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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Natural disaster in the Midwest... |
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Posted: 25 May 2019, 1:11 pm
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| A couple days ago (during the night of 23 May 2019), a small EF-1 tornado came close to Washington DC. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) immediately got on her Instagram account and began to lecture the nation on dangers of global warming and pushed for her Green New Deal. Mind you this was only a torn... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is someone at university better than I am? |
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Posted: 25 May 2019, 9:59 am
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| From my perspective, the university taught me How to Learn . Facts you can find anywhere, but the Mysteries of Life must be learned elsewhere. And the university gave me those tools. But I will say one more thing in general. The universities of 50 years ago are not the universities of today. They ar... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How to cope in crowded supermarkets... |
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Posted: 25 May 2019, 8:36 am
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Replies: 30
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| There are a lot of good suggestions here. Let me recap: * Wear earplugs or listen to music on headsets. * Make a shopping list in advance. [It helps to keep the focus on the primary objective to shopping and also prevents you from forgetting an item.] * Use deep breathing techniques if the anxiety g... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: New to this site |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 10:48 pm
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Best Pet names |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 10:46 pm
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Replies: 58
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| It is important to vent stress in my fifth limb (my neck, vocal cords and jaws). I do this by screaming at the top of my lungs once per day. I live in the country and I have a free range dog. So generally, when I feed him I need to call him. Living in the country it is acceptable to scream for one's... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Company makes clothes for Autistics |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 10:36 pm
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: What if I have early onset dementia? |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 6:24 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Most likely due to stress or occasional forgetfulness. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why I Can't Be Autistic. To Jan 2024: I Am On The Spectrum! |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 48
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| Mountain Goat, Eretz HaKodesh is Hebrew for the Holy Land. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Client at counseling center acting like he owned the place |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 8:56 am
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| I was not even talking to him, to begin with, and in my mind, it makes me wonder if he is one of those intimate terrorists that are responsible for domestic abuse and controlling woman. So maybe he could be there getting psychotherapy. That would be my take, he was there for therapy. A counseling c... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Natural disaster in the Midwest... |
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Posted: 24 May 2019, 8:34 am
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Replies: 44
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| You were lucky the twister missed your house. Yes. Trees were down on all four sides of my house. And the winds flew over my house. I had a metal patio table on my deck with a large umbrella. It picked that up into the air. The umbrella had a heavy weight attached to the base. That came apart in mi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why I Can't Be Autistic. To Jan 2024: I Am On The Spectrum! |
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Posted: 23 May 2019, 1:23 pm
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| Over 50 years ago, I met someone. He talked for about 3 hours straight . I figured he had years of conversations just bottled up deep inside him that was just waiting to come out. We became close friends and are still friends today. So that is not seeking attention and you are not an attention seeke... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Client at counseling center acting like he owned the place |
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Posted: 23 May 2019, 11:34 am
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| I wonder if the client at the counseling center had anger management issues and the reason why he was there was because he was trying to get counseling to deal with these issues. There is a term called "road rage". Many time when you drive in a large city, there is need to temper your resp... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Natural disaster in the Midwest... |
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Posted: 23 May 2019, 11:19 am
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| It is more like the facts-of-life. The Midwest gets hit by tornadoes and California gets hit by earthquakes. In 2008, a series of tornadoes tore up my property. It destroyed many of my large trees, about 100 of them. Many were hardwoods like oak trees. Others were soft woods like black walnuts. Some... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why I Can't Be Autistic. To Jan 2024: I Am On The Spectrum! |
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Posted: 23 May 2019, 11:06 am
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| Refreshing the "new posts" lists to see if you've had a response? I certainly do that all the time, and I'll bet you that we're far from alone here in doing that! That is actually a normal flow for two way conversations that are written. In a verbal conversation people wait for their turn... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sensory stimuli you just CAN'T stand |
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Posted: 23 May 2019, 10:16 am
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| ASMR videos. Never heard of these before. ASMR is Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR produces a feeling of well-being euphoria combined with a static-like tingling sensation in the scalp and down the back of the neck and upper spine. ASMR is often triggered by specific auditory or visual sti... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Recycling |
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Posted: 23 May 2019, 8:35 am
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| I hate Earth Days. Years ago I was in the Sierra Club, I went on many overnight hikes. I slept outdoors with a canopy of stars overhead as my blanket. The general rule was you always leave a campsite just like you found it. You never left litter. You left it in a pristine condition so that the next... |
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