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Recent content by SD_David

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    Getting Help When You Can't Afford a Diagnosis.

    It's sad that you have to pay for something so vital. :/
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    Freebies and Perks

    I guess it depends which kind of benefit you're getting. Student benefits have been very inclusive and helpful, but general disabled benefits like the DLA are subject to the monsterous and disrespectful entry examinations by people like Capita.
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    Freebies and Perks

    I think it'll be too cynical to call it a 'freebie', but the disabled students fund (not sure if that's the official name) has been very useful to me when I was at uni, I even got a laptop from it.
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    What are your shutdowns like?

    If I'm being ignored during a social event then I'd just focus on the glass or plate infront of me and zone-out. My mind is on the edge of an aspie meltdown but as the problem is caused by lack of information rather than too much information there's no stimuli to have a full meltdown so my mind...
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    What are your views of self diagnosis?

    Indeed, I'd much prefer to read something which I disagree with and have the opportunity to respectfuly counter it rather than this forum becoming a stagnant echo chamber where I agree with everything. If our ideas are correct then they needn't hide from criticism.
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    What are your views of self diagnosis?

    Indeed, which is why I give people the benefit of the doubt since I'm no more qualified to deny someone's Autism than a doctor is. Denying someone's Autism without good reason is practically an act of bullying. I'm not a psychiatrist so I can't say in detail, but I do know that one of the main...
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    Applicant with Asperger’s syndrome wins ‘significant’ tribunal case

    I can relate to this. Once I was asked during an interview for an academic post what I'd do if one of my students cut their finger. Knowing health & safety rules, I naturally said that I'd direct (and if necessary escort) the student to the college's nurse or the nearest First Aid-qualified...
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    What are your views of self diagnosis?

    I support people who don't have an official diagnosis because even in progressive countries it can be hard to get a straight-forward diagnosis. However I'm not sure about "self-identifying" as having AS. And just to be clear, I'm NOT talking about people (many of which are on this forum) who...
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    University students- young adult aspies

    I met a huge amount of aspies (both male and female) during my university days but post-education it's hard to find others IRL as we're either too busy with other parts of life or there simply aren't the local groups. I'm in Hampshire, BTW. "I haven't ever met a female aspie before" Aaah you...
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    University students- young adult aspies

    Welcome Emzical! Since I'm almost into my 30's I don't know if I'd count as "that age" now, but I find it difficult to find local aspie groups which are just social groups rather than support groups.
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    Do you feel the need to excel to be taken as average?

    Do you mean that people assume Autistic people are great with maths so you're "average" for being good? Or do you mean having to work harder to not be seen as charity?
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    Hi, SD_David here!

    Indeed. The non-Prussian Allies were outnumbered but not to a hopless degree; they were well trained with good morale and the French had the disadvantages of having unfavourable weather for their artillery and (at least according to France) Napoleon couldn't ride his horse as well or even at all...
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    Hi, SD_David here!

    Hi, that's a good question. I think the Allies won because of Prussia but it would've still been a hard and bloody battle for Napoleon if the Prussians weren't there.
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    Driving and Being on the Spectrum

    I think those are both good points! For me using the mirrors and everything else on a car is a task (not a hard task, but a task none-the-less) where as using the mirrors etc on a bike would be just something I'd do naturally. There's also the fact that motocycles are more agile and thus more...
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    *Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

    It's a necessary evil ;)
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