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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: For older folks, do you still feel young for your age? |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 5:24 pm
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| I feel kind of 25 but with a few more relatively minor physical aches and pains and a bit less physical stamina. Singing voice still no worse except that I can't scream my head off for hours like I used to, or even just sing my highest notes in a muscular kind of way for more than a few minutes with... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: UK Smoking Ban |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 4:57 pm
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Replies: 33
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| Yeah. Didnt NZ have that clever system in which they raised the minimum age one year every year? Eighteen was legal in year X, But you had to 19 in year X+1, and 20 in year X +2, and so on. So the oldsters already hooked could keep on smoking, but no new young recruits to smoking would be (in theor... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Divorce or just acceptance |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 4:29 pm
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| My wife says she loves me but we live like two strangers in a house. Sex is a long-distant memory, intimacy doesn't exist. But we don't fight, we get along, we are friends, we have a comfortable life so why do I feel so lonely? Not really sure what anybody can say I guess I have to put up and shut ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 3:15 pm
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| I've been having a lot of dreams lately of traveling back in time to the 80s or the 70s, probably because the present time is so awful and I'm really really afraid of getting older and the BIG M. Last night I dreamed that I traveled back in time to when I was nine years old. and I became nine years... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: UK Smoking Ban |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 3:07 pm
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| The thing about banning things is that a) its very quick and b) it's very cheap so if you're a government with a record of not achieving very much and an electorate that's written you off as ineffectual, a few bans (particularly of things that are unpopular anyway) starts to seem like a good idea. ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: No one believes my obsessions... |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 12:09 pm
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Replies: 10
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| It seems a very strange thing for somebody to express disbelief in - "I'm really interested in this" - "No you're not." Don't see what they have to gain, except sadistic pleasure. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: UK Smoking Ban |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2024, 12:03 pm
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Weren't they set to try it in New Zealand? Don't know the exact reasons why they dropped it.
Health-wise, its impact won't be seen for a very long time.
Hard to know what will happen. It's never been tried before. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Trump's Trial in NY |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 11:42 pm
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Replies: 29
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Awkward and tongue-tied in conversation |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 11:19 pm
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| These days I'm more likely to say too much, but there was a time when I'd often go mute if I didn't feel confident about my ability to cope in the presence of the people I'd got landed with. Finding the middle ground has always been the hardest thing, but I'm getting better at that in real time. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Newly diagnosed and struggling |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 11:14 pm
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| Does the chronology of suspecting ASD, getting diagnosed, and experiencing burnouts support the notion that the knowledge of having ASD is having a debilitating psychological effect on you? Just a thought. I experienced a certain loss of social confidence from finding out I had ASD. It took a while ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 10:54 pm
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Jakki wrote: Get Em..! next time...!  
I'm planning to bellow "That's for the Shire!"  if I get the chance. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 5:35 pm
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| Awe Crud.. Not Orcs.....fleee..flee....>>>>>>>>>>>..... 8O If you mean me (or even if you didn't), I got one like that decades ago, and it was about the scariest dream I've ever had. There were several barely-visible monster things, and my fear of them kind of signalled them in on me, and they sped... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: False Dx: Up to 70% of dx'd may not actually be autistic? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 5:16 pm
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Replies: 90
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| Ages ago someone on WP asked if autism is a truly scientific diagnosis. I didnt respond except in my head. But he asked a good question. So many absolutly contradictory things are said to be symptoms of autism (like not being able to think abstractly, and being wrapped up in abstract thought, no im... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: False Dx: Up to 70% of dx'd may not actually be autistic? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 5:09 pm
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| to be diagnosed with autism you had to have a delay in language development. That was considered a defining trait. The quote-unquote "epidemic" quote-unquote "happened" when they removed that criterion. Oops . This, I think, directly contradicts the all-too-common assertion that... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 4:06 pm
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| A man I know was setting up some fairly simple but clever device which he put into a tank of water (the proper place for it to achieve its function), explaining its technical details to his wife. I did a similar thing, explaining it to my wife, only I did it rather differently. I think we were at so... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 2:15 pm
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| I agree it would indeed be poetic justice, buuut on the other hand I don't want to be on the recieving end of a bullwhip. :| Your dream covered your back though. The clothes they were wearing shows that it was happening in the days of slavery before you were born. It wouldn't be poetic justice if y... |
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