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Everyday Life

Why is it that I have so many instances of miscommunication online? Is it just me, or is it common? I've become rather demoralized over it. I've begun to think that online spaces are too impersonal. Maybe they are only too impersonal for certain types of communication, but I'm afraid that type...
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An interview with the autistic documentary filmmaker Dana Dimant. The director of the documentary film 'High Functioning'. The relevant Facebook group can be found here: ‫High Functioning תפקוד גבוה | Facebook‬
What helps me is my music! :D Every single day I have to listen to at least one song or I get upset! :) It help block people out! It help my anger problem! :) When I watch lyrics videos, (like on YouTube!) I learn new spelling words! A lot better then what teachers teach me! :D I drop out of...
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Something on my mind for quite a while now and I’ve been wanting to talk about this in my blog for a few months already (though I just kept postponing sitting down for it); As some of you know I tend to ramble a bit about AS and employment. It tends to be a bit of a sore spot for me. I’ve had...
I finally went ahead and made that post on the MBTI forum. As expected, my post was misunderstood and nasty things were attributed to me. I am truly a fool. This always happens, yet I always go back and try to participate on non-ASD forums. I have developed a very specific anxiety over this...
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as i search for answers on who i am i stumbled upon this site/app as the 4th quickly approaches and my fear of fireworks/crackers increases i need to find ways to cope with my increasing anxiety... i have my closet all set up so all i have to do is get my electronics hooked up... i feel helpless...
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Hi everyone :) I'm sure a few of you have noticed my posts becoming less frequent lately, so I thought that perhaps it would be good to share what I have been preoccupied with these past few weeks. Just a fair warning; this post is probably a bit more self-indulgent than my usual ones, but here...
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Last Sunday we honored the congregation's high school graduates. From beginning to end the service was planned and run by the young people. This year they chose to put on a play based on a Chinese folk tale about a farmer whose luck alternated between good and bad. We, the townspeople, took...
This morning while driving to work I heard a snippet of an interview on NPR with a middle-aged African-American man whose education had been cut short when he was a teenager due to poverty. He talked of a life spent in hard manual labor. Now, his goal was to learn to read well enough to get...
As if to mock me, the other day I got an advertisement in the mail for Marlo Thomas' new book, "It Ain't Over, Reinventing Your Life and Realizing Your Dreams Anytime at Any Age." This book promises to show you how you can follow your dreams through the example of "50 amazing women who are...
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I have been in a depressed mood ever since I saw the career counselor and took the aptitude test. Let's just say that like many Aspies, my interests and likes are directly inversely proportional to their marketability. In other words, if it's a high-paying, high-demand career, I am not likely...
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I saw on an "Autism Parents" type website one time a line from an NT parent of a child with a more severe rendition of Autism that was something along the lines of "Asperger's/HFA isn't really Autism. People who supposedly have Asperger's don't know what it's like to really have Austism."...
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This Sunday at church they had a professor of economics talk about inequalities. The church I am in is big into social justice and stuff like that. Anyway this professor went on and on about the fabled "one percent" that holds most of the wealth in the United States. You know, people like...
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Hey everybody :) It's been some time since my first post, and I have learned much since. I seem to have acquired so much information about AS, that I feel I should soon be graduating from Aspie school, haha, though there's always so much more to learn. Using my newly acquired knowledge, I have...
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I had no idea there was a blog page. I've been on this website for nearly 3 months and I had no idea there was this thing. I suppose I might as well do something with it, then. This blog will most likely not be updated regularly, since my internet access is limited (I can only be on it while...
Well, after much, much, much pleading by the Sunday evening Bible group leader, I have consented (although unwillingly) to appear before the group for a conflict resolution meeting. I am not optimistic about the results and I have already moved on in my mind. What started the furor were two...
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I see where Westboro Baptist Church has been in the news lately; it seems that its founder recently passed away and so they are facing a where do we go from here moment. I have to confess I only know of the WBC by reputation (and it isn't good!) so I don't know if this is a one-family church or...
Well, it looks like I will be parting ways with my friends from my old church. I knew this was going to happen sooner or later, I just didn't know when or how. I knew I'd been living on borrowed time with them ever since I left to join the Unitarian-Universalists, so this new development comes...
Yesterday I wrote about the Illinois Republican (my bad, should have checked google) who has been going around saying that God is using autism and tornadoes to punish the US for supporting gay rights. It's actually far worse than that as one of my respondents pointed out. Macular degeneration...
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Once again, religiously-sanctioned discrimination raises its ugly head, this time in Arizona where legislation is actually being considered to allow business owners to refuse to serve gay people. At this writing it's not sure if it will go through, but if it does, I have some questions for the...
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