From the category archives:

Social Skills

Autism and Social Anxiety Disorder on Top of Social Ineptness

January 22, 2013

  In early elementary school, I started to become aware that I wasn’t part of other kids, so I ended up getting teased or, if I talked, ignored.  So, my mother arranged a play date because I had no friends except my dear sister. I think her name was Carol, but her last name I [...]

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Playing Spot the Aspie With the “In” Crowd Part 2

July 17, 2012

Part 1 “Spot the Aspie.”  It’s a game I play every time I’m out and about. When I go to the corner store to get my weekly cheesy poofs (of South Park’s Cartman fame) and Matthew is working, I feel an unspoken kinship with him.  Like me, he says little and eye contact is rare. [...]

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Autism and Depression

March 26, 2012

I really don’t know if I should be writing about this, but I rarely see it online, and plenty of people with autism experience it.  I have depression.  It’s not every day or even every month.  A few times a year it sneaks up on me. What spurred this post is an article, “How to [...]

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Can people with autism lie?

March 10, 2012

I can’t lie.  That’s a lie.  I can lie. My therapist asked me this last week because I am so honest about my answers to her questions.  But, I’m not thinking of it as being honest; I think of it as factual.  Honesty and being literal can be confused to the outside observer. I have [...]

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