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Do you jump when your phone beeps?
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30 Jun 2014, 12:15 pm

I don't usually go in for huffpo URLs but this is beautifully written and applicable to all our lives. Autistic or not, everyone must realize we are not machines and we must learn to coexist with ever more technology; for half a decade that's been my career, blood sweat & tears yes, regrets, no.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-ma ... 24798.html


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30 Jun 2014, 12:39 pm

This is an absolutely wonderful article. Thank you for sharing.


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30 Jun 2014, 1:26 pm

Of course! I couldn't keep away.


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30 Jun 2014, 1:34 pm

Wow, what a magnificent story.


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30 Jun 2014, 2:14 pm

thanks for this. if only i could live my life like that, been pretty stressed currently...
i like stories like these, stories of parents learning lessons from their children.


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30 Jun 2014, 2:48 pm

Kiprobalhato wrote:
thanks for this. if only i could live my life like that, been pretty stressed currently...
i like stories like these, stories of parents learning lessons from their children.


I parent my parents all the time. Right now one of them owes me a whole car and the other owes me the rights to report my mom joyriding said car. She crashed the one before, scapegoated me, melted the clutch of the next car (same make/model) and I shall either sue her boozehound boyfriend, lose my business or beg. As if driving my car into a flood made for safe rental material...

edit: What language is your user name based in? Reads like Portuguese to me...


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