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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: More than just lazy, but no one believes it |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2012, 9:50 pm
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mushroo wrote: For the record, it is possible to be on the spectrum *and* depressed.
I know.
I don't have depression though, haha. Without all these school worries, I'd be happy as hell. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: More than just lazy, but no one believes it |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2012, 9:40 pm
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| I know that many people on the spectrum are able to perform well or even excel academically, especially when focusing on their area of interest. But not me. I have such immense difficulty with motivation, time management, concentration (especially in a classroom due to distractions and social anxiet... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS onset at age 5-6 or ...? |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2012, 2:59 am
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Replies: 27
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Dillogic wrote: Which is why they're including the phrase, symptoms may fully not manifest until demands exceed abilities, in the DSM-V.
Oh. Haha, oops. I've been looking everywhere except the DSM. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS onset at age 5-6 or ...? |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2012, 2:23 am
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| From what I've read its not uncommon for traits to not be strong enough to be noticed by a non-specialist before puberty, Do you remember where you read this? I'd love to read anything pertaining to the fact that symptoms may not be obvious until a little later in childhood. While I did show many s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Lack of pretend play? |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 2:37 pm
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| To quote myself from a recent topic : I daydreamed just as much as a kid as I do as an adult (that is to say, a whole f***ing lot) but I rarely played with toys. I had them, but I didn't really play with them. Pretending was boring. I was/still am obsessed with daydreaming to the point that I frequ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Lack of pretend play? |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 2:30 pm
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| but it may be enough to prevent you from getting an official diagnosis of Asperger's. That's what worries me. I lacked a couple of the most "obvious" signs during childhood/infancy. So even though I match everything else besides "lack of imagination" and "lack of verbal/eye to eye engagement as an ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Lack of pretend play? |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 2:13 pm
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| Despite the fact that I identify strongly with almost every other aspect associated with the very high functioning end of autism, there's always one or two "major" criteria which seem to disqualify me. Such as the lack of imaginative play as a child. I was the opposite of this, actually. All I ever ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Would people want this type of art? |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2012, 1:40 am
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| Sorry that I don't have a professional opinion, but I love the wolf, very pretty :hail: You don't have to be a professional to give me an opinion, haha. Set up an etsy and rock and roll! If you can find someone who is socially adept to help you sell at street fairs etc. that could be good too. Noth... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Would people want this type of art? |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2012, 12:29 am
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| Not sure if I should've put this in the "work and finding a job" forum, so I apologize if this is the wrong place for this question. I'm an artist and I do paintings and sketches. I haven't uploaded any of my work onto the internet, but here's an example of other people's art which are extremely sim... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is this clinical psychologist acting professionally? |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2012, 12:44 pm
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| Ugh. This is exactly what I'm afraid of. Based on what I've been obsessively reading about Asperger's for a while now, this doesn't sound very professional at all, especially since he's never even met you. After all, family members don't necessarily know what the hell is going on in your head, nor c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Dumbing down speech |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2012, 12:25 pm
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| Yes. Even in daily mundane small talk, especially in my school years, I've had to remind myself not to use bigger words or more complex sentence structure. I learned from a young age that it was somehow socially "weird" to "sound really smart" in casual conversation. Kids would always say "Why are y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: In situations in which you cannot talk or struggle to |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2012, 12:11 pm
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| In situations in which you cannot talk OR struggle to talk fluently and/or coherently, how do you deal with other people? Specifically, when you're forced to have a conversation at work or at a club but you do not answer OR you answer but can only do so in a slow, hard to understand, grammatically ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have unusual eating habits, incl food fads? |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2012, 11:51 am
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| I've always went through food fads. As a kid I would only eat cereal, sandwiches, and spaghetti-o's for about a year, then the next year was cereal, sandwiches, and kraft mac n cheese, until I saw someone spit some mac n cheese out on their plate- now I gag and cannot stand the sight of kraft mac n'... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Panic Attacks |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012, 6:18 pm
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Replies: 33
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| I told my psychologist something funny I've noticed about myself. I get stressed about nothing at all and have irrational panic attacks that come out of nowhere, but during an actual stressful situation in which most people would panic and freak out, my nerves are cold as ice. I've been in bad car ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does this sound like Asperger's? |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012, 5:55 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I'm sorry that this is a repetitive question, I just would like to have others' opinions on this. Also I understand that it is not possible to diagnose over the internet, but it is not possible for me to see a professional. I am almost 16 years old and I have never understood any of the social thin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Alien feelings, mental malfunctions |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012, 5:29 pm
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Replies: 8
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| i've read on the net somewhere the word autism comes from greek and its meaning is "escape from reality." the glass door in my parents' house, in what used to be the kids' sleeping rooms, has patterns on it. i saw animals and humans forms that no one else saw. i can daydream about different realiti... |
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