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Recent content by Annanda

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    The young generation (and social media)

    Recently I observed a young mother in the train with her baby. I was deeply touched by the despair in the face of the child. It only faded when his mother connected with him. But she was obsessively occupied with her smartphone. Every know and then she tried to call someone, observed her...
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    oooh I don't know what this is

    Your sound issues are very interesting! As a child I couldn't stand high female voices either. I hated the sharp sound of violins. Then when I grew up, my first love happened to be a violinist and guess what, I started to love the violin-sound. But only those of great violins in combination with...
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    What do you do to clear your head?

    Doing martial arts helped best in "emergency cases", cowering under a blanket, talking to friends, going for a run and taking a shower after it, walking for an extended time in the woods, meditation and lots of patience!
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    Any advice for a NT on this aspie behavior?

    @Marykate101 , did you ever take into consideration, that you might be autistic yourself?
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    connecting to self when with others

    @TheFreeCat Your text is very beautiful. You found words for exactly my experience. It's just great to read that!
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    connecting to self when with others

    Just can relate to all, what is written above. Sometimes I talk with my students about what NT humans feel. What they declare is normal, often sounds very strange to me, like being from another planet. Basic emotions like joy, anger, fear and love I'm able to spot within myself. And I can feel...
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    Random Encounter!

    I loved reading your text, @invisibility003! Your enthusiasm is just infectious. But please be careful, with whom you share your plans and ideas. I absolutely don't want to mix in your business, but it's common behavior out there in the world to take the ideas of others and describe them of...
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    Random Encounter!

    Wellcome, PuppySnake! Great chance to meet you here! Keep posting, we're interested :-)!
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    How to deal with HeartBreak?!

    So you've lost your love. She broke up with you. You might be shocked. In this case emotions and feelings would come indeed with delay as others said before. And what does your autistic brain? Your autistic brain does, what autistic brains are made for: process information, very quickly, I...
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    Did you grow up wanting friends?

    When I was a little girl I didn't feel the need of a friend. I was always occupied with creating something by myself and others would have been disturbing, I guess. I had a brother who is nearly my age and a mother, who was fluctuating between her tremendous need of attention and complete...
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    ASD and financial manipulation

    I was heavily manipulated by my mother to give her money, which I did. Over the years it was a huge amount of energy, I spend to her and her family. I didn't expect anything back. I was always promised, if I would need anything they would be there for me, which was not the case. She tried...
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    How to meet another Aspie

    I guess, there are more Aspies around, than you might be aware of. You can find them as mentioned above in libraries, some do martial arts, there are many in the midst of musicians, photographers, painters, engineers, physicians, IT-specialists, scientists in general. I work in a suburb, where...
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    Do you remember what your parents were doing?

    Oh yes! And these memories of my mother always catch up with me. Traumatic memory is special!
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    Dreamfactory: Friendship

    When and how did you realize it? Very wise advice! Sometimes I struggle with this one. If I'm very disappointed, because a friend e.g. lied to me or was unloyal or devaluating, there would come the moment, where I would break up the relationship from one moment to the other. It's like a switch...
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    Dreamfactory: Friendship

    In another thread created by @SunnyDay16 we discussed the unhelpful advice:"Just make friends" and our difficulties with initiating and maintaining friendship Inspired by this exchange some questions came into my mind: In your dreams: Which qualities has your potential friend? What do you...
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