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Recent content by Odd Duck 1357

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    Extroversion in autism

    He thinks its hilarious, and it can be to a point; but he often doesn't know when to stop (or has a hard time mustering the self-control to stop.) He seems to enjoy performing in front of people. It's this whole messy social cues thing. A pain in the rear. Now that there is a name for what's...
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    Being the lemon in the relationship

    Just saw a post about NTs feeling traumatized in a relationship with an Aspie. The article describing the relationship trauma might have been written by my spouse, who is often convinced he "bought a lemon" when he fell in love with me. He also thinks I use my AS diagnosis as an excuse to get a...
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    Extroversion in autism

    Looking for consensus or dissent here: I think that autism does not make a person introverted by nature, just by default. Let me explain: before exhibiting AS traits, I was "normal" child, talking and socializing until my second birthday. After that I became "shy" and "withdrawn," but never...
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    Is there such a thing as an Aspie that believes in God or love New Age?

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    Family Love and Acceptance

    Got into an argument with a relative yesterday over something I did and his take on it. It got heated after my refusal to see things his way and admit to intentions he thinks I had but I claimed I didn't (because I didn't). He called me "moron," a "****ing retard" with my "brain wired so...
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    Good jobs for autistic people???

    Nobody does. People just pretend
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    Good jobs for autistic people???

    What saved me from being the weird one was my immigrant status. It was easy to blame everything on growing up someplace else. So sorry you were picked on! The military is intolerant of that kind of nonsense nowadays. Seriously, you should have been in medicine or intel, I don't recall meeting...
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    Good jobs for autistic people???

    Because of my faith, I struggled with the morality of it too. At the risk of starting a political debate, I decided that, in the end, the military is no more immoral than law enforcement or surgery to excise cancer. Yes, mistakes can be and are made in all of those professions as we have...
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    Good jobs for autistic people???

    I wrote novels in basic training and took up cartooning to deal with the sensory issues. Battle simulations were soothing, because "engaging" the "enemy" was a way to tune everything out except my mission which, at its most basic, was to move from A to B while eliminating threats. There was no...
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    Good jobs for autistic people???

    The military is great for Aspies because it takes a lot of the guesswork out of things: they tell you what to wear, what to say, how to behave, even where to keep your eyes... (usually not on your drill sergeant's). If you work in, say, intelligence, the advantage is that either you're a...
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    HELP! NT needs to learn Aspie Language!

    Your choice of majors is an awesome illustration of who you both are. The Aspie world is far more colorful and uncomplicated, almost magical; it is hard for us to break away from it and step into the austere, rule-driven, drab NT universe. For example, a drop of rain can hold immense...
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    Need advice. Help please :)

    Yes, we can feel very cold and detached. It's part of the syndrome. It doesn't mean he doesn't care or takes your for granted, we just get overwhelmed by feelings and need to take a break from them. Then we get comfortable in that emotion-neutral zone and forget that it means a lot to NTs to...
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    Need advice. Help please :)

    Two helpful ways to thing about this relationship: Sci-fi or being transplanted into the past. It's like being in love with an extraterrestrial, whose ways and thinking are very different from what you're used to; the best way to deal with it is understanding and acceptance. Or imagine that...
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    Need advice. Help please :)

    [ I was getting into his bones, his blood, but quickly followed it with a message saying please don't reply just understand. He's not mentioned feelings since. It's very confusing. How do you show you love/care for someone?
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    Driving and Being on the Spectrum

    LOL, that is true. It all depends on how much grass they've munched on.
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