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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your ability of rational reasoning at a very young age |
| ToughDiamond |
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Replies: 14
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| I was quite nerdy but I'm not sure how old I was when that started. I just got to like science and technology. From an early age I was a kind of a no-nonsense thinker who insisted ideas had to make sense in plain English or I dismissed them as mumbo-jumbo. It was a long time before I got to apprecia... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thinking before acting |
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Replies: 2
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| Well we all make mistakes don't we? And at least you didn't eat the food, which might have been a bigger mistake. I put a lot into thinking before acting, probably because I'm naturally clumsy, but it gets boring so I sometimes haven't got the patience and I just go for it. Sometimes it pays off, so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How often do you think of embarrassing social moments? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,788
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| Almost but not quite never. And if I try to think of one now I can't. There haven't been many of them, though I might still be living in blissful ignorance because I didn't reconstruct myself completely when I found I'd got ASD, I was too set in my ways and I decided that a lot of ASD-related things... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Anyone like walkie-talkies? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,993
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| I like them as well. I like the idea of being able to talk to somebody on something that looks like a telephone, without having to buy anything but the hardware. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Things You Say As You Get Old |
| ToughDiamond |
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Replies: 70
Views: 14,778
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| Mostly I'm just like a young man with a few extra aches and pains. My mind doesn't seem any older at all, though I think it's got wiser. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Things You Say As You Get Old |
| ToughDiamond |
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Replies: 70
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| "Old age isn't for cissies you know." Mind you it's right. I've heard that the mid-life crisis is about making a new deal with death. Before that, people tend to think it's so far in the future that it's not real. We're programmed with a survival instinct and one day we realise on an emoti... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Saints and archangel if you please |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:37 pm
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Replies: 12
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| But if he was perfect, how did he manage to let his pride corrupt him? I'd have thought a perfect chap would have seen it coming and taken evasive action. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:57 pm
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Replies: 48,701
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| One thing I like about bodies is that sometimes they repair themselves. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: How One Folds Their Hands Query |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:06 pm
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Replies: 6
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| If you're interested, there's this: https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythhandclasp.html But they don't cover the left-right handedness thing, they're more interested in whether or not it's genetic. With me it's the right thumb and I'm right-handed, and it's a fairly strong unconscious preference. Though I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Want to completely overhaul my "life" |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:33 am
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Replies: 7
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| I'm not too sold on the idea of trying to change everything very suddenly. I think it can get very overwhelming. But I know the feeling. I made a lot of changes in a fairly short space of time when I was about 18, and I found it helpful. Really it was a whole shebang of complaints I had about my way... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wish I was more creative |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:20 am
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Replies: 4
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| Yes I think doing it more helps it to get easier. And reading what other good writers have written might be a good source of inspiration. Unlike a lot of so-called inspirational people, with the arts you get to see exactly what they've done in the finished work. You're unlikely to be able to just lo... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:01 am
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Replies: 48,701
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| Well, some say language is functional, and I understood it. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Songs and anthems for hippies |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 10:11 pm
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Replies: 12
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Charismatic Leaders |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 8
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| ^ The notion of Farage having anything like a charisma seems really weird to me, seeing as how he's so hideous to look at, but then I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe I'm confusing charismatic with sexy? I mean what is charismatic exactly anyway? I've read about it on Wikipedia bu... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 4:22 pm
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| Sycamore in winter has a lot going for it too, when the leaves are out of the way and you can see the way the twigs are arranged. They look very witchy and mystical to me. But they weren't quite as good after I'd stopped taking the mushrooms, so maybe it's just me. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Charismatic Leaders |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 2:45 pm
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Replies: 8
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| No, charismatic leaders aren't for me. I'm suspicious of any kind of leaders but I'm even more suspicious of that lot. Anyway when I vote at all (and that's rare), I vote to keep somebody out who I think is even worse. I suppose who the most charismatic one is depends on the people who have been cha... |
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