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 Topic: RIP - J.D. Salinger -Brilliant Review of Catcher in the Rye |
paolo
Replies: 20
Views: 582
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 Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:13 pm Subject: Salinger Aspergerf |
| I have read all Salinger between 1959 and 1961. I became enthusiastic about Salinger and I also wrote a rather long review of the Catcher and the Nine Stories, which was published in a magazine in '61 ... |
| Topic: Reacting to sleights |
paolo
Replies: 7
Views: 552
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:46 pm Subject: Reacting to sleights |
| I am very touchy. But what makes things more serious is that I am unable to evaluate in a proper way the sleights I receive. Sleights are for me nukes in my bubble. I don’t know how to react properly ... |
| Topic: Do you eavestdrop on people? |
paolo
Replies: 19
Views: 585
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:51 am Subject: Do you eavestdrop on people? |
| I do it all the time deliberately and feel no qualms for that. It's like being an alien or observing ants- |
| Topic: I hate humans |
paolo
Replies: 16
Views: 1128
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Forum: The Haven Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:48 am Subject: I hate humans |
| Humans are the species gone astray. Gregory Bateson some decades ago knew that. |
| Topic: Parallel play |
paolo
Replies: 6
Views: 555
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:51 am Subject: Parallel play |
| The man who plunged in a shooting spray in the military base in Texas did not seem weird before what he did. As, for those who have seen “Lebanon”, the soldiers in the tank who were ordered by some co ... |
| Topic: Parallel play |
paolo
Replies: 6
Views: 555
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:47 am Subject: Parallel play |
| It's Sunday a bad day in itself, and out raining a lot, I lye in my bed with my little dog snoring aside in the bed. The warm in the bed, the silence around are erasing anguishing dreams. I still have ... |
| Topic: Parallel play |
paolo
Replies: 6
Views: 555
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:09 pm Subject: Parallel play |
| Non verbal autistic people's worlds are impossible even to imagine, they are, by definition, impossible to know. Karl Greenfeld has written a book (Boy Alone) which describes his growing up with a non ... |
| Topic: Dreams |
paolo
Replies: 14
Views: 312
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:58 pm Subject: Dreams |
| A dream, last night. I was in a group of persons (6 or 7) among whom there was Hitler. I had with me some long scissors and was worried to be discovered and possibly executed on the spot. But I was n ... |
| Topic: Do you believe this view? |
paolo
Replies: 16
Views: 504
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:21 pm Subject: Do you believe this view? |
| I am not sure we are born alone. As for the experience of dying, there is no witnessing of the experience of being born. About dying: I would prefer dying alone rather that having around people who do ... |
| Topic: Am I? |
paolo
Replies: 7
Views: 351
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:35 pm Subject: Am I? |
| I have never had a passion fo a clean house, perhaps because, in my family, housekeeping was entrusted to me and to my elder sister. My mother was busy with other occupations (she was a small publishe ... |
| Topic: Loneliness at the end |
paolo
Replies: 3
Views: 831
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:45 pm Subject: Loneliness at the end |
| One reason for being lonely at the end beside being autistic (in my case - but I think autism is much more outspread than we think, as being tone deaf, or left handed) is that with aging you build you ... |
| Topic: Book recommendation for the literate |
paolo
Replies: 4
Views: 423
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:12 pm Subject: Book recommendation for the literate |
| Goffman's Presentation of Self is an excellent book. Having published a book about Goffman and translated or edited Goffman's translations in Italian I would like to recommend also Relations in public ... |
| Topic: McKinnon and Alan Turing |
paolo
Replies: 16
Views: 963
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:52 pm Subject: Re: autism |
| Turning for all his WW2 service knew right from wrong and he should not have picked up a 19 year old for a homosexual liason as this was highly illegal at the time. You can be smart but lack total co ... |
| Topic: McKinnon and Alan Turing |
paolo
Replies: 16
Views: 963
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:08 pm Subject: McKinnon and Alan Turing |
| Both McKinnon and Alan Turing hsve been Aspergers. Turing was a math genius who contributed as perhaps no one else singularly to the allies' victory in WW2. He broke the Enigma code of the Germans al ... |
| Topic: Diagnose yourself here |
paolo
Replies: 23
Views: 1014
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:37 am Subject: Diagnose yourself here |
Depression with manic moments. Without some manic moments I couldn’t survive.
Friends: none. Never had any.
Lived always alone.
Lack of concentration.
Egocentrism, living in a bubble.
Very sensi ... |
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