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boating and fishing

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Hiking and identifying plants/animals/rocks. I also sometimes collect samples of plants/rocks, even though you're not really supposed to do that (sorry, nature ).

Do you enjoy identifying and/or collecting samples of things in nature?

Hmmm.. I enjoy nature. I also enjoy observing or trying to understand nature.

Yet I'm unsure about identifying and collecting from nature... I'm not very able to do so yet. Maybe someday.



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When I was a kid in school, 11 or 12, we were learning about insects. We had some live mealworms or something crawling around on the table. Some jerk kid yelled at me, "Hey, you should poke it with a pencil!" Never my intention. The idiot teacher thought I was poking it with a pencil (or intending to), and got all nasty with me. This same b***h subsequently assigned a project where we had to go out in nature and "collect" insect samples. That is, find and kill insects and either glue or pin down their dead bodies and attach identifying labels. I thought the whole thing was tragically ironic and disgusting. She was nasty with me because she thought I was going to harm a live insect, then assigned a project forcing us to go out and kill insects...

So, I don't like "collecting" in that sense. Even if I find a centipede in my room, I try to ignore it or capture it safely and put it outside. Still, I love being able to identify trees by sight. From time to time, I've seen a particularly exotic looking tree that looks out of place in the northeastern USA. Not native, looked rather "wild west," but quite lovely. Turns out it's a Japanese Cedar (technically not a cedar, but a type of cypress endemic to Japan) planted ornamentally.

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My question: What is something most people seem to do easily and instinctively that you struggle with, and what do you think (intellectually) goes on in their heads vs. what you're thinking about in the same situation that's easy for them and hard for you?

Eye contact. I don't think other people really think much when they're doing it, but I have to focus a lot on the intricacies of it (how long I should do it for, if I should be doing it at all, etc.). It doesn't come naturally for me, but other people seem to have no issue with eye contact.

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Knowing when to talk in a large conversation. I usually can't handle more than a few other people, although I can talk in slightly larger groups if we're on a similar enough wavelength. After a few people the difficulty increases exponentially as more people are added.

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Sensory modulation and processing with stress.

I'm heck sure most people do not spend their whole time in a constant state of semi-conscious knowing of where their body is and how it moves, nor they felt how much their clothes weigh and feel every touch of it.

Let alone involving stimulus further than one's person -- the usual; sight, hearing, etc.

Unless prompted, or that they suffer from a form of physical illness that causes them fatigue and clumsiness, or is severely unfit.



What's the most unusual thing you ate and tasted?
Yes, this includes non-edible items -- and things that are not meant to consume orally.

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When I was much younger I used to eat things like soap, lotion, etc. If you're wondering why, I dunno. But soap was probably the oddest, since everyone acts like getting soap in their mouth is a horrible punishment, though I don't care about the taste of it at all.

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Talcum powder... And soap. Maybe some lotion too.



Have you ever laughed so hard, you've literally cried, fell, and lose breath or start coughing?

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I haven't fallen from laughing, but I've laughed so hard it's made me cry and want to vomit before. I love when things make me laugh that much.

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Yes, the last time I laughed so hard I literally cried was when I watched the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Avalanche".

Do you ever wish you could move away to another country?

Yes. I have a couple countries in mind that I'd like to move to. I don't know if I could handle moving because of my autism, though.

Are there any specific countries you'd like to visit?

yes, thought about italy, but with the reality of everything, its nay
-been there once, in the truck "large goods vehicle" w hub, that were strange people; not nice at all, imho

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Czech Republic

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Japan.

Do you like pitbulls?

I don't really know any except for Emily Bronte's mastiff, Keeper.

He was part bulldog.



This is her sketch of him.

I love the show Pitbulls and Parolees, though!

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