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    A Most Random Truth!

    most over ambitious middle aged runners with aging knees, will eventually end up wearing a knee brace- like me it comes in cheerful colors like... black?!!!
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    what is your stim?

    I dont think stimming is a disorder, rather an immature abillity/compulsion or action requiring a grown up (added survival)purpose. I have adapted my love of making my arms and body go around in circles (Aikido) and repetative body movements and rythmic breathing (long distance swiming). I still...
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    A Most Random Truth!

    When my hand picks up the electric mosquito bat the mosquitos that had been buzzing around me, mysteriously disapear!
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    Do you think in pictures?

    Re: Do you think in pictures or words? I predominatly think in pictures too. Its like having an internal video in my brain I can watch the pictures flow in my brain as a pastime, some times its better than real movies. Give me any image or object and I can visualise it in any form, ie: a rose...
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    When you were a kid/teenager, did people think . . .

    Thank you Christian. And you are absolutly right too, about the intellectual view of the world. Maybe we have a stronger intellectual "intelligence' to compensate for the deficits in emotional "intelligence". I know when I am all in confusion and anxiety, at least I can fall upon my logic to see...
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    When you were a kid/teenager, did people think . . .

    I am sorry I have to disagree with that statement, Christian. Aspies are incredibly sensitive and empathic and often find emotions too overwhelming. They tend to shut down from too much overload. We have difficulties expressing emotion and identifying our and others emotion. When we cannot lable...
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    Dress Code

    I think it could be all about location. In America, I dont know but here in my home town, you can walk in for a meal into one of the many gourmet French restaurants in tee shirt, shorts and flip flops, no one cares, casual is king. At the nudist resort, people dine naked
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    A Most Random Truth!

    Thinking of something random freezes up my brain as I try to sort out the randomness of my thoughts to see which is the more random....er...er...
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    Anyone have depression?

    Yes, us aspergers people do seem to have more depression than normal people. I have had a lot of it in my life too. Medication helps. Right now, the last two so years I have not had medications. I still get depressive though but I try to manage it with regular exersise. I run a lot, more rough...
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    what was affected most by your syndrome?

    Like many of you guys, I feel the social alienation and lack of social ease, coupled with the fact that I realize most people have no special passionate interests or questioning, inquiring minds about the universe around them but have a very narrow focus on every day life. I get the feeling...
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    Difficulty Recognizing People

    Me too. I though it was just me, glad all you folks have this problem too, lol. I kinda got a pretend act for those situations but sometimes it fails and yes, its embarrasing
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    Personality Disorders

    It seems to me that it shouldnt be a problem to be born with a basic Aspergers development and then after continuose years of childhood neglect and abuse to develop an attachment and emotional disorder like borderline PD. I would get beaten more as a child than my siblings because I could not...
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    When you were a kid/teenager, did people think . . .

    Its sad that people with autism get lablled and underestimated. My parents thought I was stupid, heck even the school told them I was below avarage ability. No one pushed me because they did not see the point. I have always had low self esteem. Later I got a test that showed I had an IQ of 127...
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    Do you get anxiety before entering a room with people in it?

    Yes I have very much the same as above. I thought it was just nervouseness but it still that way with people I have known for years. To lessen anxiety I try to stay in the background or try to plan out all my movements and what I am going to say and hope its going to be percived as appropriate...
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    Personality Disorders

    Yes I too had a whole mush of diagnosies. First it was schiziod, then major depression, then schizotypal pd, then schizo affective, then borderline and complex ptsd. I mean flipping hell!??.I think a lot of it has to do with lack of careful and ill informed mental health screenings I did have a...
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