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Recent content by SquareBanana

  1. SquareBanana

    Advice on starting a Conversation first hand

    I've found that making sure you start with an open ended question, rather than a yes or no answer one, helps people get comfortable quickly. Frankly, humans like to talk about themselves. Just listen, and respond in short answers or nods, and keep asking open ended questions until you feel...
  2. SquareBanana

    Female Square Aspie

    Thanks Jane! My daughter just failed her driving test for the second time. I'm fretting for her, but trying to let her falter and figure on her own. Sucks!
  3. SquareBanana

    How often are you accused of overreacting? !

    When I look back at my father's life now, through the lens of Aspergers, I finally understand why he was never able to get promoted higher. He would write these long intense diatribes that my sister and I later found in his papers after his death. Reports of some detail that he perceived as...
  4. SquareBanana

    How often are you accused of overreacting? !

    By my husband especially. YES! I have learned to tone it down at work, but sometimes, my passionate disposition takes over, even there. Usually during that time of month, when it's really hard to contain it. That intensity is always there, though. Most people that don't know me as well...
  5. SquareBanana

    Female Square Aspie

    I am, so far, self diagnosed, 47 years old, and, by chance, seeing a therapist who's son is diagnosed with autism and is very familiar with the signs. She is not arguing with my discovery, so I'm taking that as a fairly reliable confirmation. I LOVE squares, decorate with them, wear square...
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