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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Adults with AS, how do you find eye-contact? |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2010, 7:04 pm
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| I wasn't diagnosed as AS until I was 75. So earlier, the eye contact was a bother and I didn't know why. But several folks warned me that i had to look authority figures, potential employers, anybody in that kind of realm, in the eye or they would think that I was dishonest. So I forced myself. But ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Disability benefits for aspergers? |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 7:10 pm
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Replies: 82
Views: 59,013
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| Strongly encourage anybody in the US who has problems of any kind other than criminal to contact their Congressman. He/she has experts on staff who understand the mechanics of government agencies. Probably 95% of a Congressional office is devoted to helping constituents, regardless of voting records... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why are Scientologists advertising their anti-psych here? |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 6:38 pm
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Replies: 16
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| Easiest way out with any ad on a page; Punch this into your computer and connect to "Readability" in either the bookmarks bar or Favorites javascript:(function(){readStyle='style-newspaper';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_readabili... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Your favorite text editor? |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2009, 6:52 pm
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Replies: 29
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| I bought a manual typewriter, Brother, from Amazon to do envelopes which I have problems doing on the printer. But then, well, one gets spoiled by all the xtras on Word, etc. So, since I am on Mac, I write in "Pages", part of the iWork offering. Before, I used AppleWorks but it doesn't run, I think,... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Got Anything Random To Say |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 2:33 pm
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| Just joined "Snooth", wine forum, owners trying to get something going, profitwise, all contributions info free. They have millions of wine reviews and the interesting part is about collecting, think before you sell part of your collection, you may want to drink it instead and don't buy anybody's co... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: ICE!! At Last! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2009, 7:07 pm
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| Three years ago, while my wife was still alive, we noticed the living room carpet was full of water. The house on a slab and two slab leaks already in 7 years, naturally we assumed another right over the water line under the slab. So we cut up the carpet, new carpet, and discovered the water was act... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post a random truth about your family besides parents. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 4:54 pm
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Replies: 409
Views: 47,854
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post a random truth about your family besides parents. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 4:52 pm
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post a random truth about your family besides parents. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 4:46 pm
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| One of my grandfathers was a draft dodger (from the Prussians in Germany) jumped ship off Nova Scotia (working as an impoverished fisherman) sneaked into the US at Erie PA without papers and, years later, was beaten by a drunken, enraged mob over WWI, even as my dad, his son, was fighting in France ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: How can I buy "Carbon Footprint Credits"? |
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Posted: 09 Jul 2009, 6:32 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Al Gore's 58 room mansion burns lights 24/7 year round but he says he buys carbon footprint credits so he isn't actually damaging the planet at all (He earns 10 mil/year hectoring the poorer to do without instead of that) Anyway, he says that Chrysler's SRT-10 -Viper- is the dirtiest car in AMerica ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Post your computer Specs |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 12:16 pm
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Replies: 61
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| I have the "new: iMac, 24 inch specs are: Model Name: iMac 24 inch Model Identifier: iMac8,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz HD is 500 GB, hate the inbuilt audio but use headph... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Special agent? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2008, 6:58 pm
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Replies: 4
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| In the US, the title Special Agent does not imply undercover. Within the United States, the title of Special Agent is used to describe any federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective in the 1811, 1801, 2501 or similar job series as so titled according to the Office of Personnel Manag... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Maybe the oldest guy here |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2008, 6:43 pm
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| All private education, Catholic thru Secondary, Methodist thru Masters, a lot of other accounting/law courses. 23 years Military, Air force ROTC, USN in Korean/VN war, Cold war with everybody, Army NG, Army Reserve. 22 years with the Federal Government, some overlapped with the military, used the mi... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: awnsers to any plane question! |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2008, 9:06 pm
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Replies: 10
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| It's lift that keeps aircraft up and reverse lift that allows them to fly upside down. Gliders don't even have engines and stay up for hours depending on skill of the pilot. OTOH, lack of lift, natural lift, can be compensated by velocity of the aircraft, whence the space shuttle. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new and just found out for sure I'm an aspie |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2008, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 14
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| If a person is young, then the tests are useful. But if a person is old, literally, then the tests aren't particularly useful because compensation in living in somebody else's world has become ingrained. IMHO, takes an expert to ascertain where the real person is hiding. Plus, I might lie on a test,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How common is Asperger's? |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2008, 8:31 pm
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Replies: 34
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| I post a lot on another very closed MB. There is one other AS there besides me, the other non AS knows about him/her but I don't know who it is. There are 162 posters on that board but only about 25 active ones. Everybody is well into adulthood and most of us have posted together for at least 8 year... |
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