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Recent content by bon vide

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    Advice on starting a Conversation first hand

    i feel the same way, meeting people especially for the first time is so exhausting. especially if youre like me and become hyper-aware in social situations. I like to pretend im LSP from adventure time or some other fictional character i like when i meet people irl, because mimicking them/their...
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    In ASD style... what turns you on, what wakes you up inside?

    learning and opening my mind to new things good stories & discovering/telling/reading/watching them calm, rainy days precision having done something well places that i think are beautiful like botanical gardens, scrublands, the woods, ponds - especially at night and after/during rain when i go...
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    Dexter!!

    well im 16 and i was a little obsessed with the joker(from batman) for a while, identified with him, because there was a few ways that i could/still can relate to him and i do watch things like the walking dead and other shows(certain animes) which sometimes have even more graphic depictions of...
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    Anyone else have comfort items?

    my 'imaginary' friends are my comfort item probably whenever im stressed or upset at all, i prefer to spend time with them rather than anything in the 'real' world & it always calms me down a lot
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    empathy - or lack of it

    even if you dont have empathy, that doesnt make you a monster or a bad person at all. nobody can control how much empathy they have, and it doesnt have that big of an impact on your ability to do bad things anyway. like, anyone could/will do/have done bad things regardless of how much empathy...
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    Emotions towards objects

    i have this too. i try to be respectful of all inanimate objects in case theyre alive in some way,, and will rearrange stuff in my house just so that, if they are conscious, they wont be lonely same with plants trees give good hugs hrmm. this sounds silly now but im probably not gonna stop lol
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    Terrible Secret?

    i kind of know what you mean. like, pretending to be someone else? or acting neurotypical around others? i think a lot of autistic people do that. i did that and the former for pretty much all of my life, but to the extent that, the person that everyone else knew me as, was pretty much.. nothing...
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    new here

    welcome ! :u
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    Rating intelligence by understanding and recognising jokes and not being literal

    i can take things very literally sometimes, most the time my problem is with sarcasm, i can be sarcastic but i can almost never tell when someone else is being sarcastic, and ill be annoyed when people make fun of me for it. and to anyone who feels insecure about their intelligence bc they take...
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    Polyglots and echolalia

    echolalia has made it easier for me to learn german bc i love vocal stimming with some of the words bc of how fun and bouncy it sounds, same with french, hopefully i can be a polyglot someday lol
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    so fresh and so clean clean.

    welcome !!
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    NEW AUTISM BLOG BY TEENAGER

    nice, hope your blog takes off !
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    Why do NT people enjoy playing seemingly boring and childish group activities?

    awesome !! also i agree about the board games
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    Asperger behaviour or something more sinister?

    my brother who is also on the autistic spectrum does some of those when he gets stressed or very upset, but idk what u mean by going odd. kind of like what judge said, probably has something to do with stress?but it does sound like this guy might have asd or something
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    Why do NT people enjoy playing seemingly boring and childish group activities?

    i dont know about everything else but ice breaker games are pretty awkward. sometimes they get the job done, as far as introductions go though?
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