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Recent content by nikkitabear

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    Things that people do that really annoy you

    A lot of stupid things people do don't really bother me. Like if they babble on for awhile about meaningless-to-me topic, or follow sports. While I don't share their interest, or know what to say most of the time, as long as it does not go on too long, I can zone out and let is slid by. I have...
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    April Fool's Day ("practical jokes"/pranks)

    I don't like pranks either, especially not ones meant to ridicule. Absurdity sometimes works for me as a joke. I have gotten fooled more than once by fake news reports on NPR on April Fools day ( a tradition there, I found out). I always forget that it is April Fools Day, and I am extremely...
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    Sensory Sensitivity

    My biggest sensitivity is to the feelings on my skin, leading me to wear only certain clothes that are comfortable. The wrong color, or pattern, also feels intolerable. So I don't dress too well most of the time. Very low fashion sense as well. This has always been the case for me. My eyes have...
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    Did you understand the concept of ASD at first?

    The first time I came across the term Asperger Syndrome was in a book by Augustine Buroughs, ' Running With Scissors" where he briefly describes his, now famous, brother John Elder Robinson as having it. But the description of his brother is not much like me (actually, it reminded me a bit of my...
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    Compulsively exciteable

    This is a big problem for me also, although mostly no one is around for me to tell except one friend. But I just cannot contain my enthusiasm for some new fact I just learned within my interest areas, or some idea that came to mind, when I'm relaxed with people. Even when it really does not mesh...
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    Hello

    Hello to All, I am a recent-in-life AS diagnosis person, at age 57. Seems there is AS in my family as well, as the whole thing explains so much about many of us. Big relief, and a bit more jarring than I expected to get the diagnosis - even though I had figured it out on my own a few years...
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