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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: President Donald Trump! |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2016, 3:49 pm
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Replies: 1,306
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| there will only be dissent, division and descent into political chaos This is already underway and has been going on a long time caused by the forces unleashed by what caused by the Trump phenomenon, and phenomenon itself. A Trump loss will change the look of it but not the decline. You can not rel... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: De Niro pulls Andrew Wakefied film from Tribeca Film Fest |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2016, 7:56 am
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Replies: 15
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| Both "Neurotribes" and "In a Different Key" autism history books as well as others claim that the anti vax movement peaked in the early 2000's and has declined a lot since. I could not disagee more. These journalists are reading to much mainstream media which is where they come f... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post your unpopular music-related opinions here |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 11:44 pm
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Replies: 453
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Pearl Jam has never been grunge. They play 70's styled hard rock.
Coldplay and Radiohead play progressive rock not alt rock. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: First Person Accounts of Adult diagnosis On NPR |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 2
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Worries about alcohol and socialising |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 3:53 pm
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Replies: 12
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| alchohol lowers inhibitions making autistics think they are doing better socially when what they are doing is presenting as more autistic. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What does politically correct mean to you? |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 3:01 pm
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Replies: 46
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| I'm not sure that I'd call not using the "n-word" or other slurs political correctness. It's simply a matter of respect. My n-word reference not about calling somebody that. What I had in mind was saying something like Joe called Evan a n****r vs Joe used the n-word. Political correctness... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you live in a socioeconomic bubble? (Quiz and poll) |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 25
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I got 21.
A lot of the questions are about friends and spouse which I have little and none respectively. So yes I am in a bubble allright, but not because of "class" as I grew up in a cop/fireman neighborhood. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: do you ever feel it's hard to have good self esteem |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 12:05 am
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Replies: 20
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How would a country run by autistics and aspergians look? |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2016, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 149
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| You are all way past the biggest problem which would be to start it. The executive dysfunction of initiation would be a problem. If you can get past that, a location has to be agreed upon, the existing country has to agree to give it up or we have to take that land by force. The country will not be ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: De Niro pulls Andrew Wakefied film from Tribeca Film Fest |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2016, 10:37 pm
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Replies: 15
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| Statement on Festivals Facebook Page 2016 Statement from Robert De Niro, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, regarding VAXXED at the Festival: “My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family. But after ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What does politically correct mean to you? |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2016, 6:48 pm
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Replies: 46
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| Replacing accurate descriptive language with muddled language due to a desire not to offend, for fear of bieng shamed or losing empoyment. exp ret*d with intellectualy disabled, manic-depression with bi-polar, n****r with the n-word, obsession with special interest. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: the reason i left the "self advocacy" movmant. |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2016, 9:08 am
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Replies: 2
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| You are confusing autism self advocacy with the autism rights and neurodiversity movements. While overlapping sometimes they are not the same. Self advocacy means just that advocating for yourself. Those other movements are about gaining rights for Autistics and accepting autistics and other neurodi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: President Donald Trump! |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2016, 12:23 am
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Replies: 1,306
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| I'm putting this question out there because I've ran into this in both autism forums and I still don't understand. And nobody start calling me names because I really want to know. What is the big thing about vaccines and autism in one sentence that gets all of you with autism so upset? If vaccines ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Andrew Wakefield film to be shown at Tribeca Film Festival |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2016, 11:45 pm
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Replies: 8
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Everbody is a little bit autistic genetically |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2016, 12:33 pm
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| Doesn't it also make a bit of difference if the genes are dominant or recessive, autosomal or allosomal, etc.? Everybody has genes for albinism too but that doesn't make everybody a little bit albino genetically. :| I think this is correct, though the actual mechanisms are even more complicated bec... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I'm not actually diagnosed |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2016, 7:37 am
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Replies: 11
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| As for me using todays criteria I would have probably been diagnosed in my childhood, grown out of my diagnoses in my 20's and because of burnout became diagnosable again in middle age. Thing is I have never actually have been not autistic. My "not autustic" decade or two was really just c... |
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