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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2012, 8:42 am
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Replies: 16,105
Views: 1,282,322
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I guess I fit in here. I'm feeling old, creaky and every one of my forty-odd years.
I might even have posted in this thread before, but I've been a bit sporadic posting since I joined WP - I'm too lazy to check what I've posted before  |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: When did you start feeling like adults? |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2012, 8:29 am
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Replies: 90
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| I never feel like an adult. At work, I always think people think my comments are childish. I get talked down to by people 20 years younger than me. I always feel like the junior in the office, even though I'm, allegedly, a manager. On the other hand, though, when I was a teeenager I never felt like ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Old sites, old friends, lost opportunities |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2012, 8:20 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,035
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| Yes, bit of a random title I know and I'm not sure what it all means myself. Well, I probably do, but please bear with my ramblings, because that's just the strange mood I'm in at the moment ... I was browsing a site I used to post on a lot today, reminiscing about old threads and some of the good t... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Does having aspergers make u immature? |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 24 May 2012, 5:18 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 15,457
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| I always thought everyone else was immature, particularly when I was a teenager. I could always talk to adults better. I don't think having a lack of social skills is immature - an inability to behave as responsibly as possible for your age-group is immature and that applies to people of all ages, a... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Appears socially successful but has aspergers? |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 24 May 2012, 4:42 am
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Replies: 85
Views: 19,918
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| With me it depends what the situation is, and it is all very much related to how I'm having to communicate or socialise with people. I can do a presentation in front of 200 people, but head down in my notes, rarely looking up, I am generally quite good at this, and often get great reviews from peopl... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are u doing right now? (apart from being on WP) |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 9:45 am
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Replies: 11,971
Views: 731,796
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Supposed to be working, but instead I'm just sitting listening to the radio and suffering from Executive Dysfunction  |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Were you diagnosed as an adult and did it change anything? |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 9:02 am
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Replies: 78
Views: 15,823
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I gave up when a doctor told I was too old to be diagnosed with AS  After all, he said, it would have been picked up when I was a child. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: I get embarrassed by looking younger than I am..... |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 8:54 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,870
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You might be glad of it when you get to my age 
Generally people think I'm younger than I am, but the grey hair is starting to be a give away now 
I (sort of) manage staff and they're all older than me - that's a toughy! |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: frozen in procrastination |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 8:49 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,524
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| I appreciate this a lot. I hate myself for the amount of time I procrastinate. The daft thing is that I make myself even more stressed by putting stuff off and I've even put my job at risk, because I can't overcome the inertia. In fact I should be working now, but instead I'm putting stuff off becau... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: The Aspie, Guilt and Security Guards ? |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2011, 10:57 am
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Replies: 43
Views: 6,750
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| I probably look shifty/guilty because I'm that worried I might look shifty/guilty :roll: Having said that, I haven't been stopped yet (only when I set off the metal detector, but that happens to lots of people). When I was a student, there was a kitchen shop a few us used to go to sometimes. They al... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A Question for UK Aspies |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011, 8:46 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,831
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My GP told me I was too old to be diagnosed with AS - he said if I had it, it would have been picked up when I was a kid
I sort of gave up after that... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Are you a morning person? |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2011, 7:53 am
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Replies: 51
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| No, I hate getting up in the morning, but I my reasoning isn't that simple. As others have said, I actually like the world first thing in the day - I love sunrises, birds singing, the complete quiet (well, few people :D ) and all that. What I hate though is that the morning is the prelude to work, h... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Old fogeys ... |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 8:53 am
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Replies: 2
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So, is this the forum for old fogeys? Sorry - no insult intended. I consider myself something of an old fogey on forums, so thought I'd be better frequenting this page.
I'm a newbie here, so I'm just looking around the site and wondered if this is where the "mature" posters go  |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: EYE CONTACT!! ! |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 8:48 am
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Replies: 14
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| It's taken me years to get the right balance with eye contact. I've been called weird for staring at people and weird for not looking at people :roll: As I'm getting on a bit now, I've had a few years of practice. I guess I must have hit the right balance, because I've not been criticised for a long... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Old fart here ... |
| Alnitah |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 8:23 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 701
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| Hi newbie here. I'm a bit of an old fart, undiagnosed, probable Aspie, with a shed-load of history from the sublime to the bizarre. Old enough to date back to the days when AS was just a twinkle in Asperger's eye (well, OK, slight exaggeration, but you know what I mean). Anyhow, it was when doctors ... |
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