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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: are all aspies fast walkers

potatomasher
Posted: 19 May 2011, 11:43 pm 

Replies: 103
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I always walked fast (edging on running, but not quite there). It seemed to me that if I was going to walk, I was going to walk well (fast). In my case I don't think it is anxiety, it is just getting somewhere. However, I usually try to look "normal" to avoid problems, and it never occurred to me th...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Lessons learned from adult diagnosis

potatomasher
Posted: 19 May 2011, 11:27 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 2,372
Hi, I was diagnosed as an adult too. It is strange because so much of the material is on children and not adults. And I came to the diagnosis after consulting therapists about other problems: depression and intermittent-explosive-disorder. In my case it was a stray question: "Do I have a touch of As...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism: Mild vs. High-Functioning

potatomasher
Posted: 12 May 2011, 9:50 pm 

Replies: 16
Views: 8,283
I think the labels must have been invented by an NT psychologist. Mild or High-Functioning are probably aimed at observable behaviors and don't take into account the problems inside. I describe myself to NTs as "High-Functioning-Autism" and when people look at me like I said something crazy I say: A...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism: Mild vs. High-Functioning

potatomasher
Posted: 11 May 2011, 6:35 pm 

Replies: 16
Views: 8,283
That is a really good question. I started out asking a psychiatrist if I had a "touch or autism" or "mild autism." Turns out that I have either Aspergers or High-Functioning-Autism depending on an answer to a question about my vocabulary at three. Nobody knows the answer. He didn't use the term "mil...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: What's your current obsession?

potatomasher
Posted: 11 May 2011, 6:28 pm 

Replies: 210
Views: 71,380
Currently I collect potato mashers (over 500 distinctly different ones). And I am getting into boondoggle (new weaving patterns). Before that: Hippopotami Angels Younger Chess Mathematics Dinosaurs Bottle caps It is dangerous to get me talking about any one of these, besides bottle caps. I don't rem...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: what causes the social issues with aspergers?

potatomasher
Posted: 05 May 2011, 12:24 am 

Replies: 25
Views: 3,913
On empathy, recent research is confirming that we really do have empathy (nice of those researchers to notice that). However, we are poor-to-really-poor at picking up clues about what others are thinking. So we don't always pick up on situations in which we would be empathetic. Some researchers call...
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