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  • Step 1

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    After realizing I need help with social anxiety in July, I've started taking anti-depressants, and had my doctor refer me for an assessment for Asperger's Syndrome.

    I had the first meeting today, and I think I'll get the diagnose. Since I was there, I also did a test for' [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2008, 1:16pm EDT
    by Margrethe

  • To challenge a culture

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    Most of the time, I am too late in my readings and responses to be an "active part" of the autism blogging community. Neither does it help that my blog is most often read by people who search Google for keywords like "asperger no life" and "asperger never marry". Fact.
    [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 1:45am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Learned Empathy

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    I remember when I was growing up in the mid-to-late 90's, there was a heavy emphasis on EQ, or Emotional Intelligence.

    Not fitting in with my peers, I become very interested in this EQ-thing, as well as quasi-psychology as Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. It' [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2008, 9:17am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Coincidental books

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    After trying to find something to read earlier this summer, I stumbled across Anne Rice's The Witching Hour in our double-stacked bookshelves. Judging from the name and date written on the inside of the cover, it's been 4 or 7 years since I last read it, all depending on [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2008, 3:29pm EDT
    by Margrethe

  • New books

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    I received two new books in the mail today, which my husband ordered for me a week ago from Amazon. I was starting to worry that they would not get here before we leave for vacation on Thursday, but they did, so now I've got something to read.

    The' [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 8:44am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Asperger's Syndrome in Adults - link

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    I know I keep sharing links with you all, but I happen to stumble upon several good sites or blogs these days. I hope you don't mind.

    This has been lying in my RSS-feeder for some time now. My initial thoughts were to comment some of the stuff' [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 11:59am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Video and update

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    This old post barely touching the subject, and I still think she's better at explaining. I suggest you watch the video.

    In other news;

    I seem to be one of the statistics. One of those 13.5%.

    I saw a doctor today, to receive' [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 6:22am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • I know I've written about this before, ...

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    I know I've written about this before, but for me it's a very important point that cannot be discussed often enough. It's one of those topics that makes a real distinction be known between parents of autistic children and autistic children themselves. It's the topic of 'name-giving', 'definition' and so [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2008, 7:31am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Small talk online

    Number of comments: 3
    Did you know that people with ASDs and other neurological "disorder" have a different way to use IM than NTs? Generally speaking.

    After being online for the last 10 years (more so during some periods, but very much so during the last two years), I've had quite a few' [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 11:03am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Whoa, feelings

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    Feelings
    Whoa, feelings
    Whoa, feelings
    Get out of my life

    Remember that song by Offspring? I suddenly got stuck in my head this morning while I was lying in bed, pondering on this with feelings.

    After the test I took last week, I have started [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2008, 5:19am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Parents are always to blame

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    I am currently re-reading Coming out Asperger: Diagnosis, Disclosure and Self-Confidence. Liane Holliday Wiley has the first chapter, which centers around telling or not telling someone you're an aspie.

    A few pages into the chapter, she discuss how you can build an aspie person's self-confidence, and [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2008, 2:19pm EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Yes, I am awfully slow in updating ...

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    Yes, I am awfully slow in updating about the things I say I'll update about. At the end of the spring semester, I said I had a lot of blog entries in my RSS-feeder, that I'd read through them, and then give my opinion on things presented in those blogs. [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2008, 2:22pm EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Another disorder that is often co-morbid with ...

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    Another disorder that is often co-morbid with autism is Alexithymia - a disorder where you have a hard time figuring out just what you're feeling and describing feelings to others. A link on a forum led me to a test where you can "check" if you've got it. [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 5:57am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • This and That - nothing much to update about

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    If you are a recurring guest here, in my blog, you might have noticed the stat counter I've places on the right hand side. It's interesting, in a way - the first few days after I added it, the number of visits was to be expected; a few each day. [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 5:13am EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Autistic Pride Day

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    Today is Autistic Pride Day.

    Today I changed my profile here on Blogspot to include my real name. I also changed my user names on two online message boards to my real name.

    Although I've done so, I have not included my surname. Proud or not, I' [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 2:49pm EDT
    by Margrethe

  • Meeting others on the spectrum

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    I think one of the most common 'fears' of those self-diagnosed, or "self-dx'ed" if you will, is the fear of thinking you're just imagining this, you're not really autistic, and it's just something you've made up to cover up something else. It certainly has been for me, although the semi-official' [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2008, 5:46am EDT
    by Sara

  • Petition against Autism Speaks

    Number of comments: 1
    I think this is pretty much all over the autie-friendly sites in English, but if you haven't seen it yet, here is a petition against Autism Speaks. Unfortunately, it can only be signed once per IP.' [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 9:17am EDT
    by Sara

  • Yet again, long time I've updated. My ...

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    Yet again, long time I've updated. My only excuse is that 'real life' has gotten in the way. Since I last updated, my husband passed his exam in Denmark and returned to Norway. Before, and after, that I've had 4 exams of my own - two of them being oral [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2008, 6:17pm EDT
    by Sara

  • Parents vs. kids, or, parents vs. adult autistics

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    Again, I'm sorry for not updating as often as I, perhaps, once did - Life has gotten in the way.

    I'm about to wander into a topic I'm not too keen on blogging about - because it can be hurtful. I'll keep it brief, and to the point. This [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 7:14am EDT
    by Sara

  • Thoughts

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    Still over two weeks without any "real" posts. I apologize.

    Since then I've had a few "revelations" and have decided to document them in a word-document, if I am ever to get a "proper" assessment (in addition to my own self-understanding and the "confirmation" I had back in February,' [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2008, 2:28pm EDT
    by Sara

  • Problem with comments

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    There seems to be a problem with comments. I have moderation turned on, and usually all comments are e-mailed to me so that I can approve them.

    However, this hasn't happened lately. If I don't approve your comment, it's not because I don't want it visible. It's because I' [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 3:13pm EDT
    by Sara

  • Intelligence - what ever that is.

    Number of comments: 6
    Wow! Almost two weeks without a single post! Even though this blog is for myself and my own "exploration" of being Asperger, I hope someone's missed me and/or my posts.

    Either way... Lately I've seen the subject of intelligence pop up on different message boards dealing with Asperger's. Now,' [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 7:11pm EDT
    by Sara

  • A whole new way

    Number of comments: 6
    Lately I've been so social I find myself more and more exhausted. It's resulting in problems with the phone. I struggle to answer the phone on the best of days; I can talk on the phone with my husband (who's currently in another country) and some acquaintances (however, I don't [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2008, 8:25am EDT
    by Sara

  • Random thought

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    Autistics are said to be more aware of details than NTs, right? As a photographer I've been told that what often makes my photos good are that they have a good focus on... you got it; details.

    Thoughts?' [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2008, 8:29am EDT
    by Sara

  • Another comparisson

    Number of comments: 1
    Currently in Feminist Theory-lecture, which I've mentioned previously.

    "It is said that Muslim Women are suppressed. Yet, no one asks them how they feel. It's a given that they are. However, some Norwegian Women have spoken freely and loudly that they are indeed not suppressed."

    "They cannot" [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2008, 11:44am EDT
    by Sara

  • The chameleon

    Number of comments: 7
    Another trip to the university library bore fruits. I came home with a bag full of book on autism that I haven't seen there before. They're very popular, it seems.

    One in th batch is Donna William's Autism - An inside-out approach. I haven't gotten very much [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2008, 8:18am EDT
    by Sara

  • Not just

    A, but not-just-A.

    Woman, but not just a woman.

    Autistic, but not just autistic.

    But-just-Autistic when it comes to activism. [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2008, 11:55am EDT
    by Sara

  • The colors between the lines

    I've only "known" for the last 4 months that I'm somewhere along the autistic spectrum (Asperger's seems to fit the best), and it's only been a little over a month since a professional agreed with me, but during that time I have been very busy "connecting the dots", as you'd [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2008, 1:33pm EDT
    by Sara

  • Meltdowns, or the lack of

    Number of comments: 2
    Of course, I cannot for the life of me remember where I read it, but it was yesterday or the day before that I came across a blog entry (I think) where this autistic person said that (s)he had been able to refrain from public meltdowns. Anyone know which one [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2008, 5:58am EDT
    by Sara

  • Parallels

    Number of comments: 4
    I just got out of a lecture on feminist theory 15 minutes ago and am currently sitting in a study hall at the university I attend. The class is every Thursday, and it's the one class I'm really looking forward to each week. Feminist theory and gender research is not [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2008, 1:17pm EDT
    by Sara

  • Broken promises

    Number of comments: 3
    You know what annoy me? That people cannot keep their appointment. I know it's a classical AS-trait to be irritated, annoyed, furious even, but that doesn't really do me any good when I having these feelings.

    I just wish people would start realizing that there's someone else beside them [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2008, 9:33am EDT
    by Sara

  • Household chores

    Number of comments: 5
    I was always the lazy kid. I never cleaned my room. I've had piles upon piles of stuff lying on the floor because I "simply" cannot see where it all should go.

    I never knew this could be connected with my now-apparent autism. Zosia Zaks writes in her book [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2008, 6:37am EDT
    by Sara

  • The Question

    Number of comments: 3
    The psychologist asked me if I thought I would have had an easier life if the diagnosis had been made earlier, in my childhood.

    Yes: I would have had the right to get help for living with th condition.

    No: I would easily have been labeled and maybe [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 7:05pm EDT
    by Sara

  • Thet extra little second

    It's peculiar how much I've grown accustomed to the AS. Whenever I've read the symptoms and how aspies, in social situations and such, takes a second or so to respond (and therefore may have problems with conversations), I haven't been sure if I do that. Same with the symptom of [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2008, 3:18am EST
    by Sara

  • In between

    After I briefly discussed my high vs. low-functioning moments last week, I want to take a minute to elaborate a bit more on that subject.

    I have never, to the better of my knowledge, met any other autistics. There is a professor at my uni who seem very [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2008, 4:40pm EST
    by Sara

  • Thoughts on Words

    Number of comments: 3
    As I watched Oprah yesterday (the episode with Jenny McCarthy and how her son was magically "healed" of his autism*), I couldn't help but notice how she worded her replies/monologues. I'm not going to address all of it, but what struck me is the difference between her and myself.

    [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2008, 2:37am EST
    by Sara

  • In the real world

    Number of comments: 1
    Tony Atwood has said that there is indeed a cure for autism. Simply put the autistic in a room, all on his own and close the door. The symptoms disappear when you do so.

    This is very true for me. I say that I have no problem functioning in [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 10:05am EST
    by Sara

  • Co-morbidity

    Number of comments: 2
    In one of his books, Gillberg says that 80% of children with Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism will develop psychiatric disorders during puberty. He mentions disorders like depression, psychosis, schizophrenia.

    A report from one of Norway's leading centers on autism reports has a report on the issue. Part [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2008, 5:45pm EST
    by Sara

  • Professionals being vague as to not frighten parents?

    Number of comments: 4
    I'm now doing something I said I wouldn't. I'm about to make a post where I'll try to philosophize and speculate on autism issues. Please note that I am not a parent. I have no idea what it's like to love someone, a child, as a parent, so I don't [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2008, 6:29pm EST
    by Sara

  • Presumptions, assumptions

    Number of comments: 4
    Well, when you say how hard it is for you to talk to people, and to make friends, it's interesting that you're married and everything. Obviously it's great, too. But it's interesting.
    This comment was in my inbox a few days ago, from an entry I made in my LiveJournal with [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2008, 11:53am EST
    by Sara

  • There's no way to tell, but there are many of us

    I met/saw/spent time with an Aspie for the first time in my life yesterday. Well, it's the first time I've known the person has Asperger's.

    The girl who managed to "connect the dots" some time back has invited me to join her for scrapping. I'm still a newbie - [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2008, 12:04pm EST
    by Sara

  • Coming out Asperger

    Number of comments: 4
    I think the question of when, if at all, to come out is something everyone 'outside the norm' thinks about from time to time, whether they have done it or not. After discovering I'm autistic last year, the thought of telling others have popped into my head from time to [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 7:46am EST
    by Sara

  • Welcome!

    After contemplating this for a while, I finally took the leap of creating an open and uncensored, yet anonymous, blog about living with Asperger's Syndrome. I've been blogging about the syndrome and how it affects me, as well as the process I've been going through to in order to figure [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2008, 5:17pm EST
    by Sara
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