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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2023, 2:25 pm
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Replies: 188
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| One of the things I find humorous though is its usually the more fundamentalist conservative types who claim the world will end soon, and they often give a specific date. Yet when scientists get onboard and make predictions about our doom suddenly they resist and say that suddenly the world will be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how to cope with any new year |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2023, 8:11 pm
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Replies: 46
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| Years ago, I had an annual job, printing out a custom calendar on a scroll. My customer wanted Monday as the first day of the week, and she wanted it on a roll so that it could be wound up one week at a time, letting her enter appointments without flipping up to the next month. This year, I finally ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have any of you had an bad experience with a therapist? |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2023, 1:08 pm
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Replies: 21
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| [That therapist sounds like a bit of a moron. After the discovery of the Dunning-Kruger principle - that people who can't do their jobs can't tell they can't do them - John Cleese took an informal survey. Whenever he happened to meet someone he considered particularly competent, he would ask what p... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My mother wants me gone |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2023, 6:33 am
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Replies: 10
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| I'm not on the best terms with my mother anymore. She tells me I'm an ungrateful, disrespectful, needy, whiny so-and-so when my father tries to help and she wants me to do everything myself from now on. When we have dinner or when they call me for something, all they hear is a loud, disgusted sigh.... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic Inertia - Share your experience |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 6:50 pm
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| @ Fenn. My neighbour says "measure twice, cuss once." I was once on a job to finish the odd jobs around a renovated house. Carpet had been installed, so the bottoms of doors needed to be trimmed. The new guy, wanting to impress, popped out some hinge pins, quickly set the door on a pair of... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 1:35 pm
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| We get sent out to do all the hard and dangerous work, and are far less likely to be noted if we die trying to support and protect our families. A chance at glory is our compensation, while the women get security as a birthright. There's nothing more dangerous to a human body than pregnancy and giv... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 5:34 am
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| <snip quote> Sorry, I don't know anything about American history. I'm talking about BC (Before Christ) in Britain with the Ancient Britons. Then came Celts, Romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Normans- all those invading groups had male dominated societies, and this persisted until fairly recently in Br... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how to cope with any new year |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 5:10 am
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| ^^ The last time I was in Victoria, BC, there was a year-round Christmas decor store in the tourist area. I don't have any trouble with a new year in the sense of the number sequence being incremented - New Year's Day is only one day farther, as usual. I do feel dismay at how both myself, and the wo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic Inertia - Share your experience |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2023, 11:37 pm
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| I have only been thinking about this thread, because I want to finish the project I'm working on. Right now, I have glue drying. I have a hard time getting started, but once engaged, I have a head full of relevant details, and interruptions are very hard on the process. Scott Adams (Dilbert) remarks... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 11:33 pm
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Replies: 188
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| Well, I'll try this. In reply to Mona Pereth, of Jan 3 12:22 AM: Human memory is not like a book or a movie. Every time it is "read" it gets re-written, and it may have gotten edited. In my ex, it only took days for a vague suspicion to become "solid fact" in her mind. My support... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: parents who don't know you. |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 6
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| My parents were traumatized in different ways by their childhoods, and then by history marching on to put them in a world they had never prepared for. They were pretty overwhelmed without the puzzle of myself. It didn't help, of course, when they did try to get help for me, and the helpers started t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 7:07 pm
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Replies: 188
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| When I try to quote and reply, I just get a "check for secure connection" loop. I suspect someone got offended. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: parents who don't know you. |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 7:00 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I quit asking my parents questions very early, when I saw they didn't have the answers, nor interest in finding them. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have any of you had an bad experience with a therapist? |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2023, 4:23 pm
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Replies: 21
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| I had a terrible weekend group course put on by a practice where a successful "natural" counsellor was trying to turn over the business to her assistant, who was just trying to do what had worked for what looked most similar to her, but she had no clue. My best counsellor is also a "n... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2023, 5:03 pm
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Replies: 188
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| ^ Dude..."Billy the Kid" was a dude! You must have him confused with Calamity Jane, or with Annie Oakley. What is the confusion? Men went for improved weapons, while women trusted their wiles. Annie Oakley did exhibitions, not executions. You were talking about relative amounts of brute f... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are NTs/humans becoming more easily offended as time passes? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2023, 4:35 pm
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naturalplastic wrote: ^
Dude..."Billy the Kid" was a dude!
You must have him confused with Calamity Jane, or with Annie Oakley.
What is the confusion? Men went for improved weapons, while women trusted their wiles. Annie Oakley did exhibitions, not executions. |
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