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Recent content by Balldez

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    NT people who do half a job!

    That happens everywhere. There are slackers and there are people who have honor. Complain to your boss and leave the Aspie stuff out it it.
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    Anybody ever get extreme anger?

    Words can do a lot more damage than a fist. My advice would be to shake it off. She probably was PMSing. You made a lot of assumptions about her but if her behavior was what you described perhaps a non scalding liquid thrown in her face would have been some very effective do it yourself...
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    Perpetual Adolescence

    I think it has far less to do with the individual and more to do with society and the economy and the fact that a lot of people are not earning a living wage mostly through no fault of their own. It comes down to the unfair distribution of wealth and the oligarchy.
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    I am considered a Grammar Nazi, is this a common Aspie trait?

    I think it depends. If you do it all the time and if it annoys you excessively perhaps it is. If you are a writer or a teacher you may find it more annoying than most. Seeing the language butchered is not a pretty thing. The Russian and alt-right trolls like to use excessive punctuation and...
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    Being alone.

    I tend to think that the keepers of all that is right and good really have this need to pigeon hole everyone into their idea of what is normal. Perhaps everyone should question society for its judgments, norms and labels that it arbitrarily places on individuals. Part of this society is the...
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    A Question Regarding Complying With Therapy

    I'm a big believer in tough love. Therapists are constrained by their time and codes of conduct and they are really not in a position to teach these people humility and empathy for others. Because Cluster B persons lack empathy they shrink cannot explain it to them by citing examples. Maybe if...
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    A Question Regarding Complying With Therapy

    In the case of the people in my life who I now thinks they have something called "pseudo-aspergers" personality and disposition seem to go hand in hand with the disorder. If you get a chance to read my intro, my step son and wife think they have aspergers. I don't think they even come close to...
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    A Question Regarding Complying With Therapy

    I hear ya. A lot of people are skeptical of shrinks (the ones who medicate) for good reason. Here is a suggestion for anxiety. In the 1960 there was a psychologist named Albert Ellis and when he first came out he was considered a heretic because he admitted that psycho therapy didn't work much...
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    I'm A Care Giver

    A lot of people fake PTSD and that makes it worse for the people who really have it. I have a friend who is a substance abuse counselor who was also a drunk and druggie. He knows their game playing and also he took his studies and training very seriously and is good at what he does.
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    I'm A Care Giver

    1. They become overwhelmed when they have a lot to do. Highly sensitive people struggle to stay on task when they have several different things to do. They become observably anxious, and as their stress level increases, they have more difficulty being productive. That would be Wifey and Sonny...
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    I'm A Care Giver

    I could be wrong. Also, maybe I can gain some insight whether they legitimately think they have it or they are lying to me so that they can justify their antics.
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    A Question Regarding Complying With Therapy

    Here's a hypothetical. You are an adult who get a diagnosis somewhere on the spectrum. You are offered therapy designed to help you function and be less stressed out. You are also told that the therapy could make things easier on your loved ones. In your experience are asperger folks more or...
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    I'm A Care Giver

    It takes a lot to zero in on the correct diagnosis and there there dual diagnosis it gets even more complex. In your opinion, how effective do you think treatment for high functioning autism is? As it stands now, they are pretty much saying, "I have aspergers and if I treat you like crap...
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    I'm A Care Giver

    Makes sense but I think they are way off base. Regardless of what it is called, it seems to me that behavioral therapy would be helpful and perhaps with enough right thinking what every is wrong with how the brain processes certain things it will change in a positive manner but it would takes...
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    I'm A Care Giver

    Things they do mimick some criteria but it didn't start with my wife until menopause. I tried being diplomatic and I asked my wife to explain and she got defensive even though I was not challenging her. I suggested the she get diagnosed to be sure because I told her I was skeptical. Here's...
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