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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Are Aspies more likely to have GID? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2011, 12:17 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,011
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| Yeah cause gender is a social construct. No, gender is determined by the presence or absence of a Y chromosome. Gender roles are social constructs. The confusion is between common & academic uses of the words "gender" and "sex". They're commonly used to refer to the same thing. In academic use,... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Transexual/gender - Which Gender To Go By |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2011, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,618
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| I'd be happy to call you Bryce, regardless of your physical state. Everyone's lost in many ways, they just aren't aware of it, as you are. Knowing this gives you an advantage. You do seem to have clarity in listing your options. The next step is just thinking about what would result from each choice... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Seeking tips & coping strategies for better academic suc |
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Posted: 30 May 2010, 9:40 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,932
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| Thanks again, Sparrowrose, you've addressed about all of my questions. You've mentioned "research" several times--am I right to understand that as searching for and reading relevant literature on a topic? I've generally followed the experts' recommendation to do hardest things first, but the advanta... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Seeking tips & coping strategies for better academic suc |
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Posted: 28 May 2010, 8:07 pm
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Replies: 19
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| Interesting. Your work habits must be efficient. Rotation of areas worked on seems to be what I'm most lacking, and thus may gain, from what you've described. Completing short tasks first to allow for "spilling over" at the end of sessions on longer-term work also seems a good idea. Thinking ahead a... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Seeking tips & coping strategies for better academic suc |
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Posted: 28 May 2010, 5:42 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,932
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| Doing a little bit of something every week day keeps everything moving along and keeps me from getting frantic with deadlines or scrabbling to put together something half-acceptable. "a little bit of something every week" would be an improvement, maybe also using checklists on what this should be, ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Seeking tips & coping strategies for better academic suc |
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Posted: 28 May 2010, 4:55 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,932
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| I've used GanttProject (free download at http://www.ganttproject.biz/) -- good simple software for making them, but with limited benefit for me, as I said. Doing a little bit of something every week day keeps everything moving along and keeps me from getting frantic with deadlines or scrabbling to p... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Seeking tips & coping strategies for better academic suc |
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Posted: 28 May 2010, 3:38 am
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Replies: 19
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| Thanks for the suggestions so far. It's very useful to read of the work habits of those who have already been successful, and the things listed which I'm already doing are encouragement that I'm on the right track at least with these things. I keep countdown timers (weeks, days, hours) to my deadlin... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Seeking tips & coping strategies for better academic suc |
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Posted: 27 May 2010, 7:53 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,932
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| I'm at the end of my first semester of a university course, and I've failed to do as well as I know I could. Organization, planning, and being balanced in my use of time to work toward multiple goals are the main problems I've identified. I'm probably doing other things very inefficiently, to make i... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Anyone have exams coming up? Nervous? |
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Posted: 26 May 2010, 8:10 pm
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,778
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| My exams for uni start in about 2 weeks. I'm looking forward to them, although I wish I had more time to prepare. For me, it's a lot simpler to prepare for an exam (by making flashcards (using free software such as Anki), & then using these as regularly & often as possible (the most time-eff... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I've Contacted the Uni's Office of Disability Services |
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Posted: 26 May 2010, 7:14 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,431
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| Pumibel, I'm the same with tree structures (for example, as in TreePad, KeyNoteNF, etc., and dabbling into spreadsheet territory with TreeSheets). I am still trying to improve my organization, adapting to full-time university study. Can you give some examples of column and row categories/titles for ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: When ~special interests~ take over. |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 11:33 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,214
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| ... instead of putting all focus on the things that need to be done... my mind is set to YARN AND KNITTING YARN AND KNITTING YARN AND KNITTING 24/7 >_< It is driving me insane 'cause I just want to read the *&@&#(*@& TEXT in my 'Geographies of Development' textbook... How do you cope...... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Question for anyone into Psychology |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2009, 9:34 pm
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Replies: 8
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| When I was learning Psychology I LOVED it... My mom ... hated me analyzing everything they did. ... Any life tips? IMO mom should support me I AM her daughter and I suppose I could try to change that behavior but any tips TO change the analyzing behavior? ... Some things which seem to me important ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Philosophy subject. |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2009, 12:52 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,455
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| I love philosophy. It's my major in my current BA degree. I understand it can come across as boring, or sometimes seem to be a pointless waste of time. I suppose it depends on how it's looked at & taught. Epistemology is the basis of science, so no less important. I've not done a unit directly o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: offically at war with my diagnosis. |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2009, 9:27 pm
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Replies: 32
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| I've thought the same thing regarding empathy -- I don't eat any animal products to avoid causing/contributing to the suffering of other creatures because (apart from logical moral reasons), the idea of doing so causes the same sorts of emotions, sickness/feelings in my stomach, etc. as described ab... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: You're so quiet... |
| Shiyin |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 5:27 am
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Replies: 33
Views: 11,319
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| There can be innumerable reasons why someone may say such a thing, which may have positive, negative, or a mixed motivation/s. Removed from the situation as we are here, the closest to a correct interpretation I think we can give is speculation on the probability of each of these possibilities. Fact... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hello, self-intro., and why I'm here |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2009, 5:02 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 985
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| Hello, My username is Shiyin, which means "recluse in the marketplace" (according to the book 'Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting' by Yang Xing et al) -- which I've chosen because it seems apt on the web ("marketplace") generally and in our contemporary commercialized society, and because it c... |
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