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But the size isn't very practical is it? That wouldn't fit in my pocket...

Doesn't do it for me - sets off the sensitive teeth, and you find bits of spinach stuck between your teeth for days. Plus it sounds a little too like something Huge Fairy Wittington (I think that's his name...) would try and flog.

I wish this were the case at my uni. We have a huge number of overseas students - the other PhD students in my department are fine as there are only a few of us and all from everywhere so we all get along fine, but across the rest of the uni especially in halls, the overseas students tend to clump by country of origin, only speak their language and do not integrate, so you get the Korean group, the Chinese group, the Italians, etc. etc. They really don't seem to want to integrate and will even ignore you if you try and speak to them. It's a shame for them and for the cohesion of the uni. But then the uni doesn't help - they hold welcome evernts for overseas students which home students are not allowed to attend, forcing segregation.

I thought DSA was only for university students (or other HE) not further ed / A Levels?

Or method 3: Get a life.

In theory yes, but depending on your Internet browser, this doesn't always work. Since I upgraded my IE mine doesn't work but does what Mandapanda says - basically just quotes the one post. The only option is, as she's found out, to do some cutting and pasting, but it is a problem with long threads. This would be one that it would be helpful for the admins to look at at is seems to be a compatibility issue.

I haven't told you this here but it is something I would recommend and tell others. I can only answer from my own perspective, and others may have different reasons for suggesting it (including, and this isn't meant in a bad way to anyone, feeling helpless and a bit scared when faced with someone who might be in danger, and needing to feel that a 'professional' can take over). I've had some very difficult times and I know how hard it can be to talk to anyone, let alone a GP who you feel has the authority to call the men in the white coats with their lovely 'self-hugging' long armed jumper... However, I'm very lucky in that I have a fantastic relationship with my GP, and I suppose it does rely on that though I would still urge anyone with the thoughts you're having to see their GP. When I am having a difficult time or recognise that things are potentially spiralling, my GP will listen, probe and get the facts as to level of danger. She will see me as regularly as needed (every day) and I will have to promise to her (because she knows I don't do breaking promises) that I can keep myself safe till I see her next. We'll discuss the ways I have learnt to manage etc. because it can be difficult to recall these when feeling pretty bad. Having the GP keeping control like this means I only have to get myself through the next 24 hours - far easier than the next week / 6 weeks till the psych can see you for instance - and it means I can cope and can keep myself safe. For me these episodes have normally been fairly short, so it's been a case of monitoring and safety during the difficult times. By seeing my GP it also means there's a record, so she can see if there's any patterns (for instance it was found that a medication was actually causing some of my symptoms) and have a full history and evidence to refer / urgently refer to anyone else. Does that make sense - my fingers are typing before my head's caught up - need more coffee!

You've asked this before and eeveryone suggested you go to the GP. Did you? If you don't take such advice there's not much anyone can do.

I know what you mean. I'm trying to see if I can get away for a bit, I love living in London, but sometimes a break is needed. Hope you have a great time, no re-enacting the battle of Hastings (they did use light-sabres in 1066!) :star:

MP3-Player and noise-cancelling headphones. Problem sorted.

Can you explain it then please, 'cause I don't get it at all. I can't see how it advertises contact lenses - is it the woman or the koala that's supposed to need them?

Okay, I've watched it several times and I don't get it and it's annoying me. Can someone please explain the recent ad for a popular high street opticians where a koala drops out of a tree, steals a woman's newspaper and sits down to read it. Why? How does that advertise contacts? Besides, koalas would never fight someone for a newspaper - they'd decide it's far too much like hard work and have a snooze until the human had finished with the paper.

Mr.

HELP!!!!

(well this has been proposed for when it was asked why we had devils and not angels, though the devil seems to win? )

I always thought that was normal till I got my dx and started understanding a bit more about ASD.

:clap: Stubborness is a good trait What are his plans now?

at least then you couldn't be sad... Given that we don't know what the right question is, I think it's impossible to know if it's the right answer - it could be the right answer to the wrong question or the wrong answer to the right question, or a semi-right answer to a semi-wrong question, or, or... *explodes* (ooh, admin, can we have a little exploding emoticon please *begs* and a begging one please. )

Surely not. Well, interpreting it as 'do you feel sad if it's confirmed you don't have something there was speculation you might have' (was that one of the options?? ) then absolutely not, I bounce around and have a few drinkies :bounce: If docs etc. think you have something you don't, you may be given treatment you don't need, and all medicines come with side-effects, some of them quite nasty. I have a life-threatening condition that is incredibally rare which took a while for the docs to correctly diagnose simply because most of them hadn't seen it before and just read cases in some dusty textbook. Whilst they were trying to work out what was going on, I had to have lots of tests for other things it could be and whilst they tried not to use diagnostic labels it's very easy to work out what they're thinking with some of the tests you're sent for and freaked me out quite a lot - hence when they said it's not x, y, z, the and I guess the only reason/time I may have felt 'sad' (not sure that's quite the right word - possibly more anxious) was when they'd say 'well, good news, it isn't X, but we don't know what it is yet' because it leaves you thinking well yes, ok, great is isn't x, but what the hell is going on. I have met a few people in hospital who seem desperate to have something seriously wrong with them or who try to make out they're the 'most sick'. I know thinking you're ill when you're not can be a mental illness, but I do find it really hard to understand these people and to be pleasant to them at all, because I'd do anything not to be unwell.

Jack

In that case, he's a cutie. I had the same problem with my rabbit - Harriet had to become Harry...

Ooh, she's a cutey When I read the title to this thread I was going to put a totally inappropriate reply about them tasting nice in casserole, but she's too cute for that. Want one...

Oh FFS. I seriously hope you're not serious! So now, making one 'less than subtle query' (which, BTW, we only have the word of the mother who wasn't there as being of this nature...) equates to having undx AS? In that case, I would also like to dx the following: The student who left the cooker in a state - clearly no thought for others using the kitchen The person who pushed past me at breakfast - clearly ecocentrically focussed Ditto the above for the person who took the last orange juice... The smelly person who sat next to me on the bus - clearly no sense of person hygiene and they didn't take the hint when I opened the window The person who didn't hold a shop door open - very poor social understanding Shall I go on or have I made my point? If those on the spectrum (or their parents) start reducing a dx to individual traits what hope do we have of the wider public understanding ASDs?

So there is! Well I've only been here 4 1/2 years and hadn't found it myself... I haven't read through it all as it's very long. Some of it seems useful (but I'm not sure someone would read through it all to find their answer? ) but it doesn't cover the 'how tos' like quoting - just tells you that which icon inserts a quote, but of course that doesn't cover how to actually select text to quote. Oh, and I hope there's no-one too literal reading it: I know it's just a typo, but I had images of members licking their compuer screens!

Otherwise known as 'yes but' thinking. My poor ex-psych used to prepare herself for my 'yes but' thinking if ever she said something about something I had achieved. Even if I did something fantastic that many wouldn't I would always manage to find something negative in it to put myself down. I still do it quite a lot but I'm definately a lot better than I was.