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 Topic: Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps |
Electric_Kite
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:12 pm Subject: Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps |
okay, I get it. It was like xkcd or something related then?
Not really. It was about pretending to be Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, or Jane Goodall, using the neighborhood dogs (which all ran ... |
| Topic: simple isn't easy - but does it have to be this hard? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:39 am Subject: Re: simple kink? |
@ Electric_Kite, not picking up ~any~ NT vibes at all in your writing style (and presumption you've got the complete overview) but, whatever.
Well, sure. I'm obsessive and twitchy and talk funny an ... |
| Topic: Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:51 am Subject: Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps |
Well, no. They did have some sort of scientific point to them, though surely nothing great. I wasn't trying to be funny, I was eight or something.
I don't understand the second graph, but I think I ... |
| Topic: Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:56 pm Subject: Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps |
| Love maps, always did. In my early teens I collected calandars from different cultures and had three or five on my wall and used them all, and tried to invent other ones. I still convert from the greg ... |
| Topic: simple isn't easy - but does it have to be this hard? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:17 pm Subject: Re: simple kink? |
I am theoretically NT
You've sure got the pedantic part of AS down, though. Couldn't really follow your writing style very well.
In and after college I knew plenty of NTs who did S&D.
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| Topic: Do you often tune people out? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:04 am Subject: Do you often tune people out? |
I don't think any job unless it was filled full of just aspies would be accomdating, because if you look at it from their view it does look like you are dumb because you can't string a sentence toge ... |
| Topic: How do you not annoy people? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:46 am Subject: How do you not annoy people? |
| Sometimes I was pretty good at explaining semi-dense sciency stuff to people. The trick wasn't to dumb down my vocabulary, it was more about timing. Pause after each important point and ask a meaningl ... |
| Topic: Do you have a hard time staying connected with your friends? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:19 am Subject: Do you have a hard time staying connected with your friends? |
I hate using the phone.
I have a weekly social date that's always at the same time and place, so I see the only friend I see regularly without having to talk about it on the phone, unless it's canc ... |
| Topic: Do you often tune people out? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:59 am Subject: Do you often tune people out? |
| My experience, as I get older I care less and less if people think I'm mental so long as they don't think I'm stupid. At uni, where they recognized that I'm some kinda value-time discount genius, prof ... |
| Topic: Do you often tune people out? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:45 am Subject: Do you often tune people out? |
| i was wondering i was there actually physically or not. then one of them suddenly said, 'autopsy', very happy like he just found out all by himself. i stood up and left the room. i think they didn't ... |
| Topic: Do you often tune people out? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:42 am Subject: Do you often tune people out? |
| Lol, I am like this nearly all the time, i say something and then the word just goes out of my head and I'm stuck there trying to remember and Im feeling incredibly exposed when that happens. And yea ... |
| Topic: Do you often tune people out? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:25 am Subject: Do you often tune people out? |
i always say that it doesn't matter but even so only few stop thinking about the name. it is so out of any logic trying so hard to recall a name that has no meaning at the moment.
Me too, but it ... |
| Topic: Do you often tune people out? |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:51 am Subject: Do you often tune people out? |
Constantly.
I also become infuriated with people who interrupt their own speech for trivial details, or worse, trivial details that they can't even remember. They'll be talking about something that ... |
| Topic: Post Songs about Autistic people |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:26 am Subject: Post Songs about Autistic people |
| I do not believe this song is about autistic people exactly, but it mentions autism and other people often say it is, possibly just because of the foot-notes that appear in the booklet of lyrics that ... |
| Topic: Relationship of mind and body |
Electric_Kite
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:16 am Subject: Relationship of mind and body |
I am irked by Cartesian dualism.
It's interesting that people would have proprieception related problems. Phantom limb syndrome and related somatosensory stuff is my latest fascination. Bumping int ... |
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