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Recent content by OddmanJive

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    Commitment

    Hi Patience. edit: Ashe responded while I was writing my long-winded reply. The concise version of mine is: "What Ashe said!" I've been married for 14 years, and I still melt down when things get too stressful or with certain triggers. My worst trigger is money and financial matters, even...
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    Dolls obsession

    I'm so glad you brought this up, Penguin! I have always liked miniatures, including dollhouses and furniture, snow globes, model trains, model airplanes, game pieces, and other small worlds. I also have a fascination for exactly this kind of doll. Have you seen Enchanted Doll | By Marina...
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    Sensory Sensitivities: Physical vs. Emotional

    The disabling physical effects caused by sensory overload that I had as a child have almost entirely subsided (I'm 47). However, I still have emotional responses to certain sounds and sharp voices. I especially have trouble processing speech in noisy environments, or when two or more people are...
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    Hi!

    I think you're right, Cat. Thanks for your advice. Something as potentially serious as serotonin syndrome (the Mayo Clinic has a good summary) should be cause for written and verbal cautions and instructions. To be fair, she did mention a colleague across the hall as someone to call in case I...
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    Hi!

    Hi All, Just a quick update: I went to a psychiatrist to help me sort all this out, and she prescribed amitriptyline to help me sleep (insomnia is an issue for me). I have been taking sertraline—an SSRI—for years without any significant problems. However, the two drugs combined caused a...
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    Hi!

    Thank you very much for the warm and complimentary welcome, Nadador! I have been busy and off the internet this week, so I apologize for the slow reply. This week I also saw a psychiatrist, who focuses on "integrative" medicine, twice! LOL! Seriously though, and she wants to see me twice again...
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    being used by relatives for free??

    I endorse the "broken record" strategy! I wish I'd had that years and years ago. I am sympathetic to your situation, Mr. Faramoose. I used to be taken advantage of by my parents so often that I was glad to leave Oregon, where they live. I wasted years of my early adult life making their lives...
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    Hi!

    "Annoying them ever since..." Love that! I learned to read in school, in first grade, but I sort of got it and I was encouraged to read at home. I loved Encyclopedia Brown books. I stopped reading fiction as a teenager. I had trouble analyzing or understanding character motivations, so I didn't...
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    "Whats wrong? Why are you so quiet?"

    A friend actually asked me that the other day. In my home! I like Harrison's approach. If I can, I either hide behind my wife, who is NT and socially adept, or I try to keep moving, smiling, looking busy. I don't really care anymore if people think I'm weird, but that doesn't mean I am...
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    Sensory Overload

    Word! I bought my first pink shirt last year—to try to be cool and because my daughter likes pink—but I've only worn it once, and it's not even that shade of pink!
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    How do you grieve?

    First, Cali Cat, my sincerest condolences for the loss of your husband. I can't imagine how hard that must be/have been. [I apologize for the blatant TMI below. I share some details because maybe it will resonate with someone, and I feel like maybe that could be helpful.] This is a more...
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    Where does Your Username come from?

    It's an anagram of my real name, and I'm odd.:)
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    Any Aspies had bad experience learning to drive

    I hate driving, but I've had to get used to it. I learned to drive at 15, but didn't get my license until I was 18. I used to get so stressed out behind the wheel that I would need to stop at every rest area on road trips, and I still get pretty keyed up if I have to drive at night or through...
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    How do you grieve?

    Pets are SO hard to loose, and they are never with us long enough.
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    Hi!

    Yes, definitely. The hyperfocus and the ability to hold many steps or patterns in mind at the same time have diminished considerably. I am currently working on a research project that is making me nostalgic for the pre-SSRI days. But I'm afraid to go off the sertraline. I think that my efforts...
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