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  1. Angular Chap

    Watching the tables turn

    In just 3 days this week I’ve helped older people in my life sort out online order item undelivered requests, replacements and refunds, a holiday booking where the agency got the e-mail address wrong and a golf booking system that wouldn’t accept a birthday confirmation, then had a janky...
  2. Angular Chap

    Autism infographic from 2005

    I happened to find this interesting old infographic dated 2005. Not too bad for the time. Outdated by 2025 standards, but not a million miles away and there is an understanding that OCD and ADD are co-existing. No mention of ADHD though. Looks like the idea of a spectrum has been around for at...
  3. Angular Chap

    Expressive vs receptive communication and masking

    While looking deeper into the specifics of me going non-verbal, I discovered 2 main types of communication: expressive and receptive. A great discussion on here the other day inspired me to elaborate further. Maybe this will help other people fine tune their thoughts on their own communication...
  4. Angular Chap

    Going deeper into misophonia

    So I decided to go deeper into the whole misophonia thing after a thought occurred to me: whenever I encounter certain smells, I have the same reaction that I have when I hear certain sounds, my brain does the same thing. Like being hit by a wave of ice cold water on an already cold day. First...
  5. Angular Chap

    Adventures with the PlayStation TV

    I recently picked up a PlayStation TV on eBay for a steal and thought that I would share it here with my fellow gamers. First, a bit of background. In 2012 Sony released the Vita, the successor to the PSP. In short, it failed, for a number of reasons, including having to compete with...
  6. Angular Chap

    Notes from my post-diagnosis webinar

    I attended an extremely good post-diagnosis webinar 2 weeks ago and I slowly condensed down some of my notes to share here. Other things I'll probably get to mentioning in due course. It was presented by the same clinician at the clinic that handled my diagnosis. Someone with a long list of...
  7. Angular Chap

    Officially diagnosed...and thanks!

    Around 18 months ago I started the coming out and the getting diagnosed legs of my autism journey, right here on this very forum and I would like to thank you all for your help and being part of it. It has been a pretty good year and a half. I came out to my close family about being autistic...
  8. Angular Chap

    1 year since I came out to my close family about being autistic

    So it's been 1 year to the day since I finally came out to my close family about being autistic. 21st June 2023. Nothing otherwise special about that date for me, it was just when it finally happened. I'm so lucky to have a supportive family, they accepted me immediately. It turned out to be a...
  9. Angular Chap

    Front page of a Libyan newspaper from 1943

    I found this photo of the front page of a Libyan newspaper from 1943 in an old photo album with pictures from my grandfather when he served in North Africa during WWII. I'm not sure of the exact history, but my grandfather always had it on display in a frame in his living room. The photo itself...
  10. Angular Chap

    Book recommendation: Bully in Sight

    Sadly I see many, many posts on here about workplace bullying, so I would like to recommend a book that greatly helped me when I was on the receiving end of such behaviours at my first job and also other walks of life: Bully in Sight by Tim Field. Although first published in 1996, the...
  11. Angular Chap

    The Hum

    I figured a group of people with potentially very sensitive hearing may have also experienced this phenomenon. Have you ever been plagued by a constant low frequency humming noise that only you seem to be able to hear? Like a car engine idling down the street. Maybe this will shed some light on...
  12. Angular Chap

    The play script analogy

    I was showing people some official NHS guidance on autism which mentioned an interesting trait of "seeing others as an audience." So I came up with this analogy to expand my take on that: Sometimes being forced to mask makes me feel like little more than a character in someone else's...
  13. Angular Chap

    First video game you ever played?

    What was the first video game you ever played? Here's mine, Alex Kidd in Miracle World on Sega Master System 2. Alex Kidd was Sega's mascot before Sonic the Hedgehog. The game got a remake in 2021. The Sega Master Systems all had a game built in, switching the console on without a...
  14. Angular Chap

    Overconfidence

    Do you ever get OVER confident and end up making mistakes? I've done this in 3 ways: First, have you ever gone somewhere for the first time and been nervous, not knowing what to expect, worried about making a fool of yourself, only to have everything go well and come home thinking "I don't know...
  15. Angular Chap

    The switch analogy for social interactions

    I was explaining this analogy to someone and thought I would share. It is about most in person social interactions, especially the unwanted ones. Imagine a switch in the back of the person's mind. Any kind of switch. Could be a light switch, an old school knife switch, any kind of on-off...
  16. Angular Chap

    The "cargo cult" analogy for masking

    I've been thinking about this metaphor, and I think it works as an analogy for some of the mimicry/imitation aspects of masking. The term/idea of a "cargo cult" has a long history, but the most well known stories come from around World War 2 in the Pacific. Local Melanesians would see American...
  17. Angular Chap

    A quick PSA on browser bookmarks and resources long term.

    No doubt many people on here have a vast collection of browser bookmarks with sites, pages, articles, podcasts and videos, be it Autism or special interest related. I'd like to put forward a quick PSA about keeping these resources safe long term. A couple of weeks a ago, I went to post a link...
  18. Angular Chap

    Research on extreme social withdrawal, hikikomori outside Japan

    I found this research on hikikomori, which starts off by suggesting using the term "extreme social withdrawal" (ESW) to acknowledge the existence as being worldwide, not just specific to Japanese culture. It mentions autism multiple times and goes into other comorbid conditions: Contemporary...
  19. Angular Chap

    Aspie Quiz results- 11 years apart

    So I found the old hard drive with the results of the Aspie Quiz I took 11 years ago when I first started casually looking to what was "wrong" with me. Here are the results compared with the results of the one I just took, for anyone interested, plus some random other info: Your Aspie score...
  20. Angular Chap

    Burnt out and ready to come clean!

    Greetings from Scotland! So I started looking into what was "wrong" with me many, many years ago around 2010. Something's not right here. Agoraphobia? Nah. Social anxiety? hmmmm...maybe a little? Then I stumbled upon this term....Asperger's Syndrome....Yes, that does sound like me alright. I...
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