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Recent content by supernova

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    Anyone else have comfort items?

    My comfort item is my cell phone! It has to be always in reach even if I seldom use it.
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    Anyone else have comfort items?

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    What Is Your Favorite Number?

    9. The day, month and year of my birth each adds up to nine and when they are added together they come to 9.
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    Found this "inofficial" checklist for Females with AS

    I also flunked "innocent" and "confusion" -probably for the same reason.
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    Aspie and Proud

    Proud Aspie here as well. Sure it causes problems but I wouldn't change things even if I could.
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    Friends just don't seem to understand.

    It's good to know that other people have exactly the same experience that I did when I told friends and relatives that I'd had a positive diagnosis for Asperger's. I found their refusal to believe it both disappointing and extremely irritating
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    Do you ever just not care?

    I have difficulty caring in an emotional way. Some people, when they care in this way seem to see the object of their affections 'through rose-coloured spectacles'. I can't do that. I love my partner very much but then he's someone I would have great respect for even if I didn't love him...
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    Older Aspies and Younger Aspies

    That's true, Mike, but getting a diagnosis was like having a great weight lifted off my shoulders. I'd always felt that it was my fault that i couldn't deal with things like socializing and it was liberating to find that there were so many others who were like me. It would, I believe, have...
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    irrational fears

    Me too, Saragirl! I'm better than I was but I'm still cautious when using them - particularly some modern ones which don't have a flattened area to get on..
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    Movie Watching, Do You Become A Part?

    I become so involved that it takes a long time for me to come back to reality. Not so much watching a DVD in my own home, probably because I'm more aware of my surroundings than in the darkness of a cinema.
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    Do you find this scene funny?

    I don't find it funny. Maybe it works in the context of the movie.
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    What Are Your Fears (Big & Small)

    That's one of mine also. The others? too many to list!
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    The dreadful, annoying, "how are you?"

    For me what's worse than "How are you?" is "Are you all right?"
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    TV/Tellie you don't want to miss?

    The Blacklist Hostages Peson of Interest
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    Do You Feel Like An Alien?

    The OP and Garnetflower have expressed exactly how I've felt all my life. It's such a relief to have discovered that I'm not alone.
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