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Recent content by jayraytee

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    Balovaptan Clinical Trial

    Your responses are exact examples of why I don't frequent these forums and why I added the disclaimer at the top. I stated my opinion and won't debate this futile argument. My post is about the Clinical Study. I disagree with the conclusion of the study showing not enough signs of behavioral...
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    Balovaptan Clinical Trial

    I have not posted in quite a while, mainly I find these forums to be frustrating to me personally due to the official diagnosis vs self diagnosis debate. I personally feel there is too much room for error in self diagnosis. I have been diagnosed officially three times and each one took quite a...
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    Born in the wrong decade

    I think I would have fit in better in a different time. I also tend to rather socialize with people older or younger than me. I do not believe in past lives, however, I do believe random data is passed from mother to child for generations. The mother and child are connected not unlike two...
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    Was your social anxiety with you since birth?

    Don't think I ever actually felt anxious socially, but I would get migraines from too much social interaction. I don't recognize feelings very well, in myself or others. What I pick up on is more simplistic, I know when something is good or bad. I never liked socializing, so it was on the bad...
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    Aspergers vs. very high IQ vs. the school system.

    It is a continuum, when I was diagnosed the first expert I went to beleived with therapy it could be 'cured' and the second one I went to believed as I do that you are wired differently. Much like a person without an arm can learn to function 'normally' in that they can do all the things...
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    Aspergers vs. very high IQ vs. the school system.

    I was bored in school. School for someone on the spectrum is like forcing a square peg in a round hole. They do their best to treat everyone the same. The biggest issue I think with someone on the spectrum in school is that they are (and I was) intelligent but still immature. I was bored with...
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    Obsessions that change a lot

    In grade school I obsessed over finding fossils, spent hours upon hours in creek beds picking through pebbles. Even did the same thing on the play ground because it was covered in pea gravel. Then I switched to drawing animals, until felt I had conquered that to my own satisfaction, then I...
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    Self-Diagnosed Female Seeking a Formal Diagnosis (Aspergers Syndrome)

    Yeah I am not implying anything about you. Other than don't trust me or anyone else about whether you have aspergers or not, get an expert's opinion. None of us are experts on anything but ourselves, and even that is cloudy at times. Before I got my diagnosis I was pretty sure aspergers was...
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    Asperger's and Fashion

    I am basically a programmer in an office building tools for managers and engineers. I don't interact with the public, of course I don't want to.
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    Aspergers substitute for College degree?

    I have no college education, and I work in the technical field. Where I work, they pay me as a technician, but yet treat me as an engineer and I often am teaching the other engineers how to do certain things. I have talked to my boss about this, not that I have aspergers, but that I feel I need...
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    Driving skills and etiquette: Obsessing with order

    I HATE lousy drivers. It is a pet peave.
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    The Horror Genre

    I've always like the spooky atmosphere thing. I like Tim Burton's movies which kind of have that element. But I don't believe in ghosts or anything like that, I like to watch those ghost hunter type shows and would absolutely LOVE to be part of one. I could spend all night anywhere and not feel...
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    Asperger's and Fashion

    I don't care about fashion at all. I wear the same kinds of closthes I did when I was a kid. Jeans and flannel type shirt or a shirt with a plaid-ish pattern even if it's not flannel. I don't like to have my hair cut and I only shave when I have to. Fashion to me seems to be a lot about social...
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    Relativistic time perception

    I can't remember driving to work today, but I did it. I can although recall a lot of conversations I've had in the past in great detail because I don't always catch body language. I end up memorizing the conversation so I can play it back in my head later and ruminate over the meaning behind...
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    Self-Diagnosed Female Seeking a Formal Diagnosis (Aspergers Syndrome)

    I've always been an "alien" observer, even through grade school, I felt like there were the kids and then there was me. Teachers wrote on my report card that I was very adult even in 2nd grade, etc. I 'self-diagnosed' when I was in my late thirties, but I frankly hate that concept. There are...
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