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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Asperger's/autism, civilization, primitivism...suspicions |
| GrAspie |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2007, 10:40 pm
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Replies: 13
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| I wonder how prevalent autism was in early societies - my guess is extremely rare. Anomolies in nature that spur change do not occur only due to autism, but by many things - eating plants for example. Some plants have psychoactive qualities and inspire incredibley bizarre visions that likely in some... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A question about god. |
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Posted: 25 May 2007, 12:01 am
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Replies: 20
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| God is the one who holds the mirror up to you and asks "what do you see?" This might have something to do with the idea of judgement day, or when we see our lives reflected back at us at the moment of death, or near-death so far as we can tell. The experiences from people who have had NDE's indicate... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie Entrepreneurs? |
| GrAspie |
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Posted: 24 May 2007, 11:38 pm
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Replies: 35
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| Thanks for the Busker info...never heard that term,though I have put my dollars in their guitar cases.(we just call the them "homeless" in MN... :wink: ) Yeah that's why I gave it up. In some cultures busking is highly respected as an art. In others it is assoicated with begging. I was more the for... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie Entrepreneurs? |
| GrAspie |
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Posted: 22 May 2007, 8:22 pm
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Replies: 35
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| I have been self-employed for most of the last 20 years. Odd jobs, gigs and so on. I made a living as a busker for about 8 years and for the last decade or so I've been a contract driver and have done some speculating. These sorts of things bypass AS problems in a lot of ways too because I'm on my o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you "suffer" from AS? |
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Posted: 21 May 2007, 11:16 am
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Replies: 59
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| Thanks for all the replies. I'm not too surprised by the attitudes Im picking up here. It is so easy to blame NTs but I would only do that in a joking way. NTs often suffer greatly for various reasons, probably nothing to do with being NT - or am I wrong? Maybe being awash in empathy for others who ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you "suffer" from AS? |
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Posted: 21 May 2007, 2:33 am
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| When I catch a cold or a flu I suffer from it, but I didn't catch AS, I was born with it and will die with it. Suffering is then a choice I make under the curcumstances. I don't see it as suffering, since the actual experience of it to me implies it is pleasurable to some degree. The extent to which... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Sensitivity to Light, Smell, and Sounds? |
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Posted: 20 May 2007, 7:33 pm
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Replies: 45
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| My sensitivity to light shows up most at night when I can more or less see a constant halo around everything that no one else apparently sees. . oh! so that is what I am seeing! I thought I was seeing auras or something because everyone always looks like they have a blurry yellow line all around th... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Sensitivity to Light, Smell, and Sounds? |
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Posted: 20 May 2007, 11:11 am
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| I'm pretty sensitive to lights, odour, sounds etc, but not as bad as some others. My mom has it worse and sits alone in the dark for hours. She jumps out of her skin when the phone rings. Me, I couldn't work in a bank or under flourescents or in a noisy factory or warehouse. So I drive for a living,... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: How many people here are vegetarian? |
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Posted: 19 May 2007, 11:23 pm
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Replies: 25
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pescatarian here 
We stopped eating land mammals 4 years ago. Got spooked about farming techiques  don't eat certain farmed fish either.
I know fish has mercury and crap in it so I'm kinda stuck in the argument a bit! I just like fish, they agree with me  |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: We are both aspies. Amazing! |
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Posted: 18 May 2007, 10:15 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Well it's nice to be congratulated on this. Feels sort of ironic but it's good to know how to handle my energy more wisely, not exhaust myself needlessly. I hope this thread might inspire single aspies who wonder if it's even possible to meet your match :( but it is a very natural thing to attract w... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: We are both aspies. Amazing! |
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Posted: 17 May 2007, 4:23 pm
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Eye-opening is right. I have woken from a long nightmare. You know, like a dream where you're in school and you realized you've skipped class all year but don't know why. Well I've woken up  . |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: We are both aspies. Amazing! |
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Posted: 17 May 2007, 8:30 am
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| Hi all I am 35 and recently self-diagnosed. My g/f bought a copy of Tony Attwood's Complete Guide To Asperger's Syndrome and what a shock to see all of my idiosyncracies spelled out in text exactly as they happened to me, and exactly how I reacted and why that made it worse...I have been compensatin... |
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