Guest guest Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Sounds like you need to get some ear plugs and apply to an autism support organization for help in getting a computer for your use so you don't have to share with your sister. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 > I didn't knew anything about that lol, all I knew their is autism and > aspies groups in Leicester. Susie > > Sounds like you need to get some ear plugs and apply to an autism > support organization for help in getting a computer for your use so > you don't have to share with your sister. > > Jane > > -- My private email address: susie4uk2006@... My group email: susannah2005uk@... My Website at: http://susie4uk2005.tripod.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 > > I didn't knew anything about that lol, all I knew their is autism and > > aspies groups in Leicester. Susie > > > > Sounds like you need to get some ear plugs and apply to an autism > > support organization for help in getting a computer for your use so > > you don't have to share with your sister. > > > > Jane Yes, get some ear plugs. Remember, too, that siblings can be a pain in the ass, no matter if you have Aspergers or not! Some think it's their job or something to be that way. Siblings are competitive, especially NT ones in my experience. By the way, not all aspies are painfully sensitive to loud music. My ears are sensitive to high pitched sounds (amongst others), especially those that are barely noticeable to other people. For example, in a take-out restaurant I hear every machine's hum, the hum of the florescent lights, the people talking in the background (but not the words), dishes clanging, water running...and because I hear EVERYTHING, I can't hear anything in particular, especially if someone speaks to me in this kind of environment. I find it very difficult to discern their voice at all. But as a younger person, I loved loud rock music, not a problem at all. (And of course, I was never trying to hear someone speak while listening to it!) a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 ----- Original Message ----- > > By the way, not all aspies are painfully sensitive to loud music. I am only if I don't like the music. > But as a younger person, I loved loud rock music, not a > problem at all. Same here, and I used to love going to loud clubs. Go firgure... Now, it would be way too loud for me. I still like to crank it occasionally at home, but not nearly as loud as I did when I was younger. I also stopped going to the movies when they started that surround sound stuff. I can't stand it. One time I left a Best Buy earlier than I wanted, because they were demonstrating a home surround sound system and I wasn't even in that area, but by the CDs, but my heart rate went up and I just felt jumpy, so I said I'll pay for these now and go. D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Susie, My " negative " Aspie characteristics come out MUCH more with my family than with other people. Over the " holidays " I could not talk when I was around them. I just lost my speech. And some other things, partial meltdowns and just being very tense around them. So, back to you, I am just saying that it can be WORSE in a family and better outside of it. I feel like I don't get to use my social skills in my family because of the bad dynamics. It's better to NOT use any social skills sometimes. Which makes me lose them over the holidays and then have to work to get them back afterwards. Rhonda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 a wrote: >By the way, not all aspies are painfully sensitive to loud music. My >ears are sensitive to high pitched sounds (amongst others), especially >those that are barely noticeable to other people. For example, in a >take-out restaurant I hear every machine's hum, the hum of the >florescent lights, the people talking in the background (but not the >words), dishes clanging, water running...and because I hear EVERYTHING, >I can't hear anything in particular, especially if someone speaks to me >in this kind of environment. That reminds me of something that happened in class yesterday. Right at the end. People were starting to gather their things together to leave, but the teacher was still talking. Other people started talking, and suddenly I had a mini-meltdown. Suddenly there was too much noise (not loud, but too much, too many, coming from too many angles), and I said something in the way I do (not on purpose; it just happens) that makes everyone stop and/or flinch. My brain was trying hard to keep track of what the teacher was saying, but it (my brain) was having to push through a briar patch of other sounds: rip, scratch, tear, rip, scratch, tear. Makes me <shiver> just remembering it. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 > > Hello Rhonda, at least i'm not alone its worse at home lol, yeah its worse > for me at home and my social skills is very lack more at home than college. > Susie > > Susie, My " negative " Aspie characteristics come out MUCH more with my > family than with other people. Over the " holidays " I could not talk > when I was around them. I just lost my speech. And some other things, > partial meltdowns and just being very tense around them. So, back to > you, I am just saying that it can be WORSE in a family and better > outside of it. I feel like I don't get to use my social skills in my > family because of the bad dynamics. It's better to NOT use any social > skills sometimes. Which makes me lose them over the holidays and then > have to work to get them back afterwards. > > Rhonda > > > -- My private email address: susie4uk2006@... My group email: susannah2005uk@... My Website at: http://susie4uk2005.tripod.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yeah also i'm sensitve with load stamping sounds on the floor while i'm online, because then it makes the computer shake and I feel insecure then. Susie a wrote: >By the way, not all aspies are painfully sensitive to loud music. My >ears are sensitive to high pitched sounds (amongst others), especially >those that are barely noticeable to other people. For example, in a >take-out restaurant I hear every machine's hum, the hum of the >florescent lights, the people talking in the background (but not the >words), dishes clanging, water running...and because I hear EVERYTHING, >I can't hear anything in particular, especially if someone speaks to me >in this kind of environment. That reminds me of something that happened in class yesterday. Right at the end. People were starting to gather their things together to leave, but the teacher was still talking. Other people started talking, and suddenly I had a mini-meltdown. Suddenly there was too much noise (not loud, but too much, too many, coming from too many angles), and I said something in the way I do (not on purpose; it just happens) that makes everyone stop and/or flinch. My brain was trying hard to keep track of what the teacher was saying, but it (my brain) was having to push through a briar patch of other sounds: rip, scratch, tear, rip, scratch, tear. Makes me <shiver> just remembering it. Jane > -- My private email address: susie4uk2006@... My group email: susannah2005uk@... My Website at: http://susie4uk2005.tripod.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 > Yeah also i'm sensitve with load stamping sounds on the floor while i'm > online, because then it makes the computer shake and I feel insecure > then. > Susie The sound of snoring drives me insane. My hubby snores sometimes, and the autistic tendency for me to " mimic " will follow his increasingly loud breathing rhythm even as I'm asleep (I keep poking him if I'm awake). Next thing I know, I'm having a nightmare that I'm choking for dear life. I wake up to the sound of him snoring like a chainsaw (which can cut through earplugs), with me gasping for air. It's terrifying. It's like I get his angina by proxy. a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 I've had several mini or slightly bigger meltdowns in school environments when students were talking when the teacher was talking, during a test when I needed it to be silent so I could think, and once I yelled at a teacher who gave a " drop the needle " exam (idntify that piece of musci being played) when he used such an old scratchy recording that I couldn't make any sense of it. I got a B on the exam because I got that one question wrong and it flipped me out. I don't GET Bs.... I think if I went back to school now and got a B it would not be such a big deal but it was then. Rhonda > > That reminds me of something that happened in class yesterday. Right > at the end. People were starting to gather their things together to > leave, but the teacher was still talking. Other people started > talking, and suddenly I had a mini-meltdown. Suddenly there was too > much noise (not loud, but too much, too many, coming from too many > angles), and I said something in the way I do (not on purpose; it > just happens) that makes everyone stop and/or flinch. My brain was > trying hard to keep track of what the teacher was saying, but it (my > brain) was having to push through a briar patch of other sounds: rip, > scratch, tear, rip, scratch, tear. Makes me <shiver> just remembering > it. > > Jane > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 ....Over the " holidays " I could not talk when I was around them. I just lost my speech. And some other things, partial meltdowns and just being very tense around them. So, back to you, I am just saying that it can be WORSE in a family and better outside of it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last holiday season I was also mostly unable to speak. During the family X-mas dinner I had to point to items to tell what I wanted to eat. But this year I can speak fine if I want to -- when I want to say something it's easy to say the words now. Last year I was also very depressed and frequently sick, but not so much this year. ~June Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 It was 11 Jan 2007, when rhndroberts commented: > I've had several mini or slightly bigger meltdowns in school > environments when students were talking when the teacher was talking, > during a test when I needed it to be silent so I could think, and once I > yelled at a teacher who gave a " drop the needle " exam (idntify that piece > of musci being played) when he used such an old scratchy recording that I > couldn't make any sense of it. I got a B on the exam because I got that one > question wrong and it flipped me out. I don't GET Bs.... I think if I went > back to school now and got a B it would not be such a big deal but it was > then. Because you were betrayed, you went into it expecting particular standards to live up to, and the person who was supposed to set the standards didn't live up to them. Once you know what the standards are, and the context within which they're set (broken equipment included), I'm sure you can cope. Even if you got a B, it'd be your B, and not because they basically asked the wrong question. -- Rev. Grizzly, DCW <dbsmith at atbbs.dyndns.org> " You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 I can't talk when other people are talking. If I'm talking and someone interrupts, I shut up. I have a hard time in conversations, especially group conversations, because of this. I feel like I'm waiting my turn to talk and my turn never comes. This, and faceblindness, is why I can't do what I went to college to do, which is teach math. I can tutor, that's different. Re: I've had several mini or slightly bigger meltdowns in school environments when students were talking when the teacher was talking, during a test when I needed it to be silent so I could think, and once I yelled at a teacher who gave a " drop the needle " exam (idntify that piece of musci being played) when he used such an old scratchy recording that I couldn't make any sense of it. I got a B on the exam because I got that one question wrong and it flipped me out. I don't GET Bs.... I think if I went back to school now and got a B it would not be such a big deal but it was then. Rhonda PASS IT ON! Visit http://www.thehungersite.com to give food to the hungry with just a click -- every day and at no cost to you. HOW IT WORKS When you click the " Give Free Food " button (once a day per person) at http://www.thehungersite.com, this simple action gives over a cup of fortified food to a hungry person. It costs you nothing. Funding is paid by site sponsors and food is distributed by two leading nonprofit hunger relief organizations: Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest. (A valid site -- I checked it out -- JP) As Margaret Mead said, " Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. " --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 > Hello, i'm the same way. when others talk i feel i cannot get a head in > hedgeways and then end of the day I just give up working on my > communication. all the students on my course talk all the time so i get no > ch ance lol, Susie > > I can't talk when other people are talking. If I'm talking and someone > interrupts, I shut up. I have a hard time in conversations, especially group > conversations, because of this. I feel like I'm waiting my turn to talk and > my turn never comes. This, and faceblindness, is why I can't do what I went > to college to do, which is teach math. I can tutor, that's different. > > Re: > I've had several mini or slightly bigger meltdowns in school > environments when students were talking when the teacher was talking, > during a test when I needed it to be silent so I could think, and > once I yelled at a teacher who gave a " drop the needle " exam (idntify > that piece of musci being played) when he used such an old scratchy > recording that I couldn't make any sense of it. I got a B on the exam > because I got that one question wrong and it flipped me out. I don't > GET Bs.... I think if I went back to school now and got a B it would > not be such a big deal but it was then. > > Rhonda > > PASS IT ON! > > Visit http://www.thehungersite.com to give food to the hungry with just > a click -- every day and at no cost to you. > > HOW IT WORKS > > When you click the " Give Free Food " button (once a day per person) at > http://www.thehungersite.com, this simple action gives over a cup of > fortified food to a hungry person. > > It costs you nothing. Funding is paid by site sponsors and food is > distributed by two leading nonprofit hunger relief organizations: Mercy > Corps and America's Second Harvest. (A valid site -- I checked it out -- > JP) > > As Margaret Mead said, " Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful > committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that > ever has. " > > --------------------------------- > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Susie Barratt wrote: > > > > Hello, i'm the same way. when others talk i feel i cannot get a head in > > hedgeways and then end of the day I just give up working on my > > communication. all the students on my course talk all the time so i > get no > > ch ance lol, Susie Susie, why are you replying in already-quoted text? It makes it hard to figure out if it's a reply you're making or someone else is making. Griff -- Don't believe everything you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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