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 Forum: Women's Discussion   Topic: emotional aspie female?

zelephant
Posted: 12 Mar 2011, 10:16 am 

Replies: 38
Views: 7,815
When oh when will these dumb "psychologists" pull their heads out of the bucketful of stereotypes they're stuck in? When will they start seeing people as individuals with unique personalities instead of just a condition that only presents in 1 way that their outdated "knowledge" knows of? Soooooooo...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Do you mumble or shout?

zelephant
Posted: 12 Mar 2011, 9:57 am 

Replies: 49
Views: 5,871
If I'm speaking about something that interests me or excites me, then I do speak loudly. I never notice but someone always tells me to quiet down. That's always embarrassed me a lot.

If I'm down I'm rather quiet and monotone, but never so quiet that people can't hear me.

 Forum: Television, Film, and Video   Topic: Aspie characters on TV

zelephant
Posted: 12 Mar 2011, 8:39 am 

Replies: 112
Views: 21,884
No one has mentioned Abed from Community. In the beginning of the first season, another character "diagnoses" him as having Asperger's, through out the show, other characters refer to how he is "different" or odd. Although Abed is a bit of a caricature at times, I love how he is shown as being obses...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Emotional attachment to objects - an AS thing?

zelephant
Posted: 12 Mar 2011, 8:17 am 

Replies: 82
Views: 35,315
I'm not especially attached to objects, (I prefer to throw out things that no longer serve a purpose), but I do hate change and don't adapt well to new things. I guess this could seem like an attachment to objects, when really it is more reluctance to change what works and what I'm comfortable with....

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: What annoys or upsets you?

zelephant
Posted: 11 Mar 2011, 12:56 pm 

Replies: 109
Views: 11,935
I can relate to so much that has been written! some of the many things that annoy and upset me: intrusive noises- especially mouth noises crowds most people bullies racists, sexists, homophobes- bigots of any type conversely, I also hate the overly PC attitude where you can't say anything when peopl...
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