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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Favorite British TV Shows |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2023, 6:47 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 4,039
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| The only British shows I find funny are "Are You Being Served?" & "Coupling". The rest just make me wonder "how is this at all funny", or I end up doing a lot of eye-rolling. Hubs loves "Red Dwarf" tho. They tried to do an American version of Coupling, bu... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: How do you upload drawings without a scanner? |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 11:29 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 562
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| I haven't done it in years, but I would like to know how to upload drawings you did without a scanner. I don't have access to a scanner, so I don't know what else to do. I'd go with a phone. If you've got space, there's probably somebody near you that's trying to get rid of a used all in one printe... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: How to relax? |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 11:24 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 394
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| I was supposed to have a fun night out tonight. I had been looking forward to it for a while. Whilst I enjoyed it, I couldn't enjoy it fully. The shadow of work loomed over me. Frankly to the point where I started crying on the way home because I needed some form of emotional release. I have been u... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Can't stand ''toxic'' positivity. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,453
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| I've never found trying to "fake it until I make it" to actually work. It just makes me feel even worse when I finally give up/in. It tends to work out well for me often, but I'm also a relatively skilled actor with a pretty decent noggin and the willingness to do the work and put up with... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Buying online |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 7:50 pm
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Replies: 47
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| I keep hearing about the virtues of buying online (say, at Amazon) as opposed to going into a brick-and-mortar store, one of them being that it saves gas. But when you buy something online, isn't gas still being used for you to get your product? You yourself may not be using gas, but the delivery p... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is it okay to just not have friends? |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 5:36 pm
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Replies: 60
Views: 8,738
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| There is a ton of research evidence from the field of psychology linked friendships and acquaintceships with being happier. That does not mean you need a ton of friends, but social isolation is linked to depression. Do you not have friends because you lack social skills or experienced rejection in ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Might autistic women not be the best match for autistic men? |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 10:14 am
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Replies: 235
Views: 30,192
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| It makes for a situation that just sucks much of the time and why it's probably best to not even try an autism-autism relationship unless everybody involved is on the same page about the ground rules and what is expected behavior as the regular rules might not make much sense in some areas. I think... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi everyone |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2023, 10:03 am
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Replies: 11
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| Welcome to Wrong Planet. From you writing it appears that you are trying to figure yourself out. That is a good thing. I am very old around 74 years, but my mind is that of a child. In a sense I do not age. I am like Peter Pan. I think I am close to understanding. Life is much more complex than any... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Social skills training |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 8:28 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,103
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| Social skills training is just codeword for autism conversion therapy. We shouldn't have to change for the sake of neurotypicals, just as gays shouldn't have to change for the sake of heterosexuals. Not really, some of us are extremely high masking to the point where we do seem to fit in. We're sti... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Social skills training |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 8:23 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,103
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| What do you call a person who helps people become better social skills? Some have said that drama exercices are good for learning social skills. But that sounds more like acting exercices rather than social skills exercices. Isn't drama way different from real social situations? I personally knew h... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Streaming and Physical Media |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 7:21 pm
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Replies: 49
Views: 6,929
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| Yeah, I think I will start investing in buying physical copies of my favorite movies on bluray or DVD... Streaming kind of overrated. I bought a Synology NAS and uploaded my physically media to it. I can then stream it to my own devices. It's not just media being yanked, but sometimes they get Luca... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: How can you plan life if you don't know what to do ? |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 6:47 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,028
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| You don't. :twisted: Yep, if you don't know what you want to do, then your basic options are to either not plan, pick something to work towards or make the most general plan possible. For the most part picking something, even if it's not the best option is going to beat the crud out of the other op... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: face blindness - can you be partially face blind? |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 6:44 pm
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Replies: 33
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| ^ Somewhat related; if I'm used to seeing someone in a certain uniform and I see them in their civilian clothes, I'm unlikely to recognize them. I can't recognize myself in the mirror if I make any sudden changes. I shaved my head a few weeks ago and I'm still not entirely sure that my mirror isn't... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Easily startled |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 4:48 pm
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Replies: 12
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| There's a guy at work who likes to startle me because he thinks it's funny. "You're too easy to scare!" then stop? "but it's too funny!". :roll: He has eased off a little recently. I especially hate it when someone does that mock-punch and I flinch then they get offended. 'why d... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: How Far Down I Have Spiraled. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 4:43 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Honestly, that was pretty much my 20s and early 30s. I was able to hang on to some jobs, but mostly just part time ones that didn't pay well enough to attract talent. In some ways, I was lucky not to know I was autistic. But, in other ways, there's a lot of choices I would have made differently if I... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi I'm Hector |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2023, 4:33 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,234
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