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    Anyone else have a tic disorder or Tourette Syndrome?

    I also have tics, both jerking tics including the head to the right one, as well as vocal tics. My gp diagnosed it as Tourette’s long before my ASD was officially diagnosed. My neuropsychologist does not feel it is Tourette’s at all but just another part of my autism. I have some vocal tics that...
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    I started a blog

    I finally decided to share with the world my stories, poetry and insights. I have high functioning autism and was abused as a child because I never could meet expectations. Because I was smart, I think normalcy was expected, even demanded from me and no understanding for my difficulties...
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    Word Association Game

    Cracked
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    "You use autism as an excuse."

    I can’t agree with this because ASD is a spectrum, meaning that because one person can learn to “be perfectly NT” , that does not mean we all can do that. I am 68 and no matter how much I intellectualize the correct way to handle something, I mess it all up by misreading what the other person is...
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    Do aspies miss their exes?

    In my case, if I felt a relationship was over, it was over and I never looked back or missed them. However, when I lost my husband eight years ago, who was probably also an Aspie, the relationship only ended because of cancer. I still miss him. We had a great relationship where we each lived our...
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    What do you collect?

    These pictures are of my grandson's bone and fossil collection at age four. Of course I support him with his obsessions. He thinks he is a paleontologist.
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    What do you collect?

    The frog skins reminded me of this. I have not laughed so hard for years! I had collected the frog skins to set up a little poker game with a deck of miniature cards I got out of Crackerjacks. I had sent $10 for a mail order taxidermy course from Northwestern School of Taxidermy. I was about...
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    What do you collect?

    I collect art supplies, books, rocks, fossils, shells, Schleich and Safari toys ( which my grandson lines up), wooden blocks, and art cards. I made a set of blocks from forty different kinds of wood and woodburned the type of wood onto each block. When I was a kid I did some strange collecting...
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    People's lack of support since diagnosis

    After my recent diagnosis with ASD at age 66 I found varying reactions. One of my daughters said "No, Mom! i just want you the way you have always been!" I told her I had it all my life so no problem there. Only the diagnosis is new, not the autism. I think a lot of people, family included, go...
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    The diagnosis is official! I am an Aspie!

    Yes, Mia, it feels good to have a diagnosis rather than just a mystery disorder. I am still as wierd as I ever was, maybe seem more so now with the red glasses that have brought a halt to all the symptoms that were thought to be Tourette's for so many years. The involuntary movements were caused...
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    The diagnosis is official! I am an Aspie!

    I introduced myself awhile back after doing some online Asperger's/Autism tests. I scored way up there on all the tests. I then talked to my family doctor who thought it was quite silly and insisted I just have Tourette's syndrome. I dropped it for awhile but kept reading everything I could find...
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    Little bird with broken wing . . .

    I found the above test online yesterday and took it just to see what that one showed. My score was kind of up there! Yes, I am one of the "others". Not NT to be sure! I do weird stuff like examining a complex shadow in a parking lot where three different parking lot lights are making...
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    Little bird with broken wing . . .

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    Little bird with broken wing . . .

    I wrote a poem back in the 80's that related to my communication problems, which have been my way of life as long as I can remember. Broken Bird Little bird With broken wing She cannot fly She cannot sing. The pain is great The birdie bound So closely to The cold hard ground. Feathers...
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    What is a status message?

    What is a status message?
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