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 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Observations in the work place.

Posted: 03 Mar 2007, 12:29 pm 

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I work for a small software company. Out of about 10 people, there are only 3 that don't have some-sort of non-typical brain (I'm including OCD and ADHD here for purposes of non-typical). It's not exactly the most professional workplace. As you can imagine, there's all sorts of drama that stems from...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Are we really missing out on much?

Posted: 03 Mar 2007, 12:07 pm 

Replies: 63
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Yes and no. Humans are social creatures. People who "live in their own world" (Asperger's or no) can certainly miss out on the prevalent society. I should say that persons with Asperger's is merely a subset of people who for whatever unique neurological wiring just don't fit in. Now, there's nothing...

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Your social philosophy?

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 5:55 pm 

Replies: 15
Views: 2,835


There are social rule-sets that are instinctual to most of the population. If you want to succeed, learn the important rules well enough not to horribly offend anyone. Rest of the time, be yourself.

 Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends   Topic: Anyone know how to deal with cliques?

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 5:48 pm 

Replies: 15
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I'm a freshman at college right now and although my grades are very good my social life isn't. I try to figure out how to make friends but whenever it seems like I'm going to make one I keep running into the same problem. Everytime it seems like someone is becoming friendly to me they get incorpora...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Hello

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 5:28 pm 

Replies: 7
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Welcome, You can go out? Order fast food? Please take us with you. You are one of those high functioning types I have heard of, but not much of that around here. Sometimes I wonder how I function at all, but I guess i's all relative. Like anything, it's how much effort I want to put into it. In a l...

 Forum: Getting to know each other   Topic: Hello

 Post subject: Hello
Posted: 24 Feb 2007, 11:51 pm 

Replies: 7
Views: 916


I'm not really diagnosed with anything. But let me put it this way, and see if it resonates with anyone: I used to be terrified of ordering fast-food because I didn't know what would happen if I got thrown a curve-ball. I mean, I 'got' the basic transaction. I ordered off the menu. They asked for mo...
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