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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Has anyone given up alcohol then found things got worse? |
| masterdieff |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 8:17 am
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| I would have to disagree with the SSRI suggestion. SSRI's have been known (anecdotally) to increase one's urge to drink. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do you style yourself? |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 2:15 pm
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Replies: 29
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| I have curly shoulder-length hair when wet, with shorter bangs, and I part it down the middle. I pretty much don't shave. Once in a while when I get really, uh, happy, I'll shave my beard off. I don't touch it again usually for another 4 months or so. There seems to be something really deep about th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The "N" word. |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 1:22 pm
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Replies: 19
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| This is the first post I've seen on this forum that made me crack up. Well done. Thanks. I almost posted it the way it was, and then I thought up the last two words, and well, like you said, that just made it. Agreed. Typical nerd humor. Nerd, please! Though either way, maybe if you learned to shoo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: People arguing with you about something when they are wrong |
| masterdieff |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 11:18 am
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Replies: 64
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| Hah, this just happened a few days ago. My brother said to the other person in the conversation, who shall remain nameless, that their "breath smells pungent". I think he'd just smoked a cigar or something. Anyway. I'm like, "That was wrong, you're looking for the adverbial form." My brother denies ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The "N" word. |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 11:06 am
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Replies: 19
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| I used to get called the N-word all the time in school. Today somebody did it again and it brought up a lot of painful memories. There is no excuse for this. I know I'm not the same as most people, and I'm reminded of that fact every single day . Just because I'm different doesn't mean I deserve to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why so many smart peoples on WP? |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2010, 10:51 am
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Replies: 27
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| I think it boils down to bell curves. We, as mentally-ill individuals (I mean that endearingly), deviate from the mean, the average. It's only natural that we often have deviant IQ's to match our deviant cognition and behavior. 1. We tend to be more analytical 2. We tend to be less social, so more t... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Rap- one of the most misused artistic mediums of all time? |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010, 1:46 am
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Replies: 10
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| Holy crap, the first song I found on YouTube of Massive Attack was Teardrop, the intro theme of House MD. Sweet. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Ladies and gentlemen... the WrongPlanet writing showcase |
| masterdieff |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2010, 11:30 pm
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| I wrote- er, typed- this up bout five months ago shortly after my diagnosis. I think it's inspired by the fact that for all the problems associated with low self-esteem and abulia (inability to make a decision), there are also positives. It's definitely a rant, hopefully spiced up with some humor ju... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Rap- one of the most misused artistic mediums of all time? |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2010, 10:57 pm
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| What a tragedy mainstream rap is. For thousands of years poetry has been stuck in the written form. Clearly though, poetry is meant to be spoken. The meter, the rhythm of any given poem, is expressed so much better when spoken from the mouth of the poet. If you think about it, rap was an inevitable ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ruin your Child by Taking them To the DOCtor |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2010, 9:32 am
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Replies: 8
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| You can get just as messed up if you're not diagnosed for too long. It's blatantly obvious that I've got some developmental delays, real stuff, but that's only in hindsight. In the meantime I've missed out on so many opportunities just because I slipped through the cracks. My parents did the opposit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evocative TED presentation on tribe mentality |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2010, 1:54 am
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| I apologize in advance if this video has been posted here before. Click Here- 17 minute video on "tribes" The above link is a TED video on how humans form communities and the nature of these groups. I'm sure many of you are familiar with TED conference videos, and if you're not, I encourage you to c... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What kind of Nerd are you? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 9:59 pm
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misswoofalot wrote: I'm a Gerd
Heartburn trouble? |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What kind of Nerd are you? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 5:57 am
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| Metaphysics, philosophy, psychology and astrophysics are great but I don't have enough formal knowledge to be considered a nerd. I would fall under the definition if you were to ask if I "nerd out" over those topics. Lately I'm a bit of an italics nerd. Mainly though: a drug nerd. Or, to put it in m... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Do your parents annoy you at all? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 5:42 am
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Replies: 19
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| Yeah, my dad has a habit of not shutting the $#@ up . He's constantly got verbal diarrhea and looking for someone to s**t on. The worst part is that when I try to finish one of his slow-motion rambling sentences for him, he'll ignore me and say it the way he wanted to say it, even though I knew exac... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: what instrument do u play? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 5:10 am
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Replies: 28
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| Me. I've been making weird noises with my mouth since I was a child. I've always had a huge problem with attention, or, to use the vernacular, I'm "ADD as s**t". I never did learn an instrument, and I can't stay on rhythm for very long when beatboxing free-form; I tend to syncopate and change tempo ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's wrong with psychologists? |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 4:53 am
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Replies: 26
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| I suppose my biggest problem with psychologists (and moreso with psychiatrists) is about limitations of knowledge. A psych doc has all this knowledge and training to start off with, and then tries to bring your mind into that paradigm. No matter what they do, they can't actually get inside my mind.O... |
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