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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Need Advice on Looking for a New Job |
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Posted: 24 May 2014, 5:00 am
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| My brain is going at a million miles per hour in every which direction right now so I'm having trouble getting down my thoughts, but THANK YOU to both of you for your thoughts, encouragement, and advice. I'm currently forging forward as best as I can (by following and having followed some of both of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is ASD doctor-led or patient-led? |
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Posted: 24 May 2014, 2:03 am
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| All the assessments I had as a child for what used to be called 'giftedness' was some-other-authority-figure led. The assessment I had as an adult a year ago was suggested by the therapist and not myself. I DID mention a desire to try and see if there was/is a root cause for my lifelong socializing ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why Do Some Aspies Hate Small Talk? |
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Posted: 24 May 2014, 1:55 am
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| To be honest, it confuses and, at some points, overwhelms me. Not --- I have no idea what's going on, but my mind gets overwhelmed by trying to filter in and filter out all the appropriate and inappropriate things to say and trying to figure out just WHAT to say that is 1) relevant to the small talk... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: A stupid post about feeling stupid. |
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Posted: 22 May 2014, 4:48 am
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| My memory-related sub-test assessments all came back around 70s to 90s when I had my assessment a year ago and though I had complained about short term memory loss issues as being one of my problems, seeing the numbers pretty much validate my feelings was still depressing and I was still upset and f... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Bending a post to your will |
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Posted: 22 May 2014, 4:36 am
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| I'm in my early 30s and growing up in the middle of nowhere in the US, English language was taught to me in phonics, sentence diagramming, and the works. I'm bilingual in terms of spoken languages and being that my parents didn't speak English too well at the time of my primary schooling, pretty muc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it worth seeking a diagnosis as an adult? |
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Posted: 22 May 2014, 4:05 am
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| For all of my life, I simply felt out of place and awkward like I didn't belong and I was considered 'weird' and constantly ostracized by my peers. When I went to university and I was better able to verbalize my feelings, it was me versus a world I just didn't 'get' and had immense trouble integrati... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Need Advice on Looking for a New Job |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 10:44 pm
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| Hello everyone! :) I'm really bad with introductions so please excuse me as I skip straight to the point. :oops: So. I took a severe work-related injury to my midfoot and according to my doctor, I am likely to be permanently disabled in that foot (and related functions and abilities like standing an... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Social Group |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 10:17 pm
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| I personally don't think you're being weird or are weird or wrong for being uncomfortable in such a situation or in any situation, really. 1) You're in a different surrounding and with people you don't know yet. I think even for NTs, they sometimes feel a little hesitation or momentary discomfort de... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Little support from family and friends after diagnosis |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 9:52 pm
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| Right, it's like getting a jacket blurb when you've already read the book. But I think the OP was talking about something different, where she's got a family that isn't so accepting of how she is. ... I think I need to learn to finish my thoughts before I stop typing. When it's something redundant ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Were you considered likeable, when you were young? |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 9:21 pm
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| @gypsy2522 and @BecauseImArtistic , the experiences you described were pretty much me throughout my own experiences through school. When I was in primary and secondary, my teachers liked me - oftentimes the ones my peers didn't like - and younger kids liked me and sometimes older kids liked me (usu... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Stigma and internalised oppression: does it affect us? |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 9:07 pm
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| I've seen it happen in real life to someone else that I sincerely think was/is on the spectrum so yes, I do believe it can definitely happen. 15 years ago or so, one of my father's co-worker at his university arranged for a department faculty picnic gathering and one of the young attendees was said ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Little support from family and friends after diagnosis |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 10:44 am
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| I second what structrix said. Families get used to family members over time simply because of how long they spend together. Habits, behaviors, quirks, are all already a part of everything so in some ways, it's like explanations for these things are very liable to get shrugged off as, "So what?" in t... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do your kids a favor and dont have them |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 10:30 am
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| I think your decision was made based off of your won personal experiences and needs. The OP made a statement that was overly general and totally disregarded the fact that Autism is a SPECTRUM and some have more problems with handling their lives than others. Several of us here are parents and are d... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do your kids a favor and dont have them |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 8:47 am
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| Besides potentially spectrum-related issues, I have another genetic disorder that serves no function at all except to make me significantly more fatigued in a chronic illness fashion than most everyone else every waking hour of every day. I have struggled greatly with both issues and in the past, ha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Rant - ugh. Autism is behavioural, apparently. |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 7:45 am
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| I might have learned to cope better over the years but that doesn't mean it's gone. Just because I'm not having a meltdown in public because of 'everything going on around me' overload doesn't mean that I don't still wish that a mothership would come by and finally, finally, FINALLY beam me up and a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your score on this test, and are you diagnosed? |
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Posted: 21 May 2014, 6:14 am
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| I 'solved' my dilemma by 'compromising' on different questions. I do the same every time I take such tests. Otherwise the results would be skewed from the start. Sorry about the late response; been pre-occupied and forgetful of late. :oops: And yes, the same is true for me. Without 'compromising' o... |
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