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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why do people recommend working in IT/Computers for Aspies? |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 2
Views: 50
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| What LittleBeach said. The tech trade works for me because it's non-people-facing, non-multitasking, logically sequential and repeatable. It's also a trade, not a career. The better I get, the more I earn, and I am rated solely on my technical ability rather than any capability or potential for mana... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Our life expantancy is 58 apparently. |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 48
Views: 1,067
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| I'm 60, so I've already beaten the clock. Alcoholism should have killed me before age 30. I've had a whole extra life. Is it injury time? I am only kidding, football reference. I hope you are well. It's a brilliant reference and makes me very happy. It's exactly what my old friend Frankie used to s... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Tory leadership candidate criticized for “stigmatizing” |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 1
Views: 68
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| This is par for the course for Badenoch, and sadly we autistic people are well down the queue of minority groups targeted by her revolting rhetoric. The 'good' news is that if she does become Conservative leader, the right-wing vote is likely to remain split between the Conservatives and Reform for ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Man with autism faces execution Oct. 17, 2024 |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 15
Views: 227
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| I'm afraid there is much more to this story than what you have posted. Not wishing to be a troll, but he posted way more about the story than you did! That was harsh of me. Reason (or excuse): someone had been posting a lot of links to questionable or misleading material, and telling those of us wh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Discriminatory hiring process? |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 11
Views: 238
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| I applied for an entry level position with an IT company several month ago. I received an email a recently to schedule a virtual interview. I had applied for this position because I had learned this employer specialized in hiring those on the spectrum. (I am an adult who received an autism diagnosi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Discriminatory hiring process? |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 11
Views: 238
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| I think they are trying to accommodate employees that need a guardian. Which is probably a good thing...they are trying to help. Trying to help is a good thing unless you screw it up so badly that you actually get in the way, which is what these people have done. Whether or not what they did is leg... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Worth it |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 2
Views: 109
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shortfatbalduglyman wrote: What did you do that you got punished for, but the punishment was worth it?
At school I got caught smoking and drinking enough times that I was stripped of my status as a prefect - which gave me a disproportional amount of street credibility among other pupils. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Man with autism faces execution Oct. 17, 2024 |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 15
Views: 227
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123autism wrote: I'm afraid there is much more to this story than what you have posted.
Not wishing to be a troll, but he posted way more about the story than you did! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Our life expantancy is 58 apparently. |
| JamesW |
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Replies: 48
Views: 1,067
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I'm 60, so I've already beaten the clock.
Alcoholism should have killed me before age 30. I've had a whole extra life. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Satellite data shows up climate forecasts |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2024, 1:20 pm
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Replies: 226
Views: 26,552
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| I think Pepe opened a discussion and I think he offered grounds for discussion. I think he was a right-wing troll, and I think he was just trying to cause trouble. Good that the discussion has morphed into something healthy in spite of that, though I'd be far more comfortable with it if it moved on... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Is it normal to hate college? |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2024, 8:16 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,888
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| College is weird. But you can make more money if you survive and get "that piece of paper". The good news is you can acquire that piece of paper without having to suffer the social overload. This has been possible (in the UK at any rate, via the Open University) since before the internet,... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Conflating the LBGQT rights movement, ND movement mistake? |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2024, 8:05 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 429
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| There are always similarities between all civil rights moments. While not the same, there is some intersectionality. For example, a lot of autistic people are also LBGT as well. The ND movement is a bit more complicated because it's also asking for accommodations for a disability (as such it's a su... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Email to my father and his response - Reasonable? |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2024, 2:26 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 806
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| Please. The entire point is that Rossall communicated with his dad the way he has always done, and suddenly this one time his dad rounded on him for no apparent reason. Imagine for example, if you gave someone fish and chips every Friday night and they ate and enjoyed it, and suddenly one Friday the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: About those "vocal stim" compliations on YouTube |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2024, 1:24 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 512
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| I'd like to know if the people who make these videos have ever stopped to think about e.g. (a) why right-wing people like to say things like 'oh, these people are just pretending to be disabled so they can get attention and/or special treatment' (b) why physically disabled people choose not to make ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Drinking Tea Every Day Is Proven to Delay Aging in Humans |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2024, 9:10 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 577
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Is it normal to hate college? |
| JamesW |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2024, 6:32 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,888
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| I think it's normal to hate anything once the novelty wears off. College is supposed and expected to be an experience, formative or otherwise, a rite of passage if you will, a progression of one's life. Speaking only for myself, my first college experience was so negative that it derailed my life t... |
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