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Recent content by RtWalton

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    Can you follow dance/drama stuff?

    What you have to understand about less wordy plays and dances like this is that although they may be trying to tell a story, it is not necessarily a concrete story. Using symbols like this creates some ambiguity over the meaning of what is occurring, and in some ways this is actually...
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    Thinking that Neurotypicals have extrasensory perception

    Keep in mind that one of the crucial aspects of communication between two people is connotation as well as denotation. When someone claims that they just “picked something up” without trying, they do not mean it literally. They just mean that they learned it through guesses based on tacit social...
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    How do you feel about mirrors?

    I must “hop on the bandwagon“ and express my disliking of mirrors as well. The main issue I have with them though is more that they never provide an accurate depiction of reality, even the cleanest of them is distorted in one or more subtle but noticeable ways. It can often be frightening when I...
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    Blurred vision anyone?

    I get blurred vision similar to what the video is depicting when I have migraines or become intensely upset about something, but it is far from a constant occurrence. I would say that the video is somewhat consistent my view during these times, but it it is misleading in that it does not...
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    Diagnostic Question

    While it is true that childhood behavior are not the only part of the diagnostic process, they are a necessary part of it. At least if we are using the DSM-5 criteria, as explained below: “Symptoms must be present in the early developmental period (but may not become fully manifest until social...
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    Diagnostic Question

    From what I understand, it should be expected that to verify a diagnosis of Autism the diagnostician should get input from those who knew the person being diagnosed since their early childhood. While it is true that sometimes people’s memory of the person being diagnosed is faulty, the memory of...
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    How to handle therapy

    I have been going through therapy for about 8 years now, and this type of interaction is hardly uncommon. Keep in mind that most therapists without specific focuses are used to people with emotional problems related to (Nonpsychotic) depression and anxiety based symptoms, which are phenomena...
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    After Diagnosis

    @Not even human If I may, I would like to share my two cents on your plight. For the sake of this case argument, let us disregard our ideals and appetites and focus on the facts. You will realize that what you said is a contradiction: if you have been completely honest with us, then what you...
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    How many of you have older parents?

    Why I had never thought about this before, but I do indeed see a possible trend in what you are talking about. My mother was 34 and my father was 33. While the information on this thread is far from conclusive evidence, it could be an interesting topic for further research.
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    Visual snow anyone?

    I have experienced visual snow as well, but it only tends to happen naturally during the more acute phases of my migraines. When I first brought it up with a doctor I claimed that it seemed like everything in my vision became "pixelated ", but describing it as looking snowy or grainy makes sense...
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    Don't Be Shy To Introduce Yourself

    You where intrigued that I was diagnosed at age 9? How so? ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder after all, so it would only seem natural if it is more frequently detected in the earlier stages of ones development where symptoms are more exacerbated due to a lack of sufficient social conditioning...
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    Don't Be Shy To Introduce Yourself

    Hello Everybody. I have lurked here for some weeks now, but have yet to post until now. I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder when I was 9 years old due to the fact that my parents became skeptical of my lucidity after they made the mistake of signing me up for a baseball team, in which...
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