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Forum: School and College Life Topic: What things make/made high school enjoyable? |
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Posted: 17 May 2012, 4:14 am
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Replies: 58
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| I'm with treblecake (above) on this. It was doing speech and debate that saved my sanity and probably my life in high school. We were such a tight, closed group that we knew nothing bad would happen when we went off to do something somewhere; it let me travel around the country; it got me out of cla... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Are online masters degrees legit? |
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Posted: 17 May 2012, 4:01 am
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Replies: 8
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| A certain person I know (ahem!) is doing an online MA through the New School in NYC (legitimate place, for sure...). We've had to set foot on campus exactly once in all this time and I know she wouldn't have it any other way. She was never really all that enthused about the usual college runaround w... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: College + panic attacks. How do you deal with it? |
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Posted: 17 May 2012, 3:37 am
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| 1. How often do you have panic attacks? Probably a couple of times a week. These started when I was about ten. 2. How are they related to your academic life (if you think they are)? Strangely, these seldom are directly related to academics, and if they are it's usually AFTER whatever the evaluative ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Anyone taking/took LSAT? |
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Posted: 17 May 2012, 2:42 am
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Replies: 8
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| I never believed I'd say this, but I'm a 3L now! I took the LSAT in 2010, and I think the advice about preparation above is pretty much correct. I did a past exam under as close to exam conditions as I could recreate at home several times a week for about the month leading up to the test, and I did ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: That feeling of "otherness" -- |
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Posted: 16 May 2012, 2:53 am
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Replies: 14
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| If you've not read "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi yet, take a look at it, all of you. It deals with notions similar to those of the OP in this thread--the idea that you become "other" or separated from others when you're in a particularly creative state of mind. He draws on lots of examples from ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have unusual eating habits, incl food fads? |
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Posted: 06 May 2012, 2:09 am
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Replies: 53
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| DogsWithoutHorses, I've been craving certain fruit juices for months but there is no convenient place to get them near where I live. OP, yes! I cannot be in the same room as scrambled eggs or hard-boiled eggs (there are reasons for this), can't eat an egg that has a hard yolk (when I say "poached so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fitting in with the crowd |
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Posted: 06 May 2012, 1:43 am
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Replies: 5
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| Honestly, it's strange how much you might vacillate between different fields of study. I still don't know what I want to do with this, but after Contracts 1 (which gave me nightmares) and Sales of Goods, maybe I want to do commercial law. Some of my instructors have told me that's where I should be.... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone not really *try* to fit in during adolescence |
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Posted: 06 May 2012, 1:33 am
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Replies: 29
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| Probably did when I was younger (although not good at it...trying to ingratiate yourself with these people was an invitation for bullying), but by the time I got to high school I'd stopped caring and also had found a unit in the speech and debate squad, where you prop up the guy next to you no matte... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Novels featuring Aspies/auties? |
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Posted: 06 May 2012, 1:21 am
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Replies: 19
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| "Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon. The gravamen of this is really what a disaster it would be if there were a "cure." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it normal for autistics handwriting to look like trash? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011, 12:05 am
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Replies: 64
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| Only other person who said he liked my handwriting was, oddly enough, the chairman of the biology department in undergrad. So I guess Dr. Quintans can read it, but no one else can, mostly because it's a weird mix of printing and European cursive with lots of trailing strokes. I've been criticized fo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Spent formative years being told to be someone else? |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2011, 11:59 pm
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Replies: 18
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| Who was it who said "I know myself and that is all"? Was that Goethe? At any rate, yes, I've had the experience the previous posters have had. Being encouraged, nay urged, to be someone else, to drop the constant quoting of things and obsessing about statistics and boats and all of my specialized in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: First time in history!! !! The NT/AS open hotline ! !! !! ! |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2011, 11:44 pm
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| @mindgames: The girl I'm seeing now (basically I don't leave her apartment except to go to forensic science lectures at the law school) found out about my AS the first night we met in a very interesting way. A bartender who's also on the spectrum (who accused me that night of being her "sweet, quiet... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What the worst part of having ASD for you? |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2011, 10:31 pm
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Replies: 88
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| I discussed this one with my doctor, too. It's needing to be in a controlled environment at all times. I'm fine when I'm in class, because I know, more or less, what's going to happen (questions will be asked and answered and/or a lecture will be delivered), although I'm in there with a lot of other... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Talk about yourself for a bit |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2011, 12:08 am
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Replies: 1,451
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| Glad to see that I'm not on this particular thread yet. I'm a 28-year-old law student who's madly obsessed with the law of real property. (I'm a guy...that should have come first?) When I've got free time I work with the debaters at one of the local high schools up here in Minnesota. I also like col... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 100 Ways to Annoy Somebody With Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 1:38 am
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Replies: 710
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| I know this has been commented upon before, but I think this is pretty salient: "113) Tell them that you are going shopping at the supermarket and ask if they would like to come. Then drag aspie to all sorts of places that are not the supermarket, including the shopping mall and a second supermarket... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Animals and Aspergers |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011, 11:03 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I am glad I found this thread, because I was wondering if there's anyone else here who feels a natural affinity towards certain animal species. I guess I know now. The one thing I cannot stand is dogs. They frighten me to all hell. Always with the barking and trying to jump on you...but especially t... |
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