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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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| Most schools have a "department of psychology" but not a "department of behaviorism", because they incorrectly lump behaviorism in with psychology out of convenience, even though they're different - a fact which annoys more than a few behaviorists. Creating a whole new departmen... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Wicca/Neopaganism ruined? |
| Mona Pereth |
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| Plus for people who claim to reject Christianity, they think and behave exactly like Christians do. They see everything through black and white absolutes and are quick to judge and scold others for practicing their craft in a different way. Unfortunately, these past couple of decades, American soci... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Rushing things seems to make me anxious |
| Mona Pereth |
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| It can be tricky. I always preferred to take my time and get to know whatever woman it was quite thoroughly, but sometimes they had other ideas. I guess the dilemma is, do you commit to them and risk living to regret it, or do you leave things open and risk losing them before you've made your mind ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Meeting girls at the beach. |
| Mona Pereth |
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cyberdora wrote: Canadian Freedom Lover wrote: I will never go unto debt for any woman. If I have to dazzle her with gifts to get her, she is not the one for me. I hope you will enjoy single life CFL
Not all women expect to be dazzled with gifts. I certainly never expected this, and I am certainly not alone. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:50 pm
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| The problem with most ABA and most "behaviorists", is that they're actually just psychologists who read a book on classical conditioning, and called themselves a "behaviorist", on the grounds that they work with and "modify" behavior. In that regard, I very much dislik... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:58 pm
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| The two have several mutually exclusive ideologies, and trying to reconcile the two into one is rather problematic. Psychology often simply takes what it can use, and ignores the rest. Classical conditioning is a good example. In the study of behaviorism, recognizing the operation of classical cond... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:20 pm
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| My brain is just wired backwards for social situations. Basically, I need to be able to get to know someone before talking to them. If you don't know someone, what do you talk to them about? Sounds like a catch-22. However ... Also for me, when talking, the subject of the conversation is the import... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:50 pm
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| Behaviorism often gets treated like a sub-category of psychology. Like, there's the umbrella of all "psychology", and then there's the forms of psychology that fall under that umbrella - psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, etc - and behaviorism get's mis-labeld... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Wicca/Neopaganism ruined? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:32 pm
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| I can understand that but at the same time it really discourages men from taking part in witchcraft. Wicca/Witchcraft and feminist Goddess religion are just the most visible parts of a larger Pagan/occult scene, whose other sectors are not as female-dominated. For example, there are the various Pag... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Wicca/Neopaganism ruined? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:29 pm
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| Oh and don't even get me started on the amount of misandry in this community. "Hex the Patriarchy!", "Always be Lilith! Never Eve!", "We're the Daughters of the Witches you Couldn't Burn!" These are anti-male-supremacist slogans, not necessarily misandrist. Of course, ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 5:04 pm
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Replies: 123
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auntblabby wrote: sometimes the juice just ain't worth the squeeze.
That's a metaphor that could be referring to various different things in this thread. Did you have anything specific in mind? |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 3:26 pm
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| I have days where I feel very lonely and wish I had some really good friends. Then I have days where I want nothing to do with friendships and the headaches that come with them. What kinds of headaches are you referring to here? What are some of the ones that you personally fear most, to the point ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 2:37 pm
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| The problem with most ABA and most "behaviorists", is that they're actually just psychologists who read a book on classical conditioning, and called themselves a "behaviorist", on the grounds that they work with and "modify" behavior. In that regard, I very much dislik... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2025, 7:18 pm
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| Applied Behavioral Analysis is a whole other kettle of fish, which could fill (and probably deserves) a whole different thread, and which I would be happy to discuss, in said other thread. Suffice to say, there are indeed problems with ABA and how it's utilized, as well as with the people implement... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2025, 7:15 pm
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| Some more background from the other thread Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? : I wrote here , in reply to a post by uncommondenominator : I think of "social skills" as being in two distinct categories: (1) what I call autistic-friendly social skills and (2) conformity to (cul... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2025, 7:10 pm
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| This is a thread for discussion about "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA, and some of the ways that common teaching methods may be counterproductive. Earlier I wrote here , in the thread Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? : It isn't just autistic people who ha... |
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