... From: "Kaiden Fox" <admin@...> ... Yes it does get very chaotic at that time of year and they seem to make the holiday season last longer each year....
You folks can actually get out of the obligatory family stuff?? HOW? I never managed to. I would never hear the end of it. My mother can pull the world's most...
One person - but a whole family's guilt trips? Whenever I'm not present for every single frecking event, my extended family starts going on about how...
Bookwood, ... Yes Bookwood, I deal with this all the time - especially because I appear so "normal" now. As a child, people immediately knew I wasn't, and...
I have a now-ex-friend who insists that autism isn't real, other than her narrow definition of it. (This is the same person said that we are in comas). She's...
... Things are a lot different since my grandfather died. It used to be that we would go to his house and there would be twenty to thirty relatives there. And...
Kaiden Fox <admin@...> said... ... She's right. We made all this up. We just use this as an excuse for not holding down jobs, not living up to social...
Sean Casey
sean@...
Oct 2, 2004 12:07 am
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How in the world can autism not be real? How? Like kids all across the world are sitting at home and making up strategies to fool and manipulate others for ......
... You could always give her a present at a different enough of a time that it wouldn't be a Christmas present. A few weeks early, or a few weeks later would...
I am not sure what "real" means. Perhaps your ex-friend just thinks that autistic people are not "disordered" because there is not such criteria for the...
... Well, that's the model of the world that Tani has. To her, people who are not beyond plausable denyability aren't autistic. Anything they do can be ...
... I did, she won't. She keeps pointing me to www.autism.com/ari and telling me to "Watch the video," although there's no video on that page. I complained on...
I agree. From everything I have read, you would have to do a comparative scan WHILE you were thinking/doing something and compare it with NT. For example:...
Interface -- People with Austism (AS, HFA, whatever) have different ways of thinking - the mental interface is different. That can also mean that the senses...
A different way to look at it might be similar to needing more left- handed desks in the classroom. Fortunately or unfortunately, the only way "differently...
... seems that many if not all, are adults with Aspergers that was NOT diagnosed when you were children. << Since AS was only "officially" recognized as a...
I think Kaiden was saying that a VERY IMPORTANT thing to remember as your son grows up is that since he is Autistic (HFA, AS whatever) that it means his brain...
People like the TV Blaring so it drowns out the fact that they have no real life and feel dead and disconnected to the world unless they are involved with...
I have read a couple of replies and also agree that either people will get it or they won't because they relate or they think anything surrounding Autism is...
BUT, he IS diagnosed autistic BECAUSE he has a list of behaviors. It is a "development disorder" that only becomes apparant when your behavior is "abnormal"....
Everyone will just assume you have 1. Had too much sugar. 2. Maxed out your charge cards. 3. Drank too much at the office party. Or, you could 1. Try stocking...
Does your husband agree with you or does he want to go? You can always have lots of work around then and either can't get off (but you will have to go the week...
Sex with Children IS NOT Normal. It might be culturally allowed, like some Islamic countries, where they are arguing whether the age that the father can give...
You seem to have bought into the idea that austism is a disease, instead of just being a disability. They reason it is a disability is that it limits a...
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