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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: white noise generators |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2008, 3:17 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 6,605
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| The reason this disturbs some of us (myself included) is because cheap white noise generators don't actually play white noise; they play a short, looped recording of white noise. Those of us with enhanced pattern detection pick up on the loop very quickly, and then it becomes repetitive and irritati... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Yet another question for you peoples! |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 09 May 2008, 2:10 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,227
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| I get this, though not as badly as I used to. Used to be that crowds felt like a constantly inward pressure on my skull. Gave me migraines, visual phosphenes, and eventually would make me puke. As I got older the symptoms got less severe, so essentially I sort of lose energy in the presence of a cro... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Blowing lightbulbs |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 01 May 2008, 3:24 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,164
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Paperplate wrote: What a silly article
Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Blowing lightbulbs |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 2:59 pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,164
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: Getting sick of the bigots and trolls on WP |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 12:52 pm
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Replies: 147
Views: 26,653
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Instead of making vague and nebulous allegations regarding the offensive people, why not do the sensible thing and name some names? The people offending you may not even be aware of doing so.
How are they going to change their behavior if you don't tell them what you think they're doing wrong? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Super Important Revelation Regarding the Nature of WP.net |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 12:49 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,237
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| A total lack of empathy is a diagnostic criterion for antisocial personality disorder (the most recent euphemism for psychopaths and sociopaths). APD is devastating and dangerous to the individual and everyone around them. It's also almost totally untreatable. That's not an image that aspies/autisti... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sigh, I wonder what it's like to be "cured" |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 7:18 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,336
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| I'm worried aboput what would happen if I'm 28. Would I ever get a good job? Would I ever get married or live in a decent house? Would I be capable of paying my own bills? I heard AS people are easier targets for scams, especially used car scams. They are 6 more likely to be robbed, traumatized or ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: NATURAL ENEMIES |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2008, 8:49 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,662
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Republicans and Honesty
Democrats and Spines
Politics and Science
Fundamentalism and Reason
Extremism and Peace |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your talent? |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2008, 11:17 pm
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Replies: 78
Views: 6,306
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| Computers. Anything and everything to do with them. Hardware, software, doesn't matter. In particular, making them work better. I can pick up a programming language I've never seen before well enough to modify it successfully in under an hour, and have done so many times. I can sit down in front of ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Facial recognition test (famous faces version) |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2008, 1:21 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,814
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Out of 30 faces, you correctly identified 12.
You were familiar with 26 of the people in this test.
If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 46% correct.
Doesn't surprise me in the least. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 'How are you?' |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2008, 11:01 am
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Replies: 63
Views: 4,931
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| I can't ask it back because I just can't get through the ritual right. I'm bad at the "good morning" thing too. There for a while I was trying to say it to a hand full of people when I first got in, but they've redone the office to where it's not as open, and I'm not sure if it's expected/wanted an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Difficulty recognising faces |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2008, 10:58 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,739
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| I can never be sure. Especially if I see someone outside the area I normally see them. I used to do on-site computer work. It was great, because I knew everyone at every place, and remembering who was whom wasn't hard. But sometimes a client would drop by the shop to pay a bill or buy something. Whe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Compact flourescent lights |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 12:52 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,371
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| While the bulbs do contain mercury, look at it this way. Even if you broke every single CFL bulb you owned at the end of its lifespan and released that mercury, you'd still be putting less mercury into the environment than if you use oldstyle incandescent lights. Reason being, the energy saving mean... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Compact flourescent lights |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 12:23 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,371
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| I can usually tell when a room is lit with CFLs, but it doesn't bother me. Some of them put out very natural-looking light, too. Oddly, I generally have better luck with "store brands" than with big name brands like GE. Most of the bulbs in my house are CFLs. Putting the bluer "daylight" ones in the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What makes NT's so "normal"? |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,454
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| "The majority is always sane." -- Nessus, in Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'. There's some truth in that statement. The majority always defines what is "normal", therefore "normal" is whatever the majority thinks is normal. So normality a sort of consensus. Anything outside of it becomes abnormal simply b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone else have this problem? (All eyes on you) |
| Gabbaruchi |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 11:49 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,707
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| I get this all the time as well, even in places that I'm pretty sure are deserted. Part of it is because I tend to watch people, myself, so I assume everyone else watches me back. But the rest is good old-fashioned social anxiety , which responded to Lexapro. Once I learned what it was, though, it w... |
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