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Hi everybody,
I have this problem with eye contact that I was hoping that you could help me with.

I can make eye contact, but the other person almost everytime starts to feel uncomfortable and breaks it. I gess it's my fault, so I consciously try not to make eye contact so that the others don't feel uncomfortable or embaraced.
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As I avoid eye contact, the ...

Before I get into this I should explain a bit, as inhabiting this body is a multiple/plural system (multiple personalities or whathaveyou)--This post is shared between the host and one of the generally co-fronting headmates, Lucifer.

For a long time We've had a sort of doll fetish, that is, the realistic and--too often--young and female bodied/androgynous. It's the features, the innocence..It'd range from a deep fascination to sexual interest depending on the realism. But ...

i have had this secret for about 30 years, it has effected every relationship i have had... that is except for one, or at least i thought, my marriage is hanging on by a thread and i don't know how to tell him.
we have been together for 16 years and married for 12. i should have told him sooner, i dont want him to think its a desperate attempt to keep him, but this ...

I just had a thought.

Most of us schizoids are fine the way we are. We enjoy being alone, we enjoy living inside our heads. We do not bother other people, we don't commit crimes, we only wish they would stop bothering us.

In other words, in our point of view we don't have a disorder at all, since many of us would never consider trying to change who we are as we are quite ...

Why do you think that there is more mental disorder/illness/deviance from the norm nowadays? I mean, why has it been increasing for years? I don't think that it can be attributed solely to the fact that there are just more people in the world, or that mental 'problems' are more readily identified now.
Breakdown of society/the nuclear family model/isolation? I have my own mental 'issues' that aren't attributable to anything obvious, but why?
The number ...

I'm scared and confused. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I know I get paranoid and I'm constantly alert to danger. Mostly I'm scared. Do we talk, do we not talk, what's right and what's wrong.

The art therapy was last week. First one. Nice lady, but that doesn't mean she can't harm us. Like the others, the social worker and the CBT lady. Lovely and a help to us, both of them, ...

Say a child plays a lot of combat video games. She or he is 10 years old. Might the high use of video games bring on Tourette type tics? How does a neurologist determine if a child has Tourette? What kind of help is there?
Thanks

Some time ago, Anti created a song thread that best describes our experiences, which in turn gave me the idea for this thread.
In this thread I want you to choose a song that best describes how you see yourself and explain why you chose that particular song. If you can also think of a song that best describes how you see certain other members here, add that one as well and explain your choice. ...

I´ve read something about people with AS having a dislike for talking on the phone. The reason, I think, was that they supposedly have trouble knowing when it is their turn to talk.

So now I´d like to know how you feel about phone calls. If you actually do dislike them, why? If you, as I´ve read, are not sure about when to speak, could you please elaborate on that? I personally only have trouble ...

I'm guessing that Petrossa is going to know the answer to this but I'm going to ask everyone just in case: Who knows what will happen to a pre-existing PDD-NOS diagnosis when the DSM-V comes out? My neuropsychologist said I'd "just be labeled as 'spectrum;'" does that mean ASD, HFA? She did actually use the term HFA at one point, but I was so stunned by the diagnosis and confused by much of what she ...