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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: What are the benefits/good things about having aspergers? |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2011, 9:39 am
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| It was also when I was 17 that I wrote my book "The Madhouse of Love" also in a kind of stream-of-consciousness style about my experiences in a psychiatric unit in my early teens. I was alone and depressed at the time in a bedsit in London but that book was something good that came out of it. I wrot... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Embracing loneliness/solitude...? |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2011, 9:12 am
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| I wouldn't be worrying too much about your reputation as everyone worries about that at your age. When I was in my mid-teens, I had problems with my parents, I was being bullied all the time at college, I couldn't find a girl-friend and didn't have any real friends. However, I think that my imaginat... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: moral corruption: creeping at lower ages |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2011, 5:53 am
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| In England, alcoholism took off when William of Orange insisted of importing cheap gin from Holland without subjecting it to tax. That started off the so-called gin-drinking period in England in the 18th Century when whole families got drunk on the streets. Alcoholism has probably always existed. In... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: moral corruption: creeping at lower ages |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2011, 1:41 pm
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| When I was a teenager back in the 1970s in a small town in Scotland, there wasn't much talk of drink or drugs, although I had known three people who smoked cannabis, all of whom were girls. On the other hand, sex was a common subject of conversation, although most of us were sexually inexperienced. ... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Does anyone have religious beliefs viewed as odd by others? |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2011, 12:18 pm
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| It depends what you mean by God. God may be the spirit of the whole universe or he may be some being from another planet in another solar system. We don't really know, but it would seem to me that we may destroy this world fairly soon and perhaps those who are closest to God (in some sort of Panthei... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Your Experiences With Marijuana...If You Have Any |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 5:12 pm
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: What was your most embarressing moment |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 4:46 pm
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Interesting!! !
When I was 15 years old, I was a patient in an adolescent psychiatric unit.
I used to always sleep naked and one night, three girls of about my age, one of whom I really fancied, came round to my room and shoved all the covers off me.
I loved every minute of it!! ! |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Good Book!! |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 4:31 pm
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| Try Hermann Hesse "Demian". Although written in the 1920s, it is still as relevant today, particularly for people with Aspereger's. |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: What kind of music you listening too |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 4:26 pm
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| Anyone ever listened to very early Pink Floyd albums, e.g. Ummagumma, A Saucerful of Secrets, Atom Heart Mother? It's very imaginative music which will probably appeal to people with Asperger's (It did to me when I was a teenager and still does now). |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: What are your obsessions???? |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 4:14 pm
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| When I was a teenager, I had an obsession with astronomy. It was considered to be a sign of mental illness. As far as I am concerned, it was just an interest, with which I had a particular fascination. It may even be something that could come in useful some day if we ever have to leave this planet w... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: What are the benefits/good things about having aspergers? |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 4:07 pm
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| People on this forum seem to me to be more intelligent and also more genuine than people I have come across in any group of people before either on the Internet or anywhere else. It can be rather worrying that some people might see this as a symptom of mental illness. In any case, I find this to be ... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: How old is a "young adult"? |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 3:21 pm
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| It shouldn't matter. At the age of 12, I was annoyed at being still called a child, but that was probably just to do with peer pressure, particularly from my older brother. Later, I couldn't wait to get out of my teens, so that I could be considered an adult, but what difference does it make really?... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Does anyone have religious beliefs viewed as odd by others? |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 2:37 pm
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| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having read most of the posts on this topic, I feel that I can relate to most of what you people are saying as I felt similar when I was a teenager, which is what made me wonder if I may have had Asperger's Syndrome and... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Embracing loneliness/solitude...? |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2011, 2:21 pm
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| Having read most of the posts on this topic, I feel that I can relate to most of what you people are saying as I felt similar when I was a teenager, which is what made me wonder if I may have had Asperger's Syndrome and I would tend to agree with the founder of this website that it is a condition, n... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Embracing loneliness/solitude...? |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2011, 2:07 pm
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| Did you ever listen to the words of the song "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel? I would say that describes much of what you are saying and what people like ourselves have experienced. |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: book written by teenager about psychiatric unit |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2011, 1:51 pm
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| Having joined recently, I would like to interest you in my book The Madhouse of Love. The Madhouse of Love, which I wrote at the age of 17, is based on my experiences in an adolescent psychiatric unit in my early teens. The following made me think that I might have had Aspereger's syndrome: At the a... |
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