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  1. Joshua the Writer

    An Aspie Life | Game Made by An Autistic Teen

    An Aspie Life is a video game about a boy on the spectrum whose roommate left the apartment unexpectedly. It was made by an autistic teen named Brad Hennessy. It's a good game from what I could tell from the 20 minutes of me playing it (I want to save any future playtime on here for my YouTube...
  2. Joshua the Writer

    IQ Tests are Obviously Biased!

    Here is an article a friend sent to me a few minutes ago. It's called Intelligence Testing: Accurate or Extremely Biased? It's from neuroethicsblog.com. ---------------------------------------------------------- In the early 1900s, psychologist Charles Spearman noticed that children who did well...
  3. Jenisautistic

    my appointment with my therapist and social worker

    I ting my meting went very well i believe they actually believed me and said my letter to her was brave. i am going to get skill training and a therapist. And there is a strong possibility i will be going to collage in that impact u program. i fell very happy and before i felt rested and...
  4. Chenelle

    Hi All!

    Um hi, I'm a bit shy and am looking for a community that I can explain things to and make friends. I have a hard time understanding...almost everything... and just recently started to develop new cognitive skills outside of my genetic deficits. I've been learning about non localised...
  5. Jenisautistic

    God help the outcasts the a cappella cover

    Hi note I sang this song while having a cold so please mind that;) Anyway fun fact this is the song I usually think about when I pray. Also I’m seeing my social worker in two days but I want to share something personal with there like a letter I wrote and I’m nervous well terrified...
  6. Joshua the Writer

    Does Anybody Else Have Weird Sleeping Preferences/Positions?

    I just recently have now started to usually sleep by putting all my blankets except for my blankets in a pile at the end of my bed, resting one of my pillows against that pile, keeping the other one where it is. I rest my head on the pillow that is on the pile, and my feet on the only thing...
  7. Joshua the Writer

    The World Isn't Ready for Me (Poem)

    So, I created this poem and submitted it to be included in my online high school's literary magazine. I just wrote about my disability, without mentioning autism explicitly. I hope it gets in the magazine! Anyways, without much more BS, here it is: I am ready for the world, But is the world...
  8. B

    Interests

    Growing up I have myself experienced and seen others in my family experience the impact of restricted interests on family life as such I wanted to find out how caregivers start to widen the restricted interests of their children.
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    • autism family hfa highfunctioningautism interests obsessions restrictedinterests
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    • Forum: Obsessions and Interests
  9. Jenisautistic

    A tribute to Justin and a question

    “Thank you for the memories Justin I miss you despite the fact you were and I autism speaks bear where it didn’t matter to me. You were the softest bear and build a bear workshops Store that day. And they could not resist your light blue fur. Thank you for all the happiness you gave me and I...
  10. Jenisautistic

    Cover of fix you and update

    Hey guys I have been feeling a bit better lately I’ve been using a journal like an adapted bullet journal and my psychiatrist does think I’m autistic that I meant to feel better. He said what’s going on could be part of the spectrumAs in it could be an extent of my autism. I asked my uncle...
  11. DiverseWonderland

    What is Normal for us?

    So we know about the "Social Guidelines" and what is considered "Normal" These days but what i want to know is what do you all do that you consider "normal" for yourself or what do you do that most others don't do? For instance I will play by imagining something in my head but on the outside...
  12. I

    Study about hearing and emotions

    Hello everybody! We are a research team from the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine (IMMM, Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller) of the University of Music, Drama and Media based in Hanover, Germany and are currently conducting a large-scale online study on hearing and emotions. For...
  13. Renzo

    What are some "autistic problems" you need a solution for?

    Hey, I'm Renzo and I got a question for you guys. I recently started an organization called Autistic Spirits and I'm looking for some problems me & my team can solve. So go ahead and get your struggles of your chest!
  14. gallerypiece

    my experience with self diagnosis and childhood emotional neglect, and why those things correlate.

    some people can never imagine why i would accuse my parents of childhood and teenage emotional neglect. unless you had a dysfunctional family growing up and constantly lived in hard times, you would never be able to know the neglect that some of us experience as children. i was never physically...
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    • adult asperger's diagnosis aspergers aspie background autism awaiting diagnosis female asperger's female aspie neglect
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Help and Support
  15. allan619

    Undiagnosed - Part Eight

    Special Interests I guess one of the main reasons I have some doubts about having AS is that I don’t seem to have a special interest. I would love to have one actually but I don’t have the attention to stick to any one thing. When I was younger I was really interested in computers, I used to get...
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    • anxiety asd asperger syndrome autism depression
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    • Category: Aspergers & Autism
  16. allan619

    Undiagnosed - Part Seven

    Sarcasm I can often recognise when people are being sarcastic and my main issues are in my inability to respond appropriately to sarcastic comments. However this does not mean that I always recognise it, I can think of a couple of examples of when I got confused. The first is a comment that was...
  17. allan619

    Undiagnosed - Part Six

    Empty Head Empty headedness is something that happens to me whenever somebody attempts to engage me in a social conversation. I can get passed the initial “hello” and “how are you” but then it’s like my brain just freezes and there seems to be nothing in my head, absolutely nothing. The...
  18. allan619

    Undiagnosed - Part Five

    Pattern Finder I remember counting the stripes on the wallpaper on my walls, but not just counting them, I would see the pattern of three thick stripes followed by one thin stripe and then it would be repeated. It would frustrate me if I got to the end of the wall and it ended in way which...
  19. allan619

    Undiagnosed - Part Four

    Asperger Traits that I can relate to. Sensory overload This is something that I have experienced on a few occasions, mostly it’s auditory overload. There has been times when I’ve had to ask somebody “is it loud in here”? Which is confusing because you would think that somebody would know if...
  20. allan619

    Undiagnosed - Part Three

    Job Interviews Up until this point most of the job interviews that I’ve had have been very informal probably because they have been low skilled positions but job interviews are something I really struggle with. I’m just not comfortable talking about myself, I hate it. When asked to talk about...
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