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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: I don't identify with either gender |
| greyjay |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2013, 5:14 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 9,351
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| Welcome to Wrong Planet! I feel simmularly with regards to gender and I identify as genderqueer. I can talk about it comfortably with my birth mom, and most of my friends and acquaintances are ok with it, although my close friend still says he finds it confusing. (I don't know if this is a typical r... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: word association game |
| greyjay |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2013, 9:29 am
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Replies: 76,647
Views: 2,229,330
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: What's your coming out story? |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2013, 7:37 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 13,777
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| I thought that I was asexual until I was in university and had some room to start questioning. I was raised in an evangelical Christian family, and my bio. Dad's family are pretty f****d up because of residential schools. Reuniting with my birth Mom and hanging out with queer friendly classmates wer... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Neurotypical" premiere on US TV |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2013, 8:01 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 13,285
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| :) I like that idea. Of being paid for some of the advocacy work I do! And, one site says I am "starring" in this film. I am SO not an actress, and the one comment where someone said it seemed like I was talking to the husband rather than the filmmaker- actually I *was* saying that to the filmmaker... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: My sister doesn't love me anymore T_T I want to die. |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 9:35 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,989
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| I'm so sorry this is happening. You seem like a really cool person based on some of your posts here. I've had some times with my adoptive family where it's felt like things were irreconcilable (especially when I went through a period of really bad meltdowns). Sometimes I felt suicidal, thinking that... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I can't handle my job anymore |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 8:35 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 5,210
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| It sounds like you really need to quit the job. Trust me though, there is a lot of risk with trying to overdose that it won't work, even with mixing pills. Having to deal with the hospital, and the psychologists, and all the people who will use a suicide attempt to invalidate what you say, is really... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I can't handle my job anymore |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 4:54 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 5,210
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| Please stay here. I get how difficult it can be to quit, and I don't want to act like it's easy when it's not. I recently had to quit my job for similar reasons, and thankfully I had my employment specialist to help. It is not worth your life. If you can't work up to quitting right now, could you at... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Wuthering Heights Heathcliff-Hero or Dickweed? |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 1:09 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,272
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| ...As opposed to the Redemptive narrative, perhaps? This is where the evil ne'er-do-well ends up as the real hero of the story - usually after sacrificing his own life for the lives of others. I was thinking more along the lines of commenting on foundling/changeling stories where the "other" child ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How to develop a thick skin? |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 12:52 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,653
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| I try to remember that every breath I take is a finger in the eye of those who are uncomfortable with my existence. I still get hurt, but I am much more confident about my ability to survive and less concerned with other people's judgement. Things might not get better, but everything changes. Someti... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: How do I stop my insomnia? ( I have been diagnosed.) |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 12:35 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Are there particular things that you find soothing that you could set up in your room before you go to bed? I use incense and put a recording of my favorite poetry on repete when I am having anxiety and concerns about nightmares. I get sleep paralisis and used to have horrific nightmares. I realise ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Wuthering Heights Heathcliff-Hero or Dickweed? |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013, 9:14 am
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Replies: 5
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| It's a frame narrative with an unreliable and judgemental narrator. It makes the charactors hard to judge because you don't know where exactly the facts of the story end and Nelly's interpretation and misrepresentation begins. I read him as a tragic anti-hero who develops into a dickweed. I read Nel... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Evolutionary psychology |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2013, 9:04 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 4,147
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| A lot of our behaviours can be exolained by evolutionary psychology... ...f**k political correctness; we share 98.6% of our DNA with chimpanzees. A lot of the behaviour that I have seen evo-psych present as "human universals" in regards to gender norms, beauty standards, excetera, does not hold tru... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Did anyone else use to think they were not human? |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 11:06 am
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Replies: 11
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| I was adopted and loved fairie tales as a child, so I thought I was a changeling. I was constantly exploring the woods trying to find a way back to faire. I continued to identify with changeling stories into high school even though, rationally, I knew I was human. My birth Mom felt simmularly, like ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Swearing. |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 6:01 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,936
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| When I first learned the "rules" for swearing and could do so convincingly I tended to over use it. It took me a long time to learn to differentiate between contexts where swearing was expected and formal speech seen as suspicious and contexts where swearing was frowned upon. I still argue with some... |
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Forum: Stats Topic: Long or short hair? (Or somewhere in-between?) |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 5:43 pm
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Replies: 82
Views: 37,823
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| Waist length, for both personal and religious reasons, but I recently got an undercut both to reduce the thickness and because I want to be read as queer. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie book! |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 12:17 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,768
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| You can tell if a person has AS by looking at them Aspies can't complete a university degree Aspies can't have friends Aspies can't hold a job (I do struggle with finding and keeping employment, but I am capable of working) All Aspies hate touch All Aspies have cognitive delays Aspies can never be t... |
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