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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How quickly do you read? |
| Musician999 |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2011, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 70
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311 wpm
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...taking an approach of wanting to get the comprehension score high as first priority. I've improved skim-reading enormously over recent years, so would have been interesting to also find out what would have happened reading much faster. But I guess I'll never know... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Japan |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2011, 6:31 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,257
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So then, like the animals we are, we should cast off those less able to care for themselves. Like maybe those with autism.[/quote]
Good point |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Social Skills Training for Adults |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 5:23 pm
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Replies: 614
Views: 77,861
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| Fascinating. Thanks for posting. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Say something positive about the person above. |
| Musician999 |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2011, 7:49 am
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Replies: 3,624
Views: 181,154
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| Rabbitears is a phenomenally enthusiastic poster - 800+ posts since late Jan = good going, I reckon. Speaking as someone who's bveen a bit slack about contributing but has been doing a lot of reading, I've grateful to the people who respond to lots of threads. ...and he's heard of Stockhausen. Respe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your LATEST obsession/special interest |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2011, 7:29 am
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Replies: 471
Views: 50,771
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| Maths. I've just joined LinkedIn too, but am for some reason deeply resistant to getting sucked in to social networks. As it's more of a business thing that's why I decided to join. Can see the appeal, although I've found the limited amount of editing of my profile I've done a bit tedious. I'm a sel... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Music theory as a special interest |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2011, 5:20 pm
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Replies: 28
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| Ooh - what to do? Torn between answering the original question (forgotten what it was actually - think the answer was "yes" anyway!) or joining in with the fascinating debate with Angel, Mr X et al. Unfortunately, I also have the slight feeling that my wife may be feeling conversationally neglected ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Which has been the best decade for music? |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2011, 5:12 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,215
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| Being slightly provoctaive, I'd probably vote for the 1780s :o Much of Mozart's greatest music written then, including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte (which I recently saw in a fantastic "hip-hopera" version proving it's timeless nature and appeal to all kinds of people who ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Which has been the best decade for music? |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2011, 5:11 am
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Replies: 23
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| Being slightly provoctaive, I'd probably vote for the 1780s :o Much of Mozart's greatest music written then, including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte (which I recently saw in a fantastic "hip-hopera" version proving it's timeless nature and appeal to all kinds of people who ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Set of scientific tests related to Autism Spectrum Disorders |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 11:56 am
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Replies: 800
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| Aspie Quiz: 114 Aspie / 96 NT (wife does Aspie Quiz on my behalf: 133 Aspie / 68 NT AQ: 31 & 35 (last time, just now) EQ 27 / SQ 86 (Extreme Systemising) EIQ: 90 (27th percentile) Reading Eyes: 23 (low end of average) - guessed a few! Face-blind?: 59/72 - 82%, so no. HSP: 11. BAP score (sniggers... |
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Forum: Stats Topic: Whats your IQ? (NOT a 'OMG, I'm smarter than you thread!') |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 4:00 pm
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Replies: 312
Views: 88,868
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| On the basis of averaging 3-4 internet tests - about which I have a fair amount of scepticism - it comes in at around 130-140. |
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Forum: Stats Topic: Are you left or right handed? |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 3:58 pm
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Replies: 107
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| Right-handed and right-footed at football (soccer). For some reason I always did Long Jump off my left foot. And while I haven't attempted it for some time I think I would still, in as much as one can tell imagining long-jumping while sat at a computer. I've become quite close to two-footed at footb... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: swimming skills |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 3:49 pm
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Replies: 26
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| Funnily enough I just went swimming today for the first time for ages without having my 2 small children around. I can swim breast stroke pretty well, but no I can't do crawl either. I vaguely remember just about being able to do it when I was a kid, but it was never really comfortable. Generally th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's and the math stereotype |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 188
Views: 55,633
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I'm pretty good at maths.
If I change career in the direction that I'm considering at the moment, I may be about to find out just how good (or not). |
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