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spinach and lemon ice-cream.
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.
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Something else you might not consider when applying for university, the more foreigners there the more he will fit in. Foreigners come from different cultures and are basically "from another world", as the saying goes with Asperger's, "wrong planet". I was extremely fortunate in that where I ended up has a vast number of foreign students, so my "social ineptness" that other English students would (and do) quickly notice, foreign students don't. I made lots of foreign friends as we are mutually different at socializing. Also, foreigners love it when English people are so accepting of them.
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?
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Or method 3:
Get a life.
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You click the multi quote button on each of them - it changes colour so you know you've pressed it.
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.
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Purely out of interest and without wanting to cause offence to anyone on here - Why does everyone keep saying I should see my GP? I've already told my current psychiatrist, and before him I told my previous psychiatrist and a psychologist that I saw together for a weird and pointless year (although that year is what got me referred to the development clinic guy who happens to be my current psychiatrist still), and before that I told the psychologist that I did CBT with - if none of them thought it was a problem why the worry?
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!
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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.
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Thank you everyone I can't wait,I know it's only for a few days but it'll be nice to get out of London for a few days,I live 10 mins if that away from woolwich and it's not looking to clever there right now after the riots.look at woolwich police over run on you tube.xxx
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!)
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One near us - a takeover from the old safeway - it sounds similar to being in a swimming baths only with tills beeping as well as talking and the echoes of many sounds - its a total assault on the senses - no other supermarket (inc other chains of the same store) around here has this phenomenon - this one store is just really loud and echoey - needless to say I avoid it like the plague...
MP3-Player and noise-cancelling headphones. Problem sorted.
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Must be me but I love that ad at the moment
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?
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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.
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Mr.
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what would have been better?
HELP!!!!
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would love one for ashamed (going red and looking ashamed)
for sorry (puppy dog looking sad and sorry)
angelic to counter all the devils
(well this has been proposed for when it was asked why we had devils and not angels, though the devil seems to win?
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It's fascinating to find out some of you can hear lightbulbs humming - what a nightmare!
I always thought that was normal till I got my dx and started understanding a bit more about ASD.
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UPDATE!
Mj has now got 2 A-levels: History and Philosophy (both C), and 2 ASs: Sociology © and English Lang (B!). He also got Asset Japanese: 2 lots of 6 points and 2 lots of 5 points (all out of 6!), he's taking the GCSE this coming year
.His stubborness and determination
has got him there and I'm very proud of him 
:clap: Stubborness is a good trait 
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or dead.
at least then you couldn't be sad...
Is this the right answer?
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.
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my guesses get stupider after that
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.
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Jack
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Apparently Smokey is actually a boy!
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...
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Has anyone considered the fact the police officer himself may have undx as? Would be an irony and might explain less than suble queries?
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?
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So how many of you on here knew that there's a miniature little help menu tab up next to sign out underneath the profile picture?!?!?!
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:
If so, you will see a " Manage Poll" button. lick on this to configure the poll.I know it's just a typo, but I had images of members licking their compuer screens!
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But do you find that the getting somewhere can still feel like being left behind?
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.
Autism cards are being made available
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But the size isn't very practical is it?
That wouldn't fit in my pocket...