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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do all Autistics like chicken nuggets? |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 12:15 pm
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Replies: 157
Views: 3,179
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| I stopped eating factory farmed meat when I was about 14 and I have only been able to find free range chicken nuggets once or twice but I do miss them. Its frustrating how few restaurants offer organic/free-range meat! I’ve tried making nuggets at home, but they’re just not the same. Maybe if I wer... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do all Autistics like chicken nuggets? |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 11:16 am
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Replies: 157
Views: 3,179
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| I stopped eating factory farmed meat when I was about 14 and I have only been able to find free range chicken nuggets once or twice but I do miss them. Its frustrating how few restaurants offer organic/free-range meat! I’ve tried making nuggets at home, but they’re just not the same. Maybe if I wer... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are aspies generally bad drivers? |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 10:46 am
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Replies: 87
Views: 4,879
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| I used to love driving! I’d cruise around for hours for fun down the highway or backroads, and I had a few jobs with hour commutes I didn’t mind. I don’t like it so much anymore. I don’t know if this is really because I got older and burned out, but it seems to me like the general quality of drivers... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Being aspie and crude language? :-) |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 10:30 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 547
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| Back when I was teaching, we all found words to use to replace the naughty ones when in class. District maintained an official list of salty language we couldn’t use! I borrowed ‘smeg’ from a British TV show, and ‘frak’ from an American. We had a teacher named Frick on staff, so that one came off th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie solidarity is a big fat myth |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2018, 10:44 am
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Replies: 144
Views: 2,946
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| For the OP (and everyone else): When it comes to posts, I read far more than I reply. I’m here to learn as much as I can from the wisdom and experiences of others, so I budget my limited WP time for reading, not typing. Just because I didn’t respond, doesn’t mean I didn’t deeply appreciate your word... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Has an aspie ever written an "aspie novel"? |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018, 4:12 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,264
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| I’m Apsie, and my current work in progress has a main character with environmental autism. He was raised in such an extremely neglectful, emotionally cold environment that he displays some attributes of autism, such as difficulty expressing emotion and making friends. He’s the only character I’ve do... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Animals that purr. |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018, 3:54 pm
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Replies: 33
Views: 444
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| Free range chickens can purr, too. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Do You Like/Love Being Autistic? |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2018, 1:52 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 833
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_Colleen_ wrote: That was super sweet, it warms my heart that someone can relate 
I felt like you told my story in a better way than I ever could. Don’t you wish we had resources like WP back when we were young? I would have given anything to meet someone who even vaguely understood my perspective. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you happy today. |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2018, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 32,997
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| This site. I had a bad moment today remembering my hellish school years, and it helped so much to think of the brilliant, caring, amazing people who hang around here. I don’t feel alone anymore. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Do You Like/Love Being Autistic? |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2018, 8:19 pm
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Replies: 25
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| I did not know I was "in the spectrum" until after age 45. Prior to the diagnosis, I hated myself and everything I was experiencing in life, nothing made sense and I never felt like I had any place on this planet. Now that I have a grip on this Autism thingy, I feel a lot more like I can ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Any fiction writers here? I'm close to giving up on it. |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2018, 3:11 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,126
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| What was that thread? I really don't want to rely on Aspies and the like to carry me over; that sounds like too tiny a niche. The offer still stands to review your writing if you wish for me to do so. Oops, I completely overlooked your first post. My first book was ~182K words at the second draft. ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christians: Why should I love my enemy? |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2018, 8:17 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,382
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| I always took it as be kind and show kindness to them when you can. Like how we treat prisoners of war and former enemies. Any enemy could become a friend, perhaps the reason to be enemies is false. I don’t think it was meant towards people actively trying to kill you but to try to peace if possibl... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christians: Why should I love my enemy? |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2018, 8:15 pm
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Replies: 27
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| Loving your enemy does not mean you are not allowed to destroy them. It means don't destroy yourself at the same time. Loving your enemy is about internal peace. Your hate and anger does not affect your enemy any more than your love does. Hate only harms yourself. It leads to stress, stomach ulcers... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Scary thoughts |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2018, 8:11 pm
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,024
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IstominFan wrote: I have considered helping people with autism.
You do help people with autism! Your posts have been meaningful to me. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you LAUGH today! |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2018, 8:16 pm
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Replies: 751
Views: 118,019
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I use grammarly when writing. I just got my weekly report:
86th percentile for productivity
98th percentile for unique word choice
5th percentile for accuracy - it was even lower last week
Do you think all my typos counted as unique word choices? |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Please will everybody stop staring at me??? |
| Veggie Farmer |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2018, 5:19 pm
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Replies: 49
Views: 1,734
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| This happens to me. I can’t maintain a neutral face, I show my every fleeting mood. I think in just about every case when people were staring at me, I was walking around wearing a facial expression that matched my inner thoughts, not events in the local environment. People were wondering what was go... |
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