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03 Feb 2020, 5:38 pm

I have heard that if you have autism quite often you ‘fight against/fight yourself’

What does that phrase mean exactly?

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03 Feb 2020, 6:17 pm

It means you are your own worst enemy.

It means you look in the mirror, and see a worst aspect of yourself than what actually exists.

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03 Feb 2020, 6:32 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

It means you are your own worst enemy.

It means you look in the mirror, and see a worst aspect of yourself than what actually exists.

Wow you changed your profile pic

You remind me a bit of robin williams

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03 Feb 2020, 6:37 pm

I've been told that many times, actually LOL

I only wish I had a tenth of his comedic cleverness.

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03 Feb 2020, 6:52 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I've been told that many times, actually LOL

I only wish I had a tenth of his comedic cleverness.

Robin Williams might have been on the spectrum?

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03 Feb 2020, 6:55 pm

It's possible.....but he never mentioned it.

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03 Feb 2020, 8:17 pm

Jamesy wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

It means you are your own worst enemy.

It means you look in the mirror, and see a worst aspect of yourself than what actually exists.

Wow you changed your profile pic

You remind me a bit of robin williams

Is that you?

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04 Feb 2020, 8:52 pm

Yep. It's me. The picture was taken on February 3rd, 2020.

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04 Feb 2020, 9:02 pm

a lot of us aspies tend to second-guess ourselves an awful lot. we can't seem to "go with the flow" and "be natural." or at least the NT type of "natural." a lot of us get lost in the forest of our minds, or can't see the forest for the trees, stuck in details and ignoring the gestalt.

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04 Feb 2020, 9:08 pm

Yep.....in my poetry, I tend to lose track of the path which would prevent me from getting lost.

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04 Feb 2020, 9:17 pm

^^^y'know, that reminds me of the old saying, "there's a time for proust, and a time to skip it."

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04 Feb 2020, 9:19 pm

I would like to read Proust sometime---but he's just too "confining" for me.

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04 Feb 2020, 9:20 pm

^^^can you tell me how he is "too confining" for you?

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04 Feb 2020, 9:26 pm

When I've tried to read him in the past, I felt like the walls were closing in around me.

Maybe I'll try again, and I'll be less claustrophobic.

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04 Feb 2020, 9:32 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

When I've tried to read him in the past, I felt like the walls were closing in around me.
Maybe I'll try again, and I'll be less claustrophobic.

that reminds me of what the late semanticist and senator s.i. hayakawa said about reading many tomes in his opinion, [paraphrasing] he said that it was just "great words reverberating and circling around in his head, with no palpable meaning found." another poet named adrian mitchell said it better, [paraphrasing again] when he said that "most people don't get most poetry, because most poetry doesn't get most people."

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04 Feb 2020, 9:38 pm

"Words are dull servants, saying more and less than we feel."

Al Purdy, Canadian poet

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