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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Once a cheater always a cheater?? |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2014, 11:50 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,368
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| I have a cherished piece of relationship advice, earned through hard experience, I give to young women: Take a hard look at his family. If you would not marry his father, end the relationship. If you do not want to become a little carbon-copy of his mother, end the relationship. If you would not ma... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Lets face it some NTs do want to date an aspie! |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2014, 11:31 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 11,719
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| I know it might come off as far fetched but its true, there are some NTs who want an aspie! Sure. Until they find out their significant other starts to act out on his/her autism. Then it's over. Eight years this month. Four children. If he hasn't start to "act out on his autism", when should I expe... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: any successful relationships in which the girl initiated? |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2014, 11:09 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 7,765
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| LOL If it had been left up to my husband, I'd likely still be that "really nice woman" he met .... 100%, I initiated. In fact, I told him to stop chasing after a much younger girl who was clearly uninterested in him (he couldn't tell) and pay attention to me because I was going to marry him. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why is eye contact hard for us? |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 6:51 pm
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Replies: 57
Views: 7,939
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dianthus wrote: Yeah I tend to look at a person's mouth instead. It helps me to understand what they are saying.
If I do make eye contact, it is hard to break away. Kind of like I am hypnotized by it.
YES! Me, too. If anyone asks, I tell them that I'm slightly hard of hearing and that I lip read.  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: babies to kids |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 5:12 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 900
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| For probably 99% or so of people, making and delivering a baby is as common and simple as peeing in the morning. ROFLMAO You've never given birth. Either that or yowzers you must have a rough time peeing. I have six children. Three were unmedicated homebirths, including my largest, who was 9 pounds... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: dating sites are fraud period |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 12:51 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,758
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| Dating Sites are intended to make money. How they are designed depends on the competence of those in charge. Women are very much more social than men, by the time a woman fails socially so badly that she reverts to a dating site something is very, very wrong. Or she's on the spectrum and can be a r... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Is this a realistic goal? (Clinical Psychologist) |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 12:21 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,502
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| My question is - why do you think you could *not*? If you are intelligent and articulate, and you have a passion for it, go for it. There are definitely not enough medical professionals who understand ASD. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Rethinking Me .... |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 8:01 am
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Replies: 3
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| I'm 42, mother of 6, and married to a man with a professional diagnosis of "mild Aspergers". The thing is, though, the more I learn about it, and the longer he and I live together, the more I wonder about ... me. When I described some of the social traits to my mother yesterday, she said, "Your FATH... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how do i get people to stop thinking im being condescending? |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 6:08 pm
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Replies: 35
Views: 7,392
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| Them: "Do you have any Aleve?" Me: "I presume you mean Sodium Naproxen, right? I have 250mg oral tablets if that's okay" I have even used the term "Dihydrogen Monoxide" when referring to water! What's worse is that I work in a blue collar job, not healthcare or chemistry. That's probably why people... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: asperger view vs normal person view |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 5:32 pm
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Replies: 62
Views: 10,259
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| I recently acknowledged there is difference about how people see gift giving. I'm not sure if it is true of all AS or NTs but that's what we think: I (AS) give a gift to someone when I like him/her and want to make him/her happy. Eventually to show I like him/her. My (NT) friend gives a gift to som... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: dating sites are fraud period |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2014, 10:06 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,758
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| Dating Sites are intended to make money. How they are designed depends on the competence of those in charge. Women are very much more social than men, by the time a woman fails socially so badly that she reverts to a dating site something is very, very wrong. Or she's on the spectrum and can be a r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Friendship Expiration Dates |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2014, 9:56 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,171
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| I'm NT married to an Aspie man. From an NT point of view, I'll say that it actually happens to everyone. There are many people out there who are too focused on their own needs and problems to be able to deal with anyone else's for very long. They aren't *bad* people, they're just self-absorbed, eith... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "You'll never get a job". |
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Posted: 25 Sep 2014, 9:41 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,338
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| I'm a pharmacology student, not a pharmacy student. I am either going to go through the research route or just forget academia and ask the NAS for suggestions of employment. Teachers at school said to me "you're so clever, you'll get PhD and do groundbreaking research" etc. Now this person says tha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Ambivalence about Love |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 25 Sep 2014, 9:32 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,896
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| Hi. Does anybody here have conflicting feelings about physical intimacy? I have AS and for me the most pronounced symptom is an aversion to physical contact. I've never been with anyone in my life in any way. (I'm a woman, BTW.) Most of the time I don't think about this and I feel okay. But now and... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's an autistic walk? |
| DoomNGloom |
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Posted: 25 Sep 2014, 9:17 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 8,483
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| My husband and 6 year old son both toe-walk quite often. That's the only weird thing my husband does when walking. My 6-year-old ... I'm not sure how to describe this so it makes sense ... it's like he swings his feet back and to the side with each step, and he tucks his elbows under his armpits, wi... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: dating sites are fraud period |
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Posted: 25 Sep 2014, 9:01 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,758
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| Dating Sites are intended to make money. How they are designed depends on the competence of those in charge. Women are very much more social than men, by the time a woman fails socially so badly that she reverts to a dating site something is very, very wrong. Or she's on the spectrum and can be a r... |
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