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    Newbee needing support in a strange Aspie encounter

    Horrible article, these researchers are way off understanding how high functioning autistics think. They have turned us Aspies right off with the implication early on that autistic children are not healthy, and with all this talk of impairments. NT people are not going to understand starting...
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    Does Your Employer Know You’re On the Spectrum?

    I've always worked my balls off, and it sounds like the rest of you do too. When I told my boss (I was newly diagnosed AS at age 59) he immediately Googled it and pointed out numerous reasons why that diagnosis must be wrong. It didn't seem to phase him at all and we haven't mentioned it since...
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    Newbee needing support in a strange Aspie encounter

    Again, thanks for posting this, because I'm finding it helpful in my own situation. You know what, when my wife and I have been at total loggerheads over something because I the unknowing Aspie have a totally different concept of a situation too her NT viewpoint, sometimes I have found it...
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    Newbee needing support in a strange Aspie encounter

    I've just failed over 18 months trying to explain to my wife of 27 years what life is like for me, making us both terribly depressed and ill in the process, so I am unlikely to be able to explain it on here. I'm not in the right place at the moment to try. I guess there is a lot of...
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    Newbee needing support in a strange Aspie encounter

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    Newbee needing support in a strange Aspie encounter

    You are quite right in everything you say and I think you are handling your terrible encounter brilliantly. As I started off by saying, I'm newly diagnosed with Aspergers at 59 and so still unravelling my own history which I'm now to believe I got horribly wrong, so I don't know what kind of...
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    Verbally Reciting Your Routines To Yourself

    This sounds like a great idea to me, if you can use it well, and be aware of when it might be annoying to others. When your co worker mimics it, laugh with them, (it's a sad person that can't laugh at themselves), and be proud to say "that's just me, that's the way I am". Colleagues will learn...
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    Newbee needing support in a strange Aspie encounter

    I've only just discovered I'm AS, and I'm approaching 60 years old, so my coping mechanisms have been instinctive and unconscious ones, and I've normalised my anxieties internally over the years, not realising how they were affecting my behaviour. I'm only just unravelling all this now. I'm...
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    Anyone else get excited over cozy spaces?

    I've always been attracted to little one room shacks in the middle of nowhere. Never managed to live in one yet though. I live for six months in a 6'x4' wooden shed . That worked but I was working 7 days a week and not needing it much except to sleep and cook. I went to the gym every day just to...
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    Does anyone walk on their toes, or been told a lot that they walk differently or funny?

    I am often asked if I am limping, when in fact I am not. Other than the general clumsiness, though, why would funny walks be associated with AS.? In your walking on toes case, a possible physical manifestation of the 'walking on eggshells' feeling we get when dealing with NT folk? I know, when...
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