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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: During divorce: were you "penalized" for having ASD? |
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I don't see how the court would even know you had ASD, or care about such relatively small matters as those you mention. Many divorces don't involve personal appearances in court, and even when they do, legal proceedings tend to be very calm, orderly, clear, detailed and precise, which is often the ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: During divorce: were you "penalized" for having ASD? |
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I wouldn't have thought there was much risk of that, assuming divorce law is the same where you are as it is in the UK. It's a fairly mechanical process unless there's a complicated fight about division of assets or custody of children. I suppose a spouse might try to claim that they've sacrificed l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting treated like an addict gets me down.. |
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__Elijahahahaho wrote: He can't sleep more than 3 hours a night! That alone would explain his hallucinations. I hope he doesn't drive. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Anyone Into Clothes? |
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I am, but only in principle. In practice I've always got more important things to spend my money on, and crowds spoil my enjoyment of shopping. Then there's the sensory risks of new clothes. And the problem of finding anything that's perfect for me. Most things, I just think "they've got to be ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Happy Trump Day? |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 11:54 pm
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Wonderful. To celebrate, I think I'll CAPITALIZE a LOT of the WORDS in my posts and write COMPLETELY IRRATIONAL THINGS. I might even dye my skin orange and grow a comb-over. OTOH, I might just ignore the whole thing.
Can we have a Mother Theresa Day in the interest of checks and balances? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Presidents day |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 11:39 pm
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Oh well, I don't go out much these days anyway except for my daily half mile exercise walk. I usually do that by going to Walmart for groceries, and the website says they'll be open for business as usual. They haven't managed to commercialise president's day yet AFAIK, so I doubt it'll get in the wa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why does it feel like life hasn't got better after COVID? |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 8:00 pm
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I do that too, but I did even before the pandemic. Probably down to working in communal laboratories all those years. The pandemic reinforced it, and to this day I hate it when communal toilets are designed such that it's impossible to avoid touching the door handle on the way out. I was never comfy... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why does it feel like life hasn't got better after COVID? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:46 pm
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^ Yes the mail order thing and the death of the high street shops was no doubt accelerated by Covid - opinions vary about whether that's good or bad. Personally I quite like it because the high street shops had mostly become crap before the pandemic anyway, though I suppose losing them also chips aw... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Other Universes |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 4:11 pm
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Me too. If it's not part of the universe, I'm not interested. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why does it feel like life hasn't got better after COVID? |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 4:09 pm
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Some people did suggest that Covid would teach us a few things that would lead to a better world. One of those things was that working from home would become the default way of earning a living. Might have slowed global warming down a bit, getting shut of all that travelling. But the bosses didn't l... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Other Universes |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 3:58 pm
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Seems to me that more than one universe is a contradiction in terms. Unus in Latin means "One." So if you found another universe (and I bet you won't), neither of them could rightly be called the universe any more. I suppose you could see it like the Holy Trinity, which they say is three g... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Getting treated like an addict gets me down.. |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 3:33 pm
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Never happened to me, but I can believe that kind of judgementalism happens. I guess all you can do is ask them how they come to their bizarre conclusions. For some reason a lot of people are in a tearing hurry these days, and they don't always think very carefully. But when it's a matter of weighin... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do people think you are a WAG? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:19 pm
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No, they think of me as the guy who plays the guitar and sings reasonably well. It's good to be typecast like that. Plus I'm married. But when I'm in the UK it's rather different, because the local music scene there is practically dead, apart from the expensive venues for "superstars," and... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Having a Bank Account |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: Yesterday, 12:38 pm
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Oh yes, always wise to have a wad of cash around in case the electronic system fails, and for - ahem - private transactions. Don't get it nicked though, and watch out - they sometimes change the style of banknotes and eventually make the old notes hard to spend. I've never known it happen in the US... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Having a Bank Account |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:23 pm
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Oh yes, always wise to have a wad of cash around in case the electronic system fails, and for - ahem - private transactions. Don't get it nicked though, and watch out - they sometimes change the style of banknotes and eventually make the old notes hard to spend. I've never known it happen in the US... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Am I racist |
ToughDiamond |
Posted: 14 Feb 2025, 3:46 pm
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No, that would be like calling Joe Biden a communist. |
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