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 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Hello - HFA with strong social skills ?

Gulhalla
Posted: 04 Jun 2019, 1:11 pm 

Replies: 5
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Personally, I found this book very helpful when I started to ask whether or not I might have Asperger's about four years ago now: https://www.amazon.com/Autistic-Autism-Aspergers-Self-Diagnosis-Adults/dp/1511760125 Speaking from my own female perspective, a person can certainly have very good--perha...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: The Social RULES Do NOT Apply to Us

Gulhalla
Posted: 04 Jun 2019, 12:15 pm 

Replies: 58
Views: 2,484
One of their rules is that it's okay for them to treat us "less than equal" than they treat each other, but we're not allowed to respond in kind. Yes! The unfairness rankles. It reminds me somewhat of how minoritized languages are denigrated, sometimes in the very lands where the minoriti...

 Forum: Women's Discussion   Topic: Getting diagnosed and being female

Gulhalla
Posted: 04 Jun 2019, 11:22 am 

Replies: 11
Views: 2,200
I am a woman who is very likely on the spectrum and can very much relate to Kayell's experiences and reasons for not pursuing a diagnosis, though I am younger (in my 40's). I am lucky enough to have an old NT childhood friend I grew up with, one who is very honest and who also put her own thought an...

 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion   Topic: Losing A Parent With Aspergers (May Be Aspie Myself)

Gulhalla
Posted: 30 Sep 2015, 12:24 pm 

Replies: 2
Views: 531
I am new to participating on this forum. About a year ago, my beloved father passed away from cancer. He quite obviously (in hindsight) had Asperger's: he was a very intellectual, loyal, and quiet man who focused on studying varying forms of mathematics and a foreign language of interest even in his...
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