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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Society doesn't understand my autism & NT women fear asp |
| Mandelbrot |
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 3:05 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,261
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| You have had the experience of dating. That's good at least. I have never had a date - I think its harder for a female with an 'extreme male brain' (Ref: Prof. Simon Baron Cohen) than for a male. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: can aspies get girlfriends |
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 3:02 pm
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Replies: 167
Views: 17,847
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| Its not as to whether Aspies can get boyfriends - that's always the question isn't it? Its as to whether Aspies can get boyfriends. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Youthful AS looks |
| Mandelbrot |
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,831
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sounded wrote: Because frown lines are actually caused by smiling and sneering at others. Frowning doesn't actually wrinkle the face at all.
Probably some truth in that! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Post adolescent disillusionment with "the real world |
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 2:58 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,609
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| You were both a physicist AND in a BAND... you seem pretty normal to me (especially with the band thing). You are only having the same problems as countless others do. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: time travel |
| Mandelbrot |
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Posted: 23 May 2007, 8:14 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,617
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| I have asked quite a few of the physicists which attended the Cambridge-MIT conference on quantum computing that same question; including prof. Bell and Prof. Stephen Knight. They all agree that there is most likely to be a number of 'extraplanular' possibilities. I, as a physicist, agree. [All depe... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Marriage |
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Posted: 23 May 2007, 7:55 am
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Replies: 48
Views: 3,915
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| You are clearly not a sociologist or a historian Sopho. Marriage is the work horse of the family and the family is the foundation of society, the primary socialiser. Indeed, a statement of such commitment or even the idea of it is structures to maintain a value system needed as a basis for teaching ... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Things that rhyme with Orange. |
| Mandelbrot |
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Posted: 23 May 2007, 7:50 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,518
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orange - losange (a losange is a shape)
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lemon - mellon, fellon
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purple - myrtle, turtle |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: is it true that pretty people are more choosy ? |
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Posted: 23 May 2007, 7:46 am
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Replies: 45
Views: 3,457
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| Pretty people may have a lrage sample to choose from, but this does not make them more choosy. For example, I am very particulalr about what I would expect in a partner, but I am also an Al Capone look-a-alike (when he was younger) so I'm not exactly pretty. Other factors may come into play such as ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Virginia Tech: The Game (Warning: Insensitive b****** ahead) |
| Mandelbrot |
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Posted: 23 May 2007, 7:42 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,228
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| Oh your all so sensitive - if someone's demanding attention, the best thing to do is ignore them. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post a random truth (about yourself) |
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Posted: 23 May 2007, 7:39 am
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Replies: 19,160
Views: 1,111,657
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| I am the result of a mafia-love child. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do AS people not use their sub-conscious? |
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Posted: 22 May 2007, 1:58 pm
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,023
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| I think we all have a subconscious, its just closer to the 'surface' (of consciousness) than in NT's. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Single woman, 21, looking for boyfriend |
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Posted: 06 May 2007, 2:22 pm
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Replies: 55
Views: 6,980
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| I am an ATHIEST and a scientist and furthermore will not be patronised. |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Can women be nerdy and atractive at the same time??? |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2007, 3:38 pm
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Replies: 78
Views: 10,890
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sweetpraline wrote: Most of the men I run across don't seem to like women who know how to think. Most of them seem to like bimbos who only know how to toss their hair around and look cute.
I agree certainly. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Creation and Evolution |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2007, 3:36 pm
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Replies: 180
Views: 10,645
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| This subject should not even be up for discussion. The mastery of empirical truth is inevitable, enduring and undeniable. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Involuntary Celibacy |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2007, 7:23 am
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Replies: 90
Views: 10,849
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| I have never had a boyfriend/date in my life and never had anyone even interested in me- but am so clean I'm almost OCD so I can't envisage that its personal hygiene that's the issue, rather my love of the history of the Mafia or something. I dress smartly and I'd profess to be fairly wealthy, but n... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: League of fictional characters |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2007, 10:20 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,647
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| Sponge-bob square-pants (offensive counter-strike leader) Nikola Tesla (technology and progress co-ordinator) Abe from the Oddworld qunitology (team luddite and cheerleader) Nacho Libre (legal representative) Flubber (imagine that in the rectal passage of any superhero) The Colgate Family & Free... |
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