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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: In one word, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 27 May 2017, 8:26 pm
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jrjones9933 wrote: Puzzled (since there's an unsubscribe link in each email) Tom Parker wrote: Annoyed (that I'm still getting emails about posts on this 6 year old topic).
Vexed (since that unsubscribe link applies to all topic updates, some of which I may want to see). |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: In one word, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 27 May 2017, 2:05 am
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| Annoyed (that I'm still getting emails about posts on this 6 year old topic). |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new to this website and I'd like to make some friends |
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Posted: 23 May 2017, 12:02 am
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| I haven't read anything of Lucretius, tell me about him. I read about him in "The Swerve." He was a follower of Epicurus. He was an atheist in that he was indifferent to the gods. He believed religion was a superstition and things were created by atoms crashing into each other. those were... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new to this website and I'd like to make some friends |
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Posted: 22 May 2017, 5:43 pm
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| Do you have favourite philosophers or writers? Socrates is an idol of mine; I love his moral steadfastness, humility and ability to perceive the most subtle of contradictions in arguments and beliefs. Socrates is really good at perceiving contradictions in arguments. That's what I like about him, b... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Parents think I'm "faking aspergers"? |
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Posted: 19 May 2017, 4:22 am
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| Hey everyone - I'm not sure if anyone has ever had this issue before, but it's really been bothering me. I was diagnosed recently (about 3 months now) and my parents seem to think that I was wrongly diagnosed, or that I don't really have it - even though a trained psychologist assessed me and said ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Processing Humor |
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Posted: 19 May 2017, 4:13 am
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| I enjoy clever manipulation of words, or literal or unusual meanings if a different version of a homophone is understood (unintended by the speaker). I find these things truly funny, but nobody else does. Also, I find it funny when other people find things funny (even if I don't know why), because ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do people misunderstand your intentions? |
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Posted: 18 May 2017, 4:54 pm
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| i am constantly misunderstood. people misinterpret my tone, and often think i'm attempting to be snarky or argumentative when i'm merely contributing to conversation or correcting them. people don't really like to be corrected.. as i've gotten older, i've begun to learn to go out of my way to contr... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new to this website and I'd like to make some friends |
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Posted: 18 May 2017, 6:16 am
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| welcome to wrong planet I myself also hold an interest in philosophy and other intellectual matters. Do you have favourite philosophers or writers? Socrates is an idol of mine; I love his moral steadfastness, humility and ability to perceive the most subtle of contradictions in arguments and beliefs. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new to this website and I'd like to make some friends |
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Posted: 18 May 2017, 6:14 am
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| Hello Tom. I am 25 and I work in a factory. I like jazz a lot and have played it here and there for about 13 years. I especially like the newer fusiony sounds like weather report and Herbie Hancock. I enjoy reading too. Mostly fiction. This is my first post on this website! Welcome. If you like fus... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do people misunderstand your intentions? |
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Posted: 18 May 2017, 6:06 am
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| i am constantly misunderstood. people misinterpret my tone, and often think i'm attempting to be snarky or argumentative when i'm merely contributing to conversation or correcting them. people don't really like to be corrected.. as i've gotten older, i've begun to learn to go out of my way to contr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type? |
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Posted: 17 May 2017, 5:41 pm
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Replies: 55
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: In one word, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 16 May 2017, 8:45 am
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Scorpius14 wrote: depressed
Me too, what's caused your depression? I've been depressed because I have no friends, don't believe that I have a good future and have been rejected by someone that I cared very deeply (or at least I hope I did and that it wasn't a passing infatuation) about. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do people misunderstand your intentions? |
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Posted: 16 May 2017, 4:28 am
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| Yes. Often they misunderstand my intentions as being malicious when I'm merely giving honest criticism (which is sometimes requested. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Suffocating feeling of isolation? |
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Posted: 15 May 2017, 4:11 pm
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| I feel it too. My interests in jazz, philosophy and literature make it very difficult to talk to people and I have no friends. Do you ever feel too cerebral and intellectual for your NT counterparts? Do you find that their conversations seem almost childlike in some ways and they seem content to li... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted: 15 May 2017, 8:50 am
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SwingateLane wrote: Nick Drake
Really? He's one of my favourite musicians! |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted: 15 May 2017, 8:48 am
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| It's common knowledge that pianist Glenn Gould and the lead singer of the Vines both had Asperger's Syndrome, but can any of us think of any others? This topic occured to me after I read the wikipedia article on Tom Shear of the one man band Assemblage 23, who, although not diagnosed, seemed very m... |
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