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17 Apr 2018, 3:18 am

You will never suffer form the "DUNNING AND GRUGER" effect (you think you are a moron ) unless it's related to you "special interest' , than you believe you know it all ,and you probably do !


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18 Apr 2018, 4:06 pm

aussiebloke wrote:
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When you find yourself listening to the same 40 songs on YouTube over and over.


That's quite a lot I would have thought it would be closer to 5- 10


Yeah. Listening to the "same forty songs over and over" is exactly what most teenagers did from 1946 until the advent of U Tube at the turn of the 21st Century. That's why it was called "Top Forty Radio". And most teens are NT. So that quantity of favorite songs is rather pedestrian, and not particularly autistic.



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18 Apr 2018, 4:12 pm

...when WrongPlanet going down for a day sends you into a panic! :lol:


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18 Apr 2018, 5:09 pm

you broke your F5 button in frustration :lol:


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18 Apr 2018, 5:18 pm

...you had multiple meltdowns due to not being able to access WP for a day :oops:


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18 Apr 2018, 5:31 pm

When you listen to forty different versions of the same one song on YouTube in one sitting..like say "At The Dark End of the Street".... gotta hear how it was sung by James Carr, Percey Sledge, Clarence Carter, Tom Petty, Dolly Parton with Porter Wagoner, Linda Rhondstadt, The Commitments, Eva Cassidy, the Tedeshi Trucks band, Greg Allman,...

It's a sin, and I know its wrong, but my obsession with the song, just keeps coming on strong...steal away, steal away.... theyre gonna find me, theyre gonna find me... slumped in front of my computer....



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18 Apr 2018, 5:34 pm

Trogluddite wrote:
...when WrongPlanet going down for a day sends you into a panic! :lol:


Beat me to it.


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18 Apr 2018, 5:35 pm

Yeah. I had some WP withdrawal symptoms too.

But I watched some of those videos by Alex and his friends for the first time...was forced to... like methadone treatment. Some of them are kinda interesting.



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18 Apr 2018, 8:55 pm

The meaning of life ? To live as long as possible so you can stick it to the rest of us , that's what the 100+ year olds are doing , it could start at 90 though .


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18 Apr 2018, 8:57 pm

You come here expecting to see some one a "little bit like you "and realise that's not the case except with the odd exception , one or two I can relate to here .


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18 Apr 2018, 9:00 pm

...you have to literally sit on your hands to keep from stimming with them.

...you have to have your feet in a very particular position at night or you'll stim with them, and either the motion or the effort to keep from doing it will keep you from sleeping.


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18 Apr 2018, 9:33 pm

Not sure what to make of this but seems pretty autistic to me.

I will often take an object I can see in the foreground, squint one eye and align it visually to a predetermined object in the background, I will do whatever it takes short of getting up and moving around to make it happen, once successfully aligned visually I feel really happy about it all.



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19 Apr 2018, 1:19 am

When you get a new boss and you're all happy and excited because she's saying all these positive things and you think that life is going to get better.... and then you hear your colleagues talking about her in a very negative and pessimistic way, which makes you very uncomfortable, and you don't know how to respond to them, and you're left all confused.

I hate the way some NTs gossip and mistrust people.


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19 Apr 2018, 9:06 am

When your favorite special interest web site (in my case, a cat related site) no longer exists, you feel sad.



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19 Apr 2018, 9:27 pm

You died tomorrow and you wouldn't care .


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21 Apr 2018, 2:15 pm

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This was probably mentioned already: forgetting to give background/subject information at the beginning of a sentence...then the listener asks, "Who or what are you talking about?"


I do this all the time. I'll be thinking about something and then start talking about it (half-way through my thought) and forget that the person I'm talking to doesn't have access to my thoughts :oops: