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In spite of having a bad sense of direction, no confidence to not get disorientated if it was the real place, and no knowledge of an area, to instruct an NT friend where the station near their new house is by pulling up the public transport information site and locating the area. And then tell them how they may get somewhere.
Research skillz - We haz them.

(The trick is to now harness this skill for myself! I can obsess on a map, deduce connections to get the information I want, then manipulate the information to know how to get somewhere intellectually - but still blank or get disorientated when I try to physically go somewhere. )

I could've written that post, activebutodd!

Yep. I'm pretty much just tech support.

Have you ever seen Tomb Raider film, where the techie geek has been locked in but is operating the cameras and telling Lara where to go so she can go smash the robbers? I'd youtube it but couldn't find it.

Oh.

To have an endless supply of quotes and metaphors for life from films.

wear a T-shirt that says, "I'm going to my happy place and you're not invited!" (I have one.)

wear a T-shirt that says, "Autism Rocks." (I have 3 of them.)

brag about your assortment of strange T-shirts.

play Facebook games all day long even though they are boring and repetitive

Know the location of every remote desert canyon or hiking trail, where no one but you ever goes, within 100 miles.

Always have a stack of unread books from Barnes&Noble (or wherever).

Have a never-ending supply of really good excuses why you can't go to this or that party.

Simplify your life to such an extent that the amount of contact required with bureacracy is an absolute minimum.

No longer give a rat's ass whether it's Saturday night or Tuesday night that you're spending by yourself.

No longer give a rat's ass if the men at the auto repair shop try to peek down your blouse when you bring in your car.

No longer give a rat's ass if people make references to the latest TV shows and you have no idea what they're talking about.

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Check...well, a 50 mile radius at least

I'm uncool, book's are boring


Check...abundance prevails


Check...to the absolute degree


Check...besides, the Internet is cheaper


Even if the guy's are trying too "check me out"...soo what, let em drool, as long as they don't talk or touch!


Check...no TV in almost 3 years

...maintain employment.

^ I'm uncool...

... know that the most powerful processor installed into calculators is a 233 MHz ARM declocked to 75 MHz, and that it is not actually more powerful than an average laptop.

Start having people at work phone you for your advice and expertise on stuff that got you beaten up at school.

That has started happening at my new job... the women in the other office have started ringing me on my extension for advice on English grammar, and when emails arrive in foriegn languages, folks ring me up and ask me to translate them. Probably I'll stop being cool when they ask me to translate from a language I don't know... but right now I feel like the all the toilet flushings my head endured for being a nerd have paid off.

I've always been cool, everyone else is a freak though.

What ARE the coolest new stim toys?
I can't believe I know nothing about this...

What the hell is a 'stim toy' anyway? >.<