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  <title>Rant Board: NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21462.html#21462</link>
  <description>Hi sweetie My name is Mary and I have a 2 1/2 yr old son with Autism and I 
want you to know that if you ever need to talk you can message me at any time. I&#039;m new to Autism and maybe you can help me understand my son so if you want just anytime ok .. Mary</description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:12:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Autistic Spectrum Adult Forum: Sensory experiences</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21461.html#21461</link>
  <description>Hi all

Hope you had a good xmas and new year! This study will be closing in a couple of weeks so if you can spare 10-15mins then please follow the link www.sensoryexp.co.uk 

Thanks to all who have contributed so far :)

Natasha</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:59:13 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>General Forum: weighted blanket</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21459.html#21459</link>
  <description>Hello all. New here. I thought I would just jump right in and ask a question right off the bat. I have a 5yr old son with high functioning autism. He is a major sensory seeker and is in desperate need of a good weighted blanket and/or vest. Any ideas on how to make these things simply and not expensively.</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:52:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Introduce Yourself: just joined, looking for ideas</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21458.html#21458</link>
  <description>Hi, I&#039;m Melissa. I just joined today. I googled weighted blanket directions and this forum popped up so I thought I would join. Ironically I can&#039;t find directions on how to make a weighted blanket but I&#039;m still trying to find my way around. 

I have a 5 yr old boy with high functioning autism. I also have two beautiful daughters ages 11 and 8.</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:49:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>General Forum: the onions</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21457.html#21457</link>
  <description>There is a hush through Mr Dombey&#039;s house. wholesale handbags from china Servants gliding up and down stairs rustle, but make no sound of footsteps. They talk together constantly, and sit long at meals, making much of their meat and drink, and enjoying themselves after a grim unholy fashion. Mrs Wickam, with her eyes suffused with tears, relates melancholy anecdotes; and tells them how she always said at Mrs Pipchin&#039;s that it would be so, and takes more table-ale than usual, and is very sorry but sociable. Cook&#039;s state of mind is similar. She promises a little fry for supper, and wholesale Mlb jerseysstruggles about equally against her feelings and the onions. Towlinson begins to think there&#039;s a fate in it, and wants to know if anybody can tell him ofany good that ever came of living in a corner house. It seems to all of them as having happened a long time ago; though yet the child lies, calm and beautiful, upon his little bed.
After dark there come some visitors - noiseless visitors, with shoes of felt - who have been there before; and with them comes that bed of rest which is so strange a one for infant sleepers. All this time, the bereaved father has not been seen even by his attendant; for he sits in an inner corner of his own dark room when anyone is there, and never seems to move at other times, except to pace it to and fro. But in the morning it is whispered among the household that he was heard to go upstairs in the dead night, and that he stayed there - in the room - until the sun was shining.
At the offices in the City, the ground-glass windows are made more dim by shutters; and while the lighted lamps upon the desks are half extinguished by the day that authentic nfl jerseyswanders in, the day is half extinguished by the lamps, and an unusual gloom prevails. There is not much business done. The clerks are indisposed to work; and they make assignations to eat chops in the afternoon, and go up the river. Perch, the messenger, stays long upon his errands; and finds himself in bars of public-houses, invited thither by friends, and holding forth on the uncertainty of human affairs. He goes home to Ball&#039;s Pond earlier in the evening than usual, and treats Mrs Perch to a veal cutlet and Scotch ale. Mr Carker the Manager treats no one; neither is he treated; but alone in his own room he shows his teeth all day; and it would seem that there is something gone from Mr Carker&#039;s path - some cheap nike sneakersobstacle removed - which clears his way before him.</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:45:15 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>General Forum: Repeating a word and spelling again and again</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21456.html#21456</link>
  <description>Hi Folks
my son always repeating some words ( which recently he read or seen ), he will repeat 5+ words ( time to time words will vary), with spelling also.
He will ask to write this word in notebook again and again or in borad to write and erase again &amp; again.  
Most of the time he will repeat some words/spelling...

Is there any way to overcome from this they of behaviour...

Pls suggest

Thank you

Gopi</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:33:02 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Questions & Answers: Repeating a word and spelling again and again</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21455.html#21455</link>
  <description>Hi Folks
my son always repeating some words ( which recently he read or seen ), he will repeat 5+ words ( time to time words will vary), with spelling also.
He will ask to write this word in notebook again and again or in borad to write and erase again &amp; again.  
Most of the time he will repeat some words/spelling...

Is there any way to overcome from this they of behaviour...

Pls suggest

Thank you
Gopi</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>General Forum: A Few Questions</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21454.html#21454</link>
  <description>Hello,

I am 50ish, diagnosed Aspergers living in Norfolk and I am of mixed race, so not interested in far right. Just making it clear from the start so anyone replying won’t waste their time or mine, especially about forming a group/newsletter/making contact with me in any way etc.  

Please no replies from, or promoting, organisations, firms, corporations or any funded/voluntary groups. I want advice from actual individuals, preferably with AS, or their spouses/family/carers etc. This applies to all questions.
 
Are there any Autistic/Asperger people in Norfolk, especially in their late 40s who would like to contact me about forming a group/printed newsletter/website/anything similar which is run by, and for, Autistic/Asperger people and their families, friends, spouses, carers etc. Is there such a group/newsletter/website already in Norfolk/Cambridgeshire/Suffolk/Lincolnshire/ East Anglia? Please do not send contact details for the National Autistic Society, Autism Anglia or Asperger East Anglia/The Asperger Service. Please replies only from Aspergers/Autistic people or their families/carers/friends etc if they are living in the above areas and wish to contact me about any of these questions. 
 
I have made artworks, sculptures etc which have no market value which hopefully I would like to go to a good home if anything happens to me (not that I am planning anything to). Could they be stored anywhere? I don’t want them to end up in a skip/landfill in case anyone ever likes them.

Any Autistic/Asperger people, preferably in Norfolk (I don’t have transport) who are in to digital video/film/art/photo/music etc and associated programs and software. Wouldn’t mind using an old video camera as well. Need a lot of advice and help as it is a long while since I have made videos.
Can anyone recommend (from personal experience) an advocate (not legal advocate) who can interpret what I say and then communicate this to a third party. Also, anyone anywhere who can teach social skills and interaction to adult Autistic/Asperger people of 49 onwards?
Has anyone any experience or advice on self-employment by/for autistics especially those of us who can’t do maths therefore can’t manage accounts/tax/VAT etc. Is there anywhere a service which is run by/aware of AS issues and which is affordable if you aren’t making millions a year. Also, can anyone advise on legitimate homeworking schemes (if any) preferably for real established companies with a name and tax code

Many Thanks</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>General Forum: morrow morning</title>
  <link>http://www.autisticsociety.org/Forums/viewtopic/p=21453.html#21453</link>
  <description>&#039;I must beg you not to mention Mrs cheap coach handbagsPipchin to me, on any account, Dombey,&#039; returned Miss Blimber. &#039;I couldn&#039;t think of allowing it. The course of study here, is very far removed from anything of that sort. A repetition of such allusions would make it necessary for me to request to hear, without a mistake, before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, from Verbum personale down to simillimia cygno.&#039;
&#039;I didn&#039;t mean, Ma&#039;am - &#039; began little Paul.
&#039;I must trouble you not to tell me that you didn&#039;t mean, if you please, Dombey,&#039; said Miss Blimber, who preserved an awful politeness in her admonitions. &#039;That is a line of wholesale nhl jerseysargument I couldn&#039;t dream of permitting.&#039;
Paul felt it safest to say nothing at all, so he only looked at Miss Blimber&#039;s spectacles. Miss Blimber having shaken her head at him gravely, referred to a paper lying before her.
&#039;&quot;Analysis of the character of P. Dombey.&quot; If my recollection serves me,&#039; said Miss Blimber breaking off, &#039;the word analysis as opposed to synthesis, is thus defined by Walker. &quot;The resolution of an object, whether of the senses or of the intellect, into its first elements.&quot; As opposed to synthesis, you observe. Now you know what analysis is, Dombey.&#039;
Dombey didn&#039;t seem to be absolutely blinded by the light let in upon his intellect, but he made Miss Blimber a little bow.
&#039;&quot;Analysis,&quot;&#039; resumed Miss Blimber, casting her eye over the paper, &#039;&quot;of the character of P. Dombey.&quot; I find that the natural capacity of Dombey is extremely good; and that his general disposition to study may be stated in an equal ratio. Thus, taking eight as our nfl jerseys wholesalestandard and highest number, I find these qualities in Dombey stated each at six three-fourths!&#039;
Miss Blimber paused to see how Paul received this news. Being undecided whether six three-fourths meant six pounds fifteen, or sixpence three farthings, or six foot three, or three quarters past six, or six somethings that he hadn&#039;t learnt yet, with three unknown something elses over, Paul rubbed his hands and looked straight at Miss Blimber. It happened to answer as well as anything else he could have Minnesota Vikings jerseys done; and Cornelia proceeded.</description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:52:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:55:04 GMT</pubDate>
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