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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: First Computer Ever Used/Owned? |
| peterd |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 6:25 am
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Replies: 53
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| Back before the IBM device appeared, I wrote software for the first Australian designed small computers: CMAD 2022, ERA 50 and 80. For the CMAD machines, we had COBOL with database, enquiry language onto the database feeding word processor. All home grown, back in the very early 80s. For the ERA mac... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Introspecting on the last few years of my life |
| peterd |
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Posted: 08 Jun 2024, 7:58 am
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Replies: 8
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| Deserves a reply. There’s a voice - my mothers, I think - back in my childhood says “God gave you a special brain, because he has a special plan for you,” Geez, took me a half century before that one even floated to the surface. Still, popping that bubble let Gods plan drain away, made room for an a... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What are you playing right now? |
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Posted: 08 Jun 2024, 7:49 am
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Replies: 4,482
Views: 273,017
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| Dragonheir: Silent Gods, while I wait for Tarisland |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Just need help coping with realization that I'm have ASD |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2024, 8:56 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,654
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| I still think, twenty years after diagnosis, that it’s the NTs have the real problem. Without even being aware of it, they exclude us. OK, without awareness we go along with that. With awareness we become resigned to it. Undiagnosed or unaware adult autistics are the cement in the concrete of social... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Missed out on so many milestones |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2024, 1:56 am
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Replies: 76
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Appears to me that there’s an automatic assessment on the neurotypical side of interactions that the autistic isn’t worthy of attention. Completely under the level of awareness of course, but all the more impenetrable as a result.
I’ve given up. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Making Sense of the Past as a Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adult |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2023, 1:56 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,639
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| I was 52 when I turned my self diagnosis into an official one. I’d spent many years exploring the fabric of reality, all under the assumption that I must basically be just like everyone else. You just can’t see through that assumption. I turned that research into exploration of where I might fit in ... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft? |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2023, 3:59 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 14,542
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| You need a None of the above option on this quiz. My iPad has kept me happy for many years now. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you get along best with other ND people? |
| peterd |
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Posted: 19 May 2023, 1:39 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,956
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| Don’t get along with anyone |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What are you playing right now? |
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Posted: 14 May 2023, 9:41 pm
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Replies: 4,482
Views: 273,017
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: over 40 |
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Posted: 14 May 2023, 9:38 pm
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Replies: 54
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| Forties? I’ve turned seventy, been type 1 diabetic for nearly forty years, lost my prostate to cancer couple of years back, osteoporosis… |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: The Reality of Adults With Autism |
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Posted: 14 May 2023, 9:33 pm
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Replies: 15
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| It’s not just us. Neurotypicals have an instinctive reaction to autism that leaves us ignored and left out. Our faking “normal” behaviour can help a little with that, but until the rest of the planet develops a little more insight into what’s human and what’s merely where you are on a spectrum we’re... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Any programmers here? |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 3:26 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 3,173
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I spent a half century writing everything from microcode to big database to phone apps. Then I retired.
Everything I ever wrote is obsolete, sometimes before I finished writing it, sometimes a few years later. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Free online IQ test: What's your score? |
| peterd |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2022, 4:28 am
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Replies: 46
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| 141. I skipped all the ones I couldn’t be bothered with - maybe I got points for recognising there wasn’t a pattern |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: New book. Worth a read? |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2022, 9:51 am
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Replies: 1
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I’d like to draw your attention to this new publication
Have they Gone Nuts?: The Survival Guide to Social Interaction in Neurodiverse (Autistic- Neurotypical) Relationships
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BCTYH7MJ |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: A lot of my social problems are just slow processing speed |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2022, 9:13 pm
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Replies: 4
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| It has become obvious to me that neurotypicals have, to varying degrees, a direct link between perception of visual and aural cues and responses. Usually this is subliminal, as is the awareness of its absence. We, I think, have to find and fashion responses to such clues in conscious or subconscious... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What are you playing right now? |
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Posted: 11 Feb 2022, 7:16 am
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Replies: 4,482
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| Last few months, Heroes of the Dark. An as yet unfinished masterpiece from Gameloft. |
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