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Topic: What do you do to make other people happy? |
TTRSage
Replies: 17
Views: 615
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:11 pm Subject: What do you do to make other people happy? |
| I like to go where people do not know me or that I am any different from anybody else. Even just driving around when I am in a good mood. Then I like to go out of my way to be courteous to other peopl ... |
Topic: Do people make you the subject of malicious gossip? |
TTRSage
Replies: 33
Views: 6039
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:56 pm Subject: Re: Do people make you the subject of malicious gossip? |
If any NT does it to me, I find that they are the ones who have some insecurities wrong with them while not having the brighest iqs.
NTs certainly are not the brightest creatures in the world but h ... |
Topic: Do people make you the subject of malicious gossip? |
TTRSage
Replies: 33
Views: 6039
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:06 pm Subject: Do people make you the subject of malicious gossip? |
| I found this post several months ago while searching for other Aspies' views on gossip as a baseless and unwelcome expression of NT opinion (which many of us dislike as being non-factual). I really di ... |
Topic: Do Kids Seem To Notice You Are Different? |
TTRSage
Replies: 28
Views: 813
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:24 pm Subject: Do Kids Seem To Notice You Are Different? |
Little kids and animals like me.
I had almost forgotten about the animal connection. I have always been a dog lover and always assumed that dogs were attracted to me because they recognized that I ... |
Topic: Personality vs Focus |
TTRSage
Replies: 1
Views: 180
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:40 pm Subject: Personality vs Focus |
| A short time ago a thought popped into my mind that seems to describe one big difference between NT and Aspie personalities quite well. Lets see what the rest of you think. This may be too oversimplif ... |
Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
TTRSage
Replies: 102
Views: 2370
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:03 pm Subject: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
| My guess is that if anything, autism is the human evolutionary future, a random genetic "experiment" of nature, although the effect of natural selection would never allow it to prevail since we do not ... |
Topic: Do Kids Seem To Notice You Are Different? |
TTRSage
Replies: 28
Views: 813
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:57 pm Subject: Do Kids Seem To Notice You Are Different? |
| I just had a strange experience. I just returned from the bank where three little kids ages 1-4 were standing in line with their parents in front of me. It was a long, slow line and the entire time I ... |
Topic: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
TTRSage
Replies: 109
Views: 4314
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:40 pm Subject: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
I say either act instantly, like with a good headbutt, or let it go.
That immediately brought to mind the usual advice when punishing a dog for making a mess on the carpet. Swat them right now or e ... |
Topic: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
TTRSage
Replies: 109
Views: 4314
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:29 pm Subject: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
| Gotten back at bullies several times. One of the more recent was when someone tried to get me fired for essentially being autistic. She's a person of import, but as far as getting rid of this building ... |
Topic: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
TTRSage
Replies: 109
Views: 4314
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:17 pm Subject: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
Woah! That's way too much! What is with the bloodlust?
i cannot forgive nor easily forget. the bully first has to atone
Well said, Auntblabby (long time, no chat... I haven't logged on for a long ... |
Topic: Who is against a cure for Aspergers? |
TTRSage
Replies: 104
Views: 7773
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:01 pm Subject: Who is against a cure for Aspergers? |
Wouldn't it be nice to see things from multiple perspectives to a greater extent than what you can get with your imagination alone?
That's only a lame excuse to avoid reality. The grass is always g ... |
Topic: Who is against a cure for Aspergers? |
TTRSage
Replies: 104
Views: 7773
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:10 pm Subject: Who is against a cure for Aspergers? |
Why would anyone want to not be themselves?
Wouldn't most NTs be opposed to a cure for NTism?
How many women would want to be cured of being women?
How many blacks would want to bleach themse ... |
Topic: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
TTRSage
Replies: 109
Views: 4314
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:07 pm Subject: Anyone ever get back at their bullies? |
| Revenge is never right but is often the only way to get bullies to cease their efforts. I seem to have made a second career of it in my life. The effect never lasts permanently though. The only thing ... |
Topic: How did I pick up on what *they* didn't? |
TTRSage
Replies: 5
Views: 477
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:07 pm Subject: How did I pick up on what *they* didn't? |
| Aspies are much more perceptive about the world around them than are NTs, whose brains filter out most of what their minds perceive (with their jaws flapping the whole time). I personally believe that ... |
Topic: What its like to have a meltdown! |
TTRSage
Replies: 38
Views: 1371
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:56 pm Subject: What its like to have a meltdown! |
| That looks more like a shutdown to me, which is a very destructive internalization of the stressful situations that the world heaps upon us. Aspie meltdowns are a very positive thing, consisting of a ... |
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