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22 Jan 2011, 1:56 am

Not sharing in empathy and emotion the way most people do. I see people by themselves driving down the highway smiling. I felt good most of my life, but I don't remember ever doing this; didn't matter what I was listening to on the radio. Finding it so hard to laugh or cry. Even animals seen to express empathy and emotion; some may question this but I think it is true.

I think these are the kind of things that connect people together and to the world. Maybe it connects social animals together also. It is worse with depression, but I really didn't feel much of it when I was high on life either.



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22 Jan 2011, 2:20 am

WillMcC wrote:
One thing I can't stand: Face blindness. Most other stuff I can get over

The image that Autism Speaks portrays on us


What is face blindness?



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22 Jan 2011, 2:24 am

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Putting my thoughts into words. It almost always takes me a while....to think about what I'm going to say....before I say it. Otherwise it comes out....odd.

My shallow, monotone voice when I speak. Which, if I remember correctly, is a common trait among aspies.

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22 Jan 2011, 2:28 am

I think face blindness is not being able to recognize faces easily, if at all. Strangely, I am really good at remembering faces and names, better than a lot of people.

I do that a lot too with stopping and thinking, and very often my sentences come out ungrammatical, or I completely change the sentence in the middle of one. :roll:



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22 Jan 2011, 2:42 am

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How everyone seemingly ignores me.

How I'm in my 20s and still never had a romantic relationship.

That I'm rarely, if ever, invited to do things with people outside of organized club events. (In grad school, I actually asked a professor to extend the due date of a big paper because some classmates invited me to a movie theater with them. I never told the professor that, it was just an "emergency".)

My intolerance for certain noises or movements, especially when I'm sitting in a quiet place. (I find it hypocritical that most theaters and some churches I've been to make it a point to tell everyone to silence their cell phones but don't bat an eye if a baby whines. Cell phones are much more pleasant to me than little kids.)

How I get the mental capacity of a little kid during a meltdown when my mother yells at me.

My lower likelihood to get a job, even though I have a masters degree.


Don't have to worry much since you have a degree. Only if have no degree, a school drop-out, then you have to worry. I saw in the internet there are a few courses specialized for asperger people to improve socializing. If you want, I'll try to look for their website for you.



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22 Jan 2011, 2:45 am

Being dismissed as some idiot because I take to long to respond to questions with words......its very annoying. Also feeling like there's always something going on that I am oblivious to, though sometimes its something I can find humour in if people are not being complete asses about it.



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22 Jan 2011, 4:26 am

I suppose it's anger management. There are many things I have improved over the years. That's not one. There is the natural mellowing with age but I can still go into a rage (simmering or loud) over a sudden interruption or a loud noise while I'm focused.



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22 Jan 2011, 5:04 am

Not being able to eat what I want.



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22 Jan 2011, 5:14 am

The worst things would be not being able to cope with change so I'm missing out on a lot, my sensory overload and my meltdowns.


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22 Jan 2011, 7:34 am

1. My levels of anxiety.
2. My maturity levels (or shall I say immaturity levels)
3. Being unemployed
4. Never having a boyfriend and I am already 21
5. Having depression
6. Parents who put me and my brother down for not knowing how to look after ourselves
7. Having no set friends. Selective Mutism.
8. My slow cognition
9. Not being able to go to the shops because of the amount of people there
10. I don't know if I really have autism



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22 Jan 2011, 7:38 am

EricS wrote:
WillMcC wrote:
One thing I can't stand: Face blindness. Most other stuff I can get over

The image that Autism Speaks portrays on us


What is face blindness?


I have mild face blindness. People that I have known for a very long time will meet me unexpectedly in a place I've never seen them and I won't recognize them. For me it's very context sensitive. For some it is far more pervasive. The worst levels of it are when a person can't even tell the difference between two faces.


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22 Jan 2011, 8:07 am

I would say my lack of connection to people. Very rarely do I feel anything deep. I feel more for my personal objects.

And also my fear of changing my routine. It keeps me from doing adventurous things.



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22 Jan 2011, 10:23 am

I used to be weird and I'm worried that people remember.



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22 Jan 2011, 11:40 am

Lonliness! Isolation! Jealousy!



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22 Jan 2011, 2:31 pm

I hate the meltdowns the most.

The stereotype that I hate the most is that we are all math geniuses.


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22 Jan 2011, 2:34 pm

Being labeled.

People associating anything with the word 'syndrome' or 'autism' with stupidity and mental retardation.