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Recent content by Adamantium

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    Teaching less literal thinking?

    Being the bad kid in class is probably not what is preventing him from developing friendships. It's more likely the result of the same difficulty in reading clues that makes it hard for him to see that being the know-it-all pedant communication fascist is unwelcome. He may be kind, generous and...
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    Can you tell by looking at ones face if they have Asperger's?

    I do not believe either of these statements to be accurate. When you have a theory like this, it's always good not just to look for things that confirm the theory but for anything that might falsify it. There are many autistic and aspergian people who do not have a European background. It's...
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    Sensitive Topic Mom says 11-year-old daughter with autism attacked by teens and adults

    The video is sickening. Probation and 100 hours of community service seems unlikely to induce a change of persp. ctive in these ghastly girls. I didn't see what happened to their mom beyond a charge of aggravated rioting and that she had been released on a fifty thousand dollar bail bond...
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    Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome: How Seeking a Diagnosis in Adulthood Can Change Your Life

    Hi Brent! Did you read this book? What did you think? I was diagnosed at 47, so the topic is immediately interesting to me.
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    Aspies and bad time perception?

    Can you recommend any good resources for the temporally challenged?
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    Aspies and bad time perception?

    I had not read about this as a feature of autism, but it's certainly true of me. Without my cellphone I never have any idea of the time. My sense of the passage of time is completely variable: sometimes 15 minutes seems like hours and sometime 4 or 5 hours seems like 20 minutes... If I don't put...
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    What happens to an Aspies if they aren't diagnosed?

    I am not a social genius, but I am guessing the mother is your son's wife? And the father with traits is your son? I say this because the dad seems to not be in the picture in terms of decision making about his daughter and people don't usually refer to their adult daughters as "the mother."...
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    How to be happy as me

    Sometimes the key change can be very fast. I can recall the plan I had many years ago. I spent some time thinking it through until I found a method that was highly likely to be lethal and something I could actually do. Then when I got there I had an epiphany. If the whole world sees it one way...
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    Parents criticizing me...

    This is really very good advice. One thing I have slowly and somewhat painfully realized through the years is that I am often wrong about people's motivations. I fail to see that people are upset with me until they are very upset with me and I think they are being hostile when they are just...
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    [blank] the nhs

    Please don't go. I have only just started to read your thoughts here, and I liked the sense of getting to know you a bit. It's selfish of me, I know, but I would prefer if you could bear to stay. And bear in mind that even though you can't see it now, good things can and do happen. When I was...
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    Do binaural beats really work ?

    If you like rainfall/surf you might also enjoy this:
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    Working from home

    That sounds sensible. I am 48 and I have become increasingly aware of what a factor age is. I started work late, in my late twenties, and issues that I now understand are related to autism have meant a not very stellar career. Holding the same position too long is now looked down on. If you...
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    Working from home

    Adamantium is the fictional material that makes Wolverine's claws and augmented skeleton so tough. I picked the name because my first name is Adam and I like Wolverine and I feel that I have toughed it out through a lot of difficult situations and always been apart, lie the character. Many...
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    Lacking identity

    I have often thought about this. I have some difficulty understanding my own emotions, which complicates things, but I am naturally not a person who identifies with groups, so those sorts of identity seem bogus to me. What I have that is fairly constant is a basic set of ethical impulses and...
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    Working from home

    I work for a large financial firm that now permits employees in most areas to work from home except when needed on site. After 20 years of working in midtown Manhattan, I have been working from home for two months and only gone in to the office twice. It's absolutely marvelous.
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