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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Diff between tourettes and stimming? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2012, 7:54 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,720
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| Stimming: - Voluntary -Feels Good/Relieves Anxiety -Often Rhythmic (Rocking, pacing, etc) -Can last seconds to hours. Tics: - Involuntary (however can be Suppressed, I'd compare it to blinking.) -Response to negative feeling. (There is a felt "need" to tic which goes away after performing the actio... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I didnt know i had aspergers |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2012, 7:50 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,685
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| I just found out that I am an Aspie this year and I am 32 years old. It has really answered a lot of questions in my life and made my things events in the past make a lot more sense. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Eliminating vocal tics? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2012, 7:26 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,715
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| I have had TS my entire life and I have had very little success trying to change tics when I have them. A tic will stick with me for anywhere from 6 month to a 2 years. One day I will wake up with a tic and one day I will wake up and it will be gone. I have vocal tics, but I do not say phrase. I hav... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why is it a disability????? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 2:10 am
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Replies: 90
Views: 15,514
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The only way being "disabled" affects me jobwise is not being able to drive. I am 30 and driving is just not my thing. Other than that, I can manage all of my other differences pretty well.
Not driving gets in the way of being hired for many jobs. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you make lists? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2012, 11:37 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,316
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I am also a list person.
I love making "top 10" lists of things that I like. When I was a little kid I just to do these kind of lists all of the time. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you drive? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2012, 8:33 am
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Replies: 134
Views: 12,477
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| Driving is one of the things that I have taken the most flack for during my life. People have always pressured me to drive and I have just never felt comfortable. I can drive. In fact, I went to a drive school. But I have never taken the driving test. I just never feel safe on the road. I think abou... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Empathy Quotient test |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2012, 6:47 am
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Replies: 80
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| 13. I think that sounds about right for me. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Is this tourettes or ocd? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 7:17 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,946
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| I have TS and head jerking is one of my main tics that I cycle through. It really is a pain (literally) at times and it also gives me some upper back problems. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A fun test (well I thought it was fun anyway) |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 7:12 am
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Replies: 71
Views: 7,428
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If people are giving real scores then we are much better than the average group. If the avg. group is 75% we are at least 90%.
I got 92%, 23/25.
I am not great at all at math, but I do think very much in the abstract. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's your work? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 8:22 am
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Replies: 51
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| To pay the bills I work in the Mental Health field. However, my main love is philosophy and religion. I just earned my MA in Spiritual Traditions and Ethics. I teach some, but looking for more work in the field (its rough!) Hopefully a PhD is in my future. I have found that thinking about "deep thin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: ToM, Logic, Deep Thinking |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 7:47 am
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Replies: 53
Views: 4,890
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| I've just had another thought, as I've read the more recent responses that hadn't come through yet as I was typing. Rascal77s has easily (I gather) come up with a number of possible reasons why someone might like listening to music. I suppose I could too. But if I was asked this question in a forma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What have you done to become more likeable? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 7:18 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,459
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| To the majority of people I appear very "normal." I never knew that I had AS until now so I just had to learn to manage with it. My problem is that I don't really care if people like me, but I think that I "should" care if people like me. Therefore, I try not to offend them (even though I don't real... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does crying over empathy mean I don't have AS? |
| SirMixlom |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 7:05 am
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Replies: 47
Views: 7,668
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| I am 32 and this is my first post on this (or any other AS) forum. I was just diagnosed last month after having run into some marriage problems. I have read quite a bit on AS at this point. However, nothing has been more helpful than this thread. Houseofpanda, you describe me to a tee and ask every ... |
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