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    "Literally" doesn't mean literally any more

    Person saying "I literally haven't eaten for months" is literally asking me to tear a new one to him/her... :) That was a joke, I am not that much of a grammar-nazi... But I do dislike inaccuracy of language, thought I can live with it (I have to). Actually, even I use knowingly (read: I don't...
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    Whats your unique quirk or way you do things? (Ie. Tick or stim or routine)

    Not much, thank god. I don't get meltdowns. But when I was child I either had normal childhood tantrums, or mild meltdowns. I don't know which one because that was decades ago before child psychiatry even knew about autism. But I was sent twice to child psychiatric evaluation because of my...
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    Whats your unique quirk or way you do things? (Ie. Tick or stim or routine)

    I don't have many. I actually doubt if I am even ASD instead just some social (pragmatic) communication disorder -case. But I do have stims and one very obvious ritual (in addition on less eye caching and less inflexible ones). Stims and ticks: Not much anything of my own (thought, I do talk...
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    Highly functioning autism or just a strange behavior in my 10 year old?...

    Do you have any information if she still hears questions and answers them properly, when being caught of "not paying attention"? If she does, there shouldn't be a problem. She might be just like me preferring to close eyes, or staring at an empty wall, when focusing at someone's speech (I am...
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    Highly functioning autism or just a strange behavior in my 10 year old?...

    Should have written "Depending on an individual, it might go even further than that..." I usually polish my text much more carefully :( To be honest, smiling is not that much effort to me either, I just described what it is in the extreme. To me the problems with smiling have been more like...
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    Highly functioning autism or just a strange behavior in my 10 year old?...

    It goes even further than that, to more detail: To smile, remember lift also your eye corners, not only mouth corner. Do not overdo it. While showing teeth can add extra flavor, showing too much teeth is creepy. And so on... NTs have same problem with fake smiles, but at least they tend to pull...
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    Driving lessons torture

    First driving lesson is an indicator of nothing... I don't and I didn't. I paid for double amount of driving hours and finally I agreed with my driving teacher that I never attempt to drive a car again, and I never tell anyone who my teacher was... More seriously: I was able either to handle...
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    Giving Up On Making Real Life Friends?

    This resonates with me... ...but this doesn't... My asociality is not about any bad experiences or lack of trust. It is more like that I don't feel any real need (outside sudden quirky moments) for friends or any social contacts at all. I have even tested it: I can be at least four months...
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    Music: Who doesn't like it? No, really.....

    I do like that but usually too quiet for suppressing the world around me. I have been raised with 80s music (both rock and synth pop), so that is more close to my musical tastes. What is nice in punk is that often there are no guitar solos - old joke is that this is because punks didn't know...
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    What your sound sensitivity sounds like?

    I forgot to tell what is my experience... To me it is pretty much as marc_101 and AuroraBorealis above described. And kriss72's shopping experience. I have never felt actual pain from a noise, and rarely I feel that noises are a little louder that they really are (but not actually loud unless...
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    What your sound sensitivity sounds like?

    This topic made me think: Music: Who doesn't like it? No, really..... How a sound sensitivity manifests to you? Does it feel like if some very quiet noise just barely crosses hearing threshold, it then amplifies like thru broken audio amplifier: loud and more distorted than it would be if...
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    Music: Who doesn't like it? No, really.....

    I like music as long as it is: a) Familiar - Music is great background noise to hide all disturbing random noises around. But if a song is something I haven't learn to know, meaning I haven't already heard hundred times, there is no way I could concentrate on anything else. Doesn't stop me from...
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    Fabricating memories

    I have only one instance that I know of: I had to give a presentation in elementary school and I was nervous as hell. There was no memory of it, just a gap between stepping in front of the class and the end of the lecture. I was told by my class mates that they didn't notice anything, I just...
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    Why does it seem this way?

    I remember that I have read that some certain flexible skin condition is common among ASD and ADHD (edit: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - probably not an over-all explanation). Someone also commented in some forum, that autistics show less facial expressions so wrinkles don't ruin their faces so soon...
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    Why do I keep getting these messages?

    You were right to ask. I don't really understand why people take risks only because they think that something is too stupid to ask about.
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