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19 Apr 2011, 12:29 pm

KBerg wrote:
gets custody over which character trait and when - is this our week to have whimsy? It's cool dude, I know analogies, but you presented an opportunity to make a really awful pun - someone held a gun to my head, I was powerless to resist! :wink:


You didn't have the stones to put up a fight?

You couldn't cobble together a strategy and defeat your quarry?

Shall we mine this further?


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19 Apr 2011, 1:15 pm

This thread is a gem.



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19 Apr 2011, 1:34 pm

Gneiss puns.


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19 Apr 2011, 1:40 pm

This thread makes me giggle...

To defend the poor NT who started this thread though... It has been many times said that Autistic brains have a "rock-like" trait to them. It is the "rigid" thinking thing that we do. Michelle Winner calls this "rock brain" in her list of characters in her Social Thinking book. If you haven't explored this site, you really should.. GREAT information

http://www.socialthinking.com/

But that part of us is really just one part. There is another side that I think is more important and that is the "sensing" or "spiritual" side of our Language. It is literal and pure/honest. Some people know how to "speak Autism" and some do not. Those who take the time to learn the Language have always found the rewards to far exceed the effort.



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19 Apr 2011, 3:12 pm

anbuend wrote:
Gneiss puns.


This thread now officially rocks.



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19 Apr 2011, 6:38 pm

OP: Please read the following from another thread.

I reject your assertion that autistics are rock like.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt158475.html


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19 Apr 2011, 6:46 pm

It's not our rigidity that makes people compare us to rocks, vegetables, changelings, soulless automatons, and the like.

It's other people's inability to read us very well. They read nothing therefore they assume nothing's there. (And yet we're considered uniquely impaired in theory of mind for being unable to read them, even if some of us can read each other just as well as they can read each other.)

I don't mean this to be some kind of us-and-them thing, so if it looks like that it's only because I haven't been able to communicate the complexity of it. (I hate having to post disclaimers, but every experience here says that if I don't, someone will think I said something else.)


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19 Apr 2011, 7:35 pm

redwulf25_ci wrote:
anbuend wrote:
Gneiss puns.


This thread now officially rocks.

Shake, gravel and roll! 8)



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19 Apr 2011, 8:42 pm

OP--I just reread your original post and those that followed.

Everyone here is being extremely kind to you.

So I will bite my tongue.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....................! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!


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