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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Which do you find easier to make friends? |
| righton |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2010, 4:25 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,896
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| College, assuming you live in the dorms |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: diagnosed |
| righton |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2010, 11:25 pm
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Replies: 9
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chaotik_lord wrote: It's very simple. When somebody holds out their hand, you just sort of stare at it for a few seconds with consternation.
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: diagnosed |
| righton |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2010, 5:12 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Well, I was diagnosed today. Somebody teach me the secret handshake! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: was mathematician Paul Erdős autistic? |
| righton |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2010, 11:12 pm
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Replies: 5
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| He was born in the 1910s in budapest and lived a long time, died in the late 1990s I believe. He was essentially homeless his entire adult life. He moved around the world to different universities, staying with different colleagues. While a guest at someone's house, he would often wake them up in th... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Corrupt A Wish |
| righton |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 2:36 pm
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Replies: 19,015
Views: 898,443
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Granted, but rabbits now like to eat your flesh, too.
I wish I had a million dollars. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: What percentage of software engineers are Aspies? |
| righton |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 2:34 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I work in IT and of the 40 people in my department, I can think of two obvious aspies, plus myself, and a number of people who might be. I'd say 1 in 10 is about right. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an alcoholic? |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 11:04 pm
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Replies: 5
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A neat but useless thing you can do in Unix |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 11:04 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,645
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| btw, if you want to see the (usually-hidden) structure of a UNIX directory, try "cat /path/ | xxd". (This does NOT work on Linux, definitely works on AIX, not sure about others.) |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: a small mystery |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 7:34 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 787
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: count to a million |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 7:26 pm
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Replies: 41,268
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Love song i have for girl but im not sure if its emotional |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 7:24 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,856
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| Most of those lyrics are plagiarized from Radiohead. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Am I an alcoholic? |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 7:23 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I drink alone most nights. This is because I like drinking and I'm always alone. I don't drive drunk or get in fights or anything. Am I an alcoholic? |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A neat but useless thing you can do in Unix |
| righton |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 7:19 pm
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Replies: 13
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The xxd utility is similar.
It's not useless; it's extremely useful for reading data containing non-ASCII content, such as HL7 messages.  |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: self diagnosis |
| righton |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2010, 1:55 pm
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Replies: 7
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I have Asperger's syndrome.
I wondered, I suspected, I read, I researched, and now I'm sure. It just fits. So here we go, I'm saying it for the first time: I'm an aspie.
Now what? I feel pretty upset suddenly as I write this. What do I do?  |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
| righton |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2010, 10:43 am
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Replies: 62,210
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Dudes--Getting hit on. |
| righton |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2010, 10:42 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 8,898
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| In the end I've gotten hit on in innocent ways many times actually which I don't mind but I certainly hate getting hit on by girls who are supposedly taken. This! I knew a girl who flirted outrageously with me every time we met, but had a long-term boyfriend. Like, resting her hand on my knee. This... |
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