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 Topic: Facing the real world. |
Saturn
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:15 pm Subject: Facing the real world. |
| I'm also currently facing the reality that I will have to get work, and for similar reasons to you as my little self-employed income has been drying up and my social isolation is not what I really wan ... |
| Topic: seeking redemption |
Saturn
Replies: 10
Views: 642
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:19 am Subject: seeking redemption |
| I can relate to what you're saying. |
| Topic: Bizarre Online Dating Experience - Advice Sought |
Saturn
Replies: 7
Views: 597
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:53 pm Subject: Bizarre Online Dating Experience - Advice Sought |
| My advice is to stick with the reputable paid sites that require accurate personal information and a credit card to sign up, and that focus on creating a match, rather than casual chatting & takin ... |
| Topic: Bizarre Online Dating Experience - Advice Sought |
Saturn
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Views: 597
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:51 pm Subject: Bizarre Online Dating Experience - Advice Sought |
| What an odd experience. The only advice I have is if you still have any messages from either of them is to look at them side by side. Many people make certain spelling or grammar errors repeatedly, or ... |
| Topic: Bizarre Online Dating Experience - Advice Sought |
Saturn
Replies: 7
Views: 597
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:31 pm Subject: Bizarre Online Dating Experience - Advice Sought |
| I've recently a very strange experience using a well-known dating site. I will attempt to summarize the points of the story that I wish to reveal and that I think are relevent to arriving at an explan ... |
| Topic: Self Esteem |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1689
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:55 pm Subject: Self Esteem |
| ... proof is hard to find without its opposite, because I am all things, all emotions, both light and dark, good and bad. If loving is a quality I have, I also hate, so love is canceled out. Perhaps t ... |
| Topic: Self Esteem |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1689
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:20 pm Subject: Re: Self Esteem |
| Yesterday, I felt overcome with feelings of low self esteem and was basically a bit depressed about myself. From there I had waves of thoughts centring around the apparant fact that life is pointless. ... |
| Topic: Self Esteem |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1689
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 3:17 pm Subject: Self Esteem |
All within me is contradiction and paradox.
In the past I've rationalised what this says to me by saying something like: if I think well of myself then I must also think poorly of myself because w ... |
| Topic: Self Esteem |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1689
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:04 pm Subject: Self Esteem |
I somehow lost this bit of my last post and then managed to recover it:
I'm reflecting on this right now and I think that perhaps a tendency to value ones actions, consciously or subconsciously, wi ... |
| Topic: Self Esteem |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1689
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:01 pm Subject: Self Esteem |
Hi Cass,
Sorry it's taken me so long to revisit this ...
I think the root of low self esteem is different for each of us. I'm still trying to find the root of mine. It has something to do with ... |
| Topic: Self Esteem |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1689
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 5:11 pm Subject: Self Esteem |
Hi Cass,
I like your post.
It can get tricky for me here, because I feel I ought to be able to feel good about myself without having to achieve anything in particular.
I feel the same way. A ... |
| Topic: Vulnerability to self-judgement tirades? |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1569
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 3:38 pm Subject: Vulnerability to self-judgement tirades? |
| For me feeling good 'is' performing well. Then again it used to be pretty close to 100% correlation but, albeit - like with anyone else alive and breathing on this planet past 25 - reality sets in and ... |
| Topic: Vulnerability to self-judgement tirades? |
Saturn
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Views: 1569
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:40 pm Subject: Vulnerability to self-judgement tirades? |
I don't think that is a problem. That's how you are and you need to find ways that work for you.
Well, I'd probably be better off rephrasing that then 'That's my dilemma' - ie. the quick and easy f ... |
| Topic: This isn't me. |
Saturn
Replies: 6
Views: 537
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:54 pm Subject: This isn't me. |
| Well, I think I sympathise. You obviously have quite a strong desire there to turn things around for yourself. I don't know what to advise, though. I think advice is often redundant for me because we ... |
| Topic: Vulnerability to self-judgement tirades? |
Saturn
Replies: 28
Views: 1569
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:38 pm Subject: Vulnerability to self-judgement tirades? |
Yea. My subconscious is good at ignoring anything I try to "tell" it.
That's precisely my problem - very low proclivity to suggestion.
I don't think that is a problem. That's how you are and yo ... |
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