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Recent content by Maiasaura

  1. Maiasaura

    Autism/Aspergers and ACOA

    Has anyone grown up with an alcoholic family member and finds that they have aspergers and characteristics of ACOA (adult child of an alcoholic)? I was raised to be extremely cognizant of other peoples needs. A common thing both as a girl and as the child of an alcoholic. It was only a couple...
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    Frustrated with my messy home!

    I have never been good at housekeeping and I discovered this at the worst possible time: college when I first had roommates. I have struggled over the years. I do long for a house that is picked up and clean. I have 2 sons who also have aspergers so between the three of us we are pretty...
  3. Maiasaura

    Feeling awkward inside AND out...

    Wow your post really resonates with me! I went on a handful of dates in high school. And I was either supremely uncomfortable or things fizzled out on the boy's end and I didn't really understand why. I always wanted to be friends with the "ex dates" I did have. That wasn't always what they...
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    Feeling awkward inside AND out...

    I guess on the plus side I hold these small kindnesses in my heart forever because I'm just so grateful, KWIM?
  5. Maiasaura

    How do you deal with crushes?

    Seriously knowing what I know now about how I must have been perceived 20+ years ago I have NO IDEA how my husband figured out i was interested:) The best I can say is that 'THE ONE' is someone who can see beyond all the barriers you put up; someone who is willing to dig deeper than the surface...
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    Feeling awkward inside AND out...

    It occurred to me the other day kind of the source of why i don't make eye contact; i feel like my appearance is awkward. Now this isn't self deprecating or fishing for compliments! Once I figured that out, I started to ponder where that feeling comes from. No one ever told met that growing...
  7. Maiasaura

    How do you deal with crushes?

    Me too:) I'm married now--happily for 15 years. But in all the time leading up to that I had the same feeling. I dated a little (very very little) but at some point I just began to assume that any fellow who made eye contact with me couldn't possibly be serious about it. In my memory I've...
  8. Maiasaura

    Forgetting How to Smile

    I thought I was the only one who struggled with this! Smiling--especially for photos always feels awkward for me. Add to that a time 25 years ago when someone shamed me about my smile in my prom photos. I am very nearly phobic about smiling for a camera. It never feels right to me. I never...
  9. Maiasaura

    How to respond?

    3 of us (me and my two sons) have aspergers. One of my sons is probably what you would call more stereotypical. He reminds us of Sheldon on Big Bang Theory and we LOVE that about him. My other son and I however get feedback from people when we self-identify as being on the spectrum to the...
  10. Maiasaura

    should I change my career path?

    You guys are awesome and you've given me a lot to think about. The therapist herself has known me a couple of years as a parent of kids with aspergers; she screened and treated both of my boys at one time or another. Although I'm not a stranger off the street she doesn't know my other skill...
  11. Maiasaura

    should I change my career path?

    Prior to diagnosis I'd been studying to work as an alcohol and drug counselor. Ive felt a calling to do it for the past decade. When I explained this to the therapist who screened me she advised that this was probably going to be too much social interaction for me, that it would wear me down...
  12. Maiasaura

    New here...

    Thanks for the welcome--that is a good photo:)
  13. Maiasaura

    New here...

    Hi there--I'm newly diagnosed at 40 years old. I have 2 sons diagnosed with Aspergers as well. It is a strange thing that I feel like I know so much about it having watched my boys for the last 4 years. Looking at myself though I feel like I'm all thumbs with what to do next if anything. I...
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