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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is Your Longest Running Intrest and Why? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2010, 1:22 pm
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Replies: 43
Views: 4,644
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| Science - astronomy in particular, maps. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Would you rather be right or happy? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2010, 1:16 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 5,931
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| I'm of two minds as well. It depends on who the person is I'm talking to. A small child that believes the moon is made of cheese or who believes in Santa Claus--it's not my job to correct them on the incorrect belief. People who have what I consider to be incorrect religious beliefs--I've learned n... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: verbal vs performance iq |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2010, 6:02 am
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Replies: 59
Views: 21,581
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| Does anybody else have low working memory but high verbal reasoning score? I only had a few performance and working memory subtests, which showed that my working memory was very low (ret*d range), but perceptual reasoning block design was in the gifted range, while the picture concepts was average. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 6:47 pm
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Replies: 21
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| I'm NT but my mum (who is bi-polar) did/does a lot of this. We see her with caution. EmaN - have you read about co-dependency? That emotional push/pull of your mum's sounds quite similar? I've read about it. And yes, I think it can relate to her to some extent. She had poor working memory, just lik... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 3:12 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,408
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| That's how my parents are. I've been called cocksucker, Motherf***er, piece of (feces) and many other things by my father, and my mother just tells me that I can't do it, whatever it is. She is far worse, because on one hand, she tells me she wants me to be successful in whatever I do, and on the o... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Would you say I'm a dumb guy? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 3:08 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,087
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| Often it's not as black and white as 'smart' and 'dumb'; people can be smart in some situations (say, negotiation at work) and awful when it comes to others (i.e. not falling for advertising ploys), and a lot of it just has to do with experience. Understood. However, I am kind of looking for a blac... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do/did your parent(s) offend you? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 12:16 pm
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Replies: 21
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| My mom, who seems to be an Aspie, often offended me when I was a child. By offending I mean using very hurtful expressions like telling me to kill myself, saying that I should have been aborted, that no one will care if I'll die, that everybody hated me, that she could mess up my future etc. This on... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 5:07 am
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Replies: 93
Views: 9,732
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| I'm not going to argue it at length, but there are other ways to understand the world than a particular thing that gets called "reason" and another particular thing called "emotion" and "irrationality". Both my native way of thinking, and another way of thinking that I have learned, fall under that... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 8:09 pm
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Replies: 93
Views: 9,732
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| I'm not going to argue it at length, but there are other ways to understand the world than a particular thing that gets called "reason" and another particular thing called "emotion" and "irrationality". Both my native way of thinking, and another way of thinking that I have learned, fall under that... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Death-- you ever feel scared of it? |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 7:05 pm
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Replies: 93
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| I don't know if 'scared' is the right word, though I do feel a kind of fear/sadness considering that my own conscious existence will perhaps come to an end. I don't think I have any phobia-level fear of it, though. Never. It's because I know it's not the end. I wish to point out the absence of evid... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Moments where you've said the wrong thing. |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 7:02 pm
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Replies: 50
Views: 8,435
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| People usually think I'm crazy when I try to joke in my own way. For example, saying 'A hobo stole my bike today'. It also seems like I said some impolite stuff while thinking it was polite several times. Once it occurred in class, back to the middle school, when I argued with the teacher. I didn't ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Some questions |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 6:33 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,518
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| -I'm unable to talk with the opposite sex, because I simply don't know how to. Even if I wasn't shy, (Yes, I'm shy) I still wouldn't know what to talk about with girls. Virtually everyone in our class talks with the opposite sex for the sake of flirting etc., but I don't know how to. If the opposit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you score on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient test? |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 6:09 pm
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Replies: 202
Views: 40,511
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: This Empathy Thing |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 6:07 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Yeah, I have an impaired feeling of empathy also. I remember when my grandmother was talking about how her mother died before she could meet me when I was a kid (and she wanted to a lot) I said 'Stop talking about negative things'. I said that not because I felt empathy - I did, but because I didn't... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Some questions |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 5:14 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,518
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| The laughing thing sounds like you don't understand your emotions. I just know I did that a lot when I was younger. That actually sounds very true. I can relate closely to this statement. Is it something you just HAVE to do? - Yes, well, it's VERY hard to hold it completelly Is it something you fee... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Dyspraxia |
| EmaN |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2010, 2:12 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 656
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| I can't use my hands well neither. I never move them when I walk, my handwriting is horrible, and when I pick up stuff it often falls out. |
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