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Recent content by AnnadinNoliman

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    Too much in our heads?

    I think there's a benefit to engaging in the physical world I didn't naturally understand growing up. Like some people just like walking around in nature and they know that about themselves. For a long time I thought these people were just absolute lunatics being inside in my own world was...
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    Be honest

    Hi! I'm actually a writer that almost exclusively writes autistic characters so here's my thoughts! Firstly, it's amazing you wanna include a character on the spectrum! I think it's probably easier than you'd expect. Because it is a SPECTRUM, you've probably met more autistic people than you've...
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    I'm NT and hope you can help me understand this wonderful guy I dated

    Hey I'm really sorry this has happened. I know what it's like to really like someone that's just awful to you and it's not an easy thing to get over and be something that really stays with you. I dated someone for about four years that was ceaselessly mean to me and we broke up five years ago...
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    Autism & Empathy

    As other's have said the main thing I think with autism is having difficulty communicating our sympathy and empathy to others. I don't know if there's an autistic person out there that would claim to completely lack empathy I think that might be one of the things that other people just say about...
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    Anyone Else Feel like Their Mind Was Wasted?

    I think this happens to a lot of autistic people is their genius just doesn't get traction like other people's because of difficulty doing the unwritten parts of every job. The networking, communicating, self promotion, and all that. I'd love to be a musician but most of what musicians do is...
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    Ambiguity, mixed metaphors and literal humour.

    One of my favorite jokes is by Demitri Martin who read a sign like that and said "dude, you're thinking of a wall!". On a similar note this morning I had breakfast at a restaurant and they offered a "hungry man breakfast" and I realized I could emphasize it to sound like a "hungry-man...
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    How has your experience been with making autistic friends?

    I think friendship is all about shared interests and experiences, so like someone you share a lot of interests or experiences with I feel like have a slightly higher chance of getting along with you in a friend capacity. Like as a lesbian other lesbians have a slight advantage in being friends...
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    Really like numbers

    I also love numbers! I'm not specifically into counting things much anymore, but I have an intense obsession with more abstract mathematics and math history. I only memorized up to 33 digits of pi, so you've got me beat there! I get a lot of weird looks when I tell people my favorite hobby is...
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    Does the Fairy type in Pokemon promote stereotypes?

    Heck yeah man I'd love to see preppy pink polo fairy trainer that'd be awesome. You definitely have a point, I think. Always good to notice gender stereotypes when you see them!
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    Embarrassing moments

    I used to work on top of a waterslide just telling people when they could slide down, and it meant I was on this really tall structure all day with very limited contact with people with a very distant view of the main pool. One day I swore I recognized someone that was at the pool as one of my...
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    Different Kinds of Food Issues

    I've been severely a picky eater myself, some of my earliest memories are my parents yelling at me for not eating dinner. I remember dinnertime being my least favorite part of every day because it was when my mom would try and cook something different. Lunch and breakfast were more or less the...
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    College Tips

    Well hey I just graduated college so I can help some! When I started I was absolutely terrified about how I'd make any friends, myself being also very shy and weird. But the weird thing I noticed upon starting was that all eighteen year old freshman are just absolutely petrified, confused, and...
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    Stop dating

    I envy the capacity to even consider stopping dating. Some of us are just helplessly, hopelessly, delusionally romantic despite all evidence or even a full understanding of what romance even is. I'll say what has improved my relationships has been not accepting ambiguity. That's meant inquiring...
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    People do change.

    That's a pretty interesting take, I'm interested in what types of people seem to not change, seem to lament over the same problems for huge periods of time. I agree with your two commonalities in general, some people just seem averse to advice or don't want to put in the work to overcome, but I...
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    Help with long distance relationship would be appreciated

    I'm in a long term long distance relationship with a person I like very much. We should only be long distance for about five more months (she left the country for a year). And we've worked out a schedule for texts and voice messages and we get to call at the end of every week. But it's very...
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