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    Are there any smells you cannot tolerate?

    I have a strong sniffer, so I have a LOT of aversions to smells: Microwave Popcorn - worst smell ever for me and will often cause me to throw up Sour cream Dirty or unwashed hair, depending on the person, even end of the day hair "cheap" perfume (I can always tell the difference) or the wrong...
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    Autism Spectrum Syndrome?

    Couldn't have said it better! I don't feel like I really knew who I was until I was diagnosed an Asper (which, if we're talking labels, is what I prefer to be called). Disorder, condition, syndrome, whatever, makes me no never mind. So much of my life was wasted because I was trying so hard...
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    Does anyone else struggle with same gender friends?

    I don't tend to keep friends for long periods of time, but the ones I have kept for more than a year or so have all been male (I'm female). I have never been able to keep female friends for longer than a few weeks for some reason. I don't hide who I am much, but I do tend to feel like I have...
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    Scopophobia (Scoptophobia)

    I completely understand your struggle and thanks for the term! For me, they have always defined it as "severe social anxiety disorder" or "debilitating social anxiety disorder" (depending on the shrink). As a child, I was a "pant-leg" kid (aka, I always hid behind my mother's pant leg in...
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    'Childish' hobbies

    I guess one could assume that my house filled to the brim with Disney toys is childish...I prefer to think of it as amassing a nest-egg of rare collectibles (which I would never, ever, in a million years sell, but still). Thank goodness for the added bonus of OCD! I like to think of it as...
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    Any college graduate aspies here?

    I'm about to take my fifth stab at going back to college, but this time, since I now know why I failed the other four times (because of some of my worst Asper traits), I'm approaching it differently. My Uni has a disability services department now that works with all kinds of issues, including...
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    Autism and Cancer, are they related somehow?

    I see it a lot more with the younger generation of doctors...they are in it more for the money than the philanthropy of it all. I've been with my lab for a long time and I've seen an older generation transition to a younger one to an even younger one and this company has gone so downhill it's...
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    Autism and Cancer, are they related somehow?

    Gotcha! Yeah, we have patients call us all the time because their doctors don't explain their results to them and technically we're not allowed to under HIPAA, but we can give them a copy of their report and when they ask about certain wording, we can suggest Google (or at least I do). We get...
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    Autism and Cancer, are they related somehow?

    If it was cervical cancer and it wasn't metastasized from another location, then it was HPV-related. There really isn't another dominant source for cervical specific cancer unless it came from another location first. There is another form of cancer that causes the cervix and the entire vaginal...
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    Autism and Cancer, are they related somehow?

    Yeah, it drives me nuts...there is no sense in things like this. Even the doctors don't take HPV seriously because of the stigma of the other three letters...STD.
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    No friends

    When I was young, I was constantly depressed over the fact that I couldn't make friends and that was WAY before I knew I was an Asper. But now, looking back on it, I did have a couple of friends, I just couldn't keep them, and it was usually my fault...either I would get bored with them and...
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    Autism and Cancer, are they related somehow?

    First off, so sorry about your parents! I haven't dealt with it on the parent level, but I have dealt with it on the grandparent level, so I know what it's like. Anyone can get cancer...it can be a genetic predisposition to it, something you are exposed to, or something you cause and even...
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    OCD.

    I was diagnosed with OCD LONG before ASD, but I'm more obsessive than compulsive. I do have some compulsions, but hand-washing isn't one of them. Door-knob rattling, checking and rechecking alarms and pattern walking are some of mine, but I'm lucky on that front and most of my compulsions tend...
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    Best ways to deal with general and social anxiety.

    If I'm at work, I tend to lock myself either in my office or the bathroom until either a Xanax (or three) kicks in or I calm down, but usually work only gets me in a tizzy if we have visitors that I have to deal with or if I'm being questioned about something that I don't feel I should be...
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    Bepeeping appliances and other unnecessarily loud things.

    As long as it wasn't repetitive, that could work!!!
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