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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How many Catholic are in UK? |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2014, 4:38 pm
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Replies: 10
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| No, plenty remained faithful to Rome and just did it all in secret. Look up priest-holes! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How many Catholic are in UK? |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2014, 6:52 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I'm Catholic! I'm actually an adult convert (grew up vaguely Anglican) as I've always been drawn to Catholicism, but it wasn't until I was about 22 that I realised that that was what it was. The more I read, the more it made sense in a way that a lot of Protestant theology didn't. Add on to that the... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Tampons? |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2014, 6:43 pm
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Replies: 22
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| In May 2013, at the age of 28, I finally took the plunge and tried using tampons for the first time. When I was between 10 and 12, when pretty much all the "personal" etc education is given, the info leaflets and teachers went on and on about the risk of Toxic Shock Syndrome to the point where I was... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and ATOS medical assessments |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 6:15 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 15,491
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| Wandering Stranger - it's because the DWP and Atos are trying to get as many disabled and ill people as possible kicked off sickness and disability benefits and they don't care, they just want the numbers reduced for a tiny financial impact because we're an easy target and they hope that as many of ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Societal fear of aspies in relationships! |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 11:18 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 7,164
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| While there's quite a bit of evidence to suggest a degree of hereditariness (I don't care if that's not a word, Shakespeare made up words all the time) with autism, it's not a given that any child you might have will be on the spectrum. I can say I've come across this fear before and it's usually be... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: I have never dated an autistic person. What is it like? |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 11:11 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,102
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| Diablo - I'm trying to work out from your initial post whether you're Aspie or NT. Am I correct in thinking you're Aspie? |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: How to Tell Someone You Aren't Interested |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:54 am
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Replies: 13
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| I think it would be more of a betrayal if you pretended to be interested in him to "protect" him from being hurt again, than if you were to outright turn him down. I do agree with the others who say it's important to stress how much you value him as a friend, but the sooner he knows you're not roman... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie book! |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:49 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,744
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| That's OK, there's nothing wrong with fitting the stereotype, means I've got more to write/talk about! I'm: - NOT a computer geek - female - try to be punctual but am often hopelessly disorganised so I end up being late (thank you, dyslexia!) - to be fair I AM a hard worker - I have a long-term boyf... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Dating and interests |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:45 am
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Replies: 9
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| I found both my boyfriends (I'm 28, only ever had 2 relationships, first one when I was 23, and the one I'm currently in will lead to marriage) through mutual interest - in both cases it was Tolkien! One was through the university's Tolkien Society, the second (my unofficial-fiance) at a Tolkien fes... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Advice? |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:32 am
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Replies: 5
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| I suspect by this point he's lost a lot of self-confidence in what he can do. He needs some support and guidance in finding and maintaining employment. I'm in a bit of a similar situation - who's going to take on an autistic in a wheelchair with an English Lit degree in this economic climate when th... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Girls dating |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:24 am
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Replies: 14
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| If I'm honest I watched a lot of TV/film female behaviour where they were trying to get a guy and never understood it - "Why would you do that???" was basically my reaction to it. Like the whole playing-hard-to-get thing. Never understood it. If you're interested in someone, tell them. If they're in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do we look at mouth instead of eyes due to being... |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:14 am
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Replies: 32
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| I just plain don't do eye contact; I can't. I usually look at people's mouths when they're talking. I was only diagnosed last November at the age of 28 but I went through life knowing that people like eye-contact but equally finding it extremely difficult. It's a bit of a compromise, I think - peopl... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie book! |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:08 am
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Replies: 18
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| Calling all Aspies and Auties for assistance! I'm in the very early stages of writing a book that will be called "Not All Aspies Are Computer Geeks" because I am completely fed up of people assuming I can fix their computers just because I'm Aspie (my degree is English Lit; I am NOT a computer whiz ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and ATOS medical assessments |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2013, 10:02 am
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Replies: 26
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| People have already said most of what I was thinking of saying. I cannot stress enough the importance of going with someone. I've had 2 assessments now (I'm on ESA primarily because of fibromyalgia and ME/CFS rather than Aspie issues, although they play a part too). The first one was horrendous but ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: AS Female/NT Male relationships |
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Posted: 12 May 2013, 2:54 pm
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Replies: 7
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| My betrothed and I (we're not officially engaged yet but we're as good as and one of my friends suggested "betrothed" as an appropriate term and I rather like it) have been together nearly 3 years and the plan is marriage and start a family in the next few years (currently I'm 28 and he's 32). My on... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Frequency of contact in relationship |
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Posted: 12 May 2013, 1:13 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Absolutely normal! My betrothed (we're not officially engaged yet so I can't call him my fiance at the moment and boyfriend often doesn't carry the same weight as fiance, and we've promised ourselves to each other - it's when, not if, we get married - so "betrothed" seems the most appropriate term) ... |
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