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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I called my girlfriend's mother a c**t. |
| kcizzle |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2017, 2:11 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 980
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| I'm going to look at this from the parents point of view and have read both your threads. She thinks her daughter can do better than you. You have anger/self control issues and have dropped out of school. You haven't mentioned her dad so guessing maybe a single mother and protective of her kid. The ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Are my non autistic children going to suffer? |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2016, 6:23 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,240
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| . My biggest issue right now is when he gets frustrated and pinches, hits, pushes one of them when they are trying to help him. He's a big kid, bigger than me, and has really hurt my daughter a few times. I know he can't help it and doesn't understand but how do I explain to my kids that they just ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: [United Kingdom] Manager says I need to explain my AS |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 3:37 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,866
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| If you worked in a factory type setting you might get away with flipping out at your project manager, but in an office environment you're probably already being managed out. From your age, I'm assuming you're in a junior position (could be wrong) in which case you're pretty disposable and they'll w... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: [United Kingdom] Manager says I need to explain my AS |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 12:35 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,866
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| If you worked in a factory type setting you might get away with flipping out at your project manager, but in an office environment you're probably already being managed out. From your age, I'm assuming you're in a junior position (could be wrong) in which case you're pretty disposable and they'll wa... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: HR/Management Harassment/Retaliation |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2016, 2:57 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,704
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Really glad to hear it all worked out for you in the end. It shows they value you as an employee and are willing to talk things through, which is pretty cool and definitely not always the case. Nice one all involved  |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Reality check: how much should parents organize homework? |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2016, 2:38 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,911
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| The problem is that kids in SPED are generally considered by teachers and school officials as people to get through the system, not as people with potential who should be educated well or taught skills to be used in future pursuits of any value. I think this is true for all kids not just the ones i... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: HR/Management Harassment/Retaliation |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2016, 2:34 am
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Replies: 13
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| Not to be unsympathetic, but Fnord is right. Those emails you've just shared on twitter are internal and will have the usual disclaimer on the bottom about who can view them. Whatever your original issue was with HR has now become irrelevant as you've shared internal company emails on twitter taggin... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Finding and Keeping jobs - Tips and Advice |
| kcizzle |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2016, 3:40 am
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Replies: 243
Views: 422,241
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| Software engineering. It's become more competitive in the past 8 or so years, but that could just be globalisation, the world and ousourcing. It's a good job, but no longer a job for life |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Autistic teen refuses to do schoolwork over aide? |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2016, 3:17 am
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Replies: 60
Views: 3,682
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| Would it be possible to move to a different school? The current school will wait for her to age out or drop out and are unlikely to change their minds. There might be lots of meetings in the mean time, but its pretty obvious they're just managing a situation now until its no longer their problem. I ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Finding and Keeping jobs - Tips and Advice |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2016, 7:26 pm
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Replies: 243
Views: 422,241
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| This still depends on how much they value you. Junior engineers are pretty disposable and there's a waiting list of placement students eager to do their job for free on a year out just to put some experience on their CVs. Become too system critical and you're seen as a roadblock and viewed with susp... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Finding and Keeping jobs - Tips and Advice |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2016, 6:09 pm
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Replies: 243
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| Recently had a youngster (almost certainly aspie) join and quickly leave our engineering team so some more tips: Your employer only values you for what you can do for them, they have no vested interest in keeping "you" employed over any other random off the street Your employer will make a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Why is everything about children? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2016, 5:45 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,430
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| I'd rather sum it up as, "You're no longer anyone else's responsibility, so fend for yourself or die---it's only your business". Bit harshly put, but quoted for absolute truth Governments (only first world ones) have legal requirements in the treatment and well being of children. Adults n... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Condition, not Disorder |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2015, 5:06 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,461
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| My prediction is that with a name change, that is, the low-functioning autism cases being called meta-autism cases, they will gradually dwindle in number, all by themselves. They won't entirely disappear, but they will become rarer and rarer, all by themselves. Which, is a good thing. What you have... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Condition, not Disorder |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2015, 5:03 pm
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Replies: 15
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| The "low-functioning" subjects of Kanner's study actually gave us the present meaning of "autism," it should be remembered. This is a common myth. Kanner's subjects were not 'low functioning' - they ranged from high to medium-low functioning. Several of his cases grew up to be e... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: What do you think of the autism mom blog controversy here? |
| kcizzle |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2015, 9:16 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,385
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| I don't write very often or blog at all, but did respond to someone in the original thread you mentioned about parents being seen as victims. It was a waste of time. A lot of people in the thread failed to see the mother as an individual separate from her child with the right to say what she liked a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Again the parents are seen as victims. |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2014, 8:32 am
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Replies: 56
Views: 3,144
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| It doesn't, an article that length should at least mention the child's point of view in passing. Something like "I know my child has a tough time, but I would like to explain how tough I have it too" would suffice. Why should it? She's writing about her feelings, which she is allowed as a... |
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