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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: why the bullying ? |
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Posted: 04 Sep 2010, 7:36 am
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| If you want an explanation for why some people are abusers, have a look at this: http://www.escapeabuse.com/npd.pdf thank you primaloath. i read parts of the document about narcissists and i think that what he is. i first realized it when read about their use of language with their own private mean... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is "overlearning" why we don't respond to faces? |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2010, 3:00 pm
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| After probing the situation with a few more thoughts, succeeding at putting on some fake but realistic faces by invoking the emotion that would normally elicit them, I came to suspect the reason why it was difficult for me to pay attention to my face: I was constantly suppressing whatever facial ex... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: why the bullying ? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2010, 4:04 pm
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| competition for environmental resources? just a thought. watching nature in my backyard, i see bullying hummingbirds who are always chasing away other birds from "their" feeder. There's a clear interest for them in chasing the other birds away, but I fail to see why would an older boy chase a kid a... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How often do you go out? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2010, 2:13 pm
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what do you mean by "go out"?
if it's socializing, then practically never since HS, and it literally was going over to someone, usually school related.
if family events, then a few times a year.
otherwise I "go out" everyday, for exercise or for the walk and fresh air. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Spirituality, religion and aspergers |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2010, 8:26 pm
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| hi haven't posted here for awhile... Looking back, it must be easy for people to recruit new church members from aspies. ... Meaning well is all good and fine, but to my mind this reeks of taking advantage of vulnerable people... ... Have other people here had a similar experience? Where you have go... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: why the bullying ? |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2010, 2:59 pm
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| but why did they do it for ? what did they gain from it ? they already *knew* they were stronger (which is why they picked on me in the first place) ? i understand why they didn't see problem doing it - when mr. burns was asked how he could destroy marine life for his fish oil business, he answered ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: why the bullying ? |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2010, 1:36 pm
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| hi i haven't posted for a long while in the forum. i'm 27yo, and not officially dx'ed (though one time in a brief session a shrink said i could be schizoid, which i guess my evident high pain tolerance supports it ) i don't know how many share that experience, recently i'm trying do figure out what ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: too many trees to see the forest... |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
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| hi everybody, this is my first post in the forum... I've read somewhere about the AS trait of details-oriented thinking, as opposed to the way in which NT's tend to see things in general ideas. That seems to describe the way in which I think - as a matter of fact, i sometimes think it's so extreme i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: too many trees to see the forest... |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2007, 6:53 pm
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Replies: 16
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| hi everybody, this is my first post in the forum... I've read somewhere about the AS trait of details-oriented thinking, as opposed to the way in which NT's tend to see things in general ideas. That seems to describe the way in which I think - as a matter of fact, i sometimes think it's so extreme i... |
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