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    Socializing through music: does being in choir, a band, or roadie help socialize?

    I am an ardent chorister and for me singing in a choir definitely helps in socializing. The closest acquaintances I have made during last 2 years on my university are people from my choir. Sometimes, after a choir rehearsal we go to a nearby cafe for an informal meeting. Now students have...
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    Who are your favourite classical composers ?

    I consider G. F. Handel as the embodiment of musical perfection. Before listening to his works and familiarizing with his music I couldn't imagine that music can be so beautiful and so masterfully composed. Even now, when I listen for the first time to some Handel's composition I notice their...
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    How easily do you express affection to family and friends?

    I do not feel neither urgency nor necessity to express affection to my family and friends. The exception is my younger brother - he is the closest person to me. I call him "signore mio" or "caro signore" in an affectionate way. But I do not maintain physical contact with him, I don't look him in...
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    eye contact?

    I can look someone in the eye when he/she is not looking at me.For example, I often look in lecturers' and singers' eyes because I know that they don't look especially at me. However, I avoid a reciprocal eye contact.
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    What Music Do You Listen To When Working?

    When I do an important intellectual work I do not listen to any music because I do not want to get distracted and I am not god in sharing attention. When I try to work intellectually with music, I think more slowly and it is hard to focus my attention. However, I like very much listening to...
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    what is your stim?

    I don't know if it can be named stim, but I like singing something (especially fragments of operatic arias). I do it even in half-voice going along the street and when the street is totally empty - I sing in full voice with my highest notes. Just when I get fixated on a melody, I externalize it...
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    ARE ASPIES SENTIMENTAL?

    I am sentimental with my not very typical souvenirs. I still keep an old candy and a handkerchief from my journey to Turkey in 2008. I have also empty bottles of mineral water, plastic packages of biscuits, shop bills, leaflets, tickets etc. I have also a sentiment for my favorite bakery in my...
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    Human Perfection

    As an enthusiast of classical music, I consider some renditions as "absolutely perfect". They contain nothing that I would like to be improved or changed. Also, many musical pieces by G. F Handel are perfect - I cannot imagine better music. The music seems very natural and spontaneous - nothing...
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    I been dignosed with asperger syndrome

    I am an active member of a Polish forum for people with AS, NLD and hyperlexia. I participated twice in informal assemblies of the forum members. The atmosphere and mood are very pleasant and memorable, the Aspies from the entire Poland cam share their experiences. These meetings are organised...
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    Aspie Limerick Competition

    Attention: it is stereotypical. I'm often engrossed with my passion, but rarely do I feel compassion. I prefer to stay somewhat far away from the neurotypical fashion.
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    Anyone prefer not to socialize?

    I do not feel a constant desire to socialise. When I was in school I perceived it like that: there are other students in my class because the education is organised in classes. They have their own world. I didn't want anything from them and they rarely wanted something from me. Just let them be...
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    Special interest in philosophy?

    I am not interested in philosophy because it seems far too abstract and theoretical to me for understand. I can comprehend some simplified, popular texts about certain philosophical systems, but the original works of philosophers are beyond my comprehension. Aspies are generally known to be...
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    Stuck on Songs

    I can sometimes fixate on an operatic aria. Generally, I prefer much XVIII and XIX century arias that contemporary songs. I remember that I was fixated on "Vien diletto", "Son vergin vezzosa" and "Tu vedrai che amore". Some belcanto and baroque arias are pure delight and you can become addicted...
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    Vocabulary

    I am Polish and English is not my native language, but I also like learning some sophisticated and not very obvious vocabulary, like "intertwine", "rumbustious", "deftly", "portentous" etc. I learn this vocabulary even though it is not mandatory in my school, I do it in order to comprehend...
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    Who Initiates Social Contact?

    I'm not an AS person. I rarely initiate social contact. I do it with people with similar hobbies, specialists or when I want to acquire some information. I'm very liberal and I don't want to impose anything on other people around me. They have their own free time, their own hobbies, their own...
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