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    Do you know other parts of your heritage?

    my grandma is, as she calls herself, an "ABC—" aka american born chinese (her parents were both immigrants). so i'm a second(?) generation chinese-american. my grandfather's side is ashkenazi jewish and german. my grandma converted when she married him. i'm the only chinese german-jew i know. i...
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    Toys you wanted as kids but never got...

    i wanted a barbie dreamhouse so bad as a kid. it was ridiculous. i would always go to toys'r'us and look at the barbie dreamhouse display for as long as i could before my mom/aunt/grandparents dragged me away.
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    my friend thinks she's on the spectrum

    18, United States, Pennsylvania
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    my friend thinks she's on the spectrum

    I have a very close friend who I've had a lot of help from in the past with regards to social skills, what's inappropriate talk at what time, overly friendly touching, etc. and has been very helpful and accepting of my condition. Recently though she mentioned that she has concerns that she might...
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    family kind of annoying

    I graduate in June, and I do work, but they both refuse to let me help much then complain during therapy sessions that they're worried about my ability to take care of myself. I feel like they forget that I had to take care of myself until I was 16, when I moved in with them :/
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    family kind of annoying

    Well, not so much family as just my grandma. I live with my grandparents and they're very protective. My grandma has this habit of talking over me or referring to basic things I do as because of my Asperger's. An example of this is when I try to talk about something with my grandfather, and...
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    OCD..how common is this with autism?

    in my experience some signs of sensory overload can be similar to ocd compulsions. when i'm on the computer or phone for too long i get this irrepressible urge to tap and click, and feel awful if i don't tap or click, like something bad will happen. i asked my psychiatrist about it and he said...
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    The term "Aspie" --is it offensive? What do you call yourself?

    i don't mind aspie but i think "sperg" is more offensive. aspie, in my experience, is used by people with asperger's to refer to themselves, and "sperg" is usually insulting.
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    snow and sensory issues

    Don't know if this is the right forum to post this in but I figured I might as well ask. It's been snowing all day where I am and whenever it snows, it's incredibly hard for me to do anything because the light reflecting off of it is more overwhelming for me than for the NTs in my life. I...
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    Eye contact IS important

    So I know that struggling to maintain eye contact is a big symptom(?) of Asperger's, but my entire life I've had the opposite problem: I maintain eye contact to the point of discomfort for others and don't really know when to look away, which has gotten me accused of "staring someone down" and...
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    Hello! :)

    Hi everyone, my name is Kara. I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was pretty young but I am still finding out new things about it every day. Just the other day I found out that a lack of imagination is common in people with ASD—I just thought everyone wasn't very creative, for some reason. I...
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