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» Support Group Meetings 2011 *EDITED*
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» community happenings!
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» Asperger's (how it is diagnosed and treated)
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» What do you do when people look at you by the pills you take vs. the person you are?
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» Items under your nose that are gluten free, and cheap too!
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» Adam
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» Looking for friends
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» 1st Annual Aspergers Volleyball Tournament
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» free event: Therapeutic Recreation Adapted Sailing and Kayak Clinic
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» Help! I Seem to be Getting More Autistic!" ARTICLE
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» Was this teacher out of line?
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» OMG THE PLACE IS REMODELED!!!!
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» Got Plates?
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» Local IEP Advocate!! THANKS VAL!!!
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» Pinellas ESE advisory board meetings
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» Dentists who use sedation.. thanks Dr. Ron
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» Hey GAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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» Autism in the news: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and their babies may foster social behavior in some adults with autism, French researchers said on Monday.
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» **********echo*******************
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» Any ideas on how to make a gluten regression easier for both child and family?
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» Hi! Long time no see.
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» Hellooooo? Need some freakin' help here.
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» Cats or dogs? Summer or winter?
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» Mozark and the whale *aspergers movie* on showtime on demand.. SUCKED by the way
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» Adult Aspergers Syndrome
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» Asperger’s Syndrome: A Developmental Puzzle by Michael McCroskery
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» Really Cool Super Awesome Thing! Kim And Kelly You Have To Read This!
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» 2 Articles of Interest Re: Aspergers
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» Accidently stubled across some info about meletonin oops!
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» Lack of Services for ASD
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» New and having a hard time
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» Sorry I haven't been around as much (update)
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» Having a hard time again
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» Important paradox/riddle! Anyone care to help with it?
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» Follow through or not.
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» New Pediatrics Autism Study Putting Prevalence at 1 in 91
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» Different Directions
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» AS is a very difficult diagnosis to make.
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» How is everyone?
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» CD to benefit the AAA ~!!!!! Check this out!!
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» I met Joe Diffie's son!
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» Anyone feel like helping me smack the crap out of my former boss?
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» Lazy or Aspergers?? or both?
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» The right thing?
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» Mark Fowler and his wonderful work.
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» A.A.A. RESEARCH STUDY. Do you see any differences between females with Aspergers vs. males with Aspergers
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» What happened?? because I don't know, do you?
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» Haha, Funny URL.
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» Dude! Kim, I forgot to tell you... and maybe anyone else at the last meeting...
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» My son is making strange noises!
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» Terrible sound on video
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» Aspian or Aspergian?
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» If you, or you know someone who needs a BIG/HUGE carseat..
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» Just a quick hello
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» We started the FLDRS process...and here's what we found out so far
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» Support Groups
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» (Aspergers) Boy Meets Girl Movie
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» I give up, with trying to ever just relax, really.. I'm so flustrated!
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» When did this category get here?
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» Pork Fried Rice
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» Why Are The Private Messages Still Disabled????
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» Sorry I've been M.I.A.
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» Help for a mother.
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» Aspergers and empathy
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» We are the three amigo(a)s!Aanyone care to join?
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» Vaccinations, Red Book, What?
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» What is the first step?
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» Children who can’t cuddle
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» Challenging popular myths about autism
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» I NEED your HELP!!
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» Ok..what do I do? any suggestions..
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» Back home!
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I have long argued in many forums (WrongPlanet, AspergersCircle, aspergeradults, and my own blogs) that women are harder to diagnose because of the way that the female brain is predisposed, and thus also wired, towards empathy. Empathy is -as I called it- the herding instinct that enables us humans, and females in particular to be more receptive to others needs (need to please), to be more co-operative (need to belong), to be better in communication (need to team-work), and more.


Empathy is also present in the Autistic female, even though it is 'masked' behind the, so called by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, "extreme male brain." It just cases Autism to manifest differently in females than it does in males. Becaus eof this small but EXTREMELLY essential difference, girls, women, females in general are much harder to diagnose with autism hence the 1 to 4 statistics of female and male diagnosed.




In many cases, autistic women have been even thougfht as 'extreme neurotypicals' because they manifested in 'extreme' the need to please. Scientists again, mistook this 'extreme' and assumed it was an extreme form of female neurotypicality, while it is a form of female autism. I call it in my own research on females and autism: the Extreme Mom Costume. As females are, again according to my own research, the chameleons of the autistic spectrum.




We dress the part. While growing up, we observe other females around us and slowly form a 'cortume,' a persona we will eventually wear to try and fit in the society. The empathic tendency to connect with others (herding instinct) of the female brain and to form alliances, is also present in the female autistic, but as the female autistic brain lacks the 'clues' and misses the 'cues' of how to do that, it uses logic and intelligence to create a persona based on what other females do, and how they manage to fit in social groups and society at large.




Female autistics thus, are not the empathic female (neurotypical), they PLAY the empathic female, they play the perfect mom and wife (the extreme neurotypical), they play the masculine female (the macho girl, the lesbian), they play the role that they have taylor-cut and sawn-together according to their needs, and according to the social group they have grown up in, and now live in, so that they can fulfill their empathic female brain need and belong.




Today, my words have been justified. An article and an ABC documentary, shows exactly what I have been talking about.

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Dr. Ron

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I think this subject should be studied more. I have always felt that the culture has lead us to be able to ID the male king Asperger while our culture has lead us to hide Article: How Autistic girls fool the experts 617611 our female queen friends. Dr. Ron Article: How Autistic girls fool the experts 34687

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