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    How to answer Where are you from?

    I always tell them my hometown, which is where I was born and where I spent much of my life. But the thing I hate more than anything (and yes, I hate it) is when someone generalizes where they’re from. Example: I am from Washington, Missouri, a town 50 miles west of St. Louis. Most people here...
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    Introduction

    Hey, my name is Justin and I also go by J.T. How about that?
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    Why children with autism love trains (and the 10 best UK rail adventures for families)

    I was never into trains, but man, I used to love cars. That was my first special interest.
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    When you were little what were some obvious signs that you had asperger's/autism?

    There is a videotape of me when I was 3 years old and the signs of autism could not have been clearer. I learned to read at that age, and that’s almost all I ever did. When I wasn’t doing that, I was fixating on my obsession with cars. I would run them down a toy track and watch the wheels spin...
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    Did you have a 1-2-1 classroom assistant when you were at school?

    Yes, and I didn’t need them. I did fine in school without one, but when I was diagnosed in junior high, they suddenly decided that I needed to be in special ed and have a person by my side in the classroom every day. They were always asking me if I needed help, and I think my first one became...
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    I am considered a Grammar Nazi, is this a common Aspie trait?

    Rich Allen, your thread title has a comma splice in it. Grammar has always come extremely easily to me, and I’ve had jobs as a copy editor on my high school, community college, and university newspapers. I won a copy-editing contest at a journalism conference, achieving the first perfect score...
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    Driving & Getting Lost

    Yeah, it's caused by Nonverbal Learning Disability. I have no sense of direction and my mom can't understand it. She thinks if I just study maps that I'll eventually figure out the way to go. It doesn't work like that, though. I need a GPS, but she says that I can't rely on that. I don't have a...
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    Anything I should know about Reddit?

    There's an Asperger's subreddit that I frequent. It's a very friendly community, and I've had generally positive experiences on other subreddits as well.
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    School Experiences for Aspies and Autistic

    I will be a senior in college next year. Started school in 2001. I moved back and forth from Missouri to Kansas throughout my school years. Early elementary school was pretty good. Like most aspies, I was hyperlexic and learned to read when I was two years old, so I was waaaay ahead of everyone...
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    Temple Grandin: Choose the right job

    I don't really like that article. She's pretty much saying that we're all technological geniuses and would all be amazing computer programmers. Lots of generalizations that don't apply to many of us.
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    Is Asperger's a Learning Disability?

    No, but I also have Nonverbal Learning Disability, which definitely is and has a profound impact on my ability to remember information. I'm not that smart, despite what people are saying about all aspies supposedly being super-smart. I'm so tired of that stereotype.
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    I may have had Epilepsy -Complex Partial Seizure- (Need help/advice if it could be)

    I used to have seizures until I had surgery to remove my left hippocampus two years ago. You should definitely see a neurologist if you think you have seizures.
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    Aspies and Facebook

    I got one in December solely for Tinder. I have no use for it and don't post there. I have "friends" on it, but that's only because I thought they were needed for Tinder.
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    Where Are All The Autistic Women And Girls?

    Attwood explains Asperger's in females very well in this video:
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    Asperger's & sports.

    Baseball baseball baseball! It's one of my special interests! I'm terrible at actually playing it, but I love watching it. The only sport I was ever good at was soccer. For some reason, I was a very good goalie for a while. I played on a couple teams.
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