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Do you think that aspies as a whole would benefit from the type of book outlined in this thread?
YES 69%  69%  [ 20 ]
NO 31%  31%  [ 9 ]
Total votes : 29

Liopleurodon
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13 Feb 2008, 8:38 am

I'm not sure how much use this would be, because it would have to work in the form of rules. We seem to be generally quite good with rules. Where things go wrong for us is in dealing with context, and that's why a book won't help, because it can't possibly say what to do in every context. The reason why I have issues with the NT world is that it's based around inconsistent rules, like "Honesty is the best policy. . . except when it isn't." It's instinct and intuition in social situations which is lacking. I don't see how a book can really help with that.


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13 Feb 2008, 9:26 am

xyzyxx wrote:
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the Coping Survival Guide?
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistai ... eword.html


That's pretty good actually. And written by someone who went to the same uni as me, which makes it all the better. To think that was tucked away on my university website and I never realised.



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14 Feb 2008, 12:28 pm

xyzyxx wrote:
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the Coping Survival Guide?
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistai ... eword.html


wow thank you! not quite what i was looking for but a great resource!! ! :D


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14 Feb 2008, 10:00 pm

I created a wikibook if anyone wants to start it

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Life%2C_a_users_manual