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Asperger’s in Adults: You think you know the faces of Asperger’s Autism

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twenty minutes or so

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as back into the classroom she sits down next to me smiles says these words

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for some ever heard these words but at the top last

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she’s well let me she said then you are what we would call

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special

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i’m thinking i’m going to disney world or something

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barometer receive a medal

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urbano that i like to play a little babies tactics

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what had happened was a school identified that our struggle at all of

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these areas and they wanted to know why

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you’ve got the smart enough to know that if you want to overcome something u

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you have to identify what actually needs to be overcome

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and they didn’t know until they gave me those tests

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after giving me those tests they discovered that bangla dot issues

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and they began to label me

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first label they gave me special

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from thereon and they’re having a field that they just kept labeled me with

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stuff he labeled me l be learning disabled dyslexic a_d_d_ elemento per

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day

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as far as i know i pretty much got it all

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dyslexia i’m not sure if you guys are where what that is but dyslexia means

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occasionally when i open up a book all the words and letters and numbers to

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look and pletely backwards

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it’s very hard to read that way

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tel aviv make sure you guys go to bed tonight you have nightmares

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because i drive

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think about that just for a minute

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oru

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when i get behind the wheel of a car sometimes i’ll come to an intersection

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where there is a side expanded brett has four white letters on it

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when most normal people look at the side it says

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well you know sinuses pots

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here’s some advice deprived of a drop in with you in your e screaming or props

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hit the brakes

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or making jesus right there

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is enough time to get their plots

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at your despite looked at

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okay

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actually i do have been dyslexic that’s not there really is i still struggle

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with the jokes are great i mean you guys pretty dot i predict dog which is a

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really interesting fred

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and later on this week at some of your going to get that joke

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workers who weren’t in the morning some of those who look at the price of dark

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he is special

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one other thing diagnosed with it’s very common

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but it’s probably my biggest struggle it is the thing called a_t_p_

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which stands for attention deficit disorder which

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atlanta

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he he just really means one thing

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i’m really goood entertaining myself

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i watch it here this

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because what i’m about to tell you freaks out a lot of people but i believe

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this with all my heart

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i actually love being a deed

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i love it and i do believe it is a gift from god

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i know that sounds a little crazy because those of you that happen

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those of you that no people that have been those of you that weren’t people

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work with people that have it

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the struggles are real

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i mean everybody in this room knows a little bit about haiti

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amid between seventeen eighteen million people in the world

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that either a t_v_ radiates g

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you know what that means

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we’re taken over baby

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but there’s a lot of us at habitat is so in everyone of us in this room with a

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little bit

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bike i could ask for me but said he did it say

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it’d be easier to another focus

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indeed the right

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or you can ask somebody else and they may say dvds you

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are easily distracted

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and with me when i’m talking to you

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and you’d be right

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ascot teacher what a_t_t_ isn’t it each will always say the same thing

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dvd means we’re going to need a lot of duct tape to hold you down

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you’re hyper

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and they would be right

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i’ve got a twisted sense of humor

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that’s the way to god maybe we’re going to have a fun weekend we really are

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let me tell you how you think to work for my teachers

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well you clap clap twice

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it

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firewood

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i guess it is a crazy things i would torture my teachers i really would

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whether you’ve got a leading

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eighty h d

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are definitely on

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but next year the first day of school you really want to have a fun time with

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your teacher

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the first day of school walking to your question what boys appear teacher in do

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this

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hi my name’s then when i have a vp and i’m in your class

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i hope you like scary movies

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but these are all doing what i do think though these are passed out right there

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see but i have some of those paddle pigs and it’s on the

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the star you firm on the other

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or that these are all right over to their deaths where’s the duck tape

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not another word

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the struggles are really read it sounds in but i’ve learned that some really

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great things about being a t_b_

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it gives a creative eight years of energy and and and

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and it’s really cool things

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a lot of people don’t even know the true definition of a d

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i mean there’s that the medical definition which basically says you’ve

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got a neurological brain disorder which to me that doesn’t mean a lot

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but i discovered the true definition of a_t_t_ which i believe will help

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everybody a everybody in the stroke

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what you’ve got a t_b_ or not you’re encounter somebody that doesn’t so would

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be really good to know what a tedious

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here is that it yours the best definition

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a person that’s either a_d_d_ irradiation when we walk into a room

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we notice everything

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sore bobble heads came from

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you’re listening to baba if there was had a graphic

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that eight years are just like that they walk into a real budget do that with

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your neck

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reflects the ball

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but we walk into a room in we notice everything that yours the problem

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whatever in that room is the most interesting

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whatever in that room is the most captivating

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whatever in that role sparkles

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that’s always focused

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it’s not that we don’t know how to focus it’s just sometimes the teacher isn’t

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the most part we could

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sometimes as a class today named chuck

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syphilis markers

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and that is very distracting

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he has won a look at something like chuck to get shock

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just saying no

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chuck you have all whole year

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diffusive follows markers today what he did have the morale

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chuck you gotta learn to pace yourself your pizza glue

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public some amazing things to the point where i could actually satan

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and the state’s pile of being eighty d

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i know that i can focus and know that i can overcome the struggles are real that

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the lack of focus the distracted build impulsively

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about those everyday but the gifts the wonderful things being able to be

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creative walking their room noticing everything

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i’ve learned a really appreciate