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05 Dec 2013, 12:47 am

I'm not selfish and I never was. I even tried to give my mum my loose change on the phone this morning to prove a point that I'm not selfish and being called selfish by my parents in my childhood and teen years really hurt.


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05 Dec 2013, 1:50 am

Don't be silly, we're not dolphins... we're penguins, obviously! Sheesh, get it right!


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05 Dec 2013, 2:56 am

cyberdad wrote:
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- Aspies are aliens! :lol: (my favorite)

Some of us are... :wink:


I think that you look like your avatar.


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05 Dec 2013, 3:19 am

Dolphins are pretty skillz, i am just focussing on that one tbh



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05 Dec 2013, 3:42 am

Type in "autistic people are dolphins" and you get interesting results.


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05 Dec 2013, 3:44 am

I'd rather be a narwhal than a dolphin. Unicorn of the sea :)



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05 Dec 2013, 5:59 am

The dolphin thing is old. Its been mentioned here before.

Autism is supposidly the result of CIA expiraments with crossing humans with porposes.

So spectrumites all have some of flipper's DNA!



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05 Dec 2013, 6:17 am

People think we're dolphins? Hmm. Well I guess there's only one thing to say to them...

So long and thanks for all the fish!



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05 Dec 2013, 6:25 am

Actually dolphins are highly sociable...



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05 Dec 2013, 6:26 am

btbnnyr wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Monolithe wrote:
- Aspies are aliens! :lol: (my favorite)

Some of us are... :wink:


I think that you look like your avatar.

Not just look, I think like an alien... :lol:



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05 Dec 2013, 8:26 am

According to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy dolphins are the 2nd most intelligent species on Earth. Humans are 3rd. :lol:


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05 Dec 2013, 8:28 am

Callista wrote:
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Why not tigers or lions?
If you want to go with cats, then autistics are more like tigers and NTs are more like lions. Lions have a social structure and live in groups; tigers are loners who love water.

Yup, definitely a tiger.

But that search term was always going to get a lot of negative responses. If you start with, "Autistics are..." you'll get statements that people have made about all autistics. Such global statements are already an indication that the people using those search terms are familiar with the stereotype, and may believe in them.


And also the largest cat species in the world, don't forget that :wink:



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05 Dec 2013, 10:07 am

The Autistic - Dolphin link may be in part due to old discussion here. Has to do with how search engines work.

Here -> Autistics are Dolphins is Human Bodies



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05 Dec 2013, 10:20 am

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Oh no, they're onto us! They've figured out we're all secretly dolphins!
Well, at least now we can start campaigning for dolphin-accessible keyboards. Do you know how hard it is to avoid typos when you're tapping keys with a dolphin nose?

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I'm not selfish and I never was. I even tried to give my mum my loose change on the phone this morning to prove a point that I'm not selfish and being called selfish by my parents in my childhood and teen years really hurt.
From what I have seen of you on WP: No, you are not selfish. You're probably among the least selfish people in the population. I'm the same way--and it's not due to some kind of virtue; it's just that I've always been happiest when I know other people are happy too. I think I was born that way.

The trouble with this, is that people who want to hurt you know exactly how to hurt you: They accuse you of being selfish, because they know that this is one of your greatest fears. I would literally rather die than become someone who would take advantage of others. I hate myself most when I procrastinate and don't do the things I should, because I know it keeps me from becoming someone who can really change the world for the better.

My mom does the same thing to me that yours does to you. When she wants to hurt me, when she wants to manipulate me into doing whatever she wants me to do, she says I'm selfish. She says I'm hurting her, that I don't care about her. I think she does this because she knows how much I care about not hurting people. Even when I know it's not true, it still hurts.

Just try to put it out of your mind and go on with your life. Go on being who you are. The world needs more people who care.


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05 Dec 2013, 10:34 am

YAY i'm a dolphin!


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05 Dec 2013, 10:51 am

Sounds like the "Otherkin" have been busy again.

Dolphins?? Really??

I'm waiting for "Aspies are people."

Actually, I'm waiting for Google to dump autocomplete. It's annoying. I don't want my computer to tell me what it thinks I'm looking for. If I wanted that, I'd ask my friendly local librarian.

I'd like to figure out how to turn off the autocorrect feature that downloaded with the last Windows update, too.

*sigh*


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