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I can haltingly read music. In a choir reading the music is very helpful as I can see the length of the note and if the next note is higher or lower than the one before, but I can't sight read.

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Not at all. Despite my love of music, my musical-mensa nephew and the fact I have a mini recording studio and instruments for his entire band in my home, I can't tell you a thing about music theory. I just know if I like it!

Have you ever made or purchased a bird feeder?

No

What is the biggest misunderstanding you have ever been in?

biggest, biggest?
a big cockup happened some days before my dd birth, at the playground there were youths with knives and when they came to close i said something about that to them, well.. i had to move me and the boys to another playground (with lots of people) and there's a boy that puts a toygun right in my face, one hand away, so i lashed out ..what does that even mean, i put down his hand saying to keep away, something like that probably..............
cockup; i was the offender and got followed home by a mob,
fil called the cops, after i called them, but police showed up at my door but didn't do nothin, the crowd got worse bc of cops

some yrs later, cops needed big backup to go into the criminal zone that had developped there
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I was in line while working outside at an event. I had a soda can open that still had drink in it.
A man who was working with us was in front of me. His butt was right almost on my drink so I told him that. I don't know what came over me, but I was very literal about it. I said my thoughts out loud, saying, "Do you clean yourself down there?" wondering if it was safe to drink my soda. He heard it, and a supervisor heard it. I got fired. Then, explained to them I really wasn't trying to be sexual just literal, and it came out wrongly.
I got hired later for a job there with way less hours. I guess it could've been worse.

Did you ever move out of a situation you were stuck in? How?

Yes. I broke off a marriage that should never have moved past a one night stand but went from that to living together, to owning a house together, to getting married. It was a toxic relationship from the start. It was years ago before I wised up a bit.

When you're sad, do you listen to happy music or sad music?

Gospel, show tunes and the blues.

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I tend to listen to both happy & sad music regardless of my emotional state.

How do you deal with people whom tend to think autism and it's variants are all psychosomatic?

Hi kaz,

I hate that attitude so much. I tend to just shut down and go mute and build up resentment against people who don't understand. I know that's not normal or healthy for me but I get frustrated. Last week my mother (who doesn't know of my diagnosis), was trying to recall the word autism in general conversation.

She couldn't think of the word and said 'you know, those kids who don't understand anything and ignore people'.

I was not impressed.

I've had lengthy conversations with a few people to educate them, but it seems a waste of time. People don't change their misconceptions easily.

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Yeah pretty much. I don't like wasting my time when I could be doing better things, like doing stuff related to my special interests.
On a related question, what's your attitude about anti-vaxxers?
Because I really despise them. Like they ignore science, fact and basic common sense for some fear filled explanation for something they don't understand. Like even if autism was caused by vaccines(it's not; we don't know exactly what the cause is, but it's definitely not related to vaccines), you are allowing your child to die of some horrible disease rather than get autism, which while a problem sometimes, is not worse than polio by any stretch of the imagination. To me that's just beyond insulting just because of the insinuation. Plus they also screw over herd immunity as well.

IMO, the majority (meaning not all) of anti-vaxxers who believe that laws are needed to make vaccinations made illegal need a big "reality check."

Why do you think there are so many shallow people here on Wrong Planet?

I think that everyone has more depth than most think.

Have you ever had a spiritual experience?

Not sure what you mean by that, but I have been Catholic all my life even though I believe in inclusiveness and not rejecting others.

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I am *functionally* atheist(ic) and underneath that agnostic and via agnosticism, I use it as a method to engage with what is at very least could be said be a *monism if not a dialectical monism which I would 'yield' on account of non-essentialism being probable/ a factor.


* Heideggerian-esque, Tillichian-esque

Given John Green's definition of religion as 'a response to a revelation', no I have not in a major sense nor would I count on it, if it conjures thoughts of Blakesian power fantasies of beings or entities within another (ultimate(?)) reality.

I have struggled to 'go beyond' Catholicism and 'parent culture'.

When does friendship/a friend mean to you?.

About two months ago. I suddenly got really sick one night.

Have you ever been to the hospital?

I assume you mean been to a hospital personally for medical care rather than literally being in a hospital building for any reason which was my first thought.

I have never been inpatient in the hospital. I have been to the ER for various accidents, broken bones, etc and a horrible case of strep throat as a child while traveling out of state.

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