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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Positive Psychology of Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 8:15 pm
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Replies: 16
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I'd like to see an update to this. Specifically with temple grandin's visual/non-verbal/verbal thinking types along with seligman's positive psychology and humanistic psychology.
Anyone know anything about this connection? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Gun possession |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 8:02 am
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Replies: 122
Views: 9,223
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| It really depends on how the community promotes fire arm education. Some states allow to carry, some require permits. All with success and failure stories. Even in law enforcement, the train to use the gun at the very last resort. The best ones probably pulled the gun out a few times in decades. Of ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are u doing right now? (apart from being on WP) |
| durentu |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 7:46 am
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Replies: 11,971
Views: 720,413
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| trying trading strategy #3 with paper money .. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS good excuse for jury duty?? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 7:39 am
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Replies: 81
Views: 14,143
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| jury selection depends on what kind of jury they are looking for. They might be looking for someone with or without the mixed bag of AS. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how strict are your routines? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 1:52 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,353
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| If you have a routine, is it really strict? I have a pretty relaxed routine. I get ready the same way for work every morning but it's not EXACTLY the same every morning. Although I do notice when I do something even slightly different, it doesn't really bother me too much. On weekends or vacations ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think about things you did in the past alot? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 1:26 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,464
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| ....these flashes of memory became more violent and it started to develop into what appeared to be tourettes syndrome. I would have ticks, say things under breath, smack my head or other things to stomp or short circuit the memory. Thank God. I thought I was the only one who did that kind of thing.... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: AS mens silence in regard to relationships with NT women |
| durentu |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 13,625
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| I have a lot of suspicions about why this is. My first culprit is TV. After not watching tv for 6 years, I noticed that there was a lot of penis chopping in today's shows. Why? Is the matriarchy positioned to make men feel guilty for being masculine? This is extremely tyrannical and lacks balance. A... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think about things you did in the past alot? |
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Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 12:10 pm
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Replies: 25
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| I have this problem too I have this problem and it used to be very debilitating. I remember embarrassing moments back in kindergarten. Coming into present day (I'm 30 now), these flashes of memory became more violent and it started to develop into what appeared to be tourettes syndrome. I would hav... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Arduino or Nerdkit ? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 27 Sep 2009, 4:45 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 6,096
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| I can definitely identify with your child. I'm 30 now, and have done work in computer engineering, computer science, software engineering and theoretical physics. These days it's neuroanatomy and psychology. The most supreme advice I can offer is 1) Mentors: take the child to see engineering/compute... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: mounting/de-mounting isos and stuff? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 27 Sep 2009, 2:46 pm
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Replies: 6
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| and that's another thing that's confusing me. Virtual drives? wha? virtual drives make your life easier. You can mount an ISO file to a virtual drive (fake dvd drive). In reality, you'd have to 1) get blank dvd/cd 2) burn the iso 3) load it into the drive 4) access information all without any scrat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why are haircuts and shaving important to NTs? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2009, 11:24 am
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Replies: 57
Views: 7,013
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| For me there are 2 reasons. 1. the long hair starts to bother me, so I chop it off. 2. The manner in which I chop if off invites impromptu conversations from strangers. It's like an experiment. In the first 2 weeks I get a hair cut, I can talk to help and people are generally friendly. From 2-4 week... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Where would you go if you had a time machine? |
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Posted: 24 Sep 2009, 4:46 pm
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Replies: 59
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| I'd fast forward and live on the first dyson sphere. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Nice Guys and Love, what's your take on the issue |
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Posted: 24 Sep 2009, 4:05 pm
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Replies: 1,242
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| First off, I'll assume that when you say nice guy as it relates to shyness, you're talking about the introvert. Now applying what we know about introverts and dating, things become clearer. However, there is a general rule about mating that I think applies from evolution. Individually, our first ins... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The possibility of an evil God. |
| durentu |
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Posted: 24 Sep 2009, 1:52 pm
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Replies: 96
Views: 8,506
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Paul Erdos, one of history's finest mathematicians has an interesting take on God, to which he calls the SF - supreme facist.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeWugmiGt4[/youtube] |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Why do a lot of women do this...? |
| durentu |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 8:33 pm
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Replies: 117
Views: 12,691
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| to the OP: I'm not going to say that it's typical NT or AS behavior, but generally speaking, it's a defense mechanism called projection (thanks to freud). Women like these are brainwashed into thinking that a woman should be some sort of ideal or principle. While the female herself is under constant... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What is a slave and what is a prisoner? (rough notes) |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 8:18 am
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Replies: 94
Views: 15,198
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a prisoner is given human status, which gives you rights
a slave is given property status, which gives you no rights |
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