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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Feeling low after social interractions? |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2010, 11:01 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,910
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| I find that any social interaction requires considerable conscious effort on my part.There's a lot of ensuring that I listen, don't talk over other people, maintaining eye contact and appropriate physical posture etc. - things that may come automatically to an NT. So at the end of any social encount... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Birmingham UK -Sat 30th of Jan? |
| Fiat_Lux |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 8:28 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,135
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| I've not been looking at WP for a time, so I've only just noticed this. I could come along for a while, as I may be in the centre of town anyway. Send me a message if you do/don't decide to go ahead. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Hire more autists [Wired mag] |
| Fiat_Lux |
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Posted: 12 Oct 2009, 6:59 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,404
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| A very interesting business model. The article does not make it clear whether an employee must be on the autism spectrum to be employed, or whether NTs are rejected for not being on the spectrum. However, many companies would not want to make an investment in their employees of a five month training... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Wanting to Dress Well for Work |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2009, 7:47 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,663
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| There are some very interesting points regarding the consequences of dressing/not dressing like your co-workers. To the OP, if you want to smarten up, then go for it. Some of your co-workers may consider that you're getting above yourself (perhaps they're jealous?). Others, however, may be inspired ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Post-Autscape WP London meet up 22nd Aug |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2009, 7:29 am
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Replies: 31
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| If you are going to the next London meet-up on 22/08, it may be worth checking whether a tube line that you require will be shut for engineering works. The Transport for London web-site shows which lines will be shut on which particular days: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/tube/de... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Gravitas |
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Posted: 27 May 2009, 12:03 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I think that the word is 'credibility'. I've worked under many managers who can put forward the most hare-brained ideas and get other people to accept what they say. Furthermore, they were able to brush aside any logical argument that ran counter to their own ideas. It still amazes me how so many pe... |
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Forum: Español, Nederlands, Deutsch, Français Topic: Qualcuno che parla italiano? |
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Posted: 21 May 2009, 7:23 am
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Replies: 47
Views: 11,669
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Ciao agli scrittori sul questo dialogo. Studio la lingua italiana dal 2004. Voglio migliorare la mia conoscenza della grammatica ed anche aumentare il mio vocabolario.
C’è qualcuno che si interessa dell’arte del Rinascimento? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Unpopularity of Critical Thinking outside work |
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Posted: 06 May 2009, 4:07 am
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Replies: 11
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| critical thinking is not all that popular around the workplace either unless you work in engineering. even our tech support guys get criticized by management for being too judgmental with customers. they are supposed to find something more diplomatic than telling a customer that he made a mistake. ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I hate clients so much.... |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2009, 7:14 am
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Replies: 11
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| :x They don’t have the level of knowledge for me to explain this properly. Nope. They want and CMS, but they don’t want because they are telling me to write individual feature and then loosely string them together, but also so how my magic they will have a CMS. I don’t have the time to explain to t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you think The BNP get into power in the UK? |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2009, 3:45 pm
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Replies: 68
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| should i worry about them getting to power? By getting into power, do you mean forming a clear Parliamentary majority? Given the ‘First-Past-the-Post’ voting system in the UK, it’s very unlikely unless the voting laws are changed. Neither the Conservatives nor Labour would countenance such a change... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hi from Birmingham, Uk |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2009, 7:22 am
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Replies: 8
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Hello, I'm in Birmingham.
Great avatar you've got (although I thought that 'Diamond Dogs' was a better album)! |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Passive aggressive behavior in my dates |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2009, 8:04 pm
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Replies: 20
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| I had exactly the same experience as Space recently. I went on a couple of dates with a lady that I’d met and I thought that things were going well. At the end of one date, we arranged to see each other again, then nothing – my calls, messages and emails to her went unanswered. OK, you come off too ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: working in a multiple-manager setting |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2009, 7:49 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I’ve been in a similar situation when I was working on two projects simultaneously and having to report to two project managers. Each project manager both expected me to devote all of my time to their particular project. I got around this by making a list of all my activities on both projects, toget... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: It's just a jump to the left |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2009, 2:55 pm
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Replies: 30
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| It was great when it all began I was a regular Frankie fan But it was over when he had a plan To start working on a muscle man It was about 20 years ago, the VHS video of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ was released in Britain. I got my copy signed by Richard O’Brien at the HMV store in London. He ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meet Up Thread |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2009, 3:40 am
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Replies: 715
Views: 129,325
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| If only 3 people turn out to be interested (which is 3 more than present), I could hold the meet in the Scotch Malt Whisky Society members' room (as a member I can sign 3 non-members in). It's certainly not crowded and is quiet during weekday afternoons. And no-one would have to drink any whisky Si... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Meet Up Thread |
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Posted: 03 Feb 2009, 10:47 am
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Replies: 715
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| If only 3 people turn out to be interested (which is 3 more than present), I could hold the meet in the Scotch Malt Whisky Society members' room (as a member I can sign 3 non-members in). It's certainly not crowded and is quiet during weekday afternoons. And no-one would have to drink any whisky Si... |
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