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  1. Rob

    Yeast, Gluten and Autism

    Hi Everyone - Just recently I had a very bad experience. What happened was that I had a very bad case of cognitive impairment, much more so than usual. My mentor had to move to a new location because of health problems, so I had to help her move. I frequently misunderstood her instructions...
  2. Rob

    How many of you are living with a good ASD mentor?

    Hi Everyone - I have been through a sea of changes lately. I have moved into a nice home with a good mentor. She has been a great source of tips and advice for me. Even though we are opposites in personality, in some ways we do share things in common, like our food choices and our...
  3. Rob

    How many wake up hearing music in their head and lots of racing thoughts?

    Hi - How many of you wake up feeling bedridden with a mind that won't stop making noise? Theme music, random racing thoughts and other stuff seem to play constantly in my mind, especially when I am trying to fall asleep and upon waking up. Is this common among those with ASD?
  4. Rob

    How many of you enjoy jigsaw puzzles?

    Hi - I have just finished a 500-puzzle of six golden lab puppies standing and looking out from a wire fence on a country farm. Right now I am doing a puzzle of a cottage with a young lady feeding the geese. With different kinds of pieces and the fun shapes they make, I find the Cobble Hill...
  5. Rob

    Do your thoughts race elsewhere in the middle of daily tasks

    Hi - Many times my mind wanders off quickly to other things in the middle of housework, at work, or even when I am eating. When this happens I forget things or misplace things. I will spill things, knock stuff over, or end up biting my tongue when eating, etc. But when I am driving or...
  6. Rob

    How many of you have just moved into an apartment?

    Hi - I have moved into an apartment last June and I still have a lot of de-cluttering to do. How many of you still have a lot of stuff to condense, especially if you have a lot of souvenirs from your deceased parents? I have kept a lot of jewelry boxes and other wood crafts that my father...
  7. Rob

    Has anyone had meltdowns at their employment?

    It has been a long debilitating summer with over five hundred forest fires burning in my province of British Columbia, Canada. We may be in "the great white north" but we in BC have hot summers and lately so many fires have been burning that even my alpine town of Golden BC has been smoked in...
  8. Rob

    Having to relocate from an old residence

    Hi everyone- Does anyone on the forum have to relocate from an old, deteriorating house that your NT siblings wish to sell? Does the experience seem overwhelming? I do not actually own the house, but I have a huge task in getting rid of clutter. Most of the decluttering has been done...
  9. Rob

    How good are your teamwork skills?

    It's good to be back on this forum. Have you a job that requires a lot of teamwork? If so, do you have challenges in interacting with the other employees? For example, in my new grocery store job as general clerk, I sometimes have had to go into a chaotic warehouse where one employee has a...
  10. Rob

    Do you have any allergies?

    Many parents of children report that when they fed their children gluten-free, dairy-free or other allergen-free diets the autism symptoms cleared up significantly. But not all cases respond this way. Which brings me to the question, Does anyone here have any specific sensitivities to foods...
  11. Rob

    Does anyone with ASD find driving stressful?

    Even in the small town of Golden, I find driving in town very stressful when it gets busy. Since I had an accident in the past, my constant expectation is that I will end up hitting someone. One day I was going home from driving my mom to the optometrist. Immediately someone in front of me...
  12. Rob

    Has anyone had nightmares with bureaucratic red tape?

    Hi Everyone I have had a terrible time the last few weeks waiting to get my mom's birth certificate from Europe. I need the birth certificate so she can collect survivor pension benefits. Internet searching for her birth records proved fruitless, so I had to call an embassy consulate for...
  13. Rob

    Do you often misplace things and get frustrated looking for them?

    I find my working memory is very bad in many circumstances. I will get ready for work or go into town but I often have to look for things like my keys or my bank debit card or my list of things to do and get frustrated looking for them, thinking they just disappeared from the face of the earth...
  14. Rob

    Do you have distant acquaintances you still like to keep in touch with occasionally?

    I just returned to the forum after a difficult past three weeks or so. I still have friends/acquaintances I like to keep in touch with every month or two to see how they are doing. From therapy in Kamloops, during a very dark time when I was awaiting my diagnosis, I made some good friends...
  15. Rob

    Do you get frequently get disoriented in hospitals, clinics or large schools?

    Just lately my dad was in our local Golden hospital for treatment for pneumonia, which upon closer investigation of his heart, turned out to be a heart attack also (fluid in his lungs). When visiting the hospital, I weaved my way through a couple of twists and turns past the nursing office and...
  16. Rob

    How easily do you express affection to family and friends?

    I realize this is a bit personal, but I found it very difficult to express love and affection toward family and friends in the past, but now it's easier for me to do so. It felt like struggling against a bag of heavy liquid pulling me down and pushing me back. It felt like a chore to do it...
  17. Rob

    Labels are for Cans: Managing Autism in the Workplace

    Hi - it's been a while since I have gone on the forum since I have had a very hard week last week with five night shifts and busy traffic with LOTS of customers and LOTS of work to do at night time. However I feel more refreshed and glad to be back. Betty-Ann from Autism Kamloops posted this...
  18. Rob

    Are you intolerant of high summer heat? How does it affect you?

    Just this past ten days we had a terrible heat wave in southern BC. Over a week of temperatures of 30 degrees C and higher here in Golden have dried up the lawns and filled our valley with thick forest fire smoke. All around us there are forest fires burning in central BC, Alberta and...
  19. Rob

    Do you have an obsession about the weather?

    Today I looked to the north and saw some dark clouds. I was anticipating some thunder today, but it is too early in the season. One year in early May I was working at Home Hardware in Golden BC, and the whole building shook from a loud explosion outside - but it came from a freak thunderstorm...
  20. Rob

    Hearing things that are not there

    Sometimes I find myself hearing voices of "customers" coming into the store when I am away from the till, especially when the loud furnace and cooler fans are running. Maybe the interaction of the sounds and the constant expectation of people arriving anytime seem to play games with my mind...
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