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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Socially appropriate things to say when meeting a new group |
| oddbod |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008, 8:23 pm
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Magliabechi wrote: Almost all sane decent people, will object to that
I guess that makes me neither sane nor decent. That makes me sad. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: e-Friends |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008, 8:13 pm
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| I've found there are people I can speak to online who I can speak to in real life and ones I can't. I've also found out there are people I speak to in real life who I can speak to online and ones I can't. I guess some types of friendships work better in different environments. Sometimes it's worth t... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I Hate My Roommates |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008, 8:06 pm
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| I'm a disaster with housemates so I share your pain, don't think you're alone, plenty of times my housemates have . I live in a 5 bed house at the moment and it drives me crazy, got a couple of stories though. One of my current housemates (also a mike as it turns out) recently moved out. Sort of. A ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Forward that made me weep |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008, 7:26 pm
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| If you think that's depressing, I once accidently said something quite rude beginning and ending in f a little too loudly during a university electronics lecture when we were asked to take out our calculators so we could multiply 32 by 4. It was an undergraduate degree module in electronics! I still... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Socially appropriate things to say when meeting a new group |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008, 7:13 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Hi, I've recently landed myself in trouble saying the wrong thing (again). I didn't realise I was saying the wrong thing until the whole table pretty much deserted me. Anyways, I was amongst a group of people that I'd never met, with a couple of people I vaguely recognised and one person I do know. ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Anyone from the UK? |
| oddbod |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2008, 8:31 pm
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Replies: 73
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| Cambridge here, although originally from Shrewsbury. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Linux? |
| oddbod |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2008, 11:14 pm
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| I think one thing, being predominently a windows user, is picking the distro which is best for your hardware if you're a beginner. I've tried playing around with slackware, gentoo, arch, debian etc. and always got to a point where I've got several things still to configure, like a webcam or a blueto... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspie traits that aren't diagnostic criteria |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2008, 10:44 pm
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| So here are my answers, as someone not in the autistic spectrum disorders, I seem to be able to tick many of these off as part of me, which is probably why they aren't used as diagnostic criteria. - Anxiety - Y - Clumsiness - Y - Talking a lot/talking very little - Y - Talking fast/ loudly - N - Nai... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi, NT here I guess |
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Posted: 14 Dec 2008, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 18
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hey everyone, cheers for the friendly welcome  |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi, NT here I guess |
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Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 8:18 pm
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| Hi, I'm an NT I reckon, just bad with people, so I don't know how welcome I am here, but I thought I'd join as I a book I was reading "Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome" provided me with some knowledge that has helped me in life recently and so I thought maybe this place mig... |
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