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Recent content by Zoie

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    People don't believe or appreciate honesty

    I think I can relate with your experience. I'm consistently honest [to a fault], and it seems to me that other people are typically honest when doing so may serve their own interest. This may appear to be a sociological matter of character, and can easily be viewed as the differing levels of...
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    Stimming -- potential brain damage?

    Oh my god. Thank you so much for sharing this video! (Also, I love the fun fact about ducks. It always makes so much more sense to me when someone draws on similarities between accepted, understood animal-behavior, and our own occasionally "inexplicable", mysterious human-behavior. And I also...
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    Extreme self absorbance and even narcissism in parents?

    I don't know anymore. I want to say yes, but I'm starting to realize everyone is a lot more self-absorbed than I'd ever imagined. I used to believe my parents were both narcissists. I flat-out told them this, and attempted to cut ties with them. But the guilt and loneliness (and love?)...
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    Frustrated and lost

    It's really challenging. Practice makes perfect. I think it's helpful if you can enter some sort of safe zone, where you are unconditionally accepted by employees. Like. . Okay, maybe getting a haircut once a month. You can sit down and practice making small talk there, in the same environment...
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    Frustrated and lost

    I think I'm in love with this community already. This is the kind of place where someone can correct another person, and that person is actually grateful for the clarification - as opposed to interpreting the helpful remark as a unwanted criticism, and acting all defiant in response. This is...
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    Do I have Aspergers ...(sorry I can’t write well)

    I don't know, you sound like many victims of child abuse. They tend to have difficulties connecting with others, developing healthy interests or academic abilities, focusing and listening. It's common for them to feel different from others, to feel alone and completely detached. This is because...
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    Worst thing a teacher has said to you?

    I'm so sorry. You sound like you've suffered greatly due to these abusive authoritative figures in your life. God, I wish we could've been friends. The worst thing a teacher ever said to me... I was seven years old, and there was a boy with severe autism in my first grade class. A woman...
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    Frustrated and lost

    In all honesty, I am a little amused by the initial responses to this thread. Being somewhat of a social imitation artist, I look at the conversation depicted in your opening post and immediately think: yup, this guy doesn't know what he's doing. So it's a good thing you came here for advice...
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    BF disputes EVERYTHING I say

    This thread is a little disheartening to read. Growing up, I was constantly punished for "arguing" with my parents and teachers. My step dad used to tell me, "You're really messed up. You just HAVE to be right, don't you? You just HAVE to disagree with every single thing that's said, right...
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    What's not allowed in your house?

    People.:tearsofjoy:
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    I’m 17, and I think I may have autism/aspergers.

    I have an unusual fascination with finding patterns. For example, let’s say I saw a random set of numbers on a license plate; I would try hard to find a way that the numbers connect by adding, dividing or multiplying by the same number. Or another things I would do is look at floor tiles ^ I...
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    I’m 17, and I think I may have autism/aspergers.

    Oh my God, you described me. I feel so happy! Lol. I'm Zoie, and I'm also new here. I have Asperger's. Was never diagnosed though. Like most women on the spectrum, I was misdiagnosed and heavily medicated from a young age. Saw a dozen different counselors... Was intellectually gifted, but had...
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