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Recent content by PTZ

  1. PTZ

    What social things do you have difficulties with?

    I'm am completely blind when it comes to flirting etc. This one time at a bar I was with a group of friends/acquaintances and a woman asked if she could sit and join us while she waits for her bus. She sat next to me as that was the only place and we started a conversation. She misses her bus...
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    A recurring 'nightmare' from my childhood

    Never really had any nightmares as a kid, definitely not any recurring ones except one very odd one I'll try to describe. In this dream all there is, is a blank empty void. Just white, empty space with nothing visible. Only thing there is a sort of string or a line running horizontally and...
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    Ever present film grain effect, normal for everyone? Normal with autism? Something else?

    So, with a bit of scouring scientific publications, Visual Snow and Tinnitus are somewhat linked and have a degree of co-occurrence and Tinnitus has a higher prevalence in autistic persons. Then again, everything in the brain is connected to everything, but I think there's something here of real...
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    Ever present film grain effect, normal for everyone? Normal with autism? Something else?

    Thanks @SusanLR that's exactly the phenomena, cool to see that it's scientific description is so recent! If I had been able to ask about it as a child I probably wouldn't have asked here so I would never have found out! And @Luca no I don't have glasses and my vision is just the same as it's...
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    Ever present film grain effect, normal for everyone? Normal with autism? Something else?

    I remember in elementary school often wondering if other people see this same 'film grain' visual effect, but I never had the words for it and didn't know how to ask. I had completely forgotten about this until it just now hit again as I've been going over my symptoms and effects and preparing...
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