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10 Sep 2012, 6:33 am

I have a car. It doesn't have any brakes. It's not impossible to drive--under the right conditions, it can be driven like any other car. But, in reality, it almost always ends up crashing. It took me a while to correlate the seemingly constant crashes with the lack of brakes. In fact, I didn't realize that I lacked brakes until someone pointed it out to me. This is the only car I've ever driven, you see.

Gradually, I began to limit my driving to the streets and neighborhoods I knew would give me the best chance at not crashing. Most of the time, though, I just leave it in the garage. It's just not worth it, you know? To drive around and crash into things all of the time.



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10 Sep 2012, 6:53 am

Cars without brakes shouldn't be allowed on the road honestly lol



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10 Sep 2012, 6:58 am

Yes, crashing is not good /Captain Obvious.

Cars without brakes are generally deemed unroadworthy for a reason; not only the damage to other cars and property but to fellow drivers, pedestrians, animals. You should probably keep the car off the road indefinitely :?

Confused if this is a joke thread now.



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10 Sep 2012, 7:34 am

“Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the grave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store--
He frightened it to the core--
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.”



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10 Sep 2012, 10:40 am

Poke wrote:
I have a car. It doesn't have any brakes. It's not impossible to drive--under the right conditions, it can be driven like any other car. But, in reality, it almost always ends up crashing. It took me a while to correlate the seemingly constant crashes with the lack of brakes. In fact, I didn't realize that I lacked brakes until someone pointed it out to me. This is the only car I've ever driven, you see.

Gradually, I began to limit my driving to the streets and neighborhoods I knew would give me the best chance at not crashing. Most of the time, though, I just leave it in the garage. It's just not worth it, you know? To drive around and crash into things all of the time.


Sounds like the opening chapter of a children's book. I see an elephant squeezing into an aging Land Rover as the illustrations. He lives in a remote African village so his crashes never hurt anyone.
Several of the other animals get together and determine to find him a mechanic for his Rover.


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10 Sep 2012, 11:30 am

You shouldn't be driving a car that doesn't have breaks.


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10 Sep 2012, 12:55 pm

Why did this thread get moved? It's not really about a car, you know.



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10 Sep 2012, 12:56 pm

That is scary.

...Keep it off the road. Please.


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10 Sep 2012, 1:14 pm

Poke wrote:
Why did this thread get moved? It's not really about a car, you know.


No, it seems to be more about a fictional idea than an actual car.
The idea that you are driving a car around and crashing into things is so unreal it should be in the art and writing section.

(Unless you're a time traveler writing from the early 20th century, or you live in a very, very remote and unpopulated place.)


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10 Sep 2012, 3:30 pm

Poke wrote:
Why did this thread get moved? It's not really about a car, you know.


is it about unregulated emotions?



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10 Sep 2012, 3:34 pm

Poke wrote:
Why did this thread get moved? It's not really about a car, you know.


I got that...but the actual meaning is so ambiguous as to be nonexistent. Remember: We don't necessarily know what is going on in your head when you write something like this. Providing context would go a long way towards improving your chances of communicating your ideas effectively.


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10 Sep 2012, 4:05 pm

Poke wrote:
I have a car. It doesn't have any brakes. It's not impossible to drive--under the right conditions, it can be driven like any other car. But, in reality, it almost always ends up crashing. It took me a while to correlate the seemingly constant crashes with the lack of brakes. In fact, I didn't realize that I lacked brakes until someone pointed it out to me. This is the only car I've ever driven, you see.

Gradually, I began to limit my driving to the streets and neighborhoods I knew would give me the best chance at not crashing. Most of the time, though, I just leave it in the garage. It's just not worth it, you know? To drive around and crash into things all of the time.


The "car" is you. The "luck of brakes" is being an aspie. "Streets and neighborhoods you know that give you the best chance at not crashing" are, probably, other aspies. "Leaving the car in the garage" is being alone.
(i think)



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10 Sep 2012, 4:16 pm

apostolos wrote:
Poke wrote:
I have a car. It doesn't have any brakes. It's not impossible to drive--under the right conditions, it can be driven like any other car. But, in reality, it almost always ends up crashing. It took me a while to correlate the seemingly constant crashes with the lack of brakes. In fact, I didn't realize that I lacked brakes until someone pointed it out to me. This is the only car I've ever driven, you see.

Gradually, I began to limit my driving to the streets and neighborhoods I knew would give me the best chance at not crashing. Most of the time, though, I just leave it in the garage. It's just not worth it, you know? To drive around and crash into things all of the time.


The "car" is you. The "luck of brakes" is being an aspie. "Streets and neighborhoods you know that give you the best chance at not crashing" are, probably, other aspies. "Leaving the car in the garage" is being alone.
(i think)


MMMmmmm, another interpretation.
So we are to see this as allegorical?
I hope to see many interpretations ! !


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10 Sep 2012, 5:23 pm

So do you actually have a car?



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10 Sep 2012, 8:36 pm

I don't think this analogy post makes much sense. It's illegal to drive a car without breaks; cant get an inspection sticker if the breaks don't work & driving without a current inspection sticker or crashing due to driving a car without breaks can get your license revoked or worse. However is is NOT illegal for Aspies to go places & interact with others


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10 Sep 2012, 8:43 pm

Replace the pads, it's not hard. The longer you drive it without brakes, the more of the possibility of you needing to have your rotors turned. That's more trouble than you want to deal with at home. It's also expensive.

It's not difficult to fix brakes. Why would you even be driving it after knowing that you can't stop?


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