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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Social Experience of College |
| NiMing |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 1:02 am
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Replies: 13
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| How much will you pay for our participation? You have to "pay" people to be in your research??? I wouldn't expect that. I am going to aim for a Master's myself but I expect people to help me out for the cause of getting my degree. I'd personally never pay you to be part of my research. That's silly... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Where did everyone else learn about make-up and stuff? help |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 12:54 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 9,028
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I taught myself, for better or worse results.
I still cannot put on eyeliner properly. Maybe I will just get it tattooed on...  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The Furry Fandom |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 12:42 am
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Replies: 109
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I'm not a furry, but I'm good at drawing anthros.
When I was in college, I would go to furry conventions and sell some of my art there. Not a bad way to earn income for a poor student.
I never had a fursona or anything. I was mostly involved with the fandom for my personal profit.  |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Navigating Love and Autism |
| NiMing |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 12:24 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,181
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| I really, really loathe the NYT's coverage of Autism and Autistic people and I cannot believe a WrongPlanet member consented to being featured in that rag. These kind of articles do not help us , people. We are not circus freaks, space aliens (whatever our site's mascot may be), or lost little lambs... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Westboro Baptist Church wants to picket children's funerals! |
| NiMing |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,280
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| I would love to see Fred Phelps argue with Gene Ray, the Time Cube guy . They're eerily similar: loopy old men, convinced America will be destroyed unless everyone converts to their crazed worldview. It would be the greatest debate of the Internet age, and I don't know who would win. They would prob... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do so many people on here hate NT's? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 11:09 pm
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Replies: 82
Views: 9,855
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| Any resentment or "hatred" an AS person may harbor towards an NT should be perfectly understandable. The reality is that we are an oppressed minority and our oppressors happen to be NTs . Most NTs are quick to patronize or bully our kind - especially those of us on the more "severe" end of the spect... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: more vulnerable to sexual assault/abuse than NT females? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 8:27 pm
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Replies: 97
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| One of the nice things about my AS is that I don't suffer from a compulsive need for a mate and mating. Thus, being "alone" is quite refreshing for me. Have you not thought you might be schizoid? Err..yes...I have not thought that . And I will not think that unless I start hearing voices in my head... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you attract hippies, weirdos, and otherwise crazy people? |
| NiMing |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 7:15 pm
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Replies: 134
Views: 19,604
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I can walk into a crowded room and immediately recognize who I would get along with.
Most of the time, they're the "hippies, weirdos, and otherwise crazy people".
I love them. They're my people; the ones I have made all my best friendships with.
I would not have it any other way. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are You Able to Hide Your Aspergers? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 7:11 pm
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Replies: 88
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| Most of the time, if I want to, I can pass as NT. It's what I've been doing for the past four years. However, I've come to learn that my true nature can never be fully hidden for very long, and trying too hard to pass for NT often ends up doing more harm than good. Now, my stance is that I am who I ... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: more vulnerable to sexual assault/abuse than NT females? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 6:39 pm
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Replies: 97
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One of the nice things about my AS is that I don't suffer from a compulsive need for a mate and mating. Thus, being "alone" is quite refreshing for me.
But thanks for your concern anyway. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do so many people on here hate NT's? |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2012, 6:27 pm
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Replies: 82
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I don't hate NTs, but I don't make any apologies about who I am to them either.
If they like me, AS and all, that is wonderful.
If they hate me for my AS (and I cannot really blame them if they do)...I don't give a rat's tail.
I am who I am. |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: more vulnerable to sexual assault/abuse than NT females? |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2012, 7:58 pm
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Replies: 97
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| I seem to be the opposite. I am quite paranoid about the intentions of men I am not very familiar with, probably due to being raised in a "sheltered" environment and being given many long lectures about the dangers in the world from my parents. I almost never get hit on either, even though I am not ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Unwritten social rules of Facebook |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2012, 1:22 am
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Replies: 44
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| I do not have a Facebook account, and probably never will. That said, it seems to be considered "creepy" to actually look through someone's photos, despite the fact that they went through the trouble of uploading them to a social-networking site presumably to show them off to the whole wide world. T... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Is There Anyone Who DOESN'T Want To Have Kids? |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2012, 12:04 am
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Replies: 179
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| I never want children, and I have trouble understanding why anyone would. I have heaps of my own problems to bear. Why would I want to add to my troubles the enormous responsibility of raising a human to adulthood? Where is the sense in that? If I ever decide I like caring for children, I will get a... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: living in a dorm... |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 10:56 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I got along well with the people I shared a dorm with. Because I kept my door shut and rarely spoke to anyone. One semester, I had a fellow Aspie on my floor. His symptoms were much stronger than mine though, and he became our floor's "village weirdo". I used to feel bad for not trying to help him, ... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: How do you react to street drugs? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 10:39 pm
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Replies: 104
Views: 1,248
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I once considered taking MDMA for a rave, but decided against it.
My brain is odd enough without any unnatural chemistry, thank you. |
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