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05 Nov 2013, 2:51 pm

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I thought you people didn't even know how to use the internet, let alone turn on a computer. I thought only kids were diagnosed.

Oh really, I was turning computers on before you were even a thought in your dad's loins. And we were using the internet before it was the internet. I remember the TV commercials for the up and coming "Information Superhighway" and I am sure many others here do too. In fact, you would not have the computers you have if the generations who have been building them and using them since before I was born had not been doing so. And as far as what you consider old, when I was three I thought six was old so it's all a matter of perspective. But old does not really start until you are at least 90. So before you make stupid remarks like that you might want to give them some more thought.

And like other posters said, we who are a bit more mature and have been on the Spectrum long before the Spectrum existed, have no support, at least in the US, if we found out after a certain age. So this is the best place for us to get support. So yes, we will be flooding the threads, thank you.


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05 Nov 2013, 2:57 pm

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Why is Wrong Planet full of old people? Like people who are 30+. I thought you people didn't even know how to use the internet, let alone turn on a computer. I thought only kids were diagnosed.

Weres all the youngins?


There are young people around here besides you. As for knowing how to use a computer... I learned that in 1985 when I was 5. There was already a subculture of computer geeks back then, and in some circles (academic, government...) long before that.

Lots of people are diagnosed in adulthood. I've met people who are 50+ and were diagnosed as adults. Awareness of AS hasn't become that widespread until fairly recently. DSM in 1994 and it took a while for it to gain acceptance in run-of-the-mill psych clinics.

It's most common to be diagnosed as a kid now, since the knowledge of how to catch it early has been in place for a while, but even now, many people make it to adulthood before it being caught.

I wasn't diagnosed until 2010 when I was 30. I had pursued the possibility earlier but was rebuffed, then a psych clinic offered unsolicited to assess me.



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05 Nov 2013, 2:58 pm

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I thought you people didn't even know how to use the internet, let alone turn on a computer. I thought only kids were diagnosed.


Oh really? I was turning computers on before you were even a thought in your dad's loins. And we were using the internet before it was the internet. I remember the TV commercials for the up and coming "Information Superhighway" and I am sure many others here do too. In fact, you would not have the computers you have if the generations who have been building them and using them since before I was born had not been doing so. And as far as what you consider old, when I was three I thought six was old so it's all a matter of perspective. But old does not really start until you are at least 90. So before you make stupid remarks like that you might want to give them some more thought.

And like other posters said, we who are a bit more mature and have been on the Spectrum long before the Spectrum existed, have no support, at least in the US, if we found out after a certain age. And no, not only kids are diagnosed and if you had read the huge amounts of other threads that we "old fogies" have posted in you would know that. So this is the best place for us to get support. So yes, we will be flooding the threads, thank you.


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05 Nov 2013, 2:59 pm

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My first computer was bought in 2001, and it was from 1995. It had Win95 on it, 8mb RAM and an 800mb HD. It had a floppy drive too. It died last year. It was a Compaq Armada 1120 and it had SUCH a cool startup sound! I've been trying to find a youtube video with the sound, but I can't without someone talking over it.

Wouldn't the startup sound be the basic W95 startup wav?

That's easy to find...


Not that! I mean the actual machine sound of the laptop itself. It sounded super cool. :D

As for those internal/winmodems...they were awful!!

I'm on XP too. The others sounded either too bulky or too unreliable, e.g. Vista. As for the latest, I found it terrible to navigate on.


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05 Nov 2013, 3:03 pm

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My first computer was bought in 2001, and it was from 1995. It had Win95 on it, 8mb RAM and an 800mb HD. It had a floppy drive too. It died last year. It was a Compaq Armada 1120 and it had SUCH a cool startup sound! I've been trying to find a youtube video with the sound, but I can't without someone talking over it.

Wouldn't the startup sound be the basic W95 startup wav?

That's easy to find...


Not that! I mean the actual machine sound of the laptop itself. It sounded super cool. :D

As for those internal/winmodems...they were awful!!

I'm on XP too. The others sounded either too bulky or too unreliable, e.g. Vista. As for the latest, I found it terrible to navigate on.


Vista was kinda eh.
7 I HATED
8... 8 was my apocalypse.

I think it is because of this: Each new system is more and more user friendly, less technical and more social.

:x I'd prefer user-unfriendly



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05 Nov 2013, 3:04 pm

On this particular laptop I am still using XP. I would rather be using Ubuntu but that got kind of taken over by the dark side. Hate Vista like the plague and am not too fond of Windows 8 either. 7 is okay but can't say much for microsoft anyway these days. But back to topic, we'll revisit this again in a few years Codyrules and see how you feel then.


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05 Nov 2013, 3:06 pm

Actually, I was on the Internet, called ARPANET/MILNET then, in the early eighties when I was in naval intelligence. So, it's hardly anything new, though it is much easier to use now, and bears little resemblance to its earlier incarnations.



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05 Nov 2013, 3:12 pm

Codyrules37 wrote:
Why is Wrong Planet full of old people? Like people who are 30+. I thought you people didn't even know how to use the internet, let alone turn on a computer. I thought only kids were diagnosed.

Weres all the youngins?



:lol: Ignint children are so funny.

I was using the Internet in 1992, before you were born and was visiting WP five years before you discovered it.

Even if "only kids were diagnosed," eventually those kids would grow up and get older. Guess what - YOU are going to be one of the OLD PEOPLE, listening to uneducated puppies making snotty remarks about "old people," and you won't believe how soon it's going to happen. It seems like that day is far, far in the future right now, but here's a secret: Every day of your life, time goes by faster and faster.

Remember how when you were a little kid, the time between Christmases seemed like an eternity? It doesn't feel that way any more, does it? Now it feels like a handful of months. A few more years from now, it will seem like Christmas comes every other month, then soon it will seem like the holidays come round every other week...and it just gets faster and faster...until one day - BAM - you die.

Oh well, who cares - it was Grampa Cody's time. :roll:



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05 Nov 2013, 3:25 pm

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Actually, I was on the Internet, called ARPANET/MILNET then, in the early eighties when I was in naval intelligence. So, it's hardly anything new, though it is much easier to use now, and bears little resemblance to its earlier incarnations.


All revere the early pioneer



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05 Nov 2013, 3:31 pm

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Actually, I was on the Internet, called ARPANET/MILNET then, in the early eighties when I was in naval intelligence. So, it's hardly anything new, though it is much easier to use now, and bears little resemblance to its earlier incarnations.


All revere the early pioneer


As hard as it must be for you to believe, there was intelligent life before you came along.



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05 Nov 2013, 3:32 pm

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Actually, I was on the Internet, called ARPANET/MILNET then, in the early eighties when I was in naval intelligence. So, it's hardly anything new, though it is much easier to use now, and bears little resemblance to its earlier incarnations.


All revere the early pioneer


As hard as it must be for you to believe, there was intelligent life before you came along.


Just not on Earth.



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05 Nov 2013, 3:37 pm

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Actually, I was on the Internet, called ARPANET/MILNET then, in the early eighties when I was in naval intelligence. So, it's hardly anything new, though it is much easier to use now, and bears little resemblance to its earlier incarnations.


All revere the early pioneer


As hard as it must be for you to believe, there was intelligent life before you came along.


Just not on Earth.


Well, one of these days the entire earth might bow before you. In the meantime, you will have to do your worship in front of your mirror.



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05 Nov 2013, 3:43 pm

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I was sent here by OPs' family to spy and report on every post he makes. I imagine most of the other older WP members are working for OP's family as well. I mean, why else would we be here?


Actually, I'm here as a double agent. Just don't tell anyone, OK? 8)

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i found this a teeny bit offensive


This person gets the prize for "best understatement delivered with self-restraint."

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Oh really, I was turning computers on before you were even a thought in your dad's loins.


:lol: This thread just gets better and better. The OP has unleashed the wrath of all the "old" people on WP! Will he ever dare show his face to come back and face them?



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05 Nov 2013, 4:21 pm

I think Cody was being funny, whilst apparently entirely forgetting that AS is on the autism spectrum, and classically populated by people who take statements overly literally. (@wrongforum.com)

:lol: <--emoticons: useful when deploying sarcasm amidst individuals on the spectrum


For the record, Cody, I thought you were very funny. :)



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05 Nov 2013, 4:30 pm

Darn kids! Get off my lawn!



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05 Nov 2013, 4:43 pm

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I was sent here by OPs' family to spy and report on every post he makes. I imagine most of the other older WP members are working for OP's family as well. I mean, why else would we be here?


Actually, I'm here as a double agent. Just don't tell anyone, OK? 8)

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i found this a teeny bit offensive


This person gets the prize for "best understatement delivered with self-restraint."

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Oh really, I was turning computers on before you were even a thought in your dad's loins.


:lol: This thread just gets better and better. The OP has unleashed the wrath of all the "old" people on WP! Will he ever dare show his face to come back and face them?


You are funny lol