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Recent content by don

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    Advice required on female autistic traits

    Thanks for the condescension Professor Freud. I am not completely snatching things out the air though. I am on the spectrum (although obviously not female), as is my mother and a past girlfriend of three years. I have met and interacted with a great deal of autistic people and professionals who...
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    Advice required on female autistic traits

    On the first point definitely NO. The second point is not really, but to be fair I do this probably less than she does.
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    Advice required on female autistic traits

    You make a lot of good points. Although I would not be as foolish as to say I was 100% objective, I believe I am more so than most people. For various reasons I have been very self analytical going back decades, and I am always envious of people who have no regrets as I actually regret most of...
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    Advice required on female autistic traits

    Thanks for your response. I think your wife sounds an extreme case. There are definitely some things in common, but I think (or at least I hope) that if she was entirely like that all this time, the relationship would have ended some years ago. Has your wife seen a psychiatrist, or is narcissism...
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    Advice required on female autistic traits

    I wonder if someone can help me out here and help identify these traits as possibly being seen in female high functioning autism as I have seen many of these in combination among 3 separate women who are definitely not neurotypical and I personally believe are on the autistic spectrum. Lack...
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    Any high functioning professionals in London?

    Outwardly quite successful with a post graduate education, professional job, a spouse, and firmly middle class lifestyle. On the inside held together with chewing gum and masking tape, and could grind to a halt with one or two direct hits. Would love to hear from similarly afflicted.
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