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11 May 2019, 10:26 am

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That's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action -- a cognitive bias that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations. This increases the chances of being more aware of the subject when we encounter it again in the near future. It's like when you buy a certain pair of shoes and suddenly see them everywhere.

Some people who have been recently diagnosed as being on the ASD spectrum will begin to see "Aspies" everywhere, and wrongly claim that they have suddenly developed some kind of "Aspiedar".


Baader-Meinhof? Wasn’t that a terrorist group from the 1970s?


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11 May 2019, 11:39 am

Guess that trait skipped me. LOL


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11 May 2019, 12:05 pm

Yes.

I myself live in a shoe.

Pls help. :cry: :lol:

Jk :)

But srsly, no.



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11 May 2019, 12:14 pm

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Pls help. :cry: :lol:


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11 May 2019, 12:23 pm

No.

Though the only autistic women that I've encountered in person (that I know of) have been in my psychiatrist's waiting area. Unsurprisingly, we did not enter into conversation.


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11 May 2019, 7:07 pm

No I haven't.

I'm 5'10", I have not much memory of being tiny lol


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11 May 2019, 7:12 pm

Fnord wrote:
That's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action -- a cognitive bias that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations. This increases the chances of being more aware of the subject when we encounter it again in the near future. It's like when you buy a certain pair of shoes and suddenly see them everywhere.

Some people who have been recently diagnosed as being on the ASD spectrum will begin to see "Aspies" everywhere, and wrongly claim that they have suddenly developed some kind of "Aspiedar".

That happened to me to a certain extent.
I have never noticed or heard of Autistic females being smaller than NT's until this thread.

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Baader-Meinhof? Wasn’t that a terrorist group from the 1970s?

Yes


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12 May 2019, 4:21 am

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No I haven't.

I'm 5'10", I have not much memory of being tiny lol


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12 May 2019, 7:41 am

Do you mean small height or small frame???



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12 May 2019, 8:20 am

I'm 5"10.


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12 May 2019, 8:22 am

I wish I was 5 foot 5 lol

But I weigh 180 lbs.



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12 May 2019, 9:00 am

I'm short (5' 1"), but certainly not thin.



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12 May 2019, 9:34 am

At 5-6 and 275 lbs I'm not tiny. I guess you could say I'm a slightly scaled down version of Sgt Schultz. I identify as Male and that's why my profile says Male.


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12 May 2019, 9:49 am

No, I have not. I'm five foot seven inches and heavy-set. I think the assumption that we're all tiny is ridiculous. :roll:

But I *was* small one time. In fact, I was once only about the size of a watermelon and weighed maybe around 10 lbs. :lol:



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12 May 2019, 4:45 pm

Weigh and measure a representative sample of neurotypical and autistic women

Seriously at the support group, the women looked standard size

And I am 5'3, 110lb, 36, Chinese

Not short or light gravitationally, for a Chinese woman



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12 May 2019, 5:31 pm

Pepe wrote:
Alterity wrote:
No I haven't.

I'm 5'10", I have not much memory of being tiny lol


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I take that as a compliment, thank you :mrgreen:

They projected me to be 6' so I actually fell short Lol


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