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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who would you want to run in the 2020 U.S. Presidential? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2020, 5:48 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Trump's fanbase has been hoodwinked to the extent that they appear blind to the "divide and rule" agenda that Trump has been actively using them to advance. The daily barrage of flash-in-the-pan headlines and twitter-trash-Trump-comment of the day is all a smokescreen, and the 2020 electio... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why do some people choose to be horrible than kind ? |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2020, 5:18 pm
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,724
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| I spent my childhood years with a foster mother who was a monster to everyone but her "golden child", and especially to me. One of the reasons I entered psychology as a student later on was to try and figure her out, but in those decades there were no answers there, so I specialised in psy... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Treatment of autistics in the UK vs. the US. |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2020, 5:09 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 952
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| There must be times when a trained "navigator" through certain systems and processes as a support person would be of enormous help for people there FM. Does the National Org. for Autism there offer any service like that? |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Never Invited, Rarely Included |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 11:21 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 903
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| It's not "easy". If it was, there wouldn't be any need for Wrong Planet. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Treatment of autistics in the UK vs. the US. |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 10:56 pm
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Replies: 25
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| "Normalisation" is a major theme in the USA, coupled with the mistaken idea that ABA is the coercive tool of choice to force AS people to become pretend NTs. That doesn't seem to be a mainstream mindset at all in the UK. "Curing" AS doesn't seem to be a mainstream mindset in the ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What NT Women Want |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 9:11 pm
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Replies: 165
Views: 4,779
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| Not as along as the effort is expected only from AS people, and that is the status quo at this time. Today all over the world there will be AS people who are experiencing being shunned and shamed for "acting like" AS people by the dominant majority. Until that dominant majority change, and... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What NT Women Want |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 8:12 pm
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Replies: 165
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| Here's another one: when NTs say "that's interesting" they usually mean ("I couldn't care less about that."). The AS person, taking them at their word, feels encouraged to continue the conversation topic.. I think we all know who gets blamed for the failure of NTs to accurately r... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Treatment of autistics in the UK vs. the US. |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 7:16 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Only the UK has produced some studies of AS people in the senior age group (middle age and beyond) and seems to be the only country that has researchers who are interested in that group, AFAIK. There are also some very interesting academic activists in England using their skills to raise consciousne... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Improvement of Autism with age |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2020, 4:22 pm
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Replies: 50
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| I doubt that you were between 5-15 emotionally FM. What that person couldn't see was the many layers of trauma experiences that were invisible to the commentator. He or she may have quite cruelly judged you on the basis of her or his personal experience, rather than yours, which he didn't or couldn'... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Gun Rights Provocateur triggers students at alma mater |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2020, 4:18 pm
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Replies: 66
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| David Lange was Prime Minister from 1984, well liked, and his legacy continues as New Zealand's nuclear free policy. AB is thinking of Robert Muldoon, who led the National Party in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in a very dictatorial and divisive way. However to compare him with Trump is unfair eve... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Gun Rights Provocateur triggers students at alma mater |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 7:08 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 1,449
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| Thank goodness I live in a country that doesn't allow this kind of provocative behaviour, and in a culture still bound together by social cohesion. Lose social cohesion, and all hell starts to break loose. There are certainly lessons for us in Australia and NZ of that the utter madness in the US co... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Working in mixed NT/AS groups - an interesting commentary |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 6:56 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 499
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Trying to find out if I have autism |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 6:22 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 406
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| Welcome to WP! Almost no-one (if anyone) has all the characteristics that have been associated with AS, so you don't need to (score 100%) to be an autistic person. AS people are individuals, not the clones that many uninformed media commentary suggests; some are visual thinkers, for example, others ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Brexit is going to make everything worse(unless you're rich) |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 6:14 pm
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Replies: 38
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| From the late 1940s, Britain incrementally ceased to have a British Empire to exploit. The decision to stop exploitation was made out of necessity, not goodwill toward the countries the British had exploited for all of the 20th century and before, and it was Franklin Roosevelt who made the withdrawa... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What NT Women Want |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 6:05 pm
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Replies: 165
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| None of this seems to address the double communication problem which can be a significant barrier to establishing a relationship. AS people say what they mean, and if they say "Let's have dinner some time" that is literally what they mean. NTs will say things like this in order to flick pe... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Gun Rights Provocateur triggers students at alma mater |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2020, 5:39 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 1,449
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Thank goodness I live in a country that doesn't allow this kind of provocative behaviour, and in a culture still bound together by social cohesion.
Lose social cohesion, and all hell starts to break loose. |
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