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02 Oct 2011, 8:58 am

You guys were close: SPOILER



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02 Oct 2011, 9:21 am

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How did you get involed with public speaking and do you plan to continue?
It started with me being asked to do a public Speech about 'Autism & Communication' @ Saint John's Ambulance, because we were doing about Communication there. Soon after 'autism cymru' sarted getting interested in me doing Speech's for them, so me & my family went to see the lady whho trained people on the spectrum to do speech's & she looked at the previous speech I had done & agreed to me doing another one for them & said it should be on 'Hopes for the future', so I did that, & now they hope for me to maybe do more & they say they'll probably train me to do them.



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02 Oct 2011, 9:25 am

Verdandi wrote:
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How did you guess it was me btw?


I didn't say anything, but when someone else asked, it seemed obvious. The name on the video was Alex, and it mentions "autism cymru." And it is my understanding that Cymru is Wales. And since you are AlexWelshman, it seemed a logical conclusion to me .

Your talk was great, and you handled it well.
Yes, it is quite a logical conclusion. And thanks. BTW, what type of autism would you have guessed I was after seing this & what level?


My assumption would be that you were diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. While my immediate impression would be that you are mild, it is difficult to make sucha determination from a few minutes of video. I don't know what you're like when you're overloaded, shut down, melting down, when you have to engage in conversation versus giving a scripted presentation, what kind of difficulties you have with activities of daily living, adaptive skills, self-help skills, and the like. I did note you used a reasonable amount of body language and facial expressions.

I'm sorry if that response is either overly detailed or not helpful.
The ammount of detail is fine. About self help skills, I did say in the film that I needed work on my self help skills.



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02 Oct 2011, 9:33 am

AlexWelshman wrote:
The ammount of detail is fine. About self help skills, I did say in the film that I needed work on my self help skills.


I did notice that and meant to mention it but it somehow got lost in the other stuff.

Did you find ABA a good experience?



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02 Oct 2011, 12:23 pm

Very mild--HFA or AS



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02 Oct 2011, 2:28 pm

Verdandi wrote:
AlexWelshman wrote:
The ammount of detail is fine. About self help skills, I did say in the film that I needed work on my self help skills.


I did notice that and meant to mention it but it somehow got lost in the other stuff.

Did you find ABA a good experience?
Well, at the time, I found it hard going, but I'm now glad I got it, for aparetnly when I was very bad; but the ABA's helped me a lot. So I'm pleased to have had it.



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02 Oct 2011, 6:31 pm

AlexWelshman wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
Did you find ABA a good experience?
Well, at the time, I found it hard going, but I'm now glad I got it, for aparetnly when I was very bad; but the ABA's helped me a lot. So I'm pleased to have had it.


This doesn't surprise me. Good that it worked out well for you.

Thanks for sharing the video, by the way.



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03 Oct 2011, 1:52 am

Verdandi wrote:
AlexWelshman wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
Did you find ABA a good experience?
Well, at the time, I found it hard going, but I'm now glad I got it, for aparetnly when I was very bad; but the ABA's helped me a lot. So I'm pleased to have had it.


This doesn't surprise me. Good that it worked out well for you.

Thanks for sharing the video, by the way.
No problem.