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11 Mar 2010, 11:04 am

no, not even nt's can be cool. infact there are only 2 cool things in the world: komodo dragons and nate dogg 8)


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12 Mar 2010, 8:13 pm

I think Aspies are super cool 8)



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12 Mar 2010, 9:55 pm

b9 wrote:
i will be cool when i have been dead for 12 hours


:lol: My kind of humour.

I am super freaking cool, but no one cares.


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28 Mar 2010, 1:19 pm

Yesterday I was told I was super duper cool, which I thought was really funny 8)



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16 Apr 2010, 11:59 am

There's no right or wrong answer of how to be cool. Coolness comes naturally. And Aspies are very cool indeed. They are abled-bodied, independent, look no differently to anyone else, and aren't stupid - can read and write and count. So Aspies aren't as ''different'' as NTs say.

In fact, Aspies are NTs. They are normal. They just find a few things difficult, that's all. But doesn't anyone?



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16 Apr 2010, 12:40 pm

Coolness is not so much an aspect of how you feel about yourself but rather how others perceive you. As such, Aspies ARE deficient because of their inability to read and send the right social cues intuitively.



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16 Apr 2010, 1:24 pm

Yes, they can be absolutely awesome at World of Warcraft. :roll:


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16 Apr 2010, 3:00 pm

how can you be aspergers? You can have it but not be it.


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18 Apr 2010, 12:12 am

Yupa wrote:
Discuss.


Of course you can. Asperger's is only a label and does not define me.


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18 Apr 2010, 4:08 am

JazzofLife wrote:
Asperger's is only a label and does not define me.


It may not define you as an individual but it does determine many of your personality and behavioral traits.



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18 Apr 2010, 5:27 am

I'd rather be dead than cool.



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18 Apr 2010, 6:35 am

Salonfilosoof wrote:
JazzofLife wrote:
Asperger's is only a label and does not define me.


It may not define you as an individual but it does determine many of your personality and behavioral traits.


Right on - I knew that :D


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18 Apr 2010, 8:03 am

MrDiamondMind wrote:
I'd rather be dead than cool.

you would become cool if you died



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19 Apr 2010, 12:21 am

I think that I'm a pretty cool person, just by being myself. No frills - no gimmicks. 8)


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21 Apr 2010, 3:31 pm

You definitely can; I've managed it pretty well. Last Friday I passed by one of our starting offensive linemen in the management building, and to my surprise he stuck out his hand and said "what's up, man?" The last time I had hung out with him was a year and a half ago, and apparently I made enough of an impression for him to remember me and want to talk to me.

He and I and the other people in the room were all taking shots, and I found a bag of fun-sized Twix bars. I absent-mindedly started eating them, and I got through eighteen before anyone (including myself) noticed. He thought this was hilarious, and he was pretty impressed that I could handle as many shots as I did (not that many, he just had low expectations).

This guy is 6'6 and 300 pounds of muscle, so it makes me feel awesome just to have him know me.


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