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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Other Neurodiverse-- an untapped resource |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 22 May 2010, 12:46 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,938
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| I do think there has to be more to changing people's attitudes than changing the terms we use to describe autism, though. Once upon a time, "ret*d" was a polite euphemism, but because people's attitudes towards mental retardation never changed, it became a playground insult, just like whatever prec... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 1:11 am
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Replies: 4,902
Views: 471,902
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| An Introduction to Anthropology 2nd Edition by Ralph L. Beals and Harry Hoijer It is terribly out of date (it was published before the discovery of radio-carbon dating for crying out loud) but nonetheless is very interesting as it let's me compare how our knowledge of anthropology has changed over t... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Accidental Friends |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2010, 2:22 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,026
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| So, I know that autistics are not usually good at making friends. I know that I personally am not. But I have gotten pretty lucky by obtaining friends by accident. For instance, in kindergarten, I got a friend because I was sitting in the corner of the playground reciting my favorite book to myself ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: why do people smile at me? |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2010, 1:35 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 23,708
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Tweex wrote: soaring wrote: Tweex wrote: If you don't give a smile back, people will think you are annoyed with them. So I shouldn't smile at them?  Wrong, you SHOULD smile back at them! 
But their seemingly out of place smiling does annoy me.  |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Stupid work rules |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2010, 1:58 am
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Replies: 5
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| I work at a supermarket. One of my jobs is a lot person, where I go out and collect carts the people leave behind after they're done shopping. One of the rules of the company is that I can't push more then 5 carts at a time (this is to prevent back injury or something). This is fine when you have 2... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: What is your stim? |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 12:02 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 9,162
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| I play with my juggling sticks when i have them on me. It's a pretty awesome way to stim and it has even gotten me some money (from tips on the street) in the past. When I don't have my sticks I will generally fiddle with things. I flip a silver dollar around and around in my hand, I twiddle my poin... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you ever talk to yourself? |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2010, 10:33 am
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Replies: 76
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| All the time, but I try to cut back when there are people nearby. Not that I care if they think I'm crazy, it's just that it is slightly easier than having to tell them "No, I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to myself." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Food textures |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 11:35 pm
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Replies: 85
Views: 12,789
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| When I was a kid, I couldn't stand the texture of any sort of pasta. I would literally gag on it. I eventually became able to tolerate it but I still don't like it and will only eat it if I really have to. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did you find "The Invention of Lying" funny? |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 11:32 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I just saw this movie-film last week, I really enjoyed it. Real top notch humour there, but also very unusual and creative. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last thing you bought? |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 11:06 pm
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Replies: 122
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| I bought a trick-kite with the jolly roger on it. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What smells do YOU LIKE? |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 11:03 pm
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Replies: 142
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1. old books
2. new books
3. the ocean |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Suggested/Not suggested Jobs for Aspergers. |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 93
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| I work as a grocery bagger. I would not reccomend it. As a matter of fact, jobs where you have to interract with a large ammount of people would probably be a bad fit. I only keep from getting fired probably because I work on weekends and can recover over the week. I'm thinking of transfering to nig... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: symptoms of asperger syndrome really defined |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2010, 12:20 am
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Replies: 166
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| Here you go all compiled in a nice enumerated list for you! the physical manifestations of asperger syndrome 1- strong sensory sensetivities: touch and tactile sensations, sounds, lighting and colors, odors, and taste......symptom mild to moderate 2-nail biting...symptom moderate to severe 3-unusual... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Lets count in binary |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 2:28 am
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Replies: 249
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1001101011
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Take the derivative of the previous post |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 2:18 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 878
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RockDrummer616 wrote: d/dx(2cos(x^2)-4(x^2)sin(x^2))= -4x(sin(x^2))-8x(sin(x^2))-8(x^3)(cos(x^2))
Did I do that right?
yep
d/dx(-4x(sin(x^2))-8x(sin(x^2))-8(x^3)(cos(x^2))
=-4sin(x^2)-8(x^2)cos(x^2)-8sin(x^2)-16(x^2)(cos(x^2))-24(x^2)(cos(x^2))+16(x^4)(sin(x^2))
=-12sin(x^2)-48(x^2)cos(x^2)+16(x^4)sin(x^2) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: one way to tell if you have autism or not. |
| smischmal |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2010, 3:29 pm
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Replies: 58
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| I don't have any videos but stories told by elders work just as well I think. btw, could someone help me pull an old thread i made about 5 months ago or so...i am not computer literate and cant seem to pull an old post...it is titled,"symptoms of aspergers well defined"...i have been away for awhile... |
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