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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What Are Your Academic Strengths? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2014, 1:27 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 3,686
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Physics, chemistry, applied math
The only things I could ever prove I was good at. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Confusing/bizzare childhood experiences/Anyone else? |
| kifotv |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2014, 11:41 pm
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Views: 740
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| tl;dr at bottom (I'd rather responses than full reading) Hi all. I've been lurking for a few months, but have really wanted to post a thread asking for some similar early experiences. I guess first I'll note I'm not diagnosed, although my mother and at least two doctors did say I showed several ear... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you choose your special interest? |
| kifotv |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2014, 5:07 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,644
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| My special interests are like a tree. Branches often grow, expand, branch off or die. My original special interest is music. Then my special interest became playing music. That turned into playing piano. Playing piano turned into being obsessed with Yamaha keyboards. I got a bit interested in elect... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you choose your special interest? |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2014, 4:40 am
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Replies: 42
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| I guess the answer would be that it's the same reason any person is interested in anything, which is just the person that they are. The things people are interested in are so intertwined with a persons identity I don't think you can really weed out the reasons and causes in a general sense. I'm assu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I am tired of accomodating other people |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2014, 3:30 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,203
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| The easiest (and funnest) way to accomplish this it to act like an outrageous and gregarious flaming fag. Because it's so fun (at least for us, and usually for them) MUCH is forgiven! Now you're seen as an in-touch, self-aware, sophisticated, fun loving person that means no harm by our words or ecc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: TV subtitles anyone? |
| kifotv |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2014, 3:22 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,116
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| Said no, although I do use them sometimes. I usually don't mind not knowing/focusing on what they're saying and just watching, but if I'm alone I like to use them and listen to music or silence, plus the ads are always sensory shock and overload. They do seem to make people angry, I even saw a guy c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting into arguments? |
| kifotv |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2014, 12:56 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,744
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| I wish that co-workers and other people I have to deal with would say that they're mad, and why they're mad, instead of just silently escalating. It's like they want to get so mad they explode on someone they barely know, god forbid they deal with it rationally and assume I'm a halfway decent human ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Sharing an apartment or living alone - What works for you? |
| kifotv |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 4:07 am
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Replies: 36
Views: 16,697
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| I've lived alone a few times, I don't really like it. It's nice to not have to worry about noise or running into someone, but the stillness gets to me, everything just frozen and cold, in the same place all the time, isolated, awful. If there's no one to complain about dishes or smells or messes why... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Pointless greetings |
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Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 3:08 am
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,457
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| Think about the alternative, just looking straight ahead and ignoring everyone you walk past like Eccles said. That would lead to a sterile environment. It's not a big deal. It's not really a big deal, but it is exhausting, especially when you have to do it 40-50+ times a day. When I am out of ment... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Accepted to state insurance, what now? Help with shrinks :( |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 3:00 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 651
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| If you can, do let us know how it turns out. I'm interested in the path that works and resolves all of this as well (fear I may soon be in the same position). |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Answering questions about my social skills |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2014, 3:16 am
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Replies: 1
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| Is there anyone that has witnessed you meeting numerous people? Maybe someone in class, a teacher, a boss, etc. could answer some questions if it's for something important to you. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Accepted to state insurance, what now? Help with shrinks :( |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2014, 2:54 am
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Replies: 7
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| I actually ended up exempt from the program because I completely melted down at the meeting for it, in a room full of 20 people. The head of the program told me I "obviously have some issues I need to work through before I can move on with the program". My insurance will help me find a shrink, and ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nootropics |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2014, 3:02 am
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Replies: 7
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| Around 19 I quit smoking, stopped drinking caffeine, and took 5g of piracetam daily (iirc). I think it helped my coordination and planning, I stopped dropping things and blanking out. I believe I took it with omega-3 and b12 supplements. It also relieved a lot of the ear ringing. I miss taking it, t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic Spectrum - Dream Questionnarie |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2014, 3:09 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,312
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| I took the survey. It's odd you didn't ask about lucidity. I think it'd be most interesting to see how people's dreams compare to their lives, but dreams in general, as far as effects from autism, is an interesting thing to research. Are you planning on disclosing any of the results from this poll? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Urge to whistle |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2014, 3:29 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,570
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| I whistle constantly. It's really calming to whistle the tone of someone else's speech with a 1-2 second delay. I've even learned to whistle two tones at once. Occasionally I've (seemingly) been able to mimic car alarms, telephone rings and cell phone alert sounds well enough to fool someone. Someti... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Bringing Out the Social Side of Me |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2014, 2:46 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 615
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| At parties I end up going to (relatives birthday, etc), people usually put on some awful loud hip hop beat and freestyle over it. I've only done it once, and I did awful, but everyone seemed happy. I also went to a yoga class out of the blue one day. I was the only guy, and got dirty looks the whole... |
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