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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: not aware of how the world functions

Posted: 30 Mar 2019, 7:30 pm 

Replies: 2
Views: 246


Hi, I don't know if I have asked this question before. I recall posting that I "live in my own world." However, I also don't know how the world functions (possibly because I live in my own world), so I have a hard time running my own life. Does anyone else have this problem?

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: feeling invisible

 Post subject: feeling invisible
Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 1:44 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 454


I am good friends with two of my coworkers and talk to them a lot, and we even go out for dinner sometimes. Today, they are talking to each other and I am feeling invisible. The other day, one of them also asked me how I am because she hadn't seen me all day. I told her I was at my desk all day, and...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: managing expectations

 Post subject: managing expectations
Posted: 28 Feb 2016, 3:59 pm 

Replies: 1
Views: 278


I just posted something and discovered that the question was explored in another thread, so I kind of got my answer. This is a bit more complicated. My previous therapist said that I had to learn to "manage expectations." In other words, I expect more from people than they can give. I will...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Misunderstanding people / them misunderstanding you

Posted: 28 Feb 2016, 3:16 pm 

Replies: 11
Views: 1,487


Wow, I just posted something related to this.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Misunderstanding

 Post subject: Misunderstanding
Posted: 28 Feb 2016, 3:12 pm 

Replies: 0
Views: 345


So this happened: my therapist and I are frustrated with each other and I want to find someone new. My therapist asked me if she could help. I said "no." Five minutes later, she gave me a phone number for a referral service for therapists. What I understood is that I could call this number...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Slow mental processing

 Post subject: Re: Slow mental processing
Posted: 06 Nov 2015, 10:40 pm 

Replies: 21
Views: 5,839


I have had slow mental processing all my life. It might be due to OCD or to a lack of self-confidence or to something else. I just know that I've always had it.

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Is it abnormal to have friends a lot younger than you?

Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 5:32 pm 

Replies: 20
Views: 32,447


I read somewhere that Aspie women tend to have either friends who are a lot younger or a lot older. The older ones sort of act as a guide in life. The younger ones are there, I think, because there is a tendency for Aspies to act younger than their age. I have learned to think that there is nothing ...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Levels of friendship? Expecting more than the other person?

Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 5:27 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 689


JerryM, what do you mean by keeping up appearances? Whom are the appearances for? Why do you need to keep up appearances in this case?

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: expectations

 Post subject: expectations
Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 10:52 am 

Replies: 4
Views: 972


I have an issue I can't find anywhere on the internet. My expectations of people and situations are typically the opposite of what really wounds up happening. I will give a couple of examples. I am currently a part of a group of people that belongs to an "agency" that deals specifically with creatin...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: being clueless

 Post subject: being clueless
Posted: 05 Jul 2014, 10:55 am 

Replies: 5
Views: 707


I went to a 4th of July party yesterday and was talking to this one guy about what he does for a living. He said he does compliance in a bank and one of the companies he is working for is a law firm. I have an issue that there are a lot of things I don't know about the world around me. I learned sev...

 Forum: Love and Dating   Topic: Attraction/Love

Posted: 14 May 2014, 6:53 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 969


TallyMan wrote:
(Thread moved from Autism discussion to L&D)


How do I get to L&D? (What is it?)

 Forum: Love and Dating   Topic: Attraction/Love

Posted: 13 May 2014, 9:02 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 969


1401b wrote:
Nope, this is normal for humans.
Very, very normal. Kind of disturbingly so.


So how do people get beyond that and actually get into relationships/get married?

 Forum: Love and Dating   Topic: Attraction/Love

 Post subject: Attraction/Love
Posted: 13 May 2014, 8:32 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 969


Is it an Aspie thing to constantly be romantically attracted to people who have no interest in you and not be attracted to people who show interest in you? I know this is something that happens to everyone, but, eventually, people solve this issue. I feel like I am going in circles.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Don't know what to call this

Posted: 23 Jan 2014, 4:11 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,088


Are you still depressed when you're not as isolated? Isolation makes lots of people depressed. Interaction with other people seems to be crucial for happiness for most people. I think I get what you're saying, it makes perfect sense to me. If no one notices who I am or what I am, then I feel pointl...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Don't know what to call this

Posted: 23 Jan 2014, 3:31 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,088


How do people reply by using the "quote" link? I've been trying to by clicking on it and logging in, and then I get a message that no post was specified.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Don't know what to call this

Posted: 23 Jan 2014, 1:18 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,088


I've been depressed since 2007, for one reason or another. Right now, I find myself isolated. I've been told that I have to learn to love myself. That sounds like a correct analysis of one of my issues. I cannot get up in the morning because my thought is that I have to drag myself through the day. ...
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