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  • Is it autism or is it just me?
    My attitude: "The Truth shall set you free."
    • Jonn
  • Autism as disability
    My experience of autism comes with baggage such as anxiety, depression, rigid thinking, and other issues which do prevent me from doing things I...
    • DavidJSNSW
  • Autism as disability
    It's a perspective thing, whether you decide to lable Autism as a disability or not. In legal and medical terms, you are 'disabled'. But as far...
    • Xinyta
  • I have an idea
    I'm interested to hear more about your theory. It's quite possibly another name for what some of us have been using. Personally I like "Romulan...
    • stevens
  • Executive functioning
    I tend to go okay now if I'm doing organisational tasks that essentially benefit myself such as this postgraduate course I'm undertaking. When it...
    • DavidJSNSW

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Sashi
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General
Someone told me about their father who was diagnosed with dementia. He lives with his youngest sister and her family. He has his good and bad days. Some days, a little of both. He's gotten in the habit of when he forgets things, or sleeps to noon, or stays up past midnight, etc., he'll offer...
Sashi
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Everyday Life
I am living on the autism spectrum. I didn’t know until weeks ago. I accepted the diagnosis as one of relief and a gift. It has since taken me down memory lane. In my mind, I have relived episodes of the distant past as well as recent. One of those memories was of a Christmas Eve at Grandma and...
Sashi
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Everyday Life
Some years ago I came across one of those 9-11 stories. A story that occurred on that fateful morning when the planes came crashing at the towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania. A priest was near the location in New York when the first plane hit...
Sashi
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Everyday Life
If I could take a single snapshot of myself as a child, it would be of me as a little girl looking out the window watching the children play. A child wishing to join in, but too afraid to step outside and ask "can I play?" Maybe if she had asked, they would have let her join in the circle...
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