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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone think Nick Diaz, UFC fighter, has Asperger's? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 17 Mar 2013, 7:03 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I don't know if any of you are into UFC or not but Nick Diaz seems to display some common symptoms of Asperger's. At least from my perspective. He seems to really have trouble getting his points across verbally often having jumbled speech jumping from topic to topic. He also seems to really have a p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Contagious yawning? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2013, 10:20 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,878
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| I don't. I don't understand why I should. I don't understand why people criticize me when I don't. When you yawn after seeing someone else yawn it isn't a conscious choice. The person who yawns after seeing someone else do it yawns automatically, even if they do not want to yawn. I think it is odd ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Contagious yawning? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2013, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,878
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| I have read that autistic people typically do not yawn when others do (which is something that NT people do a lot of the time). Do you yawn when others do? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can an aspie be happy in life without pursuing friendships? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 11:57 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,783
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| Is it possible for someone with asperger's to live a fulfilling life without pursuing friends and actively avoiding making new friends because of social anxieties? Is it possible for them to live a happy life if their only friends are those in their immediate family? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forcing socialization on young adults with Asperger's? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2013, 8:55 pm
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Replies: 54
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| My parents made me do things exactly like this when I was a child and teenager. Telling them flat out, "I do not want to go," and "i hate it there," "the other children try to pick fights with me," etc. and receiving no sympathy, my protests falling on deaf ears. The only thing this accomplished wa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forcing socialization on young adults with Asperger's? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2013, 1:09 pm
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Replies: 54
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| For me, here's how it works: Socializing = stress Being pressured = stress Being pressured to socialize = more STRESS The socializing that worked for me when I was young was the socializing I chose for myself, usually associated with my interests, such as my choice to go to college, and my choice t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forcing socialization on young adults with Asperger's? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2013, 11:16 am
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Replies: 54
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| For some people being forced to be around others is torture. You can't really force someone to socialize, just to physically be near others. If they can't or won't talk or just don't know how to or can't properly socialize it's not going to happen, plus that is assuming that the others they are bei... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forcing socialization on young adults with Asperger's? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2013, 11:05 am
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Replies: 54
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| I think that, as a 23 year old man who was diagnosed with AS at 15, my biggest regret is not trying to be more social. I sit around in my parents home playing video games all day, then sleeping, then waking the next day to play more video games, and not advancing my life. And to be fair, while I'm ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forcing socialization on young adults with Asperger's? |
| bobbylight |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 8:38 pm
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Replies: 54
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AgentPalpatine wrote: I think we should take into account the age of the cousin in the OP, which is not stated, and I don't want to infer too much from the language used.
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And thank you very much to everyone for their responses. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forcing socialization on young adults with Asperger's? |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 1:26 pm
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| I have a cousin with Asperger's and his parents are trying to push him to socialize more. They are encouraging him to go to a community center of sorts for high functioning autistic young adults like himself and try to socialize. He wants absolutely nothing to do with it. He only hangs out with a fe... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: My son is 3 and most likely has asperger's..any suggestions? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 7:06 pm
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Replies: 8
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| A little after my son turned 2 we started to notice that he was relatively non verbal and had some signs of autism. We ended up taking him to the doctor, got him evaluated by the state, and they said that they didn't have a definitive answer for if he was or wasn't autistic but he qualified for spee... |
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