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Recent content by sybok

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    Workplace recruitment for people with ASD into ICT roles

    Hi. I am curious about peoples reactions to this. My organisation has a program in place to recruit people on the spectrum into ICT specific roles. This feels terribly like a cliche gone wrong to me. Do you feel this is appropriate or inappropriate from the perspective of being on the spectrum...
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    When do my feelings matter? Detaching

    I feel like your tone is at least part of the problem. Even in starting this thread you have had a go at other people's genuine needs as they start out on their autism journeys. I'm not saying you were intending this. But it is how it can be interpreted.
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    Autistic empathy

    It was always one of those mysteries to me, this whole empathy thing. It's one of the things I've read about that made me hesitant about autism. However, on this forum, I see a tonne of empathy. So I am confused as to why it is considered a deficit. I too strongly identify wit not being able...
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    Sensory Issues Query

    Every time I raise these questions with my Psych and other NTs I get the whole, oh that's normal. Nobody likes supermarkets and busy streets etc. etc.. This is, of course, true, to a certain extent. No-one is suggesting someone with ASD is anything but a human being. But how do you communicate...
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    was always afraid of being caught

    This post reminded me of imposter syndrome. It makes sense that people on the spectrum would be over-represented in our cohort. So I took the test and sure enough...
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    Being yourself vs trying to fit societies’ expectations

    I think everyone does it to a certain degree. I mean, imagine if everyone said what was on their mind. It would be a different world. But yes, feeling like you are faulty and needing to hide, what in the end, is your true nature, in terms of how you process information, and overload etc., is...
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    Could I be an aspie?

    I don't know if it of value either. I have been trying to find someone who can diagnose it. I thought I had found someone, but he has been leading me on for three sessions. When I saw him, it was specifically in the hope of an assessment. I told him such. Very clearly. Multiple times. He just...
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    The biggest factors keeping me from having a girlfriend

    It is one thing to know, even in detail, all the areas we "fail" in due autism. But a lot the comments seem to miss a couple of major ones. Executive function Autism Speaks offers this simple explanation: Many people with autism have difficulty with executive functioning. They may have...
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    Could I be an aspie?

    Why is that Major Tom?
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    I'm NT and hope you can help me understand this wonderful guy I dated

    I apologise ntloveandpain. I totally misread everything. Unconscious bias in action I suppose. Who can really know the heart of another. I should have stayed out this discussion. I cannot read people, I cannot predict what they will do. I don't even know my emotions until I collapse and they...
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    Lost 17 year old

    Totally. Same with mum. It sounds like Mindf'Elle'ness has passed the mum test. But dad has failed his.
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    I'm NT and hope you can help me understand this wonderful guy I dated

    Only 30-50 sex partners? I am assuming that is a joke? I don't know about psychopaths, but I think we respect ourselves by only allowing people in our lives who show us respect. I just cannot see an aspie playing games to this degree. It seems very uncharacteristic. I can see, and have seen...
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    Double stim?

    Jeez. I don't tuck my sheets in. Actually I only the tuck in sheet for the mattress. I have to be able to stick my legs out whenever I want. Otherwise I feel trapped. Does that make me a "total heathen" too?
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    I'm NT and hope you can help me understand this wonderful guy I dated

    Autism or not, all that sounds horrible. Based on what you said, I would avoid him like COVID-19. If anything he sounds quite manipulative which I don't really see much of in autism. It seems to me that kind of game playing requires some serious social skills, even if he uses them for evil...
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    Anatomy of a shutdown

    Mini seizure. Yes. It is like a physical event. Like things are literally shutting down, and yet the environment keeps screaming at you, relentless, unforgiving, unknowing. Fight and flight starts filling you with survival energy. Energy has to go somewhere, but without a functioning brain, it...
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