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Had Mom's entire side of the extended family over yesterday. Aunt Allison brought a box of Dunkin Donuts, and I had one for myself. Everyone watched a few movies on TV most of the time before dinner, but also opened up presents that we put under the tree for them. I got a few Christmas cards, one of which was a Simpsons card with Moe filling up a beer, with his head as a cutout on a spring. (It says "Consider this a coupon for ONE FREE beer.*" on the front, and then on the inside, it says "*OFFER VOID on days ending in 'y'.")

Mom told me that we'll pick out an anime DVD later in the week, but I told her that I thought it was gonna be a surprise. She had forgotten about that.

We all ate dinner together, and Brian's girlfriend Amy also came over to eat with us. For dessert, we had a bunch of cakes. Aunt Allison even brought a lemon-strawberry cake for me, but I was only able to eat a Napoleon and a cheesecake pastry.

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Chelle:

Most autistic folks get stressed out when they have too many people over, but I'm able to handle it just fine.

You had Aspergers, no? It's on the Autistic Spectrum, but not full Autism. Autistic is generally used to denote both, but Aspergers is the 'lite' version and you may have a manifestation that has good RAM. As for finally getting around to doing other things due to this, that would likely be due to your rhythm being broken.
That said, I don't see how it's funny.

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Well, do understand that most of the time, I'm hardly able to do anything during a school semester, due to the overload of other stuff I'm supposed to be doing. That would also likely have something to do with being autistic, and I *think* it's similar because normally, I need to get my life in order before I do anything. With people around last Christmas, I figured at the time that I'd wait until everything settles down before I get around to something, but then got carried away with my game.

Anyway, I suppose you're right. It seems like you're on the lower-functioning half of the autistic spectrum, as would be everyone who complains about birthdays only being a thorn on their side. (I never had problems with those myself, though I haven't had one since 4th grade.)

I hope this makes sense.

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Alright, the first paragraph makes no sense cause you're talking as if I tried to deny something., As for what you refer to, that would be pattern dependency, while I was referring to having larger RAM (can also call it stimulus tolerance).

The lower-functioning half of the spectrum can't properly take care of themselves and is not very intelligent (as is, they usually have IQ's below 80). While I have memory problems, massive pattern dependency, blackouts, muscle control issues and what may be mild epilepsy, I can be left alone, I can wash and feed myself and live normally and the lowest IQ score I ever had is 116, while usually I hover between 130 and 140 on both local and universal scales.
It does not make any sort of sense to claim that complaining about birthdays is a sign of low-functioning autists, if you heard that somewhere, it's an urban myth and should die out. That's the thing that gives the completely false impression that anyone who isn't overly social must be on the Autistic Spectrum.

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Sorry about that, and thanks for clearing things up.

For the record, I did forget to mention that you mentioned your older sister coming to visit for her birthday would place enough stress on you as it is. Maybe it's irrelevant, but that was another thing I indirectly referred to. I've just had countless people over yesterday, and I was fine with it.

Don't mean to insult you in any way.

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I never said she came to visit for her birthday. This is something that often occurs : you remember things that never were said by tying them to other, unrelated elements. Anyway, she was just one person and I was not required to engage into conversations, so it wasn't that bad.

I know.