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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How to get over loosing a friend - any ideas? |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2014, 1:20 am
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| SRT, We do this. We stress and fret and obsess, and then try to fix stuff -- but for our own benefit, in the long run. And in making that selfish gesture ... yes, we bring it upon ourselves. I've been where you are, both with aspie-types and non. And you really have to take the blinders off and see ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 2:28 pm
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| I think dialogue flows well for me because I imagine the style of interaction that I'm familiar with through film, books, and video games, which is a little more interesting, meaningful, and even theatrical than in real-life. Me too. My pop culture memory is darn near eidetic when it comes to lyric... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Supplement your income with Kindle books |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 2:17 pm
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Replies: 18
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| You're welcome. The self-analysis thing tends to pass with time, I think. I have a reasonable ground in how NTs really think -- not how they believe they function, but reality -- and once I understood that, I had fewer problems with myself. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Reasons why I never will have a boyfriend.What do you think? |
| jloome |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 2:09 pm
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| At least you're not ugly and you have good physical hygiene i`m beautiful.Really. There's a good chance you're going to get happier as you get older. Many of the things you're describing as issues are typical to any teenager, whether neurotypical or aspie. The reason you'll get happier is that you'... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: When being asked to lend money |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 2:00 pm
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| People who are narcissistic or sociopathic tend to be manipulative all the time. But what's worse is that they naturally gravitate socially towards people who they feel they'll be able to manipulate most easily, which includes people with cognitive conditions. Many sociopaths either bully or trick t... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How to get over loosing a friend - any ideas? |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 1:57 pm
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| It's hard to offer advice on this as you haven't really described what happened. You were friends, then you asked her out -- what , on a date? -- and she stopped being friends with you? If that's the case, she's just not attracted to you and never will be. If your "friendship" is really that you're ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Resolved |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 1:41 pm
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| Hi, It's very difficult for someone with aspergers to be content. Ever. We're continually mentally challenging ourselves to know and understand more about the world around us; however the fine details of other peoples' lives often don't relate to big picture questions about life in general, so we do... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: A question for Skyrimers........ |
| jloome |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2013, 2:00 pm
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| love Love LOVE this game!! I started by playing Morrowind. I don't remember how I learned about it. Then I bought an XBox 360 just so I could play Oblivion. Now I'm playing Skyrim. I've been playing it for years. My character is level 51, Khajit, assassin. I have the Homestead extra and the vampire... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: One reason why I don't really play video games anymore |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2013, 1:07 pm
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| You level up as you play through the game, sometimes you will have to stay in an area (just before a boss, for example) to get stronger. That's called grinding and some games require more of it than others. But what you're doing when grinding, is making your character stronger, earning more money a... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2013, 1:03 pm
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| Sure! Genre fiction basically means anything specific to one genre, like detective or romance; "to plot" means it pretty much just sticks to the plot, there's not a lot of creative variation in structure. First draft .... well, I usually write through each book at least three times before publishing... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2013, 2:54 am
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| Not long; genre fiction is pretty much to plot, so I try to keep my first draft to under 60,000 words and that's usually three to six weeks, writing full-time. Start with your conclusion and work backwards to develop a plot, then write it forward, flesh out each plot point along the way. Just rememb... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Supplement your income with Kindle books |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2013, 2:44 am
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| I write throughout the day. I try to start by 9 a.m., and usually write straight through til about noon or 1230, then take a break and do housework, walk the dogs, take out the trash etc. I try to write for at least a couple more hours in the afternoon, and maybe an hour at night. So probably six or... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Supplement your income with Kindle books |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 10:56 pm
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| Didn't see anything offensive in what you wrote! The other two were being elitist knobs, but I suppose we all are about some things. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Aspie authors writing social interaction |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 9:20 pm
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Cheers! Thank you. It means a lot right now, as I'm facing the prospect of going back out into the workforce due to slow sales.
I understand my issues, and other peoples and even neurotypical people quite completely. Doesn't make it any less unnerving. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Supplement your income with Kindle books |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 9:14 pm
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| So how does one go about writing a Kindle book please? Can you give us a step by step procedure? Do you write it first on your Computer than just post it to Amazon and say sell this book for us? Okay, first of all I was a newspaper reporter for 23 years, so I have a lot of experience with turn-of-p... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Supplement your income with Kindle books |
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Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 9:04 pm
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| Okay, well, almost every reviewer on Earth disagrees with both of you and my books are nearly all rated over four stars on both Amazon and Goodreads ... but I guess attacking someone is easier than qualifying your statement with "oh, and by the way, everything that isn't lit fic is s**t to me." Igno... |
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