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Recent content by Graelwyn

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    Aspergers and Expectations

    Very high expectations were placed on me as a child and teenager, especially once it became known I had a high IQ. My mother, particularly, in some ways, seem to live through my achievements and, I feel guilty for saying this, but she liked telling people, relatives about them. This was fine...
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    Christmas & holiday plans?

    I spend Christmas with my mother and brother in London every year. Before that, I have some festive meals and events planned with the meetup group I recently joined, which should be interesting, and certainly a first in my adult life. These include bingo with a Christmas meal, a Casino quiz...
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    Talking to yourself?

    I am always talking to myself, so much so that I often do not even realise it anymore. I talk to myself while out in public as well, which can bring some strange looks. I tend to automatically verbalise strong thoughts on things.
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    Have you ever spotted another Aspie?

    I seem to gravitate towards others who are also on the spectrum. Even before I was diagnosed, or even knew about it, I ended up with several partners who have Aspergers, quite obviously. It was actually this that got me researching it as I wanted to learn more about it, and it was in reading...
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    Hugs (like or dislike?)

    It really depends who is hugging me. I seem to have some sort of barrier in place, where inside I will want hugs sometimes and want to be a huggy, warm person, but it never makes it to the outside. I just seem unable to physically approach and hug people. And I will stand there analysing when...
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    what are your special gifts?

    Photography (I am told), writing (I am told), singing (I am told) and I seem to be able to easily pick up metaphors, themes etc in literature which means I did not need to study hardly at all to get my English exams. Sadly, I do not feel gifted because I am not working, and thus have been...
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    Imitation Game + Alan Turing

    This is interesting, turned it up while doing a search. cracking the enigma: Did Alan Turing have Asperger syndrome?
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    Imitation Game + Alan Turing

    Yes, amazingly intelligent man, and so sad how his life ended. An aspie friend who saw it the same time as me said exactly the same as me when we met afterwards regarding the autistic traits. I think the film took some artistic license in adding in a Russian spy cover-up story (that seems to...
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    Astral Projection

    I researched it a long time ago. I have also engaged in it.
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    Imitation Game + Alan Turing

    Anyone else see this film and notice that Turing is portrayed as quite obviously being on the autistic spectrum, starting with separating his food into colours on his plate at school? I have done some further reading around the net, and it certainly seems he may well have been. Obviously you...
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    Relating to others

    I would say I am compassionate, but unless I have experienced the same thing, I feel no empathy when someone is suffering, so I will try to help, as it is my nature to like helping others and being of service, but it comes from my head usually. Now, if I see something extreme with extreme signs...
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    Yeah, thought it might be you somehow. Yes. I come and go to forums. I ended up back on them due...

    Yeah, thought it might be you somehow. Yes. I come and go to forums. I ended up back on them due to getting formal diagnosis finally.
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    Yep, I did. I remember him quite well.

    Yep, I did. I remember him quite well.
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    Theatre - telling the story v. attention hogging

    I was into amateur dramatics when I was younger, and have had a love of theatre since a young age. I both wanted to be good at it, but I cannot deny, I wanted to stand out as being 'special' too, I suppose. I don't think I wanted to be the centre of attention however. I went into stage...
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    What did you feel when a Special Interest ended?

    I usually feel at a loss, depressed, floundering in the empty space where the interest was, and really anxious to find a new one, but sometimes that does not happen right away, or I will have a series of intense, but short lived interests that do not provide the same escape and relief from life...
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