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 Topic: Urgent question for IT experts... |
shopaholic
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 Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:13 am Subject: Urgent question for IT experts... |
outlook's emails are usually sent to computer's harddrive.
Ah - this might explain it - we use Groupwise, not Outlook. So maybe they got confused.....
There is no way they could be on the hard d ... |
| Topic: Urgent question for IT experts... |
shopaholic
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:59 am Subject: Urgent question for IT experts... |
How?
We hotdesk, so we can already log in at any terminal anywhere.
Why would this change? |
| Topic: Urgent question for IT experts... |
shopaholic
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:41 am Subject: Urgent question for IT experts... |
Hi,
I am at work and we are about to have an office move to another part of the same building, which is on the same network.
We have been told to archive all our emails, but none of the NT sheep ... |
| Topic: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
shopaholic
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:10 pm Subject: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
Yes, OK, it was a tangent - but originally a relevant tangent!
Please understand that the real point being made here is that what an NT considers "special" in an Aspie (i.e. in the original post) i ... |
| Topic: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
shopaholic
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:45 pm Subject: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
even though its well known children can't grasp the concept of subtraction until they are around 7 years old.
Huh??? That's bizarre! I suppose they must be talking about NT kids, because it certain ... |
| Topic: 9yr old aspie increasing agressive behaviour |
shopaholic
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:16 pm Subject: 9yr old aspie increasing agressive behaviour |
As far as he is concerned, all he is doing is the equivalent of "swatting a fly", i.e. something is irritating him so he has to lash out at it to stop it. It is as straightforward as that.
This sug ... |
| Topic: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
shopaholic
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:46 pm Subject: I wish I could be "D" for a day. Introspectives pl |
Your son sounds a lot like me as a child.
To me it is strange NOT to be able to read, add up & tell the time at 3!
When I started school at 5, I assumed all the other kids' parents must have ... |
| Topic: The 'glass wall' analogy as an autistic experience |
shopaholic
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:37 pm Subject: The 'glass wall' analogy as an autistic experience |
Yes, I always feel that I am watching everyone else from within my own little bubble. The thing is, I don't want anyone to be able to see in, unless I choose to allow it.
I want to be invisible, to ... |
| Topic: Do you use hand gestures? |
shopaholic
Replies: 22
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:25 pm Subject: Do you use hand gestures? |
| Yes - I am always waving my hands around & hitting people/knocking things over! |
| Topic: Can you improvise? |
shopaholic
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:24 pm Subject: Can you improvise? |
| Not when anyone is watching me - I visibly panic & "freeze" if I am suddenly confronted with something I am unprepared for. |
| Topic: Disregard/abidance of rules and regulations |
shopaholic
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:22 pm Subject: Disregard/abidance of rules and regulations |
Hotdesking? I'd never heard of it. Sounds like hell...
It is - it's where there are (e.g.) 8 identical desks for every 10 people and anyone can sit at any desk - so in practice the people who get ... |
| Topic: Disregard/abidance of rules and regulations |
shopaholic
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:09 am Subject: Disregard/abidance of rules and regulations |
I am either totally one way or totally the other.
If I think a rule is stupid/ridiculous/jobsworth etc I will argue the point way past what is sensible - but I won't just sneakily break it (i.e. I ... |
| Topic: Girls Affected Differently? |
shopaholic
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:20 am Subject: Girls Affected Differently? |
| I would also regard myself as pretty much gender-neutral - &, most importantly, I was brought up as gender-neutral as well, so that I never experienced the "female socialisation" thing that has be ... |
| Topic: Motor skills: autism vs. AS |
shopaholic
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:12 am Subject: Motor skills: autism vs. AS |
| I still have really poor fine motor skills, but the gross ones are better. (I have worked on them for many years). |
| Topic: The "Just be yourself" lie |
shopaholic
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:10 am Subject: The "Just be yourself" lie |
The point of being yourself is that if you try & be someone else, eventually your mask will slip & the other person will realise you are not the person they thoguht you were.
That is why it ... |
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