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Kerr

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About Kerr

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    Norfolk Broads
  • Birthday 07/16/1986

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    Female
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    Scotland
  • Interests
    Photography, science, radiation, music, psychology, politics, sociology, graphic design.
  1. you should come to our practice in ayr - you may get some answers

    www.jordanseyes.com

  2. Kerr

    help!!

    Thank you for the help guys, yes it was in my introduction. Had facebook chat open and typed in the wrong box!! kerr
  3. Kerr

    help!!

    I added a post by acident, now I cant deleat it and I gave myself a minus rating all at the same time!! Im good with computers honest....NOT! how do I deleat the post? kerr
  4. Hi Guys I was wondering if anyone else had issues with oversions to colours that effected which food they could eat? I have AS and I have an oversion to the colour green which continues onto the food I eat. I know there will be lots of parents reading this thinking "thats a good excuse for not eating your veg" but as a child an educational psychologist thought just that and gave me a box of smarties, to which I ate all but the green ones, he then proceeded to get another box off smarties and take every colour but the green out and I didnt eat any. I dont know if I have ever eaten green. I have tried to, i put a green m&m in my mouth but felt sick at the thought it was green and couldnt chew or swallow it. I also stuggle with green writting, i cant look at it long enough to focus on it. Not eating green really effects my diet as I cant eat any greens, which as I get older worries me more. Has anyone else had an issue like this? Kerr
  5. When I was a teenage, not longer after Dx(AS) I did quite a bit of cognative behavoural therapy.Before Dx i found it difficult to see where I was different from other and what i did differently. Once you are at an age where you can understand you are different and you do/see x, y and z differently its much easier to do CBT to learn how to react the way a NT person would react. I did the CBT for about a year and the results have really helped me get much further in my life then I would have as a typical aspie. Now when people meet me at first and often when they are around me in a non intense environment they would never be able to tell I have AS, which has caused me no end of issues. At one point an organisation I worked for wanted me to "change" the way i communicate as it was convienent for them that when Im suffering sensory overload and you phone me and add more pressuere I will just hang up the phone! people dont see my AS so expect me not to have AS. I would say I am far from being cured or recovered. I literally developed mechanisms and systems to be ables to act like a NT person. However it takes a great deal of concentraition and energy to pull it off and often r/ships are hard as when you get home you just want to relax or are tired and find it hard to be like a NT person. All in all I would say dont put your hopes in it being a cure, however being able to help yourself or child after Dx by helping yourself/them develop the mechanisms I have will help you/them in life massively. kerr
  6. I have AS myself but was also worked with Autistic children. At the place I used to work there is a boy(aged abt 9 or 10) who has no verbal communication but higher fuctioning Autism. Every staff member at one point or another had been hit, kicked, punched or had things thrown at them by this boy. Most were quite affaird to work with him. I started working with him and like them I was very careful to make sure I wasnt close enough to be kicked punched etc. But then I noticed he used to put his hands over his ears alot, so I thought about myself and what it used to be like for me when I was younger and would get sensory overload regularly. The next time he was acting up insted of rasing a voice or shouting I spoke to him really queitly, it worked a little bit but didnt stop all of his misbehaving. Then we took a group of children to a music event and he tried to run out of the room, this time I was right at his ear level so I whispered to him to go and sit down with one of the staff memebers and that we would be going back to the centre soon and he did it. I couldnt believe that it worked but it did. Other things that seemed to work were, drama play(but these sometimes got out of hand and he would throw props), when he seemed to be having an over load turning the vloume down on things or trying to take him somewhere quieter, one of the staff told me spinning children with autism who are having an overload on a office chair helps them, and when he really couldnt control himself putting him in his room(the centre had bedrooms) with the curtains closed and maybe a dvd or cd of music he liked for 20mins. Other things that helped minimise injuries were trying not to be in the doorway when he wanted to go thru it as he had no way of telling you he wanted past so he would just kick you until you moved and not telling him what to do but asking him.When it came to choices insted of a large number of choices having 1 or the other and letting him hold them in his hand always generally give the best results, if possible.
  7. Kerr

    Hello, Im a newbie

    Thanks for the welcomes guys!!!
  8. Hi everyone Im a newbie! Im 24 and have aspergers syndrome. I live in sunny scotland and I probably on paper wouldnt sound like your typical aspie. Though some cognative behavoural therapy and typical girl aspie copycatting I tend to be able to disguise my aspergers quite well to the untrained eye. I am a youth worker and previously have done things like run a national youth organisation. So public speaking and communication are big parts of my job. Its not be easy learning to do it but so worth it. Like most aspies I have an obsession, however mine is one of the oddest I have heard so far, Radiation. I have to admit from what I have read so far Im really impressed with this forum as it has alot of good advice and insight into how to understand conditions such as Aspergers and ASD. happy to share any knowledge, advice and insight I have!!
  9. Hi Im new here but I felt a comment was needed. Im 22 and have aspergers. Professional photography is not out of the reach of people with autism. I have a HND in photography and if it wasnt for my first love of youth work(yes really an aspie youth worker!) I would probably do photography professionally. Your attention to detail and ability to see things in a way that other people cant means your work wont be run of the mill. My best advice would be talk to your local college and see if there are any courses you could do, maybe even as infil for a day a week or something on photography. There are lots of technical things to learn(mostly maths based) but once you've learned them it makes your work more of an artform, because you can explain exactly why the picture had to be that way. So dont think its not achieveable it really is. So its Graphic design!! as I do that part time! my last peice of advice would be dont ever stop talking the pictures you want to take for you, if you do it professionally then you will have breifs of the type of picture you need to take, however this can make you want to put your camaera down at the end of the day and not look at it again until the next job.However even if you dont feel the pictures are good taking pictures for your own enjoyment is key to keeping yourself happy as a professional photographer. Hope this helps.
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