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Lightning88
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20 Feb 2007, 2:58 am

I know, I know... I haven't been here in forever! I just needed to take a break from some things. I was completely busy with school work, too, so that obviously wasn't helping! lol So has anything interesting happened when I was gone?



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20 Feb 2007, 3:26 am

Well, they've made several developments to the Cure for AS. Or the cause anyway...

Oh, and I gave away 250 KBABZ awards!!

Man, you're Avatar gets me every time...


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20 Feb 2007, 3:42 am

That's pretty cool! How much closer are they now for finding the cure? Oh, and congrats on giving away all those KRABZ awards! :D

lol You gotta love this avatar! :)



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20 Feb 2007, 3:44 am

Welcome back to WP!

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20 Feb 2007, 3:56 am

Thanks! :D



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20 Feb 2007, 4:27 am

Spell it right, and you'll get an award... 8)


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20 Feb 2007, 4:36 am

K-B-A-B-Z

did I spell it right????



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20 Feb 2007, 4:37 am

I have no idea who you are...
But welcome back! I'm new here.



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20 Feb 2007, 4:51 am

the cure
shall never come
for the only
way to change us
is brain surgery

even if
those vile men
made such
a thing
i would fight it

my welcome is but naught
a small
nugatory thing

(Translation: The only "cure" is brain surgery. Even if they made a "Cure" I would fight it. Welcome!)


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20 Feb 2007, 4:59 am

KBABZ wrote:
Spell it right, and you'll get an award... 8)

K-R-A-B-Z Do I win? 8)

And thanks, everyone, for welcoming me back! :)



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20 Feb 2007, 5:01 am

Nope. No consolation prize either! :roll:

An award shall go to Aardvark, despite the dashes in between.


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20 Feb 2007, 6:18 am

Flagg wrote:
the cure
shall never come
for the only
way to change us
is brain surgery

even if
those vile men
made such
a thing
i would fight it

my welcome is but naught
a small
nugatory thing

(Translation: The only "cure" is brain surgery. Even if they made a "Cure" I would fight it. Welcome!)


I'm picturing them running voltage through our heads to shoot the messages across. I love Vernon Smith saying he couldn't have hyperfocused as he did to win the Nobel if he was "cured." I'm thinking I like my brain the way it is. I like to hang out with it. I keep trying to find a NT I'd rather be, but I haven't found one yet. So, I guess I'll stay uncured.

Welcome back!



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20 Feb 2007, 7:30 am

Welcome back Lightning88 (oh, I just got it1) ! !

As for a cure, now it's a gene the curebies say they've identified. Even IF they've found a gene, they have to find a way to keep it from 'expessing' itself. All in all, curebiesm running rampant ! !


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20 Feb 2007, 7:31 am

As for the cure, the "best" thing I heard of was a regimin to mitigate symptoms.

BTW Lightning88, glad to see you back! The last thing I saw was a message from you asking about if AS was a type of autism, or not. That, with the good bad and ugly stuff here at the time made me think maybe you left. I was wondering about that just yesterday, in fact! Hey, I do that with a LOT of things. Some things just stick and even 4 decades later I may think about them again. I haven't been around 5 decades yet, so I can't say anything about that. I feel the same way about this site at times also, but luckily there is enough good stuff that I still like it.

Steve



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20 Feb 2007, 7:41 am

Welcome back Lightning88 :)



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20 Feb 2007, 3:28 pm

Thanks again, guys! :D


SteveK wrote:
BTW Lightning88, glad to see you back! The last thing I saw was a message from you asking about if AS was a type of autism, or not. That, with the good bad and ugly stuff here at the time made me think maybe you left. I was wondering about that just yesterday, in fact! Hey, I do that with a LOT of things. Some things just stick and even 4 decades later I may think about them again. I haven't been around 5 decades yet, so I can't say anything about that. I feel the same way about this site at times also, but luckily there is enough good stuff that I still like it.


Yeah, some of the topics were beginning to get pretty rough, like the politics one. I seriously cried a few times from some of the people's responses. I'm a very emotional person after all. Anyway, yeah, that was one of the reasons I left for a bit. But like I said, I was also very busy here as well. I had to finish up a ton of school work, I was busy working on a fanfic for fanfiction.net, and there was a bunch of family problems going on as well.