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Recent content by heather_sea

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    Aspie Exam (poem)

    Thanks! I feel like that about real sports as well as life! I was forced to do team sports at school and could never understand any of the rules (as well as being extremely uncoordinated). Despite *looking* very athletic, I was always chosen last for any team!
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    Aspie Exam (poem)

    Oh thank you, that is so true (and got me into LOTS of potentially dangerous situations as a young woman). I find it exhausting trying to figure out what people mean, and worse is if they criticise me, and won't tell me EXACTLY why, as if I am expected to somehow figure it out by osmosis or...
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    Aspie Exam (poem)

    Those are great (mine always look terrible, because people take my photo with their phones, and I, um, wave my arms around a lot...)
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    Aspie Exam (poem)

    That's an awesome photo!
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    Aspie Exam (poem)

    - sorry, pressed wrong button re attachment, have now removed it
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    Aspie Exam (poem)

    My 3rd ex-husband of 18 years is a good friend, and knows me really well. However, despite (or maybe because of) being very NT, he is a TERRIBLE communicator and insists on talking to me in vague hints, which leave me completely befuddled and irritated. One of my hobbies is performance poetry...
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    Hi from Australia

    Hi, it's a Lamington Spiny Cray (Euastacus sulcatus) taken on the Coomera Circuit at Binna Burra (I'm a keen solo hiker). Thanks very much! I think I found that website and contacted a couple of people. I'll revisit them.
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    Hi from Australia

    Thank you very much
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    Hi from Australia

    Thank you; a suggestion for a good diagnostician would be very welcome :-)
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    Hi from Australia

    Thanks for the welcome! I live on the Gold Coast hinterland :-)
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    Hi from Australia

    Hi, I'm Heather, I only just discovered (extremely belatedly, as I'm 57) that I probably have Aspergers/Autistic (I already know I have ADHD and anxiety); because I am nothing like the men I know who have been diagnosed (for example, I don't have any specific special interests....well, yes I...
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