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45796
... "Autism Spectrum Quarterly" just came out with an issue that has an article on this. Specifically, some people are working on setting up an Autism...
Just Be
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Apr 1, 2006
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45795
lol. I can see why. The 'as' part. I remember making a joke about it one time in a thread called innaproppiate jokes for innappropiate people (on a xsorbit...
bethohmy2000
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Apr 1, 2006
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45794
... Two autistic friends, who in some ways are polar opposites of each other, and who both are quite different from me in many ways, but who both generally...
Camilla Berglund
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Apr 1, 2006
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45793
... Yes, in addition to being *sought out by* untrustworthy people. Amanda...
alfamanda
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Apr 1, 2006
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45792
I was wondering who do you guys have to trust? I'm talking about when you go to them about something VERY important, you know they will give you the truth....
manwithnoname37
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Apr 1, 2006
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45791
... I'm quite aware of that. Mine is not even the most popular one by a longshot, so I *have* to be aware of that. ... I think you care a lot more than I do...
alfamanda
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Apr 1, 2006
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45790
It does seem to be somewhat ridiculous. Perhaps a "Theory of Mind*s*"* *might be more accurate, recognizing that different people think in different ways, and...
Ari N.
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Mar 31, 2006
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45789
Your interpretation of the movement does, yes. Yours isn't the only one. To be frank, I think a movement is made up of the people that are a part of it, more...
Ari N.
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Mar 31, 2006
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45788
... I couldn't understand the meaning of it when I read about it....
bethohmy2000
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Mar 31, 2006
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45787
... As for false ideas of disability, I've been helped both by growing up around physically disabled people, and by officially becoming one myself a year and a...
Camilla Berglund
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Mar 31, 2006
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45786
fyi..... MONDAY, APRIL 24TH, 2006 10:30AM - 3:30PM AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS RECOGNIZING THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH ASD IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND PROVIDING...
jypsy [ janet norman-...
aspie_jypsy
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Mar 31, 2006
6:06 pm
45785
... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Autism-Risk-Safety/ I gotta admit I'm pretty skeptical of anything that treats this like it's new or an epidemic. The...
Gracie Groove
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Mar 31, 2006
4:15 pm
45784
... She's not telling anyone what they believe in or how they describe themselves, though, and neither am I. What we're saying is that the broad movement of...
alfamanda
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Mar 31, 2006
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45783
... I've always bought cops a copy of Dennis Debbaudt's book on autism and police. Because I've had so many bad run-ins with them. Amanda...
alfamanda
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Mar 31, 2006
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45782
... No, silly, I don't wear my heart on my sleeve; the terror is inside, and outwardly I'm cool and nonchalant. Sometimes I feel like the guilt assumption...
Gracie Groove
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Mar 31, 2006
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45781
Be pro-active... http://www.policeandautism.cjb.net/ http://www.autismriskmanagement.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Autism-Risk-Safety/ -jypsy ... ...
jypsy [ janet norman-...
aspie_jypsy
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Mar 31, 2006
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45780
... Well, that explains it. The terror explains the assumption of guilt, I mean, as anxiety arouses suspicion. Say you get stopped for speeding, or having a...
Gatto Fritto
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Mar 31, 2006
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manwithnoname37 wrote<Are there a lot of issues with aspies and cops?> I keep a notice on my front door with an enlarged copy of an information card about...
celia harrison
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Mar 31, 2006
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45778
If disability is not a word, then stop calling it "disability". Gatto...
Gatto Fritto
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Mar 31, 2006
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45777
That's okay I find it refreshing to hear your point of few. Just because I don't like the word doesn't mind that it bothers everybody. I'm glad to hear that....
Diane Burczyk
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Mar 31, 2006
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45776
I have never had a problem with cops. But I am very young looking. I know that the airport security people think I am either a teenager or in my young 20s...
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45775
... Respectfully, you are, by attributing to statements of personal opinion all the force of fact. You consider autistic rights and neurodiversity as a part of...
Ari N.
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Mar 31, 2006
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45774
... I've always been terrified of cops for just such a thing. For some reason I've always been assumed guilty. ...
Gracie Groove
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Mar 31, 2006
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45773
... officer) has decided in his own head that your guilty of a crime and uses some of the traits commonly associated with AS to rationalize it in his head that...
manwithnoname37
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Mar 31, 2006
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45772
... The approach I've generally used is to try to stay as far away as possible from being suspected for something like this. Of course, this doesn't always...
David Brown
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Mar 31, 2006
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45771
I believe the Theory of Other Minds is complete crap. Or rather the idea that only people with AS lack theory of other minds is crap. I know plenty of people...
manwithnoname37
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45770
Are there a lot of issues with aspies and cops? Like say an aspie find himself the subject of an investigation that arose out of a huge misunderstanding....
manwithnoname37
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Mar 31, 2006
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45769
... most part when I'm out in public and let em out at home. Recently I've been in a position where I can't really stim at home so whenever I get the urge to...
manwithnoname37
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Mar 31, 2006
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45768
Unrelated, but... My school principal suggested I might be an aspie when I was 12. He said "you know what that makes me think? Asperger's!" and my Dad thought...
none of your business
abnormaldive...
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Mar 31, 2006
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45767
It seems to me it just happened.... "The Aspie name itself was coined by a group of adults who have AS. They wanted a way to refer to themselves in a positive...
jypsy [ janet norman-...
aspie_jypsy
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