetable in my whole life. When it comes to eating i am very fussy, thats if i eat at all.
So would Iron tablets help my tiredness ?? If so then its a breakthrough ! !  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anaemia & AS |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2008, 7:39 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,415
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| I think i may have discovered why i have some health issues that i just couldn't put down to Aspergers. Tiredness, total lack of physical energy, weight loss, pale skin...All what i have quite severely.... These where what was listed as signs of Anaemia (some spell it differently) and its all down t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A fact that i knew already!! |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2007, 7:15 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,018
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| I really bizarrely love the idea of cramming myself into this tiny space and free falling for two and half hours getting colder and darker..............And all i would see with my own eyes would be a blurry piece of rusty metal......But boy i can not wait till that day comes ! !! |
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