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10 Aug 2008, 7:24 pm

There are a lot of psychologically disturbed people here. I think a significant number of us have PTSD to some degree in addition to being on the spectrum. But I don't see anything wrong with that, we are an interesting group!

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10 Aug 2008, 7:48 pm

Apatura wrote:

I don't even post here that often, yet I've noticed a lot of cool people. Yessiree, cool.

We're all just down with the sickness.

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10 Aug 2008, 8:26 pm

I'm not nuts, I'm insane. I think there is a difference.

My favorite insanity quote is from Pirates III, and in the same vein as Tahitiii's:

"you're mad!"
"Good thing I am, or this probably wouldn't work."

Insanity is definitely more fun than sanity.

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10 Aug 2008, 8:43 pm

Eh, we have our share of weirdoes *coughs iamnotaparakeet Ragtime the conspiracy nuts in Politics, Philosophy and Religion coughs*, but for the most part, it's pretty normal.

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10 Aug 2008, 9:54 pm

Well its better not to name members, its fine if you disagree with them, but don't single them out by name Delirium Cough!

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10 Aug 2008, 9:55 pm

Raptor Jesus.

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10 Aug 2008, 10:05 pm

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10 Aug 2008, 10:08 pm

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10 Aug 2008, 10:10 pm

I go back an forth between being a nutter and being an Aspie. I now think it's both. I'm an Aspie who didn't get his official diagnosis until I was 44 years old. A lifetime of mistreatment by NTs for being "weird" (to use one of the nicer terms) has rendered me socially paranoid--that is, a nutter. I honestly don't think I would be nuts if it weren't for the bullying. So there you go

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10 Aug 2008, 10:14 pm

MemberSix wrote:

I directed an NT friend to this forum - and his words were "Jesus, it's full of nutters".

Does anyone else get that impression ?

no, for real crazy people go to corrupt.org, TOTSE, Rorta, and similar sites. Oh, and the chans

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10 Aug 2008, 10:22 pm

My problem is I don't bother lurking when I join a forum like this. I just jump in and usually make a complete fool of myself.

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11 Aug 2008, 4:59 am

ocelot1962 wrote:

not to diminish or invalidate your experience at all but...................
we are not in control of what happens to us, we are, however in control of how we chose to respond to it.

i spent a long time blaming NT's and the greater world for all my mishaps, i kept fighting the enemy, i was in a maladaptive ,self destructive maelstrom of angst. until i found him, i met him. he was me.

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11 Aug 2008, 5:04 am

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Explanation? :duh:

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11 Aug 2008, 7:50 am

ocelot1962 wrote:

I honestly don't think I would be nuts if it weren't for the bullying. So there you go

Exactly! Though I still think I would be a bit nuts without the bullying. I suffer (more in the past) from a degree of paranoia and delusional thinking, and I would like to know how much of it was triggered by trauma, and how much is just "me."

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11 Aug 2008, 7:53 am

MemberSix wrote:

"Jesus, it's full of nutters".