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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Flashback of having to reject love is getting in my way |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2024, 7:39 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 619
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| Maybe you did the best you could with what you had at the time. Perhaps the you that you are now could have a talk with the you as you were then. You could journal it, or create a place in your mind, perhaps even imagine visiting the people in the flash back. Perhaps you could talk to a therapist am... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Imaginary Friends |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2024, 7:11 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,471
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| The “magic unicorns” were my imaginary friends. My brother insisted that they were not real, and asked, if they were real why he couldn’t see them? “Because they are *magic*” (hadn’t I already explained that? “Magic” is right in the name! They were small, about the size of rabbits, and they looked l... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: "there's a bad moon on the right." |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2024, 5:49 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 1,990
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IsabellaLinton wrote: There's a baboon on the right.
Wasn’t that in a movie with Clint Eastwood where he drove a semi truck and had a Baboon buddy. They drive all across the USA but refused going to Canada. I think it was called “Every Which Way But Moose”? |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Have You Ever Seen A Film Called... |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2024, 2:50 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 589
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| A group of “Great Detectives” invited to the house of a mysterious host. Murder and comedy follow. Each detective it modeled on a famous film/literary detective. Sam Spade (and a Marie “Slim” Browning/Lauren Bacall type), Nick and Nora Charles (and dog Asta), Charlie Chan (and number-one-son), Hercu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What were you diagnosed with during the 80s? |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2024, 12:53 pm
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Replies: 55
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Fenn wrote: Schoolmates diagnosed me as
Space Cadet
Weirdo
Dweeb
S**thead
Once in English class (now called Language Arts) every kid in class used my name in the sample sentence for the vocabulary word “unkempt” |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Have you ever seen a nature is metal incident? |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2024, 11:20 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,189
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| My 30-year-old aunt, a Buddhist who had been an excellent student, ambitious, beautiful, and kind. Died of pancreatic cancer after long-term chemotherapy. My mom too. Steve Jobs couldn’t beat Pancreatic Cancer. If money could beat it - he had plenty. My mom died more than 20 years younger than eith... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What were you diagnosed with during the 80s? |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2024, 9:08 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 7,570
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Dyslexia
Gifted Dyslexic
Anxiety
Depression
Maybe bipolar (was on a short trial with lithium)
Schoolmates diagnosed me as
Space Cadet
Weirdo
Dweeb
S**thead |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why does the 12h clock start at 12:00, not 0:00? |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 7:22 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 747
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Jan 1 24:00
Is the same as
Jan 2 00:00 |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why does the 12h clock start at 12:00, not 0:00? |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 12:54 pm
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Replies: 21
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| That would make sense if anyone ever talked about a baby being a year old the day he was born. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction Look at the “History” of fractions. 0 for counting is not quite the same as 0 for calculating or 0 as a place holder in a number such as 60. The Egyptians used Egyp... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Continuing a discussion between programmers/developers.... |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 12:51 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 898
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| Webdev and Software Dev sometimes get close and even overlap. Web Pages tend to want things like CSS and JS. The complexity can grow fast. Writing code and need display and input and output. They can sometimes overlap with full stack development. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forgetting Stuff |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 12:41 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 898
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| I have issues with WM (brain working memory). This limits the number of things I can “keep in mind” and “think about, in the middle of my mind, the center of my attention”. This also means my relationship with time is wonky. Time, it turns out is a tricky thing. The sun goes up and the sun goes down... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forgetting Stuff |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 10:26 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 898
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Google
day of the week clock
To see some interesting options that cost less than an Apple Watch |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Forgetting Stuff |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2024, 10:04 am
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Replies: 15
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| I have an Apple Watch. It took a lot of hunting and trial and error but I found a plug-in (called a “complication” in watch-maker jargon, and following suit, Apple Watch jargon) named “Better Day” to display weekday, month and day. My iPhone can find my watch (but it is usually on my wrist or on the... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Einstein: Geometry and Experience |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2024, 12:43 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 481
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| [ … cont. ] https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Diagrams/Einstein_1.gif Place a paper disc on the spherical surface, and around it in a circle place six more discs, each of which is to be surrounded in turn by six discs, and so on. If this construction is made on a plane surface, we have an uninte... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Einstein: Geometry and Experience |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2024, 12:37 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 481
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| [ … cont. ] The usual answer to this question is "No," but that is not the right answer. The purpose of the following remarks is to show that the answer should be "Yes." I want to show that without any extraordinary difficulty we can illustrate the theory of a finite universe by ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Einstein: Geometry and Experience |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2024, 12:34 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 481
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| [ … cont. ] It is true that this proposed physical interpretation of geometry breaks down when applied immediately to spaces of sub-molecular order of magnitude. But nevertheless, even in questions as to the constitution of elementary particles, it retains part of its importance. For even when it is... |
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