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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Academic difficulties, familiar? |
| Salkin |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2019, 9:56 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,353
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| Instructor/teacher quality was certainly a factor. I remember that we used to have a really great chemistry teacher, who was able to engage and amuse the whole class. Then he got promoted, and in his place was someone who was really dry and boring. As I recall, the entire class dropped at least one ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Academic difficulties, familiar? |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2019, 4:56 am
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Replies: 6
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| I've always had a very odd time with academic pursuits. There are subjects I'll absorb just by glancing at them, and others that just won't stick even if I spend loads of time cramming. My teachers were perplexed at my vastly differing grades; they said a good student would tend to have top marks in... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Correcting people |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2018, 8:30 am
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Replies: 3
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| I don't like to correct people unless I truly have no idea what they're talking about. Like if they mispronounce something or whatever but even then it can be offensive to do that to someone. My mom has gotten after me countless times for "contradicting" her. Whether you're correcting som... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Correcting people |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2018, 1:13 pm
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Replies: 3
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| For much of my life I've (probably) come across as a know-it-all, because I have a strong tendency to correct people when they get facts or reasoning wrong. It's always seemed to me like, why would you want to have a discussion based on faulty premises? I'd like to be corrected when I get things wro... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Anyone with Alexithymia? |
| Salkin |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2015, 3:22 pm
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Replies: 37
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| I was going to go introduce myself on the alexithymia forum, but it seems to be closed for maintenance. I'll definitely be interested when it's back up and running. I got rather forcefully reminded of my issues with this just recently. I experienced romantic rejection last week, and I won't lie, it ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: How can I be less of a quivering blob of social anxiety? |
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Posted: 25 Nov 2014, 3:23 pm
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Replies: 0
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| I've been struggling with social anxiety since some point in my teens, and made fair progress in some specific aspects, but in the general case I just can't seem to make a dent in it. Things that are supposed to work for that don't. I'll get exposure to something that causes this kind of anxiety, li... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does your social ability differ greatly per period? |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2014, 6:31 am
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Replies: 4
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| That sounds quite familiar, yes. With regard to functioning socially, and also pretty much all other kinds of functioning. Sometimes I can almost function as well as a "normal" person, but on bad days the simplest things can be a huge challenge. On really bad days I can sometimes barely make coordin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What age are most people diagnosed with aspergers? |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2014, 4:27 am
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Replies: 56
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| I was 30. I think it's mostly because awareness of ASD was lower back when I was in my teens, and nonexistent before then. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you ever suffered from depression? |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2014, 1:54 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,780
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| I've had depressive episodes at various points, sometimes externally induced and sometimes with no apparent cause. I think I may have had one at 11, but am not sure now. I definitely had one at 14, then another at 18 that got to the point of suicidal thoughts, though no concrete plans, thankfully. I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: CBT: has it helped you? |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2014, 4:42 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 7,952
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| I'm glad, but somewhat surprised, to see CBT has worked so well for many in this thread. It was kind of a non-starter for me. Catching my own thoughts in the moment just doesn't seem possible. It may be related to my thinking style and/or alexithymia, but I just couldn't perceive what precisely I wa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Any AS or HFA people who did imaginative play when young? |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 5:02 am
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Replies: 39
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| I certainly engaged in imaginative play, often using Lego or hand-crafted paper models. It tended to have a sci-fi theme, usually space opera-ish. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspergers and bipolar/c yclothymia |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 6:19 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I've pondered cyclothymia before. It might match the ups and downs I have since they're not always down to any concrete reason. Then again... One doctor at the psych clinic theorised a while back that I'm bipolar II (a different beast from classical bipolar... link ) and so I've been on the mood sta... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: All going wrong... |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 12:54 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 910
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| I went to a local careers service to ask about what retraining courses I would be eligible to do taking into account my present situation (on disability, waiting for therapy or just starting out as soon as I get my next appointment...thus far I have only done preliminary stuff though..ie had a phon... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How autistic are you in fact? (self-made test) |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014, 5:33 pm
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Replies: 40
Views: 2,716
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Outing Aspies |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014, 8:27 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,374
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| I'll join the chorus of "no, it's not OK". I was going to make the same comparison ouroborosUK did, and discussing it in private is indeed much preferrable. I don't know if it's exactly tantamount to bullying (depends on how it's done, I guess) but it could definitely expose the target to bullying, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are AS people truly intelligent ? |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2013, 7:29 am
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Replies: 56
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| Just like no im not why should i be smarter because my brain is all messed up. Its like oh you only got one leg, than you must be really good at using your hands. what?. It's not uncommon for people with some form of physical disability to develop better than average skills with the means they do h... |
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