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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Close female friendships (not romantic) end in explosion |
| HighPlateau |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2020, 11:27 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Thank you very much, Twilightprincess, for giving such a thoughtful response. Have any of these friends had a diagnosed mental illness? Some quite likely BPD and at least one suspected autist but none diagnosed Maybe you have just been unlucky with the type of people you happened to click with. True... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Close female friendships (not romantic) end in explosion |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2020, 2:30 am
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Replies: 7
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| It just happened again. This is about the sixth time a close (or otherwise important) female friendship exploded in terminal rage, hers, all poured revoltingly over me and my apparently intolerable character traits. I tend to apologise for what I can own, but my own distress follows quickly if my ap... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to tell someone they may have Aspergers |
| HighPlateau |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2014, 2:10 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 176,684
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| I didn't do it. Who am I to diagnose something or someone? Exactly! Good for you. I have weaved my way through life using aphorisms and little lessons I learned from some philosophers and writers. One "teacher" made a big impression on me long ago was Gurdjieff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdjief... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to tell someone they may have Aspergers |
| HighPlateau |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2014, 12:55 am
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Replies: 26
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| The only thing worse than ignorant amateurs diagnosing themselves is ignorant amateurs diagnosing others. It's the difference between suicide and mass murder. I think you are deliberately trolling here. Devil's Advocate is a wise and helpful role in a debate. But you have overstepped the line of us... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013, 7:07 am
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Replies: 58
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| I love you people. I have lots of really up and positive and creative times but this is not one. It is wonderful to be able to read your upbeat takes on stuff. Sometimes I am the same and that is not when I need to hear it somewhere else (though still great to hear it expressed). When I am down it h... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: So, starting to doubt my self-dx. |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2013, 7:26 pm
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Replies: 94
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| I am totally on the same page with Verdandi but would take it even further (and don't necessarily expect agreement in return). It is one of the great evils of our present society [opinion] that many people confuse fact with opinion [fact], whether deliberately or out of ignorance. Manipulation of th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 7:11 pm
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Replies: 58
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All food for thought. Thank you, guys, for your sensible words and for humouring me during this brief interruption to transmission. 
Namaste. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 2:09 am
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Replies: 58
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| I don't think this is a once sentence conversation. :) LOL you got that right. Well, as it happens, one of my autism things is I get stage fright. I'm good in group scenarios, but freeze in the spotlight. So this situation is a double whammy: I'm in the spotlight because I'm expected to stand up an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 12:18 am
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Replies: 58
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| I like how you two guys talk and think. So maybe you can help me with this one (not a hijack, I hope, as it seems to follow on, but perhaps worthy of its own string anyway): What do you tell a genuine friend when she asks: "So what is this Asperger's thing?" or "What does it mean for you?" The quest... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2013, 12:08 am
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Replies: 58
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Ah phew, skibum and wozaree. That's all right, then!! ! Better get back to work, me, but please keep chatting and I will catch up later. Who is it you want to swat firmly (though not lethally) on the chin? Do tell!!  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2013, 11:49 pm
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Replies: 58
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| Yes, I agree with you there needs to be acceptance of all approaches because everyone's path is different. Even so, I will never stop encouraging people to get on with life if they appear to be stuck, especially if they say they are stuck and ask for help. I would seldom state someone's perception o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2013, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 58
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| See rewritten entry below. Sorry - got confused about whether it had posted successfully or not and now I can't find a delete button. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2013, 8:38 pm
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Replies: 58
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| PS I do think it a mistake to focus on "diagnostic autism", to the exclusion of all else because it can interfere with getting on with life. If I have said that - and I know I have in different words, though never so baldly, always with plenty of context - the last thing I have wanted was to attack ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2013, 8:17 pm
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Replies: 58
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| No - when I made the original post I was actually responding to a specific post somebody made, but I didn't want to call them out because I was trying to understand what was going on and I thought that would just start a fight as opposed to me finding out what they were talking about. The post I wa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Confusion |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2013, 3:50 am
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Replies: 58
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| Some people are so high-functioning where they slip thru the cracks and may end up not diagnosed as autistic until well into their adult years. I must be high-functioning because I slipped through the cracks so well that all my failures, in EVERY realm of life, were all my fault for not trying hard... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Extreme happiness over everyday things |
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Posted: 12 Oct 2013, 10:16 pm
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Replies: 32
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| ⋅ New stationery. I love it so much I still have a writing pad I got in a Christmas stocking over 40 years ago, and almost every coloured pencil I ever owned. It's a bit harder to make myself actually use them, though - unfilled diaries, empty sketch blocks ... don't let the declutterbugs... |
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