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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: 30 yo Ph.D (soon) who doesn't have independent living skills |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 5:46 pm
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Replies: 19
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| This thread brings back memories. I didn't do well the first time I attended college, but I went back and stayed seven years. It was maybe better than any "job" I ever had. I earned two Masters degrees, and my EE advisor wanted me to continue to the Ph.D. program. I was tempted, but I real... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Found out a former co-worker that bullied me passed away |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 5:32 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 6,829
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| It's not that I'm gloating when people who were school bullies pass on. I do take an interest. One thing autism has allowed me to do is learn from the mistakes of others. Oh, sure I have made plenty of my own mistakes. However, I lost count of the number of times I've looked at some of the choices t... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Zero occupational prospects |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2024, 11:09 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Somehow I managed to go from flunking out of structural engineering at 21 to pushing shopping carts like a loser at 37 I'd be interested in hearing the story of how this happened. If you flunked out, you had to have gotten admitted. It's competitive to be admitted to engineering programs. If you we... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Nerds...eww |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2024, 11:14 am
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Replies: 28
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| She said, "...they have a major chip on their shoulder against the normies..." Of course she's right--back in high school. Maybe less so today, but I'll grant her that. But she's projecting. What her real problem is that the people she mentioned, Zuckerberg and Fauci, well thanks to all th... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Are They Rejecting Me Or I Am Being Too Sensitive |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2024, 1:42 pm
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Replies: 3
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| I was in my late 60's I was diagnosed. I have to say, it was no surprise. It first became clear to me that autism was the main issue in about 1995. It took more than 20 years for me to find a resource that would work with people my age. Of course the diagnosis didn't solve anything. It did provide a... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Are you happy with your life? |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2024, 4:59 pm
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Replies: 28
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| I am at a point where I know that I am not happy and will not be happy with my life. If it has not happened in seven decades, after a river of self-help books, bad advice, and dead-end reform efforts, it is not going to ever happen. Is this bad? Well, there is good news in that. Although I know it's... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Humorous Canada thread |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2024, 1:25 pm
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Replies: 73
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| I guess you have to be Ontarian to get this one: https://i.imgur.com/hWCgSAd.jpeg I love how Canadian retail works. First, Ontario invites megalopolies to enjoy a monopoly on beer sales. Then Premier Ford pays close to a billion to get out of it so that the corner store can sell beer (vote for me!!... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: How common is it for the ASD crowd to utilize sex workers? |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2024, 5:03 pm
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Replies: 149
Views: 1,441
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| Thanks for posting this. It's really been informative. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism and extreme ideologies. |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2024, 4:50 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,710
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| It's been said, many people on the spectrum tend be very idealistic, tend to see things in a black & white way and have a strong sense of justice. Many, including myself like clear rules but also, believe power structures and rules should be questioned, as well as challenged if they don't serve... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do you guys hate Elon Musk? |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2024, 4:35 pm
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Replies: 418
Views: 57,757
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| It's not that I don't like him, exactly. It's just that I've learned in my long life that people who tend to suck up all the attention (and money sometimes) are bad for autistic people like me, when we shine too much light on them or waste too much of our precious time making them even bigger, as th... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Greg Abbott Issues Exodus Warning for a Texas City |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2024, 8:10 am
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Replies: 16
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| Gee, it may have more to do with Austin being one of the most overbuilt and overpriced real estate markets in the country. Which leads to less in-migration and more net out-migration. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you been bullied for a special interest? |
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Posted: 29 May 2024, 11:38 am
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Replies: 33
Views: 12,840
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| Certainly have. After a long time, I realized that the shaming and bullying was not for any particular special interest, but for all of them. That is because the objective was to harass me using anything I was proud of or interested in as a lever to create shame. I'm sure nearly everyone has wondere... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Feeling shadowbanned from society... |
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Posted: 22 May 2024, 11:49 am
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Replies: 2
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| ...randomly ghosted repeatedly in different things that should be inclusive and easy like volunteering at a food bank[/quote] I got ghosted by a food bank when I was a regular volunteer. A church too, in a non-religious volunteer gig. These two situations were when I realized that volunteering isn't... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Cancel Culture |
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Posted: 22 May 2024, 11:45 am
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Replies: 8
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| :mrgreen: The first time I heard the phrase "cancel culture" I thought, oh autistic people know all about that. It was from about 1968 on I was canceled all the time. Autistic people mostly get canceled, the more others get to know us. These days, politics give people the entitlement to be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anyone else sick of neurotypical people |
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Posted: 20 May 2024, 1:53 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I'm sick of neurotypical people and want to hangout with autistic people and find my community. I moved to arizona like 8 months ago and have been living in a treatment place with like 20 other guys who are all neurotypical. I mess up socially a lot and get a lot of feeling statements about it. I f... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 48 going on 15 |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2019, 6:22 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,059
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| No, no! You're not the only one. The older I get, the more I feel I'm regressing back to when I was very young. I really don't feel any different. |
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