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ursaminor
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27 Jan 2010, 11:51 am

I just remembered; it should be NTs.



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30 Jan 2010, 2:07 am

Someone from the site where I originaly posted is trying to troll my deviant account and my post on aspies for freedom and acuse me of being the perputrator. If they were innocent why would they be going to such extremes. I just don't get some people.


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30 Jan 2010, 4:23 am

I understand where you're coming from.


I did find a few back-up things I'd be willing to do if my retail toy website flopped; well, it's not...it's doing quite well considering we'll be in business two full years this August 2nd.

However, I wouldn't really have the passion and drive to do them with the same intensity that I have for my business.

If it helps, I always quote a classic exchange from Back to the Future II:

Marty McFly: Doc... what if we don't succeed?
Doc: We *must* succeed.

That's likely one of my biggest motivations for pushing as hard as I do. Look at it that way. If animals are your special interest, then pursue this like the world depends on it. :)


However...no...ya can't rely on other people to pay your bills if it doesn't work out. So at the end, it can't not work out..get my drift?



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30 Jan 2010, 10:19 pm

BetsyRath wrote:
This has very little to do with "AS" and "NT". It's solid advice to advocate finishing high school for anyone, regardless of his circumstance.

Also, I have known many high school students who did not want to pursue anything except: art, being a writer, being a doctor, etc. My cousin teaches Biology right now and when she was your age, she would have died if someone told her she couldn't be a vet. She is hardly typical, but NT. But then during Masters work, she became interested more in research, and more in cellular biology. So, there you go -- this is why for the most part, adolescents shouldn't be able to make life altering decisions.

Now isn't the time to solve the rest of your life. Now is the time to do what is ahead of you today - first things first. Good luck.


I'm not a teenager anymore. I've wanted to be a vet ever since I was 3. I am only in high school so I can be a vet, if I found out all of a sudden I couldn't be a vet, I would quit high school. The people on that fourm are nasty anyway and hate everybody who admits they have autism.


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31 Jan 2010, 12:18 am

PunkyKat wrote:
BetsyRath wrote:
This has very little to do with "AS" and "NT". It's solid advice to advocate finishing high school for anyone, regardless of his circumstance.

Also, I have known many high school students who did not want to pursue anything except: art, being a writer, being a doctor, etc. My cousin teaches Biology right now and when she was your age, she would have died if someone told her she couldn't be a vet. She is hardly typical, but NT. But then during Masters work, she became interested more in research, and more in cellular biology. So, there you go -- this is why for the most part, adolescents shouldn't be able to make life altering decisions.

Now isn't the time to solve the rest of your life. Now is the time to do what is ahead of you today - first things first. Good luck.


I'm not a teenager anymore. I've wanted to be a vet ever since I was 3. I am only in high school so I can be a vet, if I found out all of a sudden I couldn't be a vet, I would quit high school. The people on that fourm are nasty anyway and hate everybody who admits they have autism.


May I offer a suggestion? Don't tell them you're Autistic.

Become a vet, and be really, really successful at it...then admit you're Autistic.

I don't tell my customers at work about my Autism...and I certainly haven't sent out a newsletter from my retail website announcing my Autism to our customers.

Maybe I'll mention it to the world years from now when I'm really successful, but aside from the people who know me, and my Facebook page where I mention it, I really don't bring it up to people too often.