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Recent content by AuroraBorealis

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    How to find my personal clothing style and the courage to actually wear it

    Thank you all for these really helpful answers! My laptop doesn't work right now and I loathe typing longer texts on a touchscreen, so I will answer in more detail at a later point.
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    Communication Style in Online Friendships and Loneliness

    I relate. So much. In fact, this answer is going to get much shorter than normally because our Internet is acting up right now and I have Internet on my phone but not on my laptop, and I really hate typing long messages on my phone. I adore writing, and I love writing long messages, emails and...
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    Alternative communication for non speaking autistics

    Hi Azul, another thought I had: If you'll have fixed groups for your classes (I mean, teach the same classes during longer periods of time), you could take note of the kids who are non-verbal or similar, and ask them and their parents/relatives/friends/caretakers/whoever can tell you what ways...
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    How to find my personal clothing style and the courage to actually wear it

    Thanks for the link. I know Zalando, but so far it seemed to me that all the outfits there are "normal" clothes, not the ones I described that I like. In such "normal" clothes, I often feel disguised, like I'm putting on an act. I'm just glad I don't have to wear formal/business style clothes to...
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    How to find my personal clothing style and the courage to actually wear it

    That's awesome and on point. I don't look fake normal in normal clothes, but I guess I just look insecure about how I look in general. I can look really good and self-assured in something I love, but often only while I am alone at home where no one can see me. In a lot of clothes I just feel...
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    How to find my personal clothing style and the courage to actually wear it

    I would like to develop my particular clothing style, but I don't know how to go at it. I spent my youth copying movie character's clothing styles which I liked - a technique as good as any, I suppose. Nowadays, I don't really know what I like. Most of my clothes are quite simple and functional...
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    I think my Dad is on the spectrum

    Hi Jen, welcome! Feel free to ask anything you like and we will try our best to answer and help. I'm the first officially diagnosed person in my family (as far as I know), I see some traits in both my parents, although from my point of view I wouldn't diagnose either of them. There are other...
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    The Questionable Life Choices Survey

    I don't mean this in a bad way, but this list seems very American to me :D Been divorced Been to Disney World Skipped school $ Been to Canada Ridden in an ambulance $ Been to Hawaii Been to Las Vegas Been to Texas Visited Mexico Been to the Bahamas Seen the Grand Canyon in person...
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    Has noise-cancelling earphones caused pain for you before?

    That sounds uncomfortable. I don't really know why you suddenly can't tolerate those headphones before when they fit well before. Is it the same on both sides? Do you have a general ear-ache, also without the headphones? Maybe there's an actual infection? My previous headphones (not NC) gave me...
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    Artificial light sickness

    Normally not. But when I feel nauseated anyway then I can't look at my phone screen because it makes the nausea worse. It was always like that, I never thought much of it.
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    So I finally heard back from the psychologist about an assessment

    Sorry to hear that. It would have cost me the same. Fortunately, the psychologist I saw offers a sort of pre-assessment, including 4 questionnaires, for a lot less money. I think that's a very decent offer. I still didn't do it because she advised me against it and said that she was sure I am...
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    Are you guilty of data dumping????

    That so depends on your taste - the ones I watch(ed) and can obsess about are pretty mainstream, I guess. Some more current examples are Friends, The Big Bang Theory (guilty as charged), Anne with an E, S.W.A.T., but among them were also Game of Thrones, Lost, and others.
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    Diagnosing other people

    I think it's alright for you to have your thoughts and suspicions about the people around you - you can't help that, after all. I also do and have that, not only about autism (I work and have a (special?) interest in mental health), it just got stronger about autism after I received my own...
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    Are you guilty of data dumping????

    I don't usually do that, mostly because I expect the other person not being interested in those thiings, but also because I have a hard time structuring my thoughts and sentences while talking. But actively ask me about psychiatry or a certain book or TV series, and I will explode. I can talk...
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    Current book(s) you're reading?

    I'm re-reading the Warriors series by Erin Hunter (pseudonym), for the first time in its English original. Feeling a bit awkward after all the "adult" books in this thread, but they're awesome. If anyone likes cats and fantasy, I can recommend them.
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