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Recent content by ziggification

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    Obscure interests

    I like to watch squirrels and imagine what they are saying. It's not an obscure interest for a child or teenager I suppose...but when you are walking down the street and lose track of a conversation "Oh, I'm sorry was just scripting the lives of those squirrels" does not cut it.....
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    Too much?

    Well with my friend I think he wants more along the lines of what Dizzy suggested, where I am actually toning down "me." I don't know how to do that without being fake. Where I grew up, you did just go elsewhere if you wanted to be alone. But at the same time I would hate to make someone feel...
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    Psychology

    I think your dream is a beautiful one. More power to you. That's quite a move. I hope the city agrees with you. I wouldn't wait until you have enough experience to get an internship -- those tend not to come into the picture until sophomore year and they are often competitive. Which is why I...
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    Psychology

    The point of most humanities work is always to benefit "mankind". BUT from experience working in the psych research department at my school the people who tend to stay in the scholarly research end of things are way more interested in the "ideas, concepts" and intellectual discussion surrounding...
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    Any Movie Into A Musical - Hilarious Result

    "Dune" the hip hopera. Muad'Dib is my name I'mma mouse and a constellation I survive in the desert Never eaten by a worm, yo Never! My Muad'Dib babies are plentiful Never gunna give up my dreams Of uniting this nation-planet ONE FAM, son...
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    Psychology

    I see that you have very focused interest in one area, which is great. But within that area there are a multitude of careers that have varying levels of patient interaction. Being a practicing psychoanalyst would require greater amounts of empathy and personality than other areas. Even if you...
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    Too much?

    Hi Bruce, How do you calm down? Do you even try to calm down? Or do you just let them squirm? -Sylvia
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    Too much?

    No worries! I think it's interesting that as an AS you are concerned about being too much for me, and I am concerned about being too much for you. Those kinds of parallels are why I dislike the "aspie = alien" metaphor...I don't feel like you guys are aliens... Identifying emotions is an...
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    Psychology

    My B.A. is actually in psychology. (I know that's worth as much as a snot rag over here, so it's good that you started off with the expectation to go for a higher degree.) Have you considered entering an area of psych that isn't applied? There's much work to be done researching and refining our...
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    Is it inspiring for you?

    A week ago I had no idea what AS, NT, Aspie, Asperger's, Autism, spectrum, or socializing meant. The only reason I looked it up was because I made a new friend who has AS. He would say things that didn't quite make sense and I was struggling to understand. Being who I am, I dove straight into...
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    True friends

    There is always a bit of condescension in the expression of the thought "Why don't you get it?! I am being SO clear" or "What are you talking about. That makes no sense." Any display of emotion or judgmental thought -- frustration or confusion -- is almost always interpreted as rudeness and it...
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    Too much?

    I'm NT and I have been having some trouble with a friend who is AS. He keeps trying to tell me to "relax" or "shh" but sometimes I just can't accommodate! There's just so much to be excited about all the time...and I was wondering if other off-spectrum people felt the same way...Like you feel...
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    Too much?

    As a friend or family member who is off-spectrum do you ever get the feeling that you are "too much" in your interactions with the aspie(s) in your life? Too happy, too sad, too pushy, too friendly, too talkative, too ....MUCH? If you have a bubbly personality, do you turn it off or down...
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    True friends

    [Please don't let this fall into TL;DR territory....I'm trying to be concise....it just....isn't happening] Morning, I can only ever give my opinion about things. But I have a theory as to why some people might find you rude. (That is not to say that "I find you rude" but that I can see why...
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