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Recent content by Laura O

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    You know you are autistic if -

    You are horrified when the server tops off your coffee because now they have destroyed the correct ratio of coffee, sugar and creamer.
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    What’d you score on the Autistic Quotient test?

    42.
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    How do your interests come?

    I think that sometimes we try so hard to fit in that we can lose ourselves and our joy and enthusiasm for our passions. After a late life diagnosis, I feel like I am slowly excavating the girl that I was, reconnecting with my natural excitement for all sorts of unusual things. For a lot of years...
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    What is it like to go to college with autism or another disability?

    I loved college but had to ease into it slowly. I was undiagnosed all throughout school and had experienced a lot of social problems that had led me to drop out of high school. I was sure I couldn't handle anything academic, but my parents convinced me to take a few classes in an area of...
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    How do older autistic adults deal with social challenges?

    One of the amazing things about finally having a diagnosis and being identified is I'm discovering that I'm not some sort of isolated oddity...I'm pretty *normal* for an autistic woman who went undiagnosed most of her life. It's sort of a revelation finding other women who relate to me. I...
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    Puppet to play autistic child in stage play

    I find their whole characterization of this child to be patronizing, ignorant, and purposely dehumanizing. It enhances stigma, paints the parents as worthy of understanding without extending the same respect to a child who is about to be traumatized. Whatever their intentions may be, this is...
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    inability to hate/dislike

    I can dislike behavior and I can even dislike individuals, but it is very hard for me to hate or even maintain any sort of heated dislike, even for those who have hurt me very badly. I believe this has to do with my habit of trying to understand behavior by looking at possible reasons and...
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    How do older autistic adults deal with social challenges?

    I'm 49 and only fairly recently diagnosed. Socializing has been a challenge for me, lifelong. I couldn't read subtext or social cues, have a hard time recognizing faces and have auditory processing issues when there is a lot of noise. It was hardest as a teenager and I had such severe anxiety at...
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