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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you ever use public transportation? |
| Archimedes |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 9:15 pm
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Replies: 97
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| I use public transit out of necessity, because I don't have a car, and because taxis are relatively expensive. I also like to bike, but biking does not have a very great range. But I do like rail transit, and I've long had an interest in that. Buses I don't like as much, because they are slow and of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do You Have Asperger's? Take the Online Quiz |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 3:27 am
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Replies: 66
Views: 15,953
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| I noticed it rather quickly also; it is Simon Baron-Cohen's Autism Quotient test. But here is a site with not only that test, but some more of his tests; they reside in pages that will never time out on you. Autism/Asperger-Related Tests AQ: Autism Quotient How close to autistic are you? Max: 50 (st... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: String Theory |
| Archimedes |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2006, 2:41 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,853
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| While we're at it, some more about the Standard Model of particle physics. It is predicted to have an additional particle, a "Higgs particle", with spin 0 and charge 0. This particle has the interesting property that its least energertic state is to have some nonzero value; the Universe is filled wi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Walking babies destroying the forums? |
| Archimedes |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 8:01 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,768
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| I've never seen that particular one, but I have seen ones where you try to click on something moving or throw some ball or whatever -- and that take over Firefox. Is that a way of getting attention to that ad, by bogging down the browser if you don't do what's in it? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: George Bush - Aspie? |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2006, 2:42 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 8,957
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| He might not be NT but instead have inverse Asperger's Syndrome, as I call it, something I had posted on in this thread -- someone who is very social but who is very incompetent in technical sorts of things. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: String Theory |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2006, 2:37 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,853
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| I'm familiar with some of the mathematics behind string theory, and behind elementary particle physics in general, so I'll chime in here. It's a proposed "Theory of Everything", a physical theory that incorporates the existing fundamental theories -- gravity and the Standard Model. Gravity is descri... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anybody know about a dictionary of isotopes? |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2006, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 4
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Turing programs... |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2006, 4:11 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I think that you people are talking about the Turing Test, first proposed in Computing machinery and intelligence by Alan Turing himself. He originally imagined a conversation over a Teletype machine (a sort of remote-control typewriter), but his discussion applies just as well to bots in chatrooms ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Opposite of Asperger's Syndrome? |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2006, 5:38 pm
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Replies: 75
Views: 54,590
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| First, I agree with Steve_Cory that "Aspies" have different well-developed skills and interested -- some are very good at mathematics, while others are not. So what's important here may be what is typical of populations rather than individuals. If Aspies are more likely to be good at math than non-A... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Trying to be diagnosed as an adult |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2006, 10:24 am
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Replies: 29
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| I recently contacted some local public-health centers and psychiatric clinics, and I found that those centers do not do Asperger's-syndrome evaluations and that those clinics charge lots of $$$'s -- $250 for an initial evaluation(!). One of them had a waiting list of 5 or 6 months. Because of that, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Opposite of Asperger's Syndrome? |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2006, 4:29 am
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Replies: 75
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| What would someone with the opposite of autism / Asperger's Syndrome be like? Very social, empathetic, friendly, and verbal, but often clueless about mathematics and mechanical things and the like, and often having difficulty following routines or concentrating on some task. There is no psychiatric ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2006, 7:41 pm
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Replies: 109
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| I appreciate of all the appreciation I've gotten for my efforts. :D I've discovered that the Wired AQ-test page still exists, but also that Wired's server no longer calculates one's score. But at least my pages will not suffer from that problem. :) And my pages seem to work properly in all your brow... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2006, 2:23 pm
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Replies: 109
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| I suppose that if it's OK for Wired and the Guardian, then it's OK for me also. From that Guardian article; in ()'s are my figures: EQ: Asperger: 20 (9 - 33) Normal male: 42 (26 - 51) Normal female: 47 (37 - 59) 0-32: Below average 33-52: Average 53-63: Above average 64-80: Very high SQ: Asperger: 4... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2006, 8:33 pm
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Replies: 109
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| Here goes: The master page , with expected scores and links to the tests: AQ: Autism Quotient How close to autistic are you? EQ: Empathy Quotient How sensitive to others' emotions are you? FQ: Friendship and Relationship Quotient How concerned are you with these? SQ: Systematizing Quotient How syste... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2006, 5:51 pm
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Replies: 109
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| After something seemingly minor turned into a major blowup, someone suggested to me that I have Asperger's syndrome; this is the first time that I recall anyone ever suspecting me of having that condition. This led me to research the question of how one would test for that condition, and I found the... |
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