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14 Jun 2020, 11:24 pm

my experience in the deep south was "a stranger in a strange land." in more than one place i was not welcome because of how i look. :afro: very conservative down there [outside of the big cities], short hair and button-down.

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15 Jun 2020, 12:19 am

Autism as a Behaviour
Autism as a Inner System
Autism as a Personal Practice

Currently, people tend to only believe in the first one and never truly knowing anything else.

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15 Jun 2020, 9:05 am

Some websites really need a dislike button for their posts...

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15 Jun 2020, 9:06 am

i'm glad FB lets me block people

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15 Jun 2020, 9:12 am

Peninsular Florida is Deep South inland. Even in south Florida. Towns have a well defined "black" section and no blacks live in the white sections. "All" the crime occurs in the black sections. (NOT! just stating what many rural whites think.) Once you get away from the coasts, it is quite apparent you are in a different world.

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15 Jun 2020, 9:34 am

Thou shalt not dragged into intolerance.

Being off scale and gratting, that may trigger or offend a person because of their sentiments or close-mindedness, is different from giving off something actually inappropriate or that actually crosses the line.

If the complaints the latter, I'd rectify whatever mistakes might be and I'd learn to be mindful of it.
But the former? That's not my problem, or anyone else's -- so I'm not sorry. :twisted:

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15 Jun 2020, 11:38 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

not sure what on earth "spoons" refers to in this context, but i hope you have as much as you need.

blazingstar wrote:

Rural Florida is a lot like deep South. I am literally afraid this is an extension of the racial tensions.

there's a saying about florida, the further north you go, the more like the south it gets. (or something similar)

i still want to visit the deep south just to get a taste of what it's like. it can't be all bad. a really cool coworker is from there, i think mississippi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

That’s what I’m referring to when I mention “spoons.”

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15 Jun 2020, 12:47 pm

Isabellalinton has an excellent collection of many varieties of “spoons.”

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15 Jun 2020, 1:59 pm

I'm steadily losing tolerance for those who enable and excuse white supremacists.

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15 Jun 2020, 2:23 pm

I’ve never had any tolerance for white supremacists.

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15 Jun 2020, 3:31 pm

A parcel I ordered should be coming in a couple of ore days, but I'm worried because I told Canada Post I wanted it delivered to my front door. When I said my front door I meant to my apartment door, which is the *only* door there is to it. Now the carrier is going to be confused and probably leave it at a different door to the building and the neighbors won't know it's for me. Maybe I should ask them if they've seen it if it doesn't arrive at my door soon.

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15 Jun 2020, 4:46 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

Isabellalinton has an excellent collection of many varieties of “spoons.”

I certainly do. I have a spoon collection from childhood and I added a few to it in recent years.

In terms of energy spoons, the ones first named by the Lupus Society, I have about .0004 of one. :cry:

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15 Jun 2020, 5:18 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I’ve never had any tolerance for white supremacists.

Same. I wish I wasn’t such a coward so I could actually call people out on it and stuff, but really all I can make myself do is walk away.Same goes for other sources of undeserved hate, even ones that apply to me.

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15 Jun 2020, 5:49 pm

I'm just so tired of today and feel like going to bed even though it isn't even 7 PM here.

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15 Jun 2020, 7:44 pm

Still feeling that lump in my throat and worrying.

The thing is, I’m not worried because I’m afraid of dying. If it is the big C, it’s probably Hodgkin’s lymphoma (and at an early stage, too), which according to Doctor Google appears to have a very low death rate unless it’s become systemic. What I’m worried about is the side effects of the chemotherapy and radiation treatment I’d probably be getting. Plus I don’t even really get that chance of dying from it (I think at this point I’m just so flipping bored that I’d be glad something quite possibly deadly was at least providing a thrill).

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15 Jun 2020, 9:30 pm

dragonsanddemons wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

I’ve never had any tolerance for white supremacists.

If you truly can't, start seeing them like a spoilt kids who can't truly grow up.
To 'discipline' them or not for yourself for their sake and everyone is up to you.

Why I don't exactly do get dragged into intolerance?
Because, to me, signs of intolerance may mean deep down to covet easy ways and slap it with 'equality'. And so indulging these things are guilty pleasures and everyone who does gets called out for.

So why not shame them who's "up there"?
Sure, guilt is an excellent tool. But it's a very abused tool -- it is not to be encouraged.

That's how the reflection of humanity and the mind works -- it's a tricky thing as an autistic though.

I'd say that kind of stance only perpetuates the system that made the prejudice in the first place; by demanding from said (already outdated) system.

Remember the lessons we all have in this very forum, along with the previous ways of the advocates?
"The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House"

People are not exactly doing this by their way of protesting about it.
More like said protests makes the whole point of said prejudices.

But believe me, they don't have any power over anyone. It's them who kept giving them by panicking.
It's just how most people are manipulated to do so -- the adage that emotions react quicker than the mind? That's the key.

Anyways, this is no PPR, this is what's in my mind. :lol:

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