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Recent content by SusanLR

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    A Thinker Returning to the Community

    Welcome to the forum! I'm 68. Diagnosed at age 56. I think you'll like it here.
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    People on TV

    Should ask her why she thinks that. Enquiring minds want to know! :rolleyes:
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    When do parents stop acting like parents?

    I think they all do that. It's rather like the... in the beginning the Gods created man in their own image thing. People are that way too. The child is like a piece of clay to be molded into the image they want. I don't go for that. Never did. Sometimes things need to be aired. Call it arguing...
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    When do parents stop acting like parents?

    I'm not sure by what actions you call acting like parents. Trying to tell you what to do? Maybe? I've never been a parent and don't know the "parental" nature of emotions. Maybe I just got lucky through a combination of being an only child with parents that didn't try to rule me to any great...
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    Are You Eccentric?

    A few things people call eccentric about me: Probably number one is being a nudist. Somehow that doesn't feel right with the majority. I like insects and keep certain types for pets in terrariums. @FayetheADHDsquirrel Love the cicada nymph. They are such an interesting find, and I like to hear...
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    Do you like being autistic?

    I'm neutral. It doesn't bother me. The scales of advantages vs disadvantages are about equal in my case.
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    What Makes People Love You

    No one knows about my autism except for my therapist that diagnosed me, my house companion and one psychiatrist. I didn't know anything about Asperger's or autism until I was 56 years old either. I grew up knowing I was different to other kids in school, but I was indifferent as to how they felt...
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    BLACK

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    Genuine Instructions Vs Joking

    Taking what is said literally. This happens all the time with the person I live with. I give a reply to something he asks or start to do something he requests only to hear: "I'm joking!" He knows I have Asperger's and knows I take everything literally, yet he keeps doing it. I'm always...
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    What can you do with the number 9?

    You can contact them if you know how. Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller This journal documents Puharich and Geller's alleged contact with non-earthly beings who claimed to be from a civilization named "Hoova." It wasn't Puharich's first contact with non-human entities. In the 1950s...
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    The one thing I wish I could change

    The one thing I wish I could have changed about myself was the spontaneous panic attacks that started at age 13. This led to running out of classes to go home where I felt safe. This false feeling of security being at home led to agoraphobia. Agoraphobia led to a life of not going places or...
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    QoTD #1

    I think I get it. Like I don't have a smart phone and don't want one. Talk and text is enough for me. It's something others don't understand. Look at a room full of people sitting around and everyone is fiddling with a smart phone. They can't even put them down long enough to eat in a...
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    Something You Did Today, That Most People Would Think Is Weird

    Whistled up my Mockingbird friends. Gave them dinner and a Brown Thrasher joined them. I talk to them like children. 🐦
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    Why therapy is scary to me

    I continued therapy with the therapist that diagnosed me. I've had many others in my lifetime that I found not at all useful and they just didn't seem to care. Some would fall asleep when I was talking. The one that diagnosed me was genuinely caring. I don't know what would have happened if she...
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    Time change

    How to deal with Fall Back Standard time:
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