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Mw99
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01 Jan 2009, 12:37 am

...does it follow that those of us who don't hang out with anyone are non-entities?

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01 Jan 2009, 12:41 am

If that saying is true, then I guess I'm a really messed up thing.
I'd be a.... part-male-part-female-ultra-depressed-part-rat-part-cat-part-chihuahua(*rants on and on*)

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01 Jan 2009, 12:41 am

Maybe it means you hang-out with yourself and are self-centered?

I don't like "pretty" little phrases/quotes. Same with analogies, they're often far too simplistic.
Einstein once said to never simplify anything more than it can be simplified...but, I suppose I just broke that rule by trying to describe it, didn't I? Lol.

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01 Jan 2009, 12:42 am

I'm my cat?

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01 Jan 2009, 12:45 am

Beenthere wrote:

I'm my cat?

You must be. The part of me that is chihuahua wants to chase you. :lol:

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01 Jan 2009, 12:54 am

Meow?

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01 Jan 2009, 1:04 am

foxskifreak wrote:

Meow?

My thoughts exactly, so if I were to own a rat... would I like cheese more?

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01 Jan 2009, 1:06 am

sethzack wrote:

foxskifreak wrote:

Meow?

My thoughts exactly, so if I were to own a rat... would I like cheese more?

Actually, rodents shouldn't have too much cheese. It can give them the runs.
*Has two ratties*

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01 Jan 2009, 1:14 am

BelindatheNobody wrote:

sethzack wrote:

foxskifreak wrote:

Meow?

My thoughts exactly, so if I were to own a rat... would I like cheese more?

Actually, rodents shouldn't have too much cheese. It can give them the runs.
*Has two ratties*

I am liking you more and more.

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01 Jan 2009, 1:30 am

That's a first. X)

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01 Jan 2009, 1:35 am

Trust me I am NOT who I hang out with. Not at all LOL. My friends get drunk on many occasions; I have never been drunk. My friends get high all the freakin time; I have never been high. Sure, we have lots and lots in common, but most people would associate me with unruly drunken behavior and label me a weedhead because that's the first thing people would think upon seeing my friends haha

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01 Jan 2009, 7:21 am

I'm Barb and Dean, my dog Chico and my parents.

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01 Jan 2009, 7:23 am

I hang out with Sid, all the time. :O)

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01 Jan 2009, 8:12 am

Mw99 wrote:

...does it follow that those of us who don't hang out with anyone are non-entities?

No, those who do not hang out with anyone are themselves.

Presuming that the statement made in the thread title is correct, of course.

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01 Jan 2009, 8:24 am

Mw99 wrote:

...does it follow that those of us who don't hang out with anyone are non-entities?

i really hope youré just saying silly things there. its quite a nonsensical statement

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01 Jan 2009, 8:46 am

Mw99 wrote:

...does it follow that those of us who don't hang out with anyone are non-entities?

Technically, yes, but to be logically true, a conclusion has to be based on sound precedent. And "You are who you hang out with" is not a true statement.

While you do tend to choose people who are more like you than most to spend time with, your identity isn't based on those people--not unless you have some kind of psychological disorder. (Borderlines often say that they don't feel like they have an identity of their own, which is responsible for a lot of the overly "clingy" relationships they get into, for example.)

So it's not, "You are who you hang out with," but, "Who you are influences who you hang out with." And an extremely introverted person may want to hang out with nobody, or hang out with a select group infrequently.

Anyway, Aspie identity is often rather self-contained, anyway; more so than NT identity. Not mirroring others' emotions, being distanced from culture, and being predisposed to original thought rather than teamwork tends to make a person who determines his identity based on internal rather than external factors.

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