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Recent content by fredvizsla

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    Older Aspies and Younger Aspies

    It just occurred to me that being an "old" Aspie may be a challenge. I'm used to doing everything for myself, from painting the house to finances, to car stuff, but I'm feeling "creaky" already and a bit lost: if I need help, where do I find it? And pay for it? And I just hate the idea of asking...
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    Older Aspies and Younger Aspies

    Diagnosed at 63 after I realized my father was a classic Asperger (engineer, socially a loose cannon, etc) and that the reason we stuck together against the social world was due to me also being Asperger - my doctor confirmed with a sigh of relief for finally understanding why I'm me. So, being...
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    End of the use of the name Aspergers

    I was just called an asshole by an autistic person because he didn't like a post I wrote. The "reason" he gave had nothing to do with the content of the post. I had described behavior of "social" people; something I do a lot, because Asperger people enjoy descriptions of our strange interactions...
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    I run a blog on living with Asperger's, my latest obsession

    I write a blog on Asperger's too, but it's not at all fanciful: I challenge idiotic ideas about Asperger's (mostly I trash psychology.) Asperger: The HypoSocial Human | Investigating the Asperger brain as a legacy of ancestral humans
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    Austism/Aspergers - Inner World/Universe...

    I am everything I have ever seen: it's all there inside my brain.
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    Asperger's and Fashion

    Functional and comfortable - always, but these can be exciting too. Jeans and a T-shirt with cowboy boots can be awesome. Put me in a dress and I squirm like an earthworm. Look around - do you think that the way most women dress is attractive? They look like cheap and chubby whores.
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    "Bad" people

    I think what you are discussing is due to visual thinking and intuition. Many (if not all) of us are visual thinkers; what we SEE is what forms our perceptions. We "read people" visually. Images are processed intuitively, meaning that our thinking is unconscious (without using words.) The...
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    Adults, How Were You Diagnosed?

    I think it's time for us to stop looking at psychologists and psychiatrists as gods that we must please. They are supposed to be working for us. We pay them.
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    Is this Aspie behavior?

    Maybe you do have much in common with people here, but it's difficult to identify from a few threads. One thing that a lot of Aspies are unaware of, is that they are visual learners/ processors which really differentiates how we perceive reality and is the source of what neurotypicals...
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    Adults, How Were You Diagnosed?

    I was diagnosed bipolar 30 years ago, and as far as "docs" were concerned, that explained everything. It didn't. I tested INTJ, which has a high degree of overlap with Asperger's. I realized that my father (an engineer) fit the Asperger diagnosis and that I did too. I've been going to the same...
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    Interesting note on eye contact

    I'm "that blogger" - there was quite a rush of viewers on that post today and I wondered why! Thanks for posting the link. I try to demolish ridiculous ideas about Asperger people - which frequently means taking on psychologists. It's fun!
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    The benefits of finding out later in life that you are an aspie

    Benefits? It gives me a legitimate platform from which to analyze and criticize the enormous hypocrisy that exists in a society that thinks itself intelligent, caring, and acting on "empathy" when dealing with human beings. And psychology is a profit-making scandal. Asperger: The HypoSocial...
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    Sensory Overload

    Anyone who suspects they, or someone else, is Asperger, ought to have a THOROUGH physical and sensory exam BEFORE being diagnosed with any ASD or mental health problem.
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    Sensory input/overload question

    I don't go to Walmart; Home Depot is even worse. You can't find what you want. These stores are designed to make you wander around and buy things you didn't come for. No employees to ask for help. Shopping for clothing drives me nuts: everything's mixed up, not organized by size; can't find your...
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    problems with sensory overload on the job?

    Shoes and socks! I will go barefoot in the house even if it's winter and my feet get cold. I don't buy anything with laces, just slip-ons, like moccasins. I have a bad time with zippers. Don't like anything tight around my neck; wear cotton only. Noise - those monstrous car stereos - like being...
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