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    Is there enough awareness of Aspergers/Autism?

    Re: Is there enough awareness of AS/Autism? No, it's just fashionable on WP for WP members to think everyone who joins WP these days is a fake or wannabe, in the existing members minds. That site is the most toxic pile of lack of support I've ever seen. I'm shocked at the general culture of...
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    what is your stim?

    My biggest one I've done since very young is to pick at the skin around my left thumb. It's only that thumb, not both. I seem to be fascinated by picking at something, because I also pick at my scalp, to the point where the skin has broken and a scab forms! It doesn't actually hurt -- I'm not...
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    A nice quiet place

    I so agree! Animals are amazing -- there's something about their different kind of energy that soothes me and kind of heals me from the depleting things human company can do to me. How cool that those horses followed you! I do think animals respond to someone who is interested and kind -- they...
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    A nice quiet place

    Being at home alone in my apartment is my preferred environment, because when I'm at home I don't have to deal with the outside world. It's a little noisy because I live on a trafficky street, but aside from that, I love the perfect solitude. For outside, I do have a favorite exterior place...
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    Loudmouthedness

    I definitely speak too loudly and I have to consciously force myself to become aware of it, and tone it down. People frequently seem to say to me things like "We should...probably keep our voices down a bit..." The really weird thing is, when I was a child I went through a prolonged stage of...
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    Do you feel nervous when you pay?

    Yes, I do, but oddly it's not so much when the cashier is chatty, but rather when he or she is actually sullen and silent! It's not that I enjoy chatty banter, as I don't, but I think things feel even worse for me if the cashier has zero customer service skills, because then the whole encounter...
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    My 24 year old AS female cousin is interested in a 16 year old boy. I this common?

    Re: My 24 year old AS female cousin is interested in a 16 year old boy. I this common I've read this and I also have experienced it myself. I'm a woman on the spectrum and I have always felt and looked several years "behind" the age I actually am, getting mistaken for a younger person pretty...
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    Newly self-diagnosed 31 year-old female ...

    I think you've hit the proverbial nail on the head there -- yes, I think that probably is where he was coming from. When the third friend pointed out that many people know so little about autism that to them it's a negative thing, I realized he might have thought he was in fact being supportive...
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    Newly self-diagnosed 31 year-old female ...

    Hi Stik, I'm new here too! And, like you, I'm having a complex time getting used to the idea that "this is me". I've also had issues with people I've told not believing me! One person completely accepted it right away, even more enthusiastically than I had at that point in time! But...
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    Hi, a little nervous

    Wow, thank you all, Gulas, Ereth, MoCoffee, Judge and oscar2012, for all the welcoming hellos! I look forward to getting to know you all!
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    Hi, a little nervous

    Hello to all; I'm new to this site; only just discovered it even existed! Glad there is "an alternative" to you-know-where. Enough said! I'm 52, female, I'm a bit of a cultural hybrid having split my adult life between living in the US and also the UK (am now in the UK), and have been...
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