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UDAspie13
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10 Apr 2013, 1:40 pm

Joe90 wrote:

....when hearing the words ''nuclear'' and ''war'' in the same sentence makes you throw yourself on to the floor, screaming in a panic

I think that's a lot of NTs as well. Maybe aspies and autistics just tend to think through all the catastrophic details and scenarios and all that all at once which leads to panic.

(says as she's actively ignoring the current crisis because doesn't want to hyperventilate)

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10 Apr 2013, 1:41 pm

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Actually, thats rather universal to the human race. Eating the same thing for breakfast everyday (atleast on workdays).

Agreed. I know loads of NTs who eat the same thing for breakfast every morning, without fail. my mum is NT but has jam on toast every single morning.

I'm Aspie and I don't have a proper breakfast. I just have something really random every morning.

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10 Apr 2013, 1:47 pm

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Actually, thats rather universal to the human race. Eating the same thing for breakfast everyday (atleast on workdays).

I'm self-dxed aspie and I don't eat the same thing every day for breakfast. My grandfather, who's an NT, eats oatmeal, an orange, a banana, and 8-10 ounces of orange juice, every day, without fail.

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10 Apr 2013, 2:21 pm

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...you get upset because Vista doesn't have the defragmentation boxes like those seen in Windows XP. :evil:

I'm not alone.........

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11 Apr 2013, 6:27 am

Keni wrote:

Uranus wrote:

...you get upset because Vista doesn't have the defragmentation boxes like those seen in Windows XP. :evil:

I'm not alone.........

But wait, there is hope! A whole list of defray programs for newer versions of windows.
I can't post URLs because I'm new to the forum so just Google "defreg software win7" as there are tons of defrag programs with nice flashing lights and patterns available for newer versions of win.

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11 Apr 2013, 8:19 am

You know you're autistic when you see a shirt in a shop that's your favourite colour AND looks amazingly soft and you can't help it but run over and stroke it.

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14 Apr 2013, 5:15 pm

Oberoth wrote:

Hovis wrote:

Padium wrote:

TallyMan wrote:

As recently mentioned on the Computing forum... you know your an aspie if you sit for hours watching the little blocks move around on screen while the computer hard drive defragments.

I've done that before with Win98 and could sit there watching it for hours it was so fun! In the end I was like "will the structure ever be finished?"... Anyways, I'm not the only one who has done that then.

WinXP's defrag window doesn't have the blocks anymore.

(Or is there another view option apart from the default?) I used to like to watch them too...

I miss that, I used to spend hours watching them.

I used to be obsessive about tidying my hard drive. Back in the days of MS-DOS, I had to regularly run a Norton Utilities command that would sort the files into order (MS-DOS didn’t display files in order by default).

Then when Windows came out, files always appeared sorted. But I knew that on the disk, they were still unsorted, it was just Windows that made them look sorted. As soon as someone wrote a utility that actually sorted the files on the disk, I got one.

I actually paid for that utility, even though it didn’t make the slightest difference to how the computer ran or how the files appeared. But I was happier knowing that they truly were in the right place in the right order.

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15 Apr 2013, 5:01 am

When you act hyper and stim like crazy when you get really happy!

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15 Apr 2013, 6:27 am

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When you act hyper and stim like crazy when you get really happy!

That was me yesterday! I was so happy perusing my special interest for hours and drinking loads of tea. I was stimming a ton! Felt so good! I love happy stimming.

You know you're autistic when "stimmy" is a feeling.

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19 Nov 2013, 7:10 pm

you believe your unloveable expect to animals , and if a human did love you would think less of them, or at a min what their motives are ?

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19 Nov 2013, 7:35 pm

Padium wrote:

What are some experiences you've had with something you enjoy that most people would question but is common for people on the spectrum.

I'll share one: I have been listening to the same song for at least an hour now.

I can top that!

I've honestly been listening to the same song for the last few years now!

Ever since I first discovered Stars Of The Lid's "The Artificial Pine Arch Song", I haven't been able to let it go.

I do listen to other things at times but I'll listen to it for hours on end as I have done for years. It's something about the harmonics that really gets me.

When I was a kid, our Mum bought us an electronic organ for Christmas and somehow, just by playing around pressing the different keys in combination, I came across a combination of 3 keys that harmonised so wonderfully that I used to sit there and just press those keys for hours just listening to the harmonics. I think my Mum and my sister thought I was wierd and I was aware that it might seem a bit strange but I didn't care. It sort of set the scene for the rest of my life. I never did care much about what people thought of me which is probably why I've grown up such a well adjusted, happy Aspie

Before "The Artificial Pine Arch Song", it was Astral Projection's "Ambient Galaxy". That one also went for a few years

God I'm on the Spectrum - I'm so on the Spectrum, I'm off the scale!! ! :cat:

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19 Nov 2013, 7:37 pm

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Here´s one, I don´t know how many it applies to, but it´s very "me":

You know you are an Aspie if- you have to keep sewing your clothes together again, because they have holes from where you tried to cut off the label...(they sure attach those things well!) What makes it worse, is that I´m a terrible sewer and I really hate to sew.

Lol, I am currently wearing a sweater with a hole in the back where I cut out the label... It's one of several such pieces of clothing!

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19 Nov 2013, 7:47 pm

You jump when you hear a car horn.

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19 Nov 2013, 7:59 pm

Walking across a completely level, flat surface and still managing to lose your balance.

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19 Nov 2013, 8:16 pm

When you have been wearing a black t-shirt under a beige Fjällräven shirt every day for five years, - even at parties.

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19 Nov 2013, 9:28 pm

Greentea wrote:

...you think you're doing great socially at a job at last, when your boss calls you in to tell you everyone has complained about you and finds you repellent.

Oh man. This happened to me earlier this year.
I was hauled into the big managers office and repremanded. And I thought I was doing so well too. That was a real kick in the guts.

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