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Recent content by SixTimesNine

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    Vision Issue?

    Our 11-year-old daughter has been saying that her vision sometimes zooms in and she sees the "ink spots" that make things up. Instead of seeing a face, she sees all of the small pieces that make up the face. Instead of seeing a door, she sees the tiny dents on the metal of the knob. She also...
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    Sense of Justice

    My strong sense of justice comes from: 1. My sister did everything my parents said was wrong and I tried to be the perfect, but my sister got all of the attention and awards. I was also blamed for things she did. Part of this was because my grandmother believed all children are "rotten kids"...
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    The school called...

    I was just sharing.
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    The school called...

    They called WHILE we were doing the interview. They kept me on the phone in front of the social worker for several minutes.
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    The school called...

    while my wife and I were doing the parent interview portion of an autism evaluation for our 11-year-old daughter. She was freaking out because she wanted to read during math and was not paying attention. They took the book, she took it back, she cried in the hallway. They are getting...
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    "Just get over" autism?

    My mother-in-law, who claimed I was rude because I didn't talk enough, responded to my attempt to explain why I have difficulty with socials situations with "I don't want to hear any of that crap."
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    physical clumsiness?

    One of the reasons I think I am on the spectrum is that I have memories of having occupational therapy in elementary school. When I got into video games around age 12 or so, my father started remarking about how all the teachers had said that I would not be able to do anything with hand-eye...
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    My father is perpetually angry at me

    This sounds a lot like my mother-in-law. I also reduced contact with her to an absolute minimum. I was embarrassed to go to restaurants with her because I would have to apologize about her behavior to the waitstaff. She was a nasty drunk, too. Nonetheless, I was the "rude" one! (At her...
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    Different Kinds of Food Issues

    Generally, I hate seafood. Even the freshest sea food tastes like it went bad. I remember the stench of my dad's scallops--ugh! To make matters worse, it took my wife several years to finally accept that I don't secretly like seafood and just don't know it! I also can't stand mayonnaise. I...
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    ASAN ends partnership w/ Sesame Street

    In my case, my sister is probably and undiagnosed case of borderline personality disorder. Volatile relationships. Lots of inappropriate sex and drugs. Running away again and again. Multiple suicide attempts, sometimes over trivial matters like when my mother stopped doing her laundry when...
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    What have you studied?

    I learned to program on a Commodore 64! My high school computers class actually had TRS-80s! I tried to teach some programming to my kids. My son is the type that is super into things--until he tries them and finds out that they aren't the shiny objects he thought they were. My daughter is...
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    What have you studied?

    My Ph.D. in Political Science took 10 years. I had thought that people that took this long were losers--until I actually got to the drafting a proposal stage. Other people in the same program told me they would be done much more quickly then me--but they took LONGER! My obstacles included...
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    Has anyone here ever published a book?

    A version of my doctoral dissertation was published in 2004. I thought the price was a bit too high, but they were targeting libraries for sales. When people ask me how long it took, I ask when to start the clock. Started Ph.D. program in 1992. Finished coursework in 1995. Finished oral exams...
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    does it take effort to speak?

    "If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.” -Ford Prefect
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    does it take effort to speak?

    Scarlet works better than rouge.
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