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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 100 Social Situations You've Screwed Up In |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 11:11 pm
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| 57) I was walking around the school in Tye-Dye for some cause. A few students walked up to me and said, "You know what tye-dye is associated with, right?" I said, "Well, it's for 'blah blah blah' cause!" They subsequently told me I was a ugly **** and laughed while walking away. 58) I had somebody ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 100 Social Situations You've Screwed Up In |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 11:08 pm
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| When I was six my best friend's grandfather died. Instead of saying I was sorry or something similar, my immediate response was to ask whether he had left her anything in his will. She started crying, but I didn't understand why this seemed insensitive. I got in trouble. Once when I was a kid I was ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you plan out conversations in your head? |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 10:54 pm
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| If it's a new situation I do, yes. Often if I need to have a sort of conversation I've never had before I'll carefully observe how someone else does it and then try to replicate it as exactly as possible. This probably comes across as "fake" at first but over time it gets more natural. When I have t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else experience emotional pain as physical pain? |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 10:40 pm
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Replies: 41
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| I don't think the original post was asking about emotional pain causing physical pain, but rather about emotional pain manifesting primarily as physical pain. In which case yes: I know exactly what you mean. I often feel like I've been punched in the stomach, and often tense it up as if attempting ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Newer and Revised DSM-V Criteria w/ Severity Labels |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 12:31 am
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Replies: 51
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| Hit every one again. I think beyond that fact that daily life has given me some short term charm, my AS goes all the way to 11. Ive always wondered why I repeat certain stock phrases of little apparent meaning aloud to myself, especially in the bathroom when others arent around. I rarely do it arou... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else experience emotional pain as physical pain? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 12:18 am
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| Here's what I mean by this: When I'm really sad, it physically hurts. The best way I can describe it as it's like my whole body stings very very badly or is on fire. It often hurts so bad that I start crying, which makes the physical pain even *worse*, which causes horrible sobbing fits and sometime... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Aspie traits DON'T you have? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011, 12:07 am
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| I don't speak in monotone. I've been told I have a good voice for reading aloud and a good "phone voice". (The irony of the "phone voice" comment is that I hate talking on the phone because I can't tell when it's my turn to talk. I have enough problems with that in person, but the phone is even wors... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's your IQ? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 11:33 pm
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Replies: 80
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| I was tested at least three times, when I was five, eight, and sixteen. (I'm now almost 30.) They tested me so much because they wanted to know what was "wrong" with me-- why I appeared so intelligent but had tantrums all the time and no grasp of social rules. I wasn't diagnosed until I was a young ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: So, what ARE the most common special interests? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 11:20 pm
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Replies: 140
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| 1. Languages. At various times, I have attempted to learn Yiddish, Polish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Gothic, and Upper Sorbian. Fluent second-language speaker of German. Current projects are Norwegian and Cornish. 2. I'm interested in really strict religious sects, like the Amish and Chasidic Jews. 3. Earl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: So, what ARE the most common special interests? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 11:09 pm
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Replies: 140
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| Great, another language learner! Welcome to WrongPlanet. You've studied lots of cool languages. :o Cornish?! Wow, not many people learn Cornish. I used to speak quite a bit of it, but not anymore. Prag a dhysk ty Kernewek? (that's probably ungrammatical :oops: ) Gothic is really cool, but it's too ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: So, what ARE the most common special interests? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2011, 9:18 pm
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Replies: 140
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| 1. Languages. At various times, I have attempted to learn Yiddish, Polish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Gothic, and Upper Sorbian. Fluent second-language speaker of German. Current projects are Norwegian and Cornish. 2. I'm interested in really strict religious sects, like the Amish and Chasidic Jews. 3. Early... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 100 Ways to Annoy Somebody With Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2011, 9:03 pm
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| 174. Poke them to get their attention, or for any other reason. 175. Smirk at them when they check out a book about AS from the library. I may have trouble reading faces, but I know a smirk when I see one. 176. Blow up at them because they didn't know that what they were doing was bothering you and ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 100 Ways to Annoy Somebody With Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2011, 8:55 pm
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| 134) Never directly ask for help. Instead, mention that you will be doing something and assume that it will be understood that you are really asking for help with that task. Goodness I never knew that. Now I know. That's one of those funny rules. Sometimes it is a request for help, sometimes it is ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: When people say Asperger's is a 'mental health' problem... |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 65
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| I have both Asperger's and epilepsy and put them into the same category-- neurological conditions. (Interestingly, a hundred years ago or so people thought epilepsy was a mental illness, too.) Epilepsy is the equivalent of electric storms in the brain-- random electrical activity shorts out my tempo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 10:10 am
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Replies: 1,024
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| I find many magazines absolutely baffling. Why would women want to read a "women's magazine" that is exclusively about men? (Attracting them, sleeping with them, etc.). Why would anybody want to read a magazine focusing on the social lives/family lives/ sex lives of people they don't know, will nev... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: List one NT thing you do not understand. |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2011, 8:44 pm
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Replies: 1,024
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| I find many magazines absolutely baffling. Why would women want to read a "women's magazine" that is exclusively about men? (Attracting them, sleeping with them, etc.). Why would anybody want to read a magazine focusing on the social lives/family lives/ sex lives of people they don't know, will neve... |
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