I gave a TEDx talk about my life with Asperger's!

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18 Jun 2013, 10:34 am

I talk about the challenges of growing up with Asperger's, some of the ways I've learned to overcome the challenges of Asperger's, and the things I've learned from my story. Check it out

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-xgdqNtcDI[/youtube]

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18 Jun 2013, 11:10 am

Congratulations!

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18 Jun 2013, 11:17 am

wow

edited to specify that I meant wow as in great.

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18 Jun 2013, 11:37 am

Many thanks for that - really well done and you have represented the AS community perfectly. 5 stars :cheers:

Really think Aspies make the best friends, for all the reasons you've alluded to in that TED video. I bet the audience was beyond impressed!

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18 Jun 2013, 12:23 pm

Beautiful!! I think what you said at the end about the people who value you now is something that resonates!! Sharing this one around!! Thanks for doing it

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18 Jun 2013, 1:09 pm

Amazing story! If you are not in the speaking profession, you definitely should be, you are engaging.

P.S. anyone ever tell you you look like McLovin from Superbad?

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18 Jun 2013, 1:36 pm

Triple__B wrote:

Amazing story! If you are not in the speaking profession, you definitely should be, you are engaging.

P.S. anyone ever tell you you look like McLovin from Superbad?

I was going to say the same thing.

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18 Jun 2013, 4:31 pm

Really good.

The cafeteria story brought back some painful memories.

Well told. Congratulations!

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18 Jun 2013, 4:38 pm

this is wonderful! Thank you for representing the community so thoughtfully and eloquently!

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19 Jun 2013, 12:48 pm

Thanks everybody I worked really hard on that speech, so I'm glad to see that it has inspired many people.

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20 Jun 2013, 2:22 pm

Very cool! Congrats!

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21 Jun 2013, 1:45 am

I wish that I could talk in public like you but my meds give me cotton mouth and I have absolutely no control over my emotions which are especially sensitive regarding my own personal experiences with AS throughout my life.

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21 Jun 2013, 3:09 am

Cookiemobsta wrote:

I talk about the challenges of growing up with Asperger's, some of the ways I've learned to overcome the challenges of Asperger's, and the things I've learned from my story. Check it out

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-xgdqNtcDI[/youtube]

Well done.That was an excellent talk.

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21 Jun 2013, 7:28 am

Well, done that was amazing.

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21 Jun 2013, 7:29 am

Thought you did a great job. Well structured speech and a lot of it was very poignant. Well communicated. Natural body language.

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21 Jun 2013, 10:50 am

Did you learn to change your vocal tone while speaking or have you always spoken this way?

My curse is a monotone voice that makes it extremely hard to convey emotional content with. No matter how hard I try its just un-natural for me to change tone of voice as I speak. When I try I end up sounding as if I was talking to my dog.

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