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Questionare hace 644 días
 
Please take the short questionare to find our where roughly you are on the autistic spectrum, this is only a guide but for the instructions carefully and and answer then as best you can.

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So how can I tell if a person has Asperger syndrome?hace 835 días
 


SYMPTOMS.

Socio-communicative difficulties.

Being a loner.
Being active but odd.
Being aloof or passive.
Poor or exaggerated eye contact.
Solemn/serious expression.
Lack of empathy.
Naivety.
Difficulty with group work in a classroom or in team sports like football.


Children with AS respond better to adults than to their peer group.

Unable to initiate small talk but try getting them to stop talking about their special interest.

Language difficulties.

Speech may be delayed.
Literal understanding of language.
Idiosyncratic language.

Rigidity of thought.

A love of routine with extreme distress if it changes
unusual play patterns e.g. lining toys up or taking them apart.

Tendency to read factual rather than fiction books obsessional interests.

Common Obsessions.

Pylons.
Maps.
Gadgets.
Train spotting or any factual subject which they can immerse themselves in.

Gross Motor Movements

Clumsy.
Poor co-ordination e.g. catching a ball or being accident prone.
Flapping movements or nervous tics may walk with a lumbering stooped gait.

Other Asperger syndrome Traits.

Higher than normal anxiety levels.
More interest in things rather than people.
Hyper or hypo sensitivity to temperature/noise/smell/touch.
Independent or creative thinker.
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Valley Of The Mind's Eye - Thomas Dolby hace 878 días
 
Ma chere Josephine,
(My dearest Josephine,)

Que le monde a change depuis ma derniere lettre.
(How the world has changed since last I wrote.)

Ainsi ce soir je prends ma plume,
(So tonight I take up my pen,)

non pas pour m emerveiller
(not to marvel)

sur l epoque ou nous vivons,
(at these wondrous times,)

mais pour declarer l'amour
(but to declare the love)

qui est dans mon coeur.
(that is in my heart.)

If a song was a road
I would ride through the night to you
there's a moon on the rise
and I m drawn on the tide to you.
And I will be with you
and I will stay with you
and I will dream with you
if you need me to
anytime, anywhere
in a corner of your mind's eye

Planets will cool, Josie
tyrants will rule, Josie
I will be here for you
oceans divide, Josie
stars will collide, Josie
nations will rise and fall
and never see the world through these eyes.

Dreams of falling - dreams of flying.
a man who never dreams goes slowly mad.
The dawn of science, the age of reason.
This is the voyage of the mind's eye.

And I will be with you
I will stay with you
and I will dream with you
if you need me to
anytime, anywhere
in a corner of your mind's eye.
in a corner of your mind's eye.
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Lightbulb jokehace 901 días
 
How many people does is take from an aspergers forum to chance a light bulb?


1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb
could have been changed differently.

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

1 to move it to the Lighting section
2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section.

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.

5 to flame the spell checkers.
3 to correct spelling/grammar flames.
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" and another 6 to condemn
those 6 as stupid.

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp".

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is
perfectly correct.

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this
discussion to a lightbulb forum.

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and
therefore the posts are relevant to this forum.

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy
the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique
and what brands are faulty.

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected
URL's.

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group
which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers
and signatures, and add "Me too".

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle
the light bulb controversy.

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?".

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about
light bulbs".

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all
over again.
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Understanding Aspergers syndeoms.hace 930 días
 
If you would really like to understand what aspergers syndrome is and who we think and feel you Must see the flash video, it's very well explained in simle turm and everyboy canunderstand.

I think it would be very useful for NT's, teachers and those who know someone with AS who would like to get a better insight into the differences between Autism and aspergers...

Watch and learn..:)
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Mad about trains...?hace 936 días
 
If you like trains then you'll like this little clip of London to Brighton in 2 minutes. Time lapse photography and is coolest.

If anyone had problems with sensory overload, particularly visual sensory overload then this flash clip might look familiar.

What you will see in the flash video is what I get ether on a train journey or even when I’ve reached then end of it and sitting down at a friends. I still have all these fast moving images in my mind of sighs, stations. announcements, Though I do like looking at the tracks as they appear to bend and move so in a strange way I do like this video clip.

I find if it get too much whiles on a train I listen to music on an iPod, something repetitious like trance or some thing with a rhythmic beat to block out the what going on around me.

Please feel free to write a comment if you have this effect of sensory overload of any kind, visual, audio, touch or crowds, I’d be interested in you experiences.
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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Timehace 950 días
 
"The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time" Read by Mark Haddon and written by Christopher Boone.

Christopher John Francis Boone is fifteen years old, autistic and a budding journalist. He's a genius at math and physics but is unable to comprehend human emotions. As channeled by Mark Haddon, he's the ideal narrator for a unique novel of crime and detection, 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time'. With simple language, Haddon creates a complex portrait of suburban life.

Christopher may not be able to comprehend emotions but he can certainly observe them. His inability to achieve an emotional connection with those around him enables to the reader to experience his world directly, without intervention. Christopher's investigation into the events in his neighborhood becomes an anthropological examination of modern mores. Haddon manages to be heart rending and hilarious in the same sentence. It's remarkably clever, but never too clever. Occasionally, Christopher just has to lie down and scream.

Writers from Henry James to Arthur Machen to Daniel Keyes have used the voice of an innocent to explore evil. Haddon brings the latest clinical understanding of autism and Asperger's Syndrome to this novel with very impressive results. Christopher Boon is prone to walks at night when he can't sleep. One night, he finds the neighbor's dog, killed with a gardener's fork. A fan of Doyle's hero Holmes, he decides to conduct his own investigation. Doing so will unravel life as he knows it

Haddon has a precise command of the simple power of language. Christopher's narrative isn't at all straightforward, but the detours he takes are fascinating and evocative, fractal reflections of events that are clearly beyond the ken of the speaker. Moreover, Christopher's realizations of concepts we take for granted are both pithy and funny. For example, early in the narrative Christopher talks about prime numbers, because as a math savant he knows every prime number up to 7,057. "The rule for working out prime numbers is really simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be.... Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical, but you could never work out all the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them." Haddon includes lots of entertaining and nicely drawn diagrams to accompany Christopher's asides. They're definitely an appealing part of the novel.

But as Christopher's investigation takes one unexpected turn after another, the boy himself grows. Though the changes are tiny, they seem startling and significant in the restricted scope of the story. Haddon is careful to ratchet back the growth, however. He doesn't give the dysfunctional child a miracle cure. It's up to the reader to decode and note Christopher's reports of the times that he simply lies down and screams, or rocks and groans quietly to himself. It takes an effort to cast one's self out of the child's viewpoint and remember that these behaviors, which may last for hours, cause parents and those around Christopher tremendous discomfort and upset even though they're just another simple event as dispassionately rendered by Christopher.

Haddon's novel takes the reader on a fascinating, funny and emotionally wrenching journey in an unexpected direction as Christopher continues his investigation. He uses all the tools of detection in a naïve fashion that seems refreshingly pure. The mystery here isn't what we expect it to be, which means that it lives up to its genre. But 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time' is not a genre-bound mystery. It has all the elements that make great fiction; it's the kind of novel that deserves to be a bestseller because it has a wide potential appeal. It has something else beyond that. Haddon's novel is the kind of book that you can pick up in your local independent bookstore and read ten pages before you know it. Nothing will serve the reader better than to actually read the novel itself. It's that simple.
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My music and my mind.hace 960 días
 
The play list you will find here are partly made up of my owne created music the reflect how I felt at the time of composition. These are the Fluid Dance collection, Music Machine, and H2B Tean Audo re-mix.

How ever there are other tracks I've added from other artest becaue the lyrics also bettere sumup how I felt or feel when listening to them. The genre may not be to everybodys taste, but plaest take time to listen to the words behind the music.
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So how can I tell if a person has Asperger syndrome?hace 983 días
 
SYMPTOMS.

Socio-communicative difficulties.

Being a loner.
Being active but odd.
Being aloof or passive.
Poor or exaggerated eye contact.
Solemn/serious expression.
Lack of empathy.
Naivety.
Difficulty with group work in a classroom or in team sports like football.


Children with AS respond better to adults than to their peer group.

Unable to initiate small talk but try getting them to stop talking about their special interest.

Language difficulties.

Speech may be delayed.
Literal understanding of language.
Idiosyncratic language.

Rigidity of thought.

A love of routine with extreme distress if it changes
unusual play patterns e.g. lining toys up or taking them apart.

Tendency to read factual rather than fiction books obsessional interests.

Common Obsessions.

Pylons.
Maps.
Gadgets.
Train spotting or any factual subject which they can immerse themselves in.

Gross Motor Movements

Clumsy.
Poor co-ordination e.g. catching a ball or being accident prone.
Flapping movements or nervous tics may walk with a lumbering stooped gait.

Other Asperger syndrome Traits.

Higher than normal anxiety levels.
More interest in things rather than people.
Hyper or hypo sensitivity to temperature/noise/smell/touch.
Independent or creative thinker.
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