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    What are your aspie fears and how many of you share my own?

    Wasps and snakes and things... no probs. Apart from the obvious care about injury, they don't stress me. And pain is just a thing that happens. I can deal with it. True fears. Screwing up again. Mistakes. That party I am supposed to go to next week. Bothering people. Being responsible for...
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    Medications and Aspie Scores In Signatures

    In some forums people list the specs of their computer, or rank the Star Wars movies... whatever the forum, people sometimes like to state "This is me. This is where I come from in this world." Maybe even a spot of pride in it. Me? I just want to figure myself out.
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    The Mask of Normality

    For me, it's not so much of a mask, but more energizing up and committing to the moment. There's a person here who wants to talk to me, so don't be lazy, distracted, passive. Shake myself up and do it as well as I can. Listen and contribute. Look into their eyes now and again. Bite my...
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    Help. I'm becoming more anxious and angry everyday

    It might not be an option for you, but when I find the world squashing in, I drive out of the city to a forest, get out of the car and just sit for a while. Just the sound of wind in the trees, birds, the creaking of the bark as trees sway. No music, no distractions. Just the sound of trees...
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    At what age did things start going wrong for you socially?

    In Primary school... aged 5 to 12... I was with kids that I had known all my life. They just accepted my eccentricities and I accepted theirs because, well, that's the life, that's the people we knew since not long after we got out of nappies. When I was 12 we moved to another city and so a...
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    What's your experience of "small talk"

    It's the glue that holds people together. Here is a little bit of me, and you give back a little bit of you. And bonds are made. When you brush it off that bonding is lost. You aren't part of that person's life. The hardcore bonding... "How is your neice? Did she have her surgery yet? How...
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    Last album you listened to?

    Ratatat - Magnifique Instrumental Guitar and synth and editing. It just rumbles along comfortably.
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    Is Asperger's hereditary?

    As a general psychological trait, yeah, a bit. My father was kind of shy and bookish and techy. He hated a crowd. I can also see these traits in my daughters. One daughter can be loud and happy, and then hit a wall of serious social anxiety to be point of a tearful freakout. It's certainly in...
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    Closer to discovering aliens?

    Finding a Star like that gives people a place to focus on. Point you radio receivers and so forth hard at that Star and see what you can pick up. My opinion is that life is really difficult. It took Billions of years, half the timespan of life on Earth to go up from single cell life. Those...
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    Help just found out boyfriend on spectrum - we just had a baby

    Yeah. He sounds like a bad deal. It's not great to raise a kid alone, but it's better than as a toxic couple. Better to have you life under your own control. The early part of your relationship sounds a bit like mine. Him messing up the right "level" of a relationship. Getting the cues and...
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    Does anyone find advertising to be really stupid?

    Nah. Not stupid. We soak in it all day. And as the past years politics has shown, if you repeat something enough, it eventually becomes true. We can all be victims of repetition.
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    Ghost?...... Do you believe?

    Now and again, my wife feels her deceased mother near her. To her, this is a very real thing, and I would never dare tell her that it might be just her imagination. It means too much to her. So is that real? I have no idea. I have never felt that And she has church friends that tell her...
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    Difficulty with indulging in my obsession

    Okay. I'm interested in the "disgusting energy" people. I have people in my life now that I just don't tell things about myself to. A simple case of "I don't want you to have any access to my Heart and Soul." But that's a present day thing. Real time. How much they infect my image of the...
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    Difficulty with indulging in my obsession

    There are moments in my past where I was bullied, or got into fights that were disastrous emotionally, or friendships broke up for reasons that were probably my fault. And I just don't want to think about them. They make my stomach turn. I let large chunks of High School disappear from...
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    Don't Know if I Want to Dump My Girlfriend or Not? Help!

    If you say to her "Just tell me when I screwed up", and then she does that. She actually tells you. You're not replying with pleasantries, or you keep saying "I hate...". Whatever it may be. If she kept checking your behaviour, how would you feel? Do you really want that?
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