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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: No help , no hope..." Too Aspie " ? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2015, 9:41 pm
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| ...Well , thank you ~ Anything else aside , another amount of $ spent to 'Hound down to OC seems like a big expense to me :( ........... Ah well, it was just a thought. The Laguna Beach area is relatively amicable for R&R in general & has a lot of services for homeless folks, so it seemed l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Am I autistic???? your thoughts please |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2015, 4:01 am
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Replies: 21
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| I'm kind of in the same boat, Wrenton. I didn't speak until age 5 1/2. I spoke like a "normal" child almost immediately. I presented as Aspergian then; I still present as Aspergian to this day. Having Asperger's really shouldn't hold many people back from accomplishing things. Things that... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Am I autistic???? your thoughts please |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2015, 3:43 am
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| I don't particularly see "autism" in you. You might have some autistic traits. This Site has some great people--some autistic, some not. Though of course Fnord is, as always, correct in saying that only a qualified professional can make a diagnosis & then only after a significant amou... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: No help , no hope..." Too Aspie " ? |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2015, 3:07 am
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| Sounds like a bad situation that's getting worse. I lived in motels for years at a time & for a while at one point got to know some of the people living on the streets in Berkeley & in the Bay Area in general, so I sympathize fairly strongly with your situation. You might try Southern Orange... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Homeless stuff on the Web ? |
| Bodyles |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2015, 2:48 am
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Replies: 30
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| A quick Google search turns up these two, which seem to be currently fairly active: https://squattheplanet.com/ This forum is more focused on people who are 'on the road' by some active choice, but a cursory search turns up a good amount of posts about & by generally homeless people, many of whi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who is the King of the U.S.A.? |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2015, 9:37 pm
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| Who is the King of the U.S.A.? Oh say can you see, --- that you are an oligarchy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14SllPPLxY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQYA9Qjsi0 I assume here that most Americans are bright enough to know that they live in an oligarchy and not a democracy. Do you believe th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: AI Gods,, Transhumanism, and Transcendence... |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 10:59 pm
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| Good thread, Bodyles - I have a strong interest in the subject. Thanks. Glad I'm not alone. ;) Examples include the movie Transcendence, the show Person of Interest, and the 'hard' sci-fi collaboration Orion's Arm . I'm assuming you're not in the UK, otherwise you'd have seen the movie Ex Machina -... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: AI Gods,, Transhumanism, and Transcendence... |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 8:48 pm
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| Recently there's been a lot of speculation about the idea of super-intelligent AIs & the eventual emergence of so-called 'AI Gods' through the 'Singularity' (a level of intelligence that's so far above us that a being reaching such a level is completely incomprehensible to us), as well as ideas ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Are most Aspies Microsoft people. |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 7:54 pm
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Replies: 72
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| I've run Linux Mint as my primary OS for over a year & a half & am pretty happy with it, despite some of the quirks. During that time though, I've always had at least one working Windows install on a dual boot to do things I can only do on Windows. (Games, Work that requires Windows programs... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Masturbation Addiction help |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 7:05 pm
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Replies: 24
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory issues (long post) |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2015, 5:49 pm
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| I wear only loose 100% cotton most of the time. No socks or underwear. No turtlenecks or ties. No jewelry. No glasses even though I'm near-sighted. Mostly just loose jeans & t-shirts. When people whistle (or scream, shriek, or sing in a high pitched voice without good voice control) it triggers ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What is the biggest lie about Aspies? |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2014, 10:00 pm
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Replies: 59
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| I've just red two contradicting properties of aspies, listed one after another on some non-english website (I'll try to translate it precisely): - Highly developed logical thinking. The ability to invent unique solutions to problems . - Schematic way of thinking . High persistence, even obstinacy i... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What is the biggest lie about Aspies? |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2014, 9:55 pm
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| Biggest lie of all (it wins imho because it's in the DSM & other diagnostics manuals): It's primarily a social (rather than a sensory) disorder. You may feel that way, but I don't. I suffer mainly from lacking social insight, much more than from sensory issues (which are withholding me from eat... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 5 Reasons Liberals Are Such Unpleasant People To Be Around |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 12:29 pm
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Replies: 330
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Janissy wrote: ...
I decided I'm done. This is not something I should be spending time on.
You're right, actively denying reality so you can state that facts are meaningless and so truth can't be discerned is something you really should spend less time doing. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 5 Reasons Liberals Are Such Unpleasant People To Be Around |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 12:27 pm
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Replies: 330
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| *sigh* Well, if scientific fact to you isn't actually fact because you refuse to acknoledge that the scientific method, objective evidence, repeated results, peer review, and robust data collection methodologies are all that's required to make any scientific fact and that this does not differ just b... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 5 Reasons Liberals Are Such Unpleasant People To Be Around |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 11:51 am
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Replies: 330
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| It would be irrational to assert that something is true if it is provably false, but neither of my assertions is provably false. That's how it often is in matters of public policy. You can't actually debate facts because there aren't a lot of facts to be had. Much of what is getting debated is what... |
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