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Arganger
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03 May 2018, 1:13 pm

cubedemon6073 wrote:
Arganger wrote:
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It is silly from my experience for them to think autistic children don't have imaginations, or lesser ones.

My imagination was so vivid I couldn't always tell as a kid if it was real or not, same with dreams. I had imaginary friends too. Most autistic people I meant personally also had good imaginations as well, with some exceptions.

What did they think of autistic savants in art?


I think these experts are smoking to much chronic.


I don't understand that remark.


Meaning, they've got to be doing so much drugs (more specifically weed or marijuana) that they fried their brain or how else could they have come up with something so ridiculous. It's meant to be tongue in cheek sarcastic remark. Do you understand?


Yes, thank you.


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03 May 2018, 2:29 pm

As a kid I made up a girl in my head, but I actually pretended I was her, while the real me was the 'invisible friend' if that makes sense. I got other kids to call me Natalie (which was the name of the girl I made up) and we all pretended that Joe90 (the real me) was with us, so basically when we talked to the real me, we were actually talking to thin air. :D So if someone wanted to ask me something, they'd ask thin air, and I'd reply by doing the voice of the real me. Sometimes the other kids would do the voice of the real me too. It was actually rather fun and it made me forget about my ASD.


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