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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Smoking Cool? |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2008, 7:35 pm
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| Just to drive home my point about expenses: back-of-the-envelope calculation is that I may have spent about 7500 euros on cigarettes so far. Lot of things one can do with 7500 euros. And provided I live for another forty years or so and cigarettes remain the same price (hah!), and I don't quit, ther... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is Smoking Cool? |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2008, 7:22 pm
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| I've been a smoker for about ten years or so now. Sure, I can stop any time I want. For about twenty hours, maximum, that is :wink: Is smoking "cool"? Among smokers, it is, to an extent - forced out of the pub to smoke outside in the drizzling rain is a kind of social bonding occasion. Is that worth... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fixations about imaginary worlds |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2008, 10:31 pm
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Replies: 70
Views: 7,367
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| I've usually built pretty elaborate fantasy worlds in my head - starting when I was a child and one of my favourite activities was drawing maps of imaginary islands and countries. I've been sticking to a pretty consistent imaginary world since I was fifteen or so. At first, it was populated with peo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone have thyroid problems? |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2007, 9:30 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,565
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| Ah, now I get it. Thanks. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone have thyroid problems? |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2007, 5:03 pm
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| Those numbers seem a bit high - are you sure it wouldn't be 4.0% for 45-64 year olds? In any event, I have been on medication for hypothyroidism for a little more than two years now. I suspect I've AS. I may have read something somewhere about a relationship sometime - but I'm doubtful. Seeing as bo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How old were you when you first knew your age? |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2006, 1:44 pm
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| 3. Recall quite clearly looking at the ground, taking in the distance, thinking: "I am three years old right now" and trying to get my head around the fact that the distance between me and the ground was set to become only bigger. But somehow it doesn't feel subjectively as if it's bigger. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is this an AS trait |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2006, 11:21 am
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Replies: 21
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| I've been playing with inventing languages to some extent... Not sure if it's an "aspie" trait as such though I could imagine aspies might do it more than others. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stupid, Ignorant explanations of AS on UrbanDictionary.. LOL |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2006, 4:17 pm
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| Quite a depressive bunch of people, aren't they? I mean, what are these absolutely not emo, angst-filled teenagers with surely no social ineptness at all doing inventing definitions on the internet? Shouldn't they be off doing non-loser stuff like playing ice hockey or whatever? *Shrug* I don't need... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: the old empathy question/Baren Cohen |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2006, 8:05 am
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Replies: 37
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| I've been worrying lately about being emotionally 'flat' - particularly because most of my 'deep' emotions used to result from more-or-less obsessive crushes in my teens and early twenties, and those are going out (fortunately so, perhaps). Like Fresco, in times of crisis, regardless of whether this... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you tell whether a Member is an Aspie, or not? |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 6:50 pm
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Replies: 93
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| *nods* It's difficult to determine whether, well, whatever I would have has a significant impact. It probably has in many ways, otherwise I wouldn't be here - but I am very lucky in having a job and working environment exactly suited to my liking, etc. Also, I was a lot "odder" when I was a kid, bef... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Do you get scared at airports? |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 6:42 pm
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Replies: 13
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| I know the missing-plane anxiety - I tend to be very early for any flight (making sure there's "spare trains" in case I miss any one, etc.). Usually have direct flights though... When I do have a connecting flight, I tend to ask the first blue uniform I see where I have to be, get there, and usually... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Going Off to College |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 6:33 pm
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| I don't think you should worry about girls in their early twenties finding you too old. A lot of girls I know in that age group have no problem dating guys in their thirties, even. And as you are an Aspie, the kind of girl that would fall for you would be someone wanting to make an effort to know th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you tell whether a Member is an Aspie, or not? |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 7:37 am
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Replies: 93
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| Addendum: I mean whether it is arbitrary where the distinction is drawn, not that it is drawn. I am not sure whether thinking one has/is AS can relate to hypochondria as such. Hypochondria, to me, are "what if" scenarios running wild in the head with the "what if" conveniently left out. On a rationa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you tell whether a Member is an Aspie, or not? |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 7:13 am
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| The reason I decidedly know that it is untrue is that one of my two psychologists specializes in AS. I believe he deals only in AS. He told me just last week that he "often has to explain to people that they don't have AS." He says many people come to him convinced that they have it and want a form... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: the old empathy question/Baren Cohen |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2006, 7:58 pm
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Replies: 37
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| Noting that I am undiagnosed, I guess I agree with SBC - and yet I don't. On the basis of my own experiences, I have difficulty intuitively grasping what other people have on their minds, but I am interested in figuring them out. At the same time, I am comfortable not having to talk myself, and list... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you tell whether a Member is an Aspie, or not? |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2006, 7:49 pm
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Replies: 93
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| I don't know whether I "have" AS - I'm "provisionally" self-diagnosed. I've put my thoughts about it to several people I know: some believe me (notably my father - my mother is more sceptical, but not dismissive of the idea either), some don't. I also am a hypochondriac. I'm well aware of that. Then... |
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