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25 May 2008, 9:23 pm

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Sometimes I don't think this place does any good for me in regards to healing, sometimes it feels better just not trying to reach out and talk without all this confrontational behavior on WP, I am not equipped to deal with rude people who seem to thrive on conflict, I have so many things happen to me this past year, losing my dad and most of my family, all I ever wanted was to make some friends who may have something in common with me. I just don't know what to think or do, I feel like I am fooling myself, I actually feel worse about myself.

Spudnik, it really saddens me to hear that, but unfortunately you're describing most of the human race. I really can't understand why either. No one who loses someone close needs some bully to post something that makes them feel even worse. I'm afraid of losing my dad, and that stuff should be taken very seriously. Humans aren't all evil though, so just try to be selective when chatting with the people on here.



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25 May 2008, 9:25 pm

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So am I rarely noticed due to lack of an avatar according to this theory?


Possibly. Some of us are very sensitive visually and not so good socially, so the presence of an avatar can help you remember who's who, and be remembered more easily. Plus with 19 trillion members now (just THINK of the advertising revenue) member names aren't always that easy to recognize.



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25 May 2008, 9:28 pm

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^^ sorry, who are you - lol

No, but when I scroll though a topic with a lot of posts, I could easily pass you by without noticing you.

Oh then maybe I'd like an interesting one that describes myself. Hmm lets see. I like Star Trek Voyager and things that spin in circles. I'm not sure how I'd pick one out without eyesight. Guess I'll have to enlist my husband.



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26 May 2008, 12:08 am

Why Kate, do you get the feeling you are rarely noticed?

A lot of WP members feel that. There are topics about it

btw - when I said (above) "who are you" - it was meant as a joke.


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26 May 2008, 2:36 am

I know. No offense taken. I just wasn't sure what the exact purpose of an avatar was. Now I know.



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20 Jul 2008, 11:39 am

well, gee i never saw a super happy aspie there all usually sad & down & this place (wrongplanet) is to speak what they feel without being judged (like normies judge us) to me this place is free expression not everything here is always happy & purky & who is? unless your on drugs or are rich & don't have Asperger's so the struggle never goes away & what's the deal with you old farts in this post did u forgot where u are? lol, sorry old ppl but being old annoys me, lol. I mean the word old & old ppl annoy me


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20 Jul 2008, 12:12 pm

^^^ Just wait, you'll get your chance.

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15 Aug 2008, 2:40 pm

Unfortunately there is no help in any forum, you can ask but who really gives a damn.



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15 Aug 2008, 7:13 pm

Hey, I was really sad to hear about your ferret, spudnik. I think it was you that mentioned that someplace else a little while back.

I had a ferret a few years ago. One of my favorite animals I've ever been around. She was always getting into something.

She got old and her body systems quit working. Nothing to do but try to keep her comfortable and feed her the paste she loved from one of those little tubes, while she ate less and less.

I was really sad when me and her had to separate our life paths and go different ways.


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27 Aug 2008, 9:02 am

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I am definitely supporting this idea. There's just so much negativity here. I think that I might have been the one who mentioned all the negativity, but I really don't know. It's time that we share our experiences and give the negative ones hope and healing. So, count me in!


I agree with Josh.


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30 Aug 2008, 11:41 am

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I do like this forum alot, but sometimes its kind of hard with the negative stuff, I try to talk with people but I never really know what to say. or if I offended them, I sort of feel like retreating into my shell again, whenever I have to deal with confrontational people, especially if I have to be also, its like a shock to my system, since its not part of my nature to get into peoples face. I am thinking of taking a break for a while but the problem is I don't really have a life outside of my home, and no friends or family here where I live

i agree with spudnik i like this site very much but never had any good advice for my problems yet and i know that feeling that everything you say might be even a little rude and it feels like you smashd him in the

face or something while its acctualy something no one cares about for saying



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12 Dec 2008, 2:14 pm

I'm presently reading Oliver Sacks most recent book, Musicophilia, and I'm quickly coming to the realization that we are wired differently than NT's. It's a definite physical difference. I think too often we get the idea 'it's all in our head'. But the reality is that it's all in how out brain is wired.


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12 Dec 2008, 2:36 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
I'm presently reading Oliver Sacks most recent book, Musicophilia, and I'm quickly coming to the realization that we are wired differently than NT's. It's a definite physical difference. I think too often we get the idea 'it's all in our head'. But the reality is that it's all in how out brain is wired.

I got that idea in the awful intro to public speaking class I had to take this past semester. The professor was talking about the incomprehensible behavior of NT teenagers, and I could not relate at all.



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12 Dec 2008, 2:36 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
I'm presently reading Oliver Sacks most recent book, Musicophilia, and I'm quickly coming to the realization that we are wired differently than NT's. It's a definite physical difference. I think too often we get the idea 'it's all in our head'. But the reality is that it's all in how out brain is wired.

I got that idea in the awful intro to public speaking class I had to take this past semester. The professor was talking about the incomprehensible behavior of NT teenagers, and I could not relate at all.



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16 Dec 2008, 3:23 pm

While discussing the topic of how we hear in stereo, and the loss of one ear's hearing flattens music, he talks about the ability to pick out one instrument in an orchestra and how someone with absolute pitch can tell the oboe is a bit flat. He explains the networking in the brain that processes sounds, and how a certain crossed 'wire' causes people to be unable to distinguish conversation from the background noise in a restaurant. I realized that's US ! !! This is a common problem with us ASPic, and makes dating miserable. But there it is in print, there are certain parts of the brain that process sound, and if you have this wiring, you have absolute pitch, and if you have that wiring, you're ASPic.


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16 Dec 2008, 3:32 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
While discussing the topic of how we hear in stereo, and the loss of one ear's hearing flattens music, he talks about the ability to pick out one instrument in an orchestra and how someone with absolute pitch can tell the oboe is a bit flat. He explains the networking in the brain that processes sounds, and how a certain crossed 'wire' causes people to be unable to distinguish conversation from the background noise in a restaurant. I realized that's US ! !! This is a common problem with us ASPic, and makes dating miserable. But there it is in print, there are certain parts of the brain that process sound, and if you have this wiring, you have absolute pitch, and if you have that wiring, you're ASPic.

I have both. Is that unusual?