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AS-and-Proud-of-it@ya...
Aug 1, 2003 10:34 am
32431
Here is a file which most of you received when you first joined, but it never hurts to be reminded. So this file is being sent to the list automatically once a...
AS-and-Proud-of-it@ya...
Aug 1, 2003 10:34 am
32432
A couple days ago it occurred to me that I have paid a price for trying to appear reasonably normal, mostly in feeling bored and peeved by almost everything....
Well, me-YOW. I am a very cool kitty who has been checking the personals ads endlessly (or, in my case, taillessly. Not to imply that I don't have a tail. I...
I'm only now coming to the same conclusion after having spent some three decades or so wearing various NT "masks" in an attempt to get along in the NT world...
... You sound almost exactly how I feel when I am stuck doing semi-NT mode by socializing. I become bored, listless, and extremely irritable. When I am at...
... Sure... Like most AS books these days, it is published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing -- author is Paula Jacobsen. I found my copy at Borders, plus it is...
... <snip> ... Homina, homina, homina, homina, homina. (That's an impression of Jackie Gleason, when he's at a loss for words to say.) 'Course, my knowing that...
--On Friday, August 1, 2003 17:22 +0000 shtrahler <shtrahler@...> ... There's a reason I hang out with geeks, freaks, and ravers -- people who celebrate...
Thanks so much, Denise, for both the information and the links. I will definitely get the book, and I look forward to reading it. Take care, Anne ... book ... ...
... Okay, judge this and thanks for letting me write it. The group is called he-special-uk, it is advertised in the contact list in FG&AS as being about home...
... The ARI and DAN are advertised in FG&AS too. I find them (and Bernie Rimland in general) much more disturbing, but it doesn't really affect my opinion of...
Whilst disagreeing with something I don't think we have the right to attempt to take legal action to suppress it because in so doing we are actually inviting...
Some times it seems I struggle even to get other AS people to understand that I am not inherently a social person. I need frequently to withraw from human...
Some times it seems I struggle even to get other AS people to understand that I am not inherently a social person. I need frequently to withraw from human...
... I've actually been feeling alienated lately even on the AS lists because most of the time it seems like I'm (ironically) "alone" in my dislike of being...
Hi..I have faked NT so long I don't remember who I am. I have reeped the rewards of financial success for faking NT. I am sooo into it that I have NTs all...
... First off, because many autistic people take things literally, a search for a literal "old self" will not work. It leads into a really convoluted and...
... Hi Milly, and welcome to the List. I'm 57, and have been dx'd for 4 years now. I've asked myself the same questions, still don't have any answers. We can't...
Count me as another asocial AC...I'm not happy being around people most of the time. Generally, if I'm approached by a stranger, my instinctive reaction (which...
In a message dated 8/2/2003 6:40:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... mineself as well, yes, this is so. ... It is difficult yes for rmineself to listen, sound...
In a message dated 8/2/2003 7:27:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, moggy@... ... this is myself as well, i thought others will be like mineself. but realized ...
I'm not very good at being social either. I try to be at school but kids always tell me to be quiet, shut up and I've overheard them say I'm annoying. I rarely...
HI all, I too have been an outcast both in work and out. I am luckier than most Aspies in the fact that I am now Married and thus have some Social Skills. But...
... At my work, I think most people have begun to understand that I never answer the phone. If it had caller-ID, I _might_ answer it for certain people, but...
Hi folks, I'll just relate what it's like for me. I've never been diagnosed but I can recognise so many traits of AS in myself. It all helps when you know ...
Janet
janet.edmonds@...
Aug 3, 2003 3:47 pm
32460
Larry, We are all different. Clearly some people on the spectrum don't seek friendship at all and don't mind being isolated in social situations (like standing...
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