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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: How do I find a good psychiatrist? |
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Posted: 22 Sep 2020, 12:30 pm
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| Thanks for the reply! I'm in the Columbus, OH area, and I'm not particularly looking for an autism diagnosis. I just want help with my specific issues. I also want to review my medications and see if they are still the best ones available for me. But I figured that a therapist with some autism knowl... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: How do I find a good psychiatrist? |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2020, 5:26 pm
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| In my 20's I suffered from what, in this forum, we might call executive dysfunction - running and hiding from stressful work and issues. At the time, we called it depression, and medication seemed to smooth it out. Since then, I've come to suspect I'm on the high-functioning region of the autism spe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Guns as the great equalizer |
| domanite |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2015, 11:04 am
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Replies: 280
Views: 8,814
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| To anyone who wants guns to be taken away, please read this, it should convince you to change your mind. Guns take force out of the equation, so that only persuasion can be used. Intuitively false, and certainly not obviously true. Guns project force, more guns provide more opportunity for use of f... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to survive school, the real truth.. |
| domanite |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2015, 9:59 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,368
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| Bullies usually go for the weaker target, therefore even if someone stands up to them and gets their asses beat, they'd still think twice before trying to mess with them next time..this is a fact. Is this based on personal experience? I don't have a lot of personal experience with bullies, but I al... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to survive school, the real truth.. |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2015, 9:47 am
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Replies: 45
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| Why don't parents teach their kids the real essentials to making it through school? - learn how to stand up for yourself, - learn how to fight, - learn how to talk trash...for real. If all you got is these they'll get far. There would be hardly any suicides from bullying, or kids shooting up their ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What is the best way to apologize? |
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Posted: 27 May 2015, 9:21 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,735
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| The key thing to remember is that an apology is "about" the other person, not you. So you go, you apologize, and then just listen and agree. If you find yourself explaining anything, you're doing it wrong - it probably sounds like you're making excuses. That's apology 101. If its someone y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Annual Company Picnic - Whew, it's over! |
| domanite |
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Posted: 18 May 2015, 3:09 pm
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Replies: 2
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| How big is the company? When I worked for Microsoft, the company picnic was like 15,000 people, so nobody really knew or cared if you went - you'd be lucky to see anyone you knew. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Any Collectors? |
| domanite |
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Posted: 18 May 2015, 2:59 pm
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Replies: 23
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| I used to collect comic books, but that was a while ago. I still have a bunch in boxes - I have this fever dream that someday I'll open them and discover they are worth "one ... milion ... dollars!" (said in best Dr. Evil voice.) |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: considering making an illustrated guide to facial emotions |
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Posted: 18 May 2015, 2:56 pm
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Replies: 5
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That's a cool idea! I wonder if it would be better using a dynamic medium, like YouTube? Expressions aren't generally just static. (Sorry, I know that steps on your "I'm an artist" line - feel free to ignore me.  ) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: asperger, anxiety, meltdown and career |
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Posted: 18 May 2015, 2:53 pm
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Replies: 19
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| Today I felt really bad and I can't stop thinking about that. You are going to do great. You're having a rough patch; assignments due and lots of stress. Try to remember it is temporary. Find some islands of peace in your stress. Get help - others can be surprisingly helpful, if you ask. Don't beat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you find it hard to form close friendships with most peop |
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Posted: 18 May 2015, 2:32 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,749
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| Ok yes people chat to me at work, and I chat to them as well. That's good. But I see others having much more in depth friendships with each other, deep enough to do more things than just meeting up for lunch, but I mean things like going on holiday together, being invited to each other's parties or... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: VERY upset when you can't find something |
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Posted: 18 May 2015, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 37
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| Frustration leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to The Dark Side. :) Seriously, though, frustration, especially unexpected frustration, makes me irrationally angry. Fortunately I don't have a problem with self-control, or my kids would be in big trouble every time they wait until they ar... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Rants |
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Posted: 15 May 2015, 8:04 pm
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Replies: 9,452
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| This used to happen to me a lot back in high school and the post-years. I'd try and give the best and advice and do what I felt was right and hope that they felt better about everything. A lot of the time my friends would come back to me saying "I should have taken your advice" or "y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is confidence and how can it be pulled off? |
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Posted: 15 May 2015, 7:27 pm
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Replies: 2
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| For example right now as counterproductive as it might be, I would like to be confident enough to do my homework but I think that maybe by talking about this important topic I'm procrastating from taking action which I should take but I'm not very confident once I do enter " the sphere of acti... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is confidence and how can it be pulled off? |
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Posted: 15 May 2015, 7:22 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I'm no expert on confidence, either academically or in practice, but my intuition says that confidence lives in the realm of emotions and social skills, not in the arenas of logic and philosophy. I know, that sucks for those on the spectrum, but it doesn't mean confidence is impossible - just harder... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: NT female looking for advice from AS male |
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Posted: 15 May 2015, 7:02 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 735
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| I'm trying to just give him space & it breaks my heart because I can see that he's not happy but I'm not sure what else I can do at this point. Everything you've said so far sounds like you both care about each other. He has some issues keeping him from moving, and the fact that he said he woul... |
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