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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Alberta firm Meticulon selling autistic job strengths |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 09 Jan 2014, 1:28 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,242
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| News story on the National (video) According to the news story, Meticulon has been testing and training some people in Alberta with autism and promoting them to companies as ideal employees for particular sorts of work in IT. In the video, you can see behind the scenes at the company assessment pro... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: shoes |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2013, 11:06 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,898
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA[/youtube]
^OMG...shoes |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Overly Attached GF gives relationship advice for girls |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2013, 1:02 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,962
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| http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/468/135/819.jpeg http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/349/726/e36.jpg ^ Overly attached boyfriend meme. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/322/707/cd9.gif ^ For the fans of the socially awkward penguin. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I have this grandoise idea that I might be St.John/Lucifer |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2013, 12:50 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,835
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| If the first video is yours, the music is way too quiet to hear. Clearly, the video needs music to dance to, or it looks like you are miming instead. More seriously, WhiteWidow, I'm going to say that I'm sort of on your side (although you would seem to have gone of quite a tangent). Historically spe... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: aspies and dissociation |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2012, 2:11 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,821
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| Like anytime im angry, stressed, or depressed, the world around me looks fake, something like plastic or like a stage with actors almost or sort of like cardboard standups. Ive noticed lately that if i focus and try to dissociate at will, im sorta able to do it a bit. But i read something saying th... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Weird Behavior From a Stranger |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2012, 3:32 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,718
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At least it's (presumably) not a bizarre answering machine message, as in a Seinfeld episode I saw recently:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6CGBNODaY&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: The Big Bang Theory is insulting to aspies |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2012, 1:46 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 8,578
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| One of my physics profs who I highly suspect of being an aspie told us in class one day that physics profs that he had met at CalTech reminded him of characters on the Big Bang theory (and vice versa). He was like "they're really like that down there." Personally, I think the Big Bang Theory show is... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I keep having very depressing dreams lately |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2012, 1:25 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,427
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| I recall that in Jungian dream analysis, if you dream of a house, the different parts of the house represent the different levels of your consciousness. Higher floors are your conscious mind and spiritual levels and lower floors and the basement are supposed to represent the more subconscious levels... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I have an extremely paranoid friend,what do I do?(Long post) |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2012, 6:58 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,779
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| My first suspicion might be paranoid schizophrenia, but without other related symptoms (unusual disorganization, for instance), it is likely nothing to do with that (which is why a single symptom is insufficient for diagnosis, unlike in the popular opinion). A bit of googling resulted in this as the... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: School trips (outings, ''field trips'') |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 27 Nov 2012, 12:02 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 6,486
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| My high school was so broke or something when I was in high school that they couldn't afford the insurance (apparently) for anyone in our grade to go off-site on a field trip (small scale travel for a team or something directly to another school was okay, but not for classes to any random locations ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Routines & Systems |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2012, 2:22 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,234
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AspieWolf wrote: It DOES matter which shoe and sock one puts on first. ALWAYS work left to right.
Nonsense, shoes and socks should always be put on right, then left. (Haha.) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Sleep - anyone tried Binaural Beats? |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2012, 8:06 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,201
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| I have listened to some of them while studying in the past year, but I haven't tried it while sleeping (was curious to try it, though, but never got around to it). I pretty much just listened to this sort of music because it is relaxing and not too distracting, but it is interesting to think there m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fun Online Test: The Face in the Branches |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2012, 7:45 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,279
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face in the fence: Your score was 79. The average score is 91.42 (beats 0/10)
old-new women: Your score was 36. The average score is 38.97 (beats 1/10)
face in the branches: Your score was 56. The average score is 60.76 (beats 2/10). |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: aspie women and boyfriends |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2012, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 102
Views: 8,770
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| Autistic females who are not in a relationship are more likely to mention nothing. I suspect in real life, people think I have a boyfriend or something and hence forget about me (I mean, they seem to like me enough when they talk to me at school, but never talk to me anywhere but at school). At lea... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Prosopagnosia: how many of you have it? |
| dancing_penguin |
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Posted: 18 Sep 2012, 3:31 pm
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Replies: 85
Views: 25,320
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| People who are born with prosophagnosia probably have a chance (due to brain plasticity) to adapt to the issue back when the brain is still learning how to recognize shapes (how to see and identify things in their environment), so the issue is less severe symptomatically. Probably compensation is in... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Prosopagnosia: how many of you have it? |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012, 11:32 pm
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Replies: 85
Views: 25,320
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| I'd say, yes, I do have issues with prosopagnosia. It generally takes me a half a dozen meaningful exposures or so to the person to identify them successfully the next time, and until then it is pretty much based on general features. Person with glasses versus without glasses? Extremely different! T... |
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