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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: word association game |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2008, 12:11 am
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Replies: 77,862
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2008, 12:09 am
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Replies: 58,076
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Controversy Over New 'Conscience' Rule (for health services) |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 24 Dec 2008, 11:31 pm
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Replies: 105
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| "Transgender community I would find surprising as well ... if the person is seeing a gender specialist I have a hard time imagining them objecting to gender therapies" Well no, not really. The sheer fact we exist tends to put people off their work and make excuses for why they can't treat us for eve... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Controversy Over New 'Conscience' Rule (for health services) |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 24 Dec 2008, 10:42 pm
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| Also, you've forgotten you need a script for birth control. You can't order it via mail if you've no script. and not everyone has paypal, either. And let's talk about insurance, you think everyone's paying for it out of pocket? Insurance companies fight tooth and nail to - avoid - paying for things,... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Controversy Over New 'Conscience' Rule (for health services) |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 24 Dec 2008, 10:31 pm
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| That would actually NOT be imposing their religion on everyone they serve, because the individual customer can simply choose to give their business to a different pharmacy Pardon, but yes they are. If someone is supposed to serve me goods or services in exchange for cash or credit at their job, - f... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Controversy Over New 'Conscience' Rule (for health services) |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 24 Dec 2008, 10:00 pm
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Replies: 105
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| "Well only one in 600 people even receive electroconvulsive therapy and even those are both anesthetized and usually with consent. In the US specifically in order to perform ECT without consent, it has to be considered life-saving (a catatonic person who's not eating) and even then requires a judici... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 5:49 pm
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Botti wrote: ululate
Terrific |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Word From Wasilla (letter from Palin critic) |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2008, 8:03 pm
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Rjaye wrote: I was hoping when I heard McCain had chosen Palin as his running mate that it was Michael Palin. It would've raised my respect for the man immensely. Then I remembered Michael is British. 
You might enjoy this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1y9s73Nos |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 1:27 am
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Replies: 58,076
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have Savant-like Abilities? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 1:11 am
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Replies: 53
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| Statistically, 48% of the people here cannot possibly have savant abilities. So... maybe the poll should be "do you have an inflated sense of self?" Maybe you need to inflate yourself a bit. Go on. Have a go :D At any rate, splinter skills are considered a kind of savant ability. What constitutes a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have Savant-like Abilities? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 12:25 am
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Replies: 53
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| :D "Savant syndrome is exceedingly rare, but a remarkable condition in which persons with autism, or other serious mental handicaps, or major mental illness, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand out in stark contrast to their overall disability. The condition can be congenit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have Savant-like Abilities? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008, 12:01 am
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Replies: 53
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| I'm curious (from the link between asperger's and genius thread) how many people feel they have savant-like abilities... Not only if they feel they have them, but what they are. Just call me curious.. I've always been rather inquisitive!" I can draw (correctly) whatever I see. My grandparents have ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Tinted lenses? |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 11:34 am
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Replies: 16
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| I've the change-to-darker-tint-in-sunlight lenses (misremember what they're called) because of light problems. The lens change didn't fix the problem, but then I also went to a discount eyeglass store and the information the woman who owned the place gave me turned out to be false after I researched... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Any of yall had speech class while in school? |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 7:08 pm
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Replies: 28
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| I was in a class that I'd previously thought was for speech therapy, since I had a bit of trouble pronunciation wise with j's and z's among other things, but when I went to check my records the secretary said I wasn't listed for that, and that the records were too old to be checked farther. As I don... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self Diagnosing |
| LemonDemon |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 4:15 pm
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Replies: 91
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| And therein lies the rub... by the time you're my age, if you still haven't gone for the Dx, you'll discover that people just think you are eccentric. People's actions towards someone while they presume eccentricity are often better than people presuming various mental disorders / mental difference... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self Diagnosing |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 4:01 pm
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Replies: 91
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| for those of you who self diagnosed, how did you do this? just curious. I compiled a list of factual information, symptoms and anecdotes from family and myself, then compared it with the possible list of diagnoses that multiple therapists and two or three psychologists (they all stuck their opinion... |
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