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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Autistic brains 'never daydream' |
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Posted: 19 May 2006, 9:24 pm
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Replies: 118
Views: 18,133
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| Did the researchers say that Auties "never daydream", or was that the simplistic hook given to it by a reporter or PR agent to make a somewhat lame press release from Expert Researcher X appear more sensational? "Such findings will add to our understanding of this spectrum of conditions and it is ho... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Morgellons: infection favoring autistics? |
| LowShoe |
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Posted: 19 May 2006, 8:42 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,418
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| The symptoms and cause of this desease emerging in south Texas, California and Florida are unusual and unexamined enough that some patients say their doctors have refused to acknowlege it as a disease. The shared and agonizing symptoms, however, of hundreds of people diagnosed with Morgellon's desea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Alien Visitors + Aspies/Autistics=? |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2006, 12:41 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,863
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| They'd realize their attempt at genetically reforming the species is still dreadfully incomplete. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why I hate being an aspie |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2006, 4:12 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,952
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I wrote: Pretty sure that my comparative usefulness to the company will be apparent once the boss gets my incident report.
Update... it was. Points for function over form.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why I hate being an aspie |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2006, 2:53 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,952
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| It may be difficult for you to believe that proper social environment is a serious pre-requiste for a good job. Serious like no threat of being robbed while working, but that is just because the vast majority of people are not aspergers and don't have that problem. For us, that is a valid and impor... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: can anybody else use your appliances & fixtures? |
| LowShoe |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2006, 11:32 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,359
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| I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned thier computer configuration yet... My workplace database setup (and the security schema protecting it) is byzantine enough that if anything of unforseen finality happened to me, I'm afraid they'd have to start over using just a spreadsheet. But they're not i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Woman reports ~300 handicaped parking violators |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 1:43 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,816
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| I once had a gag sticker that resembled a handicap sticker, but instead of a wheelchair it showed a straitjacket. For that, I should have gotten my own lane. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think the end of the world is coming? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 1:06 am
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Replies: 43
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| [note: /. blurb references a Wired.com article: RFID: Sign of the (End) Times? ] My opinion is that most end-of-world fears are projections of people who fear for their own view of reality being threatened. Fears of thier own personal "world" ending are transferred to thoughts of the actual world be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wedding |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2006, 3:53 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,588
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| If the wedding is being recorded, which many are, I could understand their not wanting the audio being dominated for posterity by a screeching munchkin. The video might get watched only once or twice later (cheesus h. frog I can't understand why though), but it is a once (hopefully) in a lifetime ev... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Cyber-Snooping by Schools and other Bodies? Privacy issue? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2006, 3:39 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,254
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| Both the safety issue expressed by the school, and the response by MySpace, represent what I see as being foremost a liability issue. Problem is, for both the school and MySpace, if someone acted with violence after reading the posts, the school & site might (according to applicable laws) be sued fo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What star sign are you???? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2006, 2:47 am
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Replies: 111
Views: 10,186
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| Sun conjunct Venus in Capricorn (intercepted) in the first house. This of course makes Sagittarius my ascendant. Moon conjunct the ascendant in Sag. in the twelfth house. Iterestingly, I've been pegged as a Sag. more than once by people who like to try guessing others' signs (the ascendant being sup... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Ceiling Fans |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 2:15 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,061
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| I like to watch them. I try to move my eyes fast enough to watch one blade at a time on high speed. LOL I HATE sleeping with one turned on, though. The noise and the "breeze" drive me batty. That is a fun kind of stim. On a slower speed I try to spin in the chair and match the rotation with my eyes... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you visualize how your brain works? probably long. |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 2:02 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,290
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| I'd only visualized my mind-mechanics when trying once to understand why socializing was difficult for me compared to others. Imagine a circular thing... a wheel or cylinder, and from the entire perimeter extends many filaments or wires - a central core with peripheral filaments, and all the filamen... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Woman reports ~300 handicaped parking violators |
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Posted: 02 Mar 2006, 1:52 pm
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Replies: 5
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| .... The 53-year-old woman has reported nearly 300 motorists for illegally parking in handicapped spots by using her tiny camera to take pictures. [New Jersey] law requires police and prosecutors to take the people Cottrell reports to court. .... http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat//articles/0227parki... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Where does my money go? |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2006, 9:34 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,961
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| I'd like to donate to public radio, listener-supported web radio, and some charitable individuals who have been (perhaps literally) life-savers for me. And then there are student loans to consider. 8O 8O 8O I firmly believe some serious good Karma points accrue to those who open up communication ave... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I want more publicity 2: The sequel |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2006, 9:22 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,026
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| Popular music is now so production-intensive that producers & DJs often gain celebrity or near-celebrity status. Just running a soundboard would be a kick for me. |
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