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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: want to try a game? |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 1:36 am
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| The only theory im aware of is Freud's sexual stuff. Frankly I think the guy had too much free time on his hands. Well, at least one of them. A cigar is sometimes just a cigar no? *grin* I read Freud years ago--he struck me as extremely repressed and not particularly self-aware. I agree, sometimes ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: want to try a game? |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2011, 8:02 pm
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| Why? Because I spend most of my free time writing essays of this nature and enjoy it immensely. I was halfway through an essay on William James (American philosopher/psychologist) and thought there might be other fiercely intellectual aspies on the forum looking to play a creative game. I would not ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism as a Natural Human Variation (journal article) |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2011, 8:03 am
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| The owner or CEO of a large corporation dies and leaves his fortunes to a son. The sun grew up spoiled, got everything he wanted, and has never done a day of honest work in his life. All of his time is devoted to leisure activities, which mostly consist of buying new toys and hosting sex parties. He... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: want to try a game? |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2011, 6:37 pm
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| 1. Where theories go to die: Psychology Nativism, behaviorism, phenomenology... Even a hard science like physics gets turned on its head with regularity, so it only makes sense that psychology would be even more fickle. We are all armchair psychologists by virtue of being a member of the Homo sapien... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism as a Natural Human Variation (journal article) |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2011, 7:17 pm
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| Can't find a copy of the whole article, sadly. Autism as a Natural Human Variation: Reflections on the Claims of the Neurodiversity Movement Pier Jaarsma and Stellan Welin Abstract Neurodiversity has remained a controversial concept over the last decade. In its broadest sense the concept of neurodiv... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Study: aspies superior to controls for creativity |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 5:13 pm
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| Over the past year or so, there have been numerous papers published that portray autism as a "difference" or "alternative cognitive style" with strengths and weaknesses, same as any other human. And it's about time--like every other subgroup labeled as "other," every measurement they take of us is e... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Study: aspies superior to controls for creativity |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 9:13 am
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| Alright guys, just for today I want you to think about all of the reasons why being different is a good thing. Because it is. History's most interesting and influential people have also suffered alienation and existential dread. It's an imaginary line in the sand that separates us from society, but ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Bonkers Institute |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011, 1:18 pm
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| This site is wickedly funny, especially the gallery of vintage psychiatric drug advertisements. http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/ There is a hilarious ad for Thorazine that has a picture of an old guy waving a cane around. The test reads as below: Doctor, what can you do for Pop? Deeply involved in t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: alan watts teaches meditation |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 5:40 pm
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| I finally started meditating seriously about 6 months ago, but haven't missed a day. Finding good instruction that I could wrap my head around was difficult for me, however, and it was only by experimenting that it finally clicked for me. If you've tried meditation and given up on it, as I did a num... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Help Concentrating! |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 5:30 pm
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| 1. Doing at least 30 minutes of yoga or some other form of exercise every day. I do freestyle yoga poses or stretching any time I have something in the microwave and other random times during the day when I'm at home, and it helps a lot to keep me focused the rest of the day. Slow, controlled stretc... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: perfect hard-boiled eggs |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 5:14 pm
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| This is how my mother taught me to do it and it works great! |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: proud to have asperger's? |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 7:48 am
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| I am proud and happy to be myself. Saying I am proud to have Asperger's seems as nonsensical as to say I am proud to be a woman or have green eyes. It is just one more arbitrary classification of human that we use to divide ourselves into groups. But the truth is that if you go back far enough, we a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The joys of online activism |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 6:56 pm
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| An article about Avaaz, an international activist organization I discovered not so long ago. It is great to see activists putting the internet to good use before the media corporations ruin it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/18/online-activism-internet-campaign... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Depressed, frusterated and hopeless. |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2011, 4:16 am
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Try reading up on Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration--you might find it to be more useful than anything mainstream psychology/psychiatry are currently peddling.
There is plenty of information on it here: http://positivedisintegration.com/ |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Young, Violent and Dangerous to Know - AS as cause of crime? |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 6:09 am
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| When I learned about the Holocaust as a little kid, what I got out of it was this: the vast majority of humans will commit heinous atrocities if put in the right herd environment with a charismatic leader. Just curious, have you heard of Stanley Milgram's experiment? Yes. I found it rather disturbi... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Anyone use those daylight alarm clocks? |
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Posted: 29 Dec 2010, 6:44 pm
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| I have one and I LOVE it, especially in the winter when the days are short and my body wants to hibernate. I can't think of a worse way to start off the day than fumbling around in the dark trying to shut off an obnoxious alarm sound that sets my teeth on edge... With the sunrise alarm clock, I am a... |
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