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Re: Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper

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Post by enb » Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 1:31 AM UTC

stared wrote: post #47

One of my friends is a sex worker with Asperger's. She is very prone to overstimulation. Though, when I asked her about her work - apparetenly Asperger's does not affect her much (meetings have concrete goal and structure, so implicit communication is not as important as is managing more open-ended social interactions) plus in 1-1 there aren't too many people (or too loud sound/noise). As a side note, in this topic,…

Thank you for this link. I'm startled at how clearly it describes these traits. I will read the entire document. Thank you again

Re: Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper

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Post by blanche_ » Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 9:25 AM UTC

yenwel wrote: post #100

blanche_ wrote: post #94

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Autistic are not necessarily introverts. Autism is more like social blindness than introversion. Considering the fact that human is highly social animal it makes life harder. Calling people with ASD introverts is like calling people with depression just sad.

Autism is a problem with cognitive empathy (understanding and recognizing emotions in one self and others). Versus sociopathy and other dark triads which have a problem with affective empathy (experiencing an mirror emotion to the emotion of others). The latter makes sociopaths able to exploit people around them (recognizing emotions and no bad feeling exploiting it). You can also miss both but these will be severely…

Please read a bit about autism in adults (especially mild forms) because you have no idea how it works.

Re: Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper

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Post by PhasmaFelis » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 8:44 PM UTC

TangoTrotFox wrote: post #131

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #130

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> Imagine if we treated things like schizophrenia the same way we do autism. We better stick every single religious individual that claims to be able to communicate with or hear the voice of god on antipsychotics and scheduled 'treatment', as they're clearly on the scale. You seem to be under the impression that all autism, regardless of location on the spectrum, is treated the same way (and that way invariably invol…

I would recommend reading the names attached to posts before attributing ownership to them. In the most expansive 'recent' study I am aware of, 64% [1] of children diagnosed with autism end up taking at least 1 psychotropic medication over the sample period, which was ~3 years. Substantial numbers ended up taking multiple, different, psychotropics. This is speaking specifically of children. In older subjects medicati…

People with autism are, indeed, often treated with any of a variety of different-purpose drugs, depending on their specific symptoms. If an autistic person suffers from e.g. severe anxiety, or violent outbursts, as a result of their condition, they are treated much the same as a non-autistic person with the same symptoms. Per your study, more than a third of autistic children aren't treated with drugs at all. People, as you say, are different.

If you want to make the argument that some of those symptoms (whether autistic or not) would be better treated with counseling than medication, that's reasonable. But I don't see how you can look at that data and conclude that all autistic people are treated exactly the same.