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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Cornwall, anyone? |
| Emettman |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2007, 2:15 pm
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| I envy those who are able to live in that place. I hope it will be nice enough to be enviable. I've gone out on a limb to do this, and I don't mean the Cornish peninsula. I'm currently negotiating about having chimneys lined, which is tricky when one knows nothing about such. And as an Aspie I'm no... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Cornwall, anyone? |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2007, 5:39 pm
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| The article says that the cornish word for ant is muryon So it says, and I believe them, but most of the time the Cornish speak their own version of English. Including such terms as "scat", but I'm not sure whether it's Cornish or Cornwall English dialect: "Fishing's scat, mining's scat, farming's ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Cornwall, anyone? |
| Emettman |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2007, 3:22 pm
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| Isn't emett cornish slang for the tourists or is that devon? I know it's grockell in one and emett in the other (can't remember which) Grockle is Devon, largely, but emmet (usually like that with two M's and one T) is indeed used in Cornwall for "ant" and is applied to infesting tourists. http://en... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Cornwall, anyone? |
| Emettman |
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Posted: 20 Sep 2007, 12:49 pm
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| More specifically, East Cornwall: Launceston region. Anyone around, looking for contact with another aspie (50+ male, into model trains, books, philosophy...) or with advice about groups, resources or anything really. I'm totally new to the region, know no-one and not much else by way of local infor... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meet Up Thread |
| Emettman |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2007, 5:04 pm
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| I formally express interest. If I'm not migrained I will be coming, but I've had four in the last eight days... (I'm in the middle of negotiating/arranging a house move, and the stress is getting to me.) A trip to London could be a good distraction, if I'm not out of action completely. Suffolk to Co... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meet Up Thread |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2007, 4:20 pm
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| I prefer south bank myself as both the Festival Hall and the National Theatre are pretty spacious and airy inside. I have been to both in Summer and not found them to be overly crowded. I don't deal well with crowds myself. Of all the London attractions, I've never done the South Bank aquarium sinc... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meet Up Thread |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2007, 1:16 pm
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| Thi Upcoming Meets: London Meet Up - West End/Central London [Sunday 26th August] # Details to be decided That could be good for me, as "Farewell to London" event. I'm moving to Cornwall in September. I won't be comng "up to town" anything like as often after that. Meeting up with unknown folk... I... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: baren-cohne quiz credible? |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2007, 1:01 pm
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| Anyone take the Baren-Cohen Quiz? Are these online quizzes credible? Yes, I found them very useful and indicative when the question of Asperger's arose for me, at the age of 48. And yes, it's quite possible to make it this far without being diagnosed. It wasn't even an option during my childhood. I... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Reality TV Gone Too Far? (Organ Donor) |
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Posted: 30 May 2007, 12:23 pm
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| I was utterly unconvinced by the defence given in interviews by those defending the series, that it was a way of promoting discussion. That's just a fig leaf. Once again real life catches up with parody... In the film "Time Bandits" they had a spoof game show "Your money or your life" Win a million ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Evangelical Christians as friends of Aspies |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2007, 3:17 am
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Replies: 31
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| You forgot the other minus: Evangelical Christians are the most mindless people on the planet... I hope one day they all get hit by trains. Trains filled with bees. Well, thanks. (See my earlier post) I didn't suddenly acquire a mind when I ceased to be a Christian. I was the same person, but with ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you find it difficult to carry on everyday conversation |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2007, 1:21 pm
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| I learnt trivial conversation, though it doesn't do much for me, except perhaps when I can observe that I am "playing the game" well. What I find really difficult is when I'm caught in a conversation which is important to the other person (especially if emotionally important), but where I have no in... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Evangelical Christians as friends of Aspies |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2007, 1:13 pm
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My Evangelical Christian friends were not too pleased when I became an atheist, as I had been an Evangelical Christian.
Not an easy move, but a necessary one.
Question is, should I have lied a bit more and kept more friends?
But that's not my way of doing things. |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Moral Reasoning Quiz |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2007, 10:27 pm
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38, "the highest category..." too.
So, once again, the rest of the world isn't likely to be on quite the same wavelength?
Surprise, surprise. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you consider yourself shallow? |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2007, 1:32 pm
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No, not shallow. "You think too much" is something I've heard quite often.
Having a full set of Thomas the Tank engine videos might give someone the wrong impression.
But the shelves of philosophy and theology one of my (few) friends described as "just scary" |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Census of people in the spectrum |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 3:14 pm
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| I'm 50, and was diagnosed two years ago, but only after I'd started to research the possibility for myself. Despite an atypical childhood, it wasn't a condition that was on the agenda. I did get called on occasion "A little professor" which nowadays might set bells ringing. But my relative social is... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you really hate large blocks of text? |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2007, 1:36 pm
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| Yes. Attention to paragraphing can significantly improve the ease of comprehension. As can decent punctuation. I have a tendency to read everything as though it had been carefully composed, and that the small details matter. I consider that a courtesy. It gets frustrating, of course, when attentive ... |
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