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15 Jul 2012, 8:53 pm

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I hope I die by the age of 70. That's because the s**thead government are raising the retirement age, and by the time I get old I will probably have to work until I'm in my mid-80s. That would be terrible, since Arthiritis, Alzheimer's, blood pressure issues and stomach issues seem to run in my family, affecting the elderly relatives and now mildly beginning with relatives reaching their mid-50s, so it's obvious that I will probably inherit this too, plus I am only 22 and already run down with stress and anxiety issues. How is one supposed to get up and go to work each day when they suffer with these things? I will end up getting the sack and being thrown out on to the streets - because by then care homes will not exist. They're cutting all of them back one by one now. And I won't have anyone to look after me by then because all my cousins will be married with brats and probably getting on with their own lives (I'm not good enough for them now, let alone when they're married and tied down with brats), and I will never get to have kids of my own because they will be Autistic and Autistic kids aren't going to be able to look after me, they'd be too severe or wouldn't be able to cope with looking after me.

Jesus, I really don't know what this country is coming to. Turning a generally secure country into a third-world country........f**k you, David Cameron. I hope you f***ing die in pain, you f***ing rich c**t.

america is right behind.



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15 Jul 2012, 8:56 pm

auntblabby wrote:
america is right behind.


We all are, I think. Pretty sure they must be coordinating this crap internationally.



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15 Jul 2012, 9:06 pm

^^^
or at least in britain, america and canada. i doubt that those tough-minded cagey aussies/NZers would let their gov'ts get away with such.



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15 Jul 2012, 9:45 pm

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or at least in britain, america and canada. i doubt that those tough-minded cagey aussies/NZers would let their gov'ts get away with such.


They'll just put the thumbscrews on through the currency markets and banks, make them scream and bleed til they get what they want, like they're doing to the Greeks.



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15 Jul 2012, 10:45 pm

Oddly enough I seem to age slower than most.



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16 Jul 2012, 12:30 am

on the subject of aging slower than most, i looked at a picture of boy george o'dowd [we're both similar age] and i compared his appearance with my own, and i can say that i seem to be aging slower than him, at least. i don't know if that means i'm aging slower or if the years have been particularly unkind to poor george.



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16 Jul 2012, 1:10 am

I definately do. I only stopped getting carded when I buy cigs in the last year or so. I'm 39. They're supposed to card if you look 25 or younger (age is 19, but 25 is the guideline to card because of older-looking teens). Most people think I am 20something. I'm almost 40! It's all the stranger if you consider ... I've been smoking 24 years, and smoking tends to age a person's appearance.

I don't know as this has anything to do with life expectancy, though.



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16 Jul 2012, 3:42 am

People who smoke or drink heavily have a shorter life expectancy than the average person.


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16 Jul 2012, 4:12 am

Joe90 wrote:
People who smoke or drink heavily have a shorter life expectancy than the average person.


What I meant was that I don't think my appearance means I am going to live any longer. Smoking certainly relates to reduced life expectancy. Sorry, I wrote that in a confusing way.



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16 Jul 2012, 8:31 am

edgewaters wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
People who smoke or drink heavily have a shorter life expectancy than the average person.


What I meant was that I don't think my appearance means I am going to live any longer. Smoking certainly relates to reduced life expectancy. Sorry, I wrote that in a confusing way.


Your appearance has nothing to do with how long your life is, unless you look really ill if you are physically unhealthy. And with depression and stress, it depends on how emotionally strong you are.

Nobody really knows when they're going to die, your time is up when your time is up.


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16 Jul 2012, 10:44 am

Joe90 wrote:
I hope I die by the age of 70. That's because the s**thead government are raising the retirement age, and by the time I get old I will probably have to work until I'm in my mid-80s. That would be terrible, since Arthiritis, Alzheimer's, blood pressure issues and stomach issues seem to run in my family, affecting the elderly relatives and now mildly beginning with relatives reaching their mid-50s, so it's obvious that I will probably inherit this too, plus I am only 22 and already run down with stress and anxiety issues. How is one supposed to get up and go to work each day when they suffer with these things? I will end up getting the sack and being thrown out on to the streets - because by then care homes will not exist. They're cutting all of them back one by one now. And I won't have anyone to look after me by then because all my cousins will be married with brats and probably getting on with their own lives (I'm not good enough for them now, let alone when they're married and tied down with brats), and I will never get to have kids of my own because they will be Autistic and Autistic kids aren't going to be able to look after me, they'd be too severe or wouldn't be able to cope with looking after me.

Jesus, I really don't know what this country is coming to. Turning a generally secure country into a third-world country........f**k you, David Cameron. I hope you f***ing die in pain, you f***ing rich c**t.

Things aren't a bit better in East-Center Europe. I practically don't expect to get pension from government organizations, despite paying a lot (at least till I leave this rotten place). What I spare for myself is what I'll get, it is as simple as that.



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18 Dec 2017, 8:14 am

Everyone on my dad’s side of the family (my dad included) are kind of weird. We all have a way of talking and thinking that’s decidedly different than most people and runs in the family. That being said, only one of my uncles as well as myself have been diagnosed with aspergers, so I don’t know how it relates.
That being said, my grandfather lived into his 90s.



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18 Dec 2017, 10:30 am

Autism, in and of itself, does not reduce life expectancy.



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18 Dec 2017, 10:48 am

though it is not unknown, for some to wish that it did.



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18 Dec 2017, 10:58 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
Autism, in and of itself, does not reduce life expectancy.


Damn.



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18 Dec 2017, 11:20 am

It really doesn't.

What could "reduce" it is depression, because of the higher suicide rate.

And, in the case of people with other conditions, the other condition.

But to say that autism, in and of itself, because of the autism alone, reduces life expectancy is just not true.