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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you pronounce "Asperger's?" |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2014, 4:23 am
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Replies: 43
Views: 89,245
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I pronounce it primarily as 'autistic psychopathy'.
Not only is it more correct, but it seems to keep people away from me. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism as your identity? |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 8:06 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 7,072
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| I don't personally identify much with either side. Autists are diverse enough that we don't really qualify as a club; and, at the risk of sounding bigoted, the NTs all kinda look alike to me. Honestly, I don't really think about it very often. Without any real basis for comparison, I tend to regard ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Jenna McCarthy was on CNN last night. |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 7:50 am
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Replies: 115
Views: 10,353
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| She was convinced that vaccines caused autism, saying that the CDC could eat their words when they said otherwise. Erm...my parents went through a phase with christianscience and I wasn't vaccinated. Can we pretend there's some other stupid cause, like fluoridated water? I've had fluoridated water.... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: I hate how we are potrayed on TV |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 7:40 am
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Replies: 70
Views: 12,197
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| Sociopathy has been pretty well dropped as a valid diagnosis; but it describes me generally, and I do play a lot of videogames [I'm too lazy to kill real people, after all]. To a degree, the portrayal could be a matter of jealousy. I've had people tell me--apparently sincerely--that they wish they c... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The "D" word for autism? |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 7:20 am
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Replies: 46
Views: 6,532
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| I hadn't thought about it until now; but, since it's been suggested, and insofar as it's actually a noun, I kinda like Dynamic . Otherwise, I don't care much. Words don't really offend me, on their own. The people [mis]using them can repulse me, but that's not the words' fault. I don't care what peo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 7:09 am
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Replies: 313
Views: 27,132
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| I've always been atheistic. In the literal sense. Granting that few people bother to trace the etymology, I actually wrote this up recently to overexplain it: http://newsofthestoopid.com/content/view/61/2 For the tl;dr crowd: I'm without theism. Possibly because, by the time I first heard about deit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: New Video: Alex Plank speaks at Asperger lecture series |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 6:50 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 12,769
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| I don't understand why these people in the audience are laughing. IMO, they're weirdos. In my experience, people on average will giggle or even cackle in reaction to anything...uncomfortable. Some things are funny [the bit about the theistic clubs having to go out and look for new members got me to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone here hate going to sleep at night? |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 6:03 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 10,913
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| I don't go to sleep at night as a rule. Partly because sunlight happens to be a migrainic trigger, making it worse than useless. Otherwise, I tend to pass out after about thirty-six hours, sleep for at least two, and start over. And, yeah: if I make any attempt to sleep before I'm entirely exhausted... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: sick and tired of political correctness |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 3:58 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,550
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| I was sick of political correction before it really got started. Any form of censorship--selfimposed or decreed by some officious body--is worse than useless. Outlaw a word, and that word inflates toward infinite power in memetic terrorism. I do find it amusing to note what is and isn't allowed on t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Intelligence can be a disability as well. |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 3:22 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,520
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| I feel sorry for kids that get advanced into classes above their age group. I think they have a hard time socialising. I think I actually did better for getting to college at twelve. Though that comes from contrasting what happened against my assumptions about being graduated 'on time'. I'm sure it... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How did you find your religion/beliefs? |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,959
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| Your all sick. Satanist and all that s**t. Do you even have any idea, this is not right, normal. That means you support evil, and any type of evil. Your just a bunch of sick, deluded fools. I never, ever expected this from somebody with aspergers syndrome. As a Christian, I feel like I am being tar... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does time exist? |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 2:24 pm
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Replies: 61
Views: 5,380
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Time does not exist.
Time occurs. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Which religion do you belong or identify with? |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 2:18 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,337
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| I'm atheistic, which would also have allowed for Not Religious. But I ran with the buzzword. I'm also agnostic. And apathetic. I'm not theistic, not gnostic, and not pathetic. I don't bother maintaining a positive belief in a negative condition; I don't believe in deities, but I don't put any effort... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I guess I start here.... |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 1:34 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,010
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Um...no.
I was called Gremlin somewhat before 1984. Any resemblance to mogwai is misunderstood. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Pet Peeves |
| Gremlin |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 1:31 pm
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Replies: 61
Views: 5,888
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| Asking me what I'm thinking The first time someone asked me this, I replied--without joking, 'At this point, I'm thinking of an answer to your question.' After some semantic argument, it turned out that I'd forgotten what I'd been thinking about before she became a gameshow host at me. "Be yourself... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Ladies and gentlemen... the WrongPlanet writing showcase |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2006, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 802
Views: 258,874
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