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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is this an unwritten social rule? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 11:32 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Thank you, I was so confused. Looks like I am not the only person who needs to work on his social skills. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is this an unwritten social rule? |
| jd1515 |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 11:15 pm
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| I was at a career event for my program (law). I try to go to as many of these as possible to practice socializing with the people, who are mainly upper-class and probably much more cognizant of social faux-paus than the lower-middle class I grew up around. Anyway, I was talking to one of the partner... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Nice Guys and Love, what's your take on the issue |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009, 11:54 pm
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Replies: 1,242
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| My thoughts as a 22 year old chronic nice guy. Nice guys are way behind the times when it comes to dating. They think of things in this formal, logical way, you meet a woman, become friends, ask her out on a date, go on the date, kiss, buy her flowers, go on another date or series of dates, have sex... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: AS people might have an advantage ... |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009, 10:55 pm
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Replies: 6
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| He's right in part: women don't like gentlemen, but he's wrong about the motivation for being a gentleman. If he was right, conversations between men and women would go something like this: Man: Hello, I find you sexually attractive, would you like to have sex with me? Woman: Yes, I also find you at... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The literal Aspie strike again! >.< |
| jd1515 |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2009, 9:20 am
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Replies: 28
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| On the night of the 2008 election I was talking to my neighbor and his girlfriend. I asked them if they'd both voted, my neighbor said yes, his girlfriend no. He then said "oh, don't worry, she's not illegal." I was about to open my mouth and say "yes, you don t look like an immigrant," until my oth... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Being a loner? |
| jd1515 |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2009, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 8,728
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| I have two roommates. One of them I barely talk to, the other is socially awkward like me, though he doesn't seem to realize it. He's not an Aspie, just from a very small town in the middle of nowhere. He is probably the closest thing I have right now to a friend. Other than them I am usually alone ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Reading - do you read fast, slow, average? |
| jd1515 |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2008, 7:52 pm
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Replies: 93
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| Extremely fast ever since I can remember. My reading skill was usually four to six years above grade level. If I really get into a book I can finish in 2-3 hours. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What would you do to President Bush? |
| jd1515 |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2008, 1:02 am
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Replies: 40
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| Force him to consume a powerful truth serum, then ask him the following questions: Do you really believe in God, or is your cheesy expression of faith all just a political tactic to stir up religious votes? Did you really think Iraq had WMD's? How can you send 4,000 American soldiers to die after yo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Who Else Has Paranoia? |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008, 2:54 am
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Replies: 54
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| The two major paranoid thoughts I have: When I am at college, I feel as if my roommates have a secret pact to kill me so I won't graduate, despite the fact that they both tell me how they dislike each other. They seem to fit the profile (one very cunning, the other rather repressed with a self-mutil... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Surviving High School Advice |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2008, 1:50 pm
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Replies: 8
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| If you want to do athletics, avoid team sports (soccer, basketball, football). The best sports are golf (if your school has a team), track, cross-country or swimming, because they are strict individual activities and your performance won't be influenced by others. Cooperation and team chemistry are ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Girl in class nearly gave me a meltdown |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2008, 1:28 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I've realized over the years that NT's don't like it when you speak up in class, even when the teacher asks a question and nobody else raises their hand to answer. I don't understand this, maybe I just go to a bad college where people don't care. Personally, I always have more respect for a teacher ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Group Work AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2008, 1:18 pm
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Replies: 18
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| In high school, I would find a group and then do the whole project by myself. At the end I'd hand the answer to my groupmates to copy in their own handwriting or type up a script for everyone in the group if it was presentation to the class. At first NT's found this advantageous, because we got pret... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you listen to the same piece of music over and over? |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2008, 2:49 am
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Replies: 67
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| Although I don't know if it really has anything to do with AS, I had a similar experience. Personally, I had no interest in any music until Napster came out and allowed me to download single songs for free. I'm 21 and have never bought an album, single or been to a concert. I remember being a kid an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is eating the same things over and over an Aspie thing? |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2008, 2:31 am
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Replies: 114
Views: 19,848
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| For five years I've eaten the exact same sandwich for lunch. All the ingredients have to be from specific stores in my city, roast beef from the local butcher, monterey jack cheese, onions, mushrooms and french bread from a certain bakery, heated for 1:25 in the microwave. If I don't have any one of... |
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