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Recent content by YoYo

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    Dating a Neurotypical

    Lexi, if he didn't feel a connection then there's nothing you could have done about it. That emotional attraction is what gives people the drive to learn more about each other and adapt to their differences. This is true whether you're NT or autistic. I wish that relationships could be made...
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    Hello from Brandon

    You make a good point. I strive to emphasize that none of the sub-groups that I describe are "better" or "worse" than the others. They are just different, as we are different from NT people. And of course people are complex and don't necessarily fit into one group or another to exclusion. Still...
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    Hello from Brandon

    I have two cats named Sam and Max, both brown tabbies. Sam is slender and athletic, Max more roly-poly. My avatar is of Toby, a cat I had until the end of last year.
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    Hello from Brandon

    Yes, that was part of the point I was trying to get across. Some autists are perfectly happy being alone, some are happy with very limited interaction (e.g. online chat) and some need in-person interaction, but to a fairly modest extent. Few have the same need for social contact as the average...
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    Does anyone else here actually ENJOY some social interaction? [Warning: A NOVEL]

    For me, performing (and its like) always felt different than interacting with people generally. So I could lecture, sing, play a part, or otherwise engage strangers formally long before I was comfortable just trying to strike up a conversation. I think it was because I knew the rules about...
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    Don't Understand Office Christmas Parties (and Pushy Colleagues Pressuring Me to Attend)

    Any parties that are not full of your friends are tiring and often tiresome. My best and first strategy is just to be gently insistent, e.g. "No, really, it's not for me. You go have fun." and repeat as necessary. If the petitioner is someone you care about, sometimes you have to make it clear...
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    Hello from Brandon

    My only strategy is to get together with people for the purpose of engaging in an activity that I think is inherently interesting. Some of these for me have included board games, LARP, theater, history, and science. The first real community that I thought I belonged to in any regard were...
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    Does anyone else here actually ENJOY some social interaction? [Warning: A NOVEL]

    Often that's true. It helps to congregate in groups that are there to enjoy some activity that you find inherently interesting to talk about, e.g board games, LARPs, theater, science, etc.
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    Dating a Neurotypical

    I have found that a discussion about communication is very important. I typically say something like this: "I'm not good at figuring out what you're feeling, even when it seems obvious to you that I should know. If you tell me what's going on in your mind, I'll respond, because it matters what...
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    Does anyone else here actually ENJOY some social interaction? [Warning: A NOVEL]

    An autistic psychiatrist summarized it very well for me. She said: most people on spectrum have relatively diminished social needs. If an average neurotypical person was a 100, most people on spectrum would be 0-70. But I'm a 95, an autist with typical need for social interaction. We exist...
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    Hello from Brandon

    Hi, my name is Brandon. I'm 60 and single, with two cats. I have known that I was on spectrum for the last twenty years or so, though it took me a long time to appreciate all of the communication difficulties that exist between autists and neurotypical people. I belong to that subgroup of...
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