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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else not care what others think? |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2017, 8:24 am
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kraftiekortie wrote: They call me Omega Man.
A reference to the movie?  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else not care what others think? |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2017, 8:24 am
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HistoryGal wrote: That's cool, Phoenix.
Thanks, HistoryGal!
And what has your experience been? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else not care what others think? |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2017, 8:23 am
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| I've often wondered if some aspies focus too much on alpha type popular people, wanting to be like them, and then having a bad experience when that fails. While basically ignoring the existence of all the unpopular low profile people around them. In my experience when I've dressed as Q, or even mer... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else not care what others think? |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2017, 8:03 am
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As someone who has portrayed a Q from Star Trek
for over 20 years as a way of expressing my creativity,
I had a bracelet made with the following Q quote:
"It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent." |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Doomsday fears again, and a dilemma issue |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2017, 4:41 am
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Hollywood_Guy wrote: I would also be coupled with the hellish sorrow that I was too young and never made many friends or tried to improve my life.
Solution to your dilemma: Improve your life. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Mind games? |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 10:44 pm
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"Mistake by the Lake" eh?
Howdy neighbor! I live close to you. 
As for mind games, methinks it refers to manipulation.
I think you'd know if you were doing it.
As for why people may or may not like you,
I have no clue. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Private Message That Turned Into Insults & The Like |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 10:37 pm
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| Something similar, but likely a different person. In my case, we mutually wanted to become online friends here via private messages. And I would have been happy exchanging phone numbers at some point, and sending cards and letters etc. by snail mail. Then this person started saying that online frien... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I just wish someone. would help me. |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 6:39 pm
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| ...I think I'd really need to be shown how to do stuff on a computer, a test model...requiring more time than a librarian has and deeper use of a test model than would likely be available there :( . There is no such thing as a test model computer. As a technical writer, I could actually quibble and... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Since when did "Pocahontas" become a racist slur? |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 6:26 pm
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| From what I understand, the old census records generally just had choices for "white", "negro", and "mulatto". Indians checked "white". Also, if you were identified as an Indian, you had far less rights than if you were identified as white so many Indians rep... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Since when did "Pocahontas" become a racist slur? |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 6:22 pm
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| First of all Native Americans are not a race!! sorry, European here, not well educated on this particular matter - just read wikipedia, where it sounded like native american is very much considered a race (however that term is defined). so.. I don't get OP's statement. Anyone care to explain, pleas... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Since when did "Pocahontas" become a racist slur? |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 6:21 pm
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Darmok wrote: Warren, aka Fauxcahontas, aka Lie-a-watha, ...
Now that's funny!  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thoughts on talk therapy? |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 1:01 pm
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| Hi Stripscrabble, Maybe you can print out what you've posted here and let your therapist read it? While talk therapy can be good, you need to have a therapist who understands and who you can relate to. I once had a best friend to talk to in depth ... we both had major challenges in our lives, so eac... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Since when did "Pocahontas" become a racist slur? |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 12:22 pm
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| You know my politics. So it might amaze you when I say that sometimes, yes, "Pocahontas" can be a racist slur. It depends on how it's used. I'm part Native American. In the past, I've dressed in my fully authentic Iroquois garb and volunteered as a historical interpreter for the Cleveland ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: More about my situation. |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 9:40 am
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| ...I just get depressed lying here all the time. I kind of want to leave but if I left right now it would be swkward to carry that backpack and duffel - and where would I go to :( ? Nobody here, at this facility has inaugurated anything to me suggesting where I should go.The cough is REALLY uncomfo... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: When You Are Rejected |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 9:22 am
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HistoryGal wrote: It's not about being wrong or right. It's about what we feel.
Okay, then we need to rename this website "Feel Planet" or "Feel Planets" ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Dealing with Manipulative People |
| the_phoenix |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2017, 1:03 am
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Replies: 7
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Angie Atkinson has some good videos. Here's one:
I also like Sacha Slone ... she self-identifies as autistic, anyways, she's very eccentric:
Hope these help! |
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