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03 Aug 2007, 7:56 pm

Twenty years ago the other staff in a place I worked presented me with a badge "Nice guy, wrong planet" so I was delighted to find a place with the same name and populated by other aliens.

Thanks to my wife and my cousin (she is also a very dear friend) I have recently discovered the world of AS. Suddenly everything makes perfect sense, its like the solution to some life-long mystery.

There was nothing like this -"diagnosis", support etc - when I was growing up (44 now), you just had to bite the bullet and make the best of it on your own. My small circle of friends built up over many years are all very odd in different ways, but beyond the group I keep contact to an absolute bare minimum.

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03 Aug 2007, 8:12 pm

Welcome to WP!

Are you a big fan of Dr. Strangelove? It is tied with Full Metal Jacket for my favorite Stanley Kubrick film.

Tim

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03 Aug 2007, 8:12 pm

Wecome to WP, Dr-Strangelove

How strange that you received a badge saying "nice guy, wrong planet". It's almost like they were trying to tell you something subliminaly.

It's a shame that when you were growing up that there wasn't support.

My Great-Grandmother had HFA and didn't know until she was 75, one year before she died :!: In her times there was absolutely no-support at all.
If you had mental illness, you were institutionalised. If you had Autism, you were institutionalised. If you had a physical deformitee of some sort, people thought that it was "the devil" growing from inside of you :!:
In her days, if you didn't fit the "norm", you were labeled insane.

Sorry for my little ramble...

Anyway, I hope you enjoy posting on this site

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03 Aug 2007, 8:16 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

Welcome to WP!

Are you a big fan of Dr. Strangelove? It is tied with Full Metal Jacket for my favorite Stanley Kubrick film.

Tim

Yes, I like Dr S very much and Peter Sellers in general, especially the Goons. Everyone here should be familiar with Being There.
Full Metal Jacket is very funny also. One of the highlights for me is the TV interviews with the squad near the end.

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03 Aug 2007, 8:20 pm

Brittany2907 wrote:

Wecome to WP, Dr-Strangelove

How strange that you received a badge saying "nice guy, wrong planet". It's almost like they were trying to tell you something subliminaly.

It's a shame that when you were growing up that there wasn't support.

My Great-Grandmother had HFA and didn't know until she was 75, one year before she died :!:

In her times there was absolutely no-support at all.
If you had mental illness, you were institutionalised. If you had Autism, you were institutionalised. If you had a physical deformitee of some sort, people thought that it was "the devil" growing from inside of you :!:

In her days, if you didn't fit the "norm", you were labeled insane.

Sorry for my little ramble...

Anyway, I hope you enjoy posting on this site

Thanks for the welcome.
When I was a child in school I was punished for being as I was, a school which liked to think that it was "progressive". I was then taken to a child psychiatrist, but this was not recognised back then. He was very nice, but nothing significant came of it. All that happened was that I was moved to another school, as if that changed anything.

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04 Aug 2007, 6:10 pm

Welcome to WrongPlanet

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04 Aug 2007, 6:44 pm

Dr-Strangelove wrote:

... Being There.

A film most people have never even heard of. The critics panned it. I think the final scene is utterly brilliant, but possibly the only mistake in the whole film - it really isn't needed. I haven't watched it for a long while... must do so.

Oh! PS. Welcome Dr. S.

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