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Recent content by vergil96

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    My 5-Year-Old Son with Autism Speaks in Multiple Languages but Struggles with Conversation

    I also understand the worrying, but I don't think taking the boy's favourite toys away is helpful. My whole point is, interactions with others are harder for us, especially with neurotypical people who won't have the patience and assume everyone is like them. That's the main concern, the...
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    My 5-Year-Old Son with Autism Speaks in Multiple Languages but Struggles with Conversation

    I seriously think therapists don't know what they are doing. What is wrong with a 5-year-old playing only with plush animals? What is avoiding those toys supposed to achieve? Autistic minds "latch onto" things, thoughts can be repetitive. It's all there is to it, and I see no point going against...
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    My 5-Year-Old Son with Autism Speaks in Multiple Languages but Struggles with Conversation

    I still find this one difficult. Coming up with a complex verbal response when I'm feeling bad. Of course the world of adults is different, I find it easier to not explain and just do what I need to be done, politely leave the room for a few minutes etc. Explaining is too hard. My parents got me...
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    My 5-Year-Old Son with Autism Speaks in Multiple Languages but Struggles with Conversation

    Very familiar topic 🤣😎 I know 5 or 6 languages but I hang up talking or struggle to speak at all. It's hard to compare an adult to a child. For me, I feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, bright lights, background noise, all that keeps my wheels spinning that could be devoted to having the...
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    Is it weird that I consider when people compliment or praise me that I don't consider it good my mental health?

    It's self destructive You want to be treated poorly. Nobody deserves it, everyone is just their own person and has better and worse traits. Nobody is better or worse than others, essentially. Maybe it's related to trauma? And how you were treated in the past. Victims of abuse (domestic...
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    Yet ANOTHER young autistic boy has drowned in a retention pond in Orlando today.

    It's hard to judge. Autistic children can have a poor sense of danger and might not know they hurt themselves.
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    Neurologist?

    The problem is that I couldn't get help with my sensory issues. I looked for specialists who work with sensory issues and autism, with my family we were thinking that it looks very much like a neurological disorder and... why not test it but put an "autism" label on it and end it on this...
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    Neurologist?

    I got diagnosed with epillepsy That's still a lifetime of sunglasses and earplugs. But more firmly stated and no "you can develop accommodation to strong stimuli". And with an asessment of it to be dangerous to some degree, so if I don't want to any of the weird stuff happen and zone out, start...
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    Preventing sensory overstimulation at work

    Maybe I wouldn't expect extreme reactions, but I didn't expect understanding and accommodations. There is a very long way to go from attacks to offering help. I expected something in the middle - not knowing what to do, not being able to follow anything different from speaking. I have been...
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    Preventing sensory overstimulation at work

    It would be objectively bad if I stopped being able to speak while presenting, but doesn't happen. It turned out to not be overwhelming and I learnt to ignore what is happening in the class. So other than that, yes. I did have some bad experiences and I was convinced that "random customer" type...
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    Preventing sensory overstimulation at work

    So... it happened. I couldn't speak for long enough for it to not go under the radar. And nothing negative happened. It wasn't far off my usual way of communicating, it seems, and the students seemed to have already figured me out before I did. They give me stuff to point at and suggestively...
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    Potato poll.

    Boiled
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    This zone is for our kind of life. Other forms of life might have very different makeup than us.
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    Odd question from another autistic

    Of course not There is a myriad of neurological diseases Reading comprehension matters when reading scientific articles. They are very specific and mean no more no less than is literally said. Being critical about poor methodology is also crucial. But This
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    I don't think the answer to the question has any impact on our lives, it doesn't matter. But I think it's very probable that there is alien life, because the universe is so huge. The aliens problably can't travel across it yet just like us, otherwise we'd know them. This or they keep us in a...
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