Archive for the ‘AS Community & Culture’ Category
Emotional Hypersensitivity, Anyone?
by Nomi
What about you? Do you get sad or angry more easily than other people you know? What kinds of things in the world upset you the most? Do you avoid these things? What about things that make you happy?
November 9, 2010
Posted in: AS Community & Culture, AS Information & Support, Life
Tags: AS, AS Community & Culture, Asperger's, depression, emotion, emotional, happiness, happy, hypersensitivity, life, sad, sadness, sensitivity
14 Comments
Asperger’s High
by Abram
I was recently shown the funniest parody of Aspie behavior I’ve ever seen. Granted, it also happens to be the only parody of Aspie behavior I’ve ever seen. I guess it’s one of those things people are sort of afraid to poke fun at, lest somebody take offense. But the “Asperger’s High” video – a [...]
September 28, 2010
Posted in: AS Community & Culture, Entertainment
Tags: TV
186 Comments
Autism and Digital Life: Managing Identity
by DJ Gallagher
(Or Why I Don’t Mention AS On Dating Websites) I’m aiming to make this entry the first in a series on using the Internet as an aspie. As someone who lives and works largely on the Net–my job is to create products that help businesses define and market themselves online–I’ve thought a lot about the [...]
September 16, 2010
Posted in: AS Community & Culture, AS Information & Support
Tags: dating, identity, search, social media, social networks, web
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Do Women With AS Have a “Male Disorder”?
by Nomi
Where are all the girls, the women, with Asperger’s? Are there truly fewer of us than there are boys and men? And what does it mean to be a female living one’s entire life with a “male disorder”? What is the nature of autism in a female body and brain?
September 7, 2010
Posted in: AS Community & Culture, AS Information & Support, Life
Tags: AS, AS Community & Culture, Asperger's, autism, disorder, female, gender, girls, identity, male, Simon Baron-Cohen, women
3 Comments
