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07 May 2011, 10:43 pm

renaissance faires and anime conventions :wink:

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07 May 2011, 10:52 pm

Behinds the scenes at Planetariums can be quite full of 'non-traditional' people

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07 May 2011, 10:54 pm

Wow, behind the scenes at planetariums? Care to elaborate? Thanks!

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07 May 2011, 10:58 pm

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Portland, Oregon.

Our motto"Keep Portland weird."

Oh and drama.

I liked the show Portlandia on IFC.

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07 May 2011, 11:41 pm

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Lol nice. But isn't most drama - drama about neurotypicals? Has there ever been drama about a super-weird kid with both Asperger's and ADD?

Drama can happen anywhere to anyone.

Drama=acting=movies or plays.

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07 May 2011, 11:49 pm

League_Girl wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

simfish wrote:

Lol nice. But isn't most drama - drama about neurotypicals? Has there ever been drama about a super-weird kid with both Asperger's and ADD?

Drama can happen anywhere to anyone.

Drama=acting=movies or plays.

Oh, right. My brain was stuck in "drama = pointless conflict"

I actually lived in Portland several years ago. Kind of miss it. I'd definitely recommend living there if one can afford to.

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08 May 2011, 12:35 am

two words: art school.

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08 May 2011, 1:21 am

Whata about Silicon Valley?

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08 May 2011, 1:25 am

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Whata about Silicon Valley?

I'm sincerely hoping that Silicon Valley or some clone lays in my future. I don't really know how realistic that hope is, but I can always dream...

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08 May 2011, 1:35 am

Verdandi wrote:

League_Girl wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

simfish wrote:

Lol nice. But isn't most drama - drama about neurotypicals? Has there ever been drama about a super-weird kid with both Asperger's and ADD?

Drama can happen anywhere to anyone.

Drama=acting=movies or plays.

Oh, right. My brain was stuck in "drama = pointless conflict"

I actually lived in Portland several years ago. Kind of miss it. I'd definitely recommend living there if one can afford to.

It's a fortunate I found a place where rent is cheap for a two bedroom in a nice area. But our landlord was told she is charging too little but she told the guy she owns the place and doesn't even have to make payments on it anymore and she wants to keep her tenants so she charges it that low and it's how she gets them too. But I wish I could get a bigger place or even a house if they were cheap.

Yeah drama can also mean conflict or fighting but drama can also mean plays you know acting.

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08 May 2011, 1:37 am

swbluto wrote:

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Portland, Oregon.

Our motto"Keep Portland weird."

And homeless!

What do you mean there? That we accept the homeless or that we cause people to be homeless or that we have a bunch of them?

I don't see many here and plus all cities have them and just because someone is homeless doesn't mean they are. People fake it all the time to get money for drugs.

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08 May 2011, 1:48 am

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Sounds like you're really fortunate!

I had a couple of inexpensive places to live from 2002-2005, but I had housemates in order to make that possible.

And yeah, I was just explaining where my brain was stuck when I made my earlier statement. I forgot to mention I was a drama major in college.

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08 May 2011, 1:51 am

League_Girl wrote:

swbluto wrote:

League_Girl wrote:

Portland, Oregon.

Our motto"Keep Portland weird."

And homeless!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5162711n

I read at one time that the homeless rate was the highest in Portland of all the cities in the US. That makes sense considering the "smart zoning" laws and the resulting pressure on the real estate prices. And the hippie-influenced drug culture might have something to do with it.

I'm honestly looking at Portland for residence because of its "sustainable growth" model and the fact it's a hub for environmentally conscious and liberal type of attitudes (Whatever attitudes / beliefs associated with "hippies".) plus it's the center of the 'green revolution'.

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08 May 2011, 2:31 am

Geez I need to get out more because I did not know that many were homeless. I think it's the economy and I find it sad how regular people are losing their jobs and can't find a new one.

I do see them in the same spots however but I don't really look for them and my husband started pointing them out to me. Now I see them all the time when we go grocery shopping.

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08 May 2011, 4:34 am

simfish wrote:

Lol nice. But isn't most drama - drama about neurotypicals? Has there ever been drama about a super-weird kid with both Asperger's and ADD?

I think many people here that try to fit in socially do an amazing job of acting >.>

Dustin Hoffman did Rainman, Jeff Goldblum played a character that did seem very "Asperger's-like" in Independence Day.

Don't act to be yourself. Use your skills to act another role but make that role your own. Good actors become the character, they read the character and imagine what they would be, what quirks they would have, then act as if they were that character. This is why so few make it big, a lot try to act the role, instead of become the role and act naturally in it

Also acting isn't about normal life, for the most part. Normal life is boring, acting has people play roles in events larger than life. In theatre especially the roles are exaggerated. Many actors are unusual, eccentric, arrogant, extroverted to the point they are oblivious and uncaring of what other people think of them. Charlie Sheen for example?

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08 May 2011, 5:16 am

1. The academia

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In all seriousness, though, social ettiquette seems to be very important in Japan. So, in spite of there being a lot of weird stuff that comes from Japan (though some of it actually has some interesting reasons), autistics likely would have more trouble fitting in than in other countries. What's interesting is that, it being an entirely different culture with a different language, I seem to be able to follow the social norms I know better when I'm speaking Japanese than when I'm speaking English.

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