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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Aspergers AND schizophrenia :( help please! |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2011, 4:42 am
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| As an aspie I'd say my two major issues are anxiety and fatigue. I get tired out really quickly and need to have rests durign the day, on work days I battle through but it's tough. I'd encourage people to look into this thread over at wrongdiagnosis.com regarding different forms of vitamin B12 and s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anxiety. and coping |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 9:07 am
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| Hmm, interesting. I did try vitamin supplements some years ago but nothing happened. Shame really because I'd almost convinced myself that everything would be fixed if I took them. :roll: You migth be interested in this post/thread I posted yesterday... http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt148886.html I... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 5:59 am
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Sand wrote: ...but you can't teach a seahorse to ride a bicycle.
Well that's three years of my life wasted then. Couldn't you have mentioned this before? ;) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Genetic Research |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:37 pm
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| Well, that's not even an option in a world of 6.9B people being fed by intensive agriculture! The fertalizer that feeds those masses of people is petroleum based. I wonder what will happen when the oil runs out soylent green perhaps. :wink: mmmm soylent green. Tastes like chicken. Hey what's in tha... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:34 pm
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huntedman wrote: if they give in they are damned to terrible torment, infinitely longer than anything you can experience here.
Not really, but then in my experience many of them are a lot less happy than we're making out in this discussion. Seriously.
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:28 pm
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CockneyRebel wrote: What I'm saying is that even though I may not fit the popular opinion of what the majority of people would consider as being beautiful in the 21st Century, I see myself as a beautiful person, in my own eyes.
That's the best kind [of beauty]. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:20 pm
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| Explaining something does not necessarily explain away the question of why there is something rather than nothing. Indeed. But those are two entirely different discussions. That something exists and works in a certain way is just how it is. Why it came to existence is a different question. locster. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:15 pm
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| I think god has control over what traits will be good when genetics combine The rules governing how genes combine are well documented and understood. It's a process called crossover, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover There's no magic and it sometimes does go wrong - hence embr... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:09 pm
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| God works in mysterious ways, my son. Ours is not to question why. I like to think that gods give people challenges to overcome. While it's true that adversity (and necessity) is the mother of invention, that's more a case of an evolutionary mechanism for creating robust communities - e.g. in solvi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Taking anxiety medication? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 10:00 pm
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blahblah123 wrote: Are SSRI's effective?
From what I've read they have the least negative side effects.
They can help with anxiety and mood for some people. They're not a 100% solution but it's certainly worth raising/discussing with a doctor.
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 9:57 pm
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| Well, no kidding...I get how basic genetics work. However, why wouldn't such a god create a reward system based on our deeds vs a system based purely on random probability? It's a fair question. It comes down to the notion of what is a good deed or a bad deed - the universe doesn't care about such ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If God exist why are there ugly,stupid people. |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 9:31 pm
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| What a crappy way to go through life? I have a facially ugly friend I eat lunch with every other day at work. He has massive social anxiety problems due to his face. What did he do to deserve that? Someone give me a logical explanation. He is a good guy. Hi, He got handed a bum set of numbers in th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Genetic Research |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 8:44 pm
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| the people at your school who were trying to force you to go on Ritalin were idiots Indeed. The argument then really comes down to - is science putting new tools into the hands of idiots that allows them to cause more damage [than they otherwise would]. I feel that that is a *much* broader debate a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anxiety. and coping |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 8:32 pm
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| How are you able to know yours may be physiological? (genuine question, just curious :lol: ) A few things, the top one being that my anxiety spontaneously and completely went away for a few months in 2008 following some experimentation I was doing with vitamin supplements. It was very clear to me o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are Aspies More Intelligent than Normal People? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 7:03 pm
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| 100% of aspies have normal-or-above-normal-intelligence, while only 98% of the general population have normal-or-above-normal-intelligence. In practice, I doubt that this have any significant effect in average IQ of Aspies vs. non-Aspies. Not quite normal or above normal. Just not in the range of i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are Aspies More Intelligent than Normal People? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 7:00 pm
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| 100% of aspies have normal-or-above-normal-intelligence, while only 98% of the general population have normal-or-above-normal-intelligence. In practice, I doubt that this have any significant effect in average IQ of Aspies vs. non-Aspies. As an aspie I feel compelled to point out that IQ scores in ... |
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