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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Very intersting theory |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2005, 8:53 am
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| OK, for this theory to be true, there would have to be a higher incidence of AS in people of European decent. Anyone have information on that? Also for this to be true, there should be zero incidence of Asperger's in those of Asian, or Austrailian Aboriginal decent. Using the mitocondrial DNA evide... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Very intersting theory |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2005, 8:22 am
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| Well Hans Asperger discovered it in Europe....I think their are more Europeans than Americans that have AS with what i have been reading and hearing around. This is mostly a cultural thing, though. In the early 20th Century, I do not believe that psychological research was very big in Africa, or So... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Very intersting theory |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 5:36 pm
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| I know that this is heretical around here, but I've always believed that Asperger's is not genetic. Like cancer, I think that there is a genetic predisposition that can be passed on, but I do not think that Asperger's itself is inherited. That's why it shows up in families, but skips many generation... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is there anyone here who chooses not to talk? |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 5:31 pm
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Replies: 30
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| Because there is no reason to talk. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Would you date an NT? |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 4:21 pm
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| Come on people: you don't go looking for monkeys at the bottom of the ocean. Unless, of course, you are looking for victims of the monkey mafia. If you are not looking for a hyper-social NT then don't go looking at a club or a bar. Go to a library, go to a play, go to a Native American sweat lodge (... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Humanoid Robot to Go on Sale in Japan Can Recognize 10,000 W |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 3:31 pm
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TheBladeRoden wrote: So when it sees an 11th person does it freak out and go into "killing spree" mode?
Nah. It forgets the face of the first person it remembered. Then when dear, old dad comes home, it calls the police on the unknown intruder. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: U.S. Mint Confiscates 10 Rare Gold Coins |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 3:22 pm
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I agree with you, but the truth is that all money is property of the government. We just borrow it to represent the value that we have.
Just like my Social Security card is actually property of the United States, or my driver's license is property of the State of Illinois. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Silly Super Powers |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 3:20 pm
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| I'd like the power to turn my cubicle at work into a pocket dimension that is invisible from the outside. That way I can do whatever I want in here without the boss coming by and seeing that I'm not coding a database interface. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Reality TV- What's the point? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 3:17 pm
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| What's wrong with eating arthropods? I enjoy crab, crayfish, shrimp. Not a big fan of lobster, I find it without much taste. Eating these things is not much different than munching on a large bird-eating spider from South America, or a hissing cockroach from Madagascar. I don't think that I could pe... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "Girl talk" :? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:59 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Read the book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. There is a hilarious incident in there involving information that only women should know. It was all summed up in an email sent from one guy to another that simply said "chunky days? Are we supposed to know about this?" |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: somewhere over the rainbow |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:38 pm
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| My favorite color is green. It's not as exciting black, not as symbolic as white, not as passionate as red, not as tranquil as blue, not as warm as yellow, not as blatant as orange, not as subtle as brown, not as neutral as grey. Green is just me. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Song Game |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:33 pm
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Serissa wrote: Not the Doctor- Alanis Morisette
"Riding on the Rocket" - Shonen Knife |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Would you date an NT? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:29 pm
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vetivert wrote: yeah, but Paul - who wants a relationship (or a "shag") with a jelly bean? 
If you have to ask that question, you don't want to know. (I have a sick mind, and can think of many uses for jelly beans -- none of which I would personally do, or describe) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Site not saving unread posts |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:26 pm
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| It's a frequent occurrance. You'll get used to it. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Would you date an NT? |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:24 pm
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| Everybody in here seems to be letting a few bad experiences really get to them. I've said this before, and I'll say it again: NT's are much more varied than that, they are even more varied than Aspies. Just because you don't like red jelly beans doesn't mean that you can't like the green ones. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: To mods: offensive ads |
| PaulB |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 2:03 pm
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Replies: 14
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| The developers cannot control which ads appear and which ads do not. As a web developer myself, I know how these Google ads work. The only alternative would be to remove the ads. Who wants to pony up? I might be a developer, but I don't make much money and I'm probably going to have to pay for an ex... |
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