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    Ideas for educating the public about AS

    As an NT with an Aspie partner, I find this post distressing. Your answer to someone whose point was that they believe their Aspie differences are a strength is a treatise on suppressing traits? It’s one thing to encourage other Aspies to harness their gifts to their advantage. It’s entirely...
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    Calling all Neurotypicals (and others): Could we use this here?

    I'm late enough to the conversation that all the best reasons have been offered, but I'd like to say a dedicated sub-forum for NTs is a brilliant idea. I could have used it when I first came here. It was awkward feeling like I was just about the only NT present. I have mixed feelings about the...
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    End of the use of the name Aspergers

    Good points, all. To your second suggestion, I was thinking that the powers that be would rather not acknowledge those stressors to which our institutions contribute. I would say, though, that most of the aforementioned "explosion", as I've read of it, has occurred among young children. Your...
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    End of the use of the name Aspergers

    In the social sciences, spectra are more often all-inclusive, as they are for gender, sexuality, or class. Not so with most spectra in psychiatry. Those generally pertain to a specific population with a defined range of characteristics. I've never seen any version of the Autism spectrum on which...
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    Sensitive Topic Two Articles: Responses to Jerry Seinfeld’s self-diagnosis

    He certainly portrays one brilliantly. Alas, we'll never get to hear it--at least no more than what he said to Brian Williams. What a shame for him. Agreed. My own partner will be the first to say that his professional success is a bit deceiving. He appears to function well in daily life...
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    You have a deal! :)

    You have a deal! :)
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    Back on the forums for the moment. Hoping the bitter and contrary will stay gone.

    Back on the forums for the moment. Hoping the bitter and contrary will stay gone.
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    Thanks, Penguin. I was chased off by some nasty characters, but they seem to be gone now. :)

    Thanks, Penguin. I was chased off by some nasty characters, but they seem to be gone now. :)
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    End of the use of the name Aspergers

    In the States, Asperger's is now diagnosed as Autism Spectrum Disorder through the DSM-V. In most other nations, the diagnostic manual of choice is the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is due for its next release in 2017. It is as yet undetermined...
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    Neurotypical in an LTR with an Aspergers man - Advice?

    Hiya, Luminoff. :) Three different AC members tapped me on the shoulder to read your thread, as I am in a shockingly similar situation to your own. I am an NT bisexual male, aged 58. My partner (Nadador, on these forums) is a highly successful Aspie male of the very same age, who works in...
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    Feeling insignificant and inadequate

    I'm a 58-years-old male of short stature, with horrible posture that has taken another two inches off what would have been my adult height. I spent much of my youth feeling inadequate for not being as tall as my peers, and my romantic future seemed terribly grim. What I've found, over time, is...
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    Documentary/educational television

    I had to turn the dolphin and delete the background, obviously.
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    Special Interests

    I'm so sorry you got such a shock, and such negative feedback, the first time you got up your nerve to post your work to strangers.:( I was quite keen on photography for a while, until I experienced the same sort of harsh reaction when I posted some of my images on a critical review site. I was...
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    Documentary/educational television

    I do a little messing about in Photoshop, yes. I thought your clever programming request deserved to be realised, at least in some way, so I made it happen for you. :p
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    Special Interests

    I've read comments from some Aspies here, like Kari Suttle, whose interests come and go. They are very intense when the person first gets into them, but then they burn out, sometimes as quickly as just a few days. On the other hand, my partner, Nadador, has one all-consuming interest that has...
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