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digger1
I am the frontman of evil, Bobby!
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Obres
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| It's a good article for "how to get your ass kicked by someone with asperger's" or maybe "how to get someone with asperger's to avoid you because they think you have much worse issues than they do" |
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silentchaos
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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That made me laugh, i was kinda gloomy but now I'm not. 
The article does seem fairly accurate, it would work with me i would think. I couldn't resist pretending half of the tips were pertaining to befriending feral cats or a squirrel though. |
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Liverbird
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Yeah, it kinna makes us sound like we are rabid bears escaped from a performing circus and we are pretty pissed off about it. It was definitely weird. I'm going to try this on all my aspie friends now. (Facetious laughing out loud). It made us sound as if we would really enjoy being party to this odd little stupid human experiment.
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Belfast
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Now that link says "we don't have an article by that name"-so haven't seen/read whatever it was. However, I'd offer this (written for partners, though some could be valid/relevant for "just friends") as relatively inoffensive (from AANE website)-
http://www.aane.org/about_asperger_syndrome/living_asperger_syndrome_partners.html
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silentchaos
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Step #6 : After you have gained his or her trust bring some sort of food( they often like cheese or doritos) and slowly place it between them and you. They will probably back away at first but be patient, soon they will take it. If they run away don't worry, they will learn it was you and slowly come to like you. |
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RampionRampage
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Joined: Feb 04, 2008
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Location: Greater Philly Area, PA
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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it works. for some reason the link cut off at the apostrphe in asperger's. here is the correct link.
http://www.wikihow.com/Relate-to-Someone-who-Has-Asperger's-Syndrome
that aside, it seems like it should be a joke. 
some of it reminds me of how you would work with an abused dog to make it more adoptable.
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Belfast
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Okay, I took a look.
Didn't seem especially awful, just a bit overly general/simplistic-but isn't that the case with guidelines for any "category" of persons ? I've seen/heard much worse, in terms of inaccuracies, misinformation, stereotypes, etc.
In some ways, I am like a skittish animal-so advice that comes from that perspective doesn't seem to far off the mark. The stuff about BD/SM towards end of article felt tad out of place (lumped together with the general social info. in rest of it), but hey, it's not for me to say...
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2ukenkerl
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2. WE AREN'T BIRDS!!!!!
3. WE DON'T WANT many conversations!
5. WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!
6. WE MAY NOT CARE!
7. ASK US FIRST!
The rest is probably ok. |
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wolphin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:33 am Post subject: |
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2 is just ridiculous
3 & 5 actually make some sense. Just don't go to any extremes.
6 is probably a good idea, though you'd probably want to be more diplomatic about it than they have. If someone I didn't know well told me that something I was doing was "usually considered inappropriate" it could come off as condescending.
Some of the "tips" are kind of stereotypical, but maybe useful.
The warnings seem absurd, though I guess I'd never thought about things that way before.  |
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spudnik
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| I have the feeling they would want to trow a gunny sack over me and haul me off somewhere |
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GoatOnFire
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Number 2, No. Number 6, be careful with that.
Some of the warnings about BDSM were, interesting...
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Pobodys_Nerfect
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:16 am Post subject: |
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At least we can say we come with a manual  |
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Chadk
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1. Good luck.
2. Well, it shouldnt be too hard to figure out our patterns. But for jesus christ sake, DONT ****ING SIT NEXT TO ME! 
3. Shut up, i dont care.
4. No thanks.
5. I dont care
6. Hard one. I would tell you to go to hell, but it might just be my stubborness.
7. No, please dont introduce me to your friends, i dont care about them.
MUST be a joke. I would hate anybody who does that in order to get in contact with me. Just spit it out, dont play games. |
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bheid
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: |
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number two would really creep me out. i'd go to a different table the next day, and he'd be there. do the same the next day, and he'd still be sitting next to me...
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