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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Unhealthy Friendship |
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Posted: 27 Sep 2007, 7:48 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Guess I am writing to see if anyone else has experienced what you would call an unhealthy friendship? My dd is 19, freshman in college well I guess that may have been what helped to finally be the straw that over heaped the camel. My dd has had this one friend since she was about 15. This friend has... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Where to buy Aspie t-shirts online? |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2007, 9:43 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,489
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sometimes I just don't believe it! |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2007, 10:02 am
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Replies: 3
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| Thought I would relate this to others who would understand the frustration from this incident. A few weeks ago we took my daughter to the airport, she just turned 19 and had never flown. She was going to Australia and had to take a flight from OKC to LAX to meet the group she was going with. She was... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: need ausie travel info |
| gili |
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Posted: 01 May 2007, 8:19 am
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Replies: 3
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| :roll: I know this probally isn't the best venue for these questions but not sure where to get the info and I know there are a lot people from Australia on this site. My dd is traveling there this summer for a couple of weeks and I am a country bumpkin that has never left the states in my life so I ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Homeschooling. |
| gili |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2007, 8:34 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,282
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| I don't know about Australia, but here we have what is refered to as Homeschool groups. These are groups of homeschool families that live in a general area that arrange activities together. There are are usually so many that you have to choose whcih ones you want to participate in. Things like scien... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Homeschooling. |
| gili |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2007, 9:44 am
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Replies: 18
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| I homeschooled both my kids. My son graduated in 2001, my daughter with AS graduates this year. She was homeschooled her entire life with the exception of a semester in private school as a freshman and a semester in public school as junior. She wanted to try them and see what they were like. She kep... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: sensory overload on a stick (eating out) |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2007, 9:36 am
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Replies: 26
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| I know exactly where you are coming from! This weekend we went for a drive to a wildlife refuge my dd loves to visit. There is a nice restuarant close to it that she loves to eat at. We go in, as luck has it we are seated by this table where these people just keep getting louder. DD gets up goes to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: what was it?? |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 5:37 pm
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Replies: 7
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| sorry ment to type crowd, crowd noise. There have been times before when there has been a food change and she doesn't like it, but it never bothered her like that. But, things kind of started adding up I think and to much was an overload. Her diag is aspergers or pdd, they debate on which one. Thank... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: what was it?? |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 2:03 pm
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Replies: 7
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| I hope someone here has idea to what this was or is. Today everything seamed ok, dd was fine. We went to eat lunch some things weren't like she liked but normally she gets around that. ( buffet didn't have her favorite outs) the crown noise got her fast, so put on headphones and tunes. But she start... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: college & SSI |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 11:10 am
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Replies: 3
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| Does anyone know if it is possible to get SSI while in college? Some say apply some say don't. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: air travel |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2007, 8:53 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,086
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she will travel OK to CA and CA to Australia. Thought also about buying some of those bose headphones that cut out all noise, if they work.  |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: air travel |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 7
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| My 18 yr. daughter is making a major trip this summer and has never flown before. She is not to worried about anything other than if the plane will bother her sensory issues. She is worried about the pressure and noise with her hearing sensitivity. Is their anyone with that experience and ideas how ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory question |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2007, 8:12 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Need to know if sensory issues on anyone else seem to increase if you don't feel well or have sinus troubles. My daughter has been doing really well on a new natural treatment for anxiety and seemed in better control of her sensory issues. But the last few days she has been feeling bad with sinus is... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Anyone have info on the ASDS test |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2007, 11:12 am
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Replies: 7
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| Does your kid stim, if she does I wonder how they explain away your kids stims? What ignorant fools. Yes she stims, has meltdowns, everything else that goes with it. Sensory issues are extreme and he thinks she should share a college dorm. I can gaurantee that would not work for long. We didn't eve... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Anyone have info on the ASDS test |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2007, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 7
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| I need to know if anyone knows much about this test. I am interested if anyone has heard of someone showing AS on this scale and then being told they are to smart so the results don't matter. I'm an angry mom right now. :evil: Got the dx yesterday and we were told no matter how that DD scored in the... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: voice issues |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2006, 9:24 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,004
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| I am trying to find out if any else with AS has trouble with their voice sounding much too young for their age. My daughter's voice sounds much younger than her 18yrs. Talking on the phone for her has its problems and yesterday it actually proved to be a real problem. She had an important phone call... |
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