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Yesterday, while I was waiting in the hallway for my class to begin, I caught the tail end of a lecture on, of all things, how to put on a condom. That's right. The instructor had a little wooden penis which she used to demonstrate the right and the wrong way to put one on. She also went into...
I just got done reading Soup's blog "The Abused Woman". Sadly, I have known several women who were or are in that situation, and yet, despite more options for women than ever, choose to stay in such relationships. What really boggles me is that most of these women are young women, in their...
There is a young student from Gabon in my political science class and the other day we were having a discussion about U.S. foreign policy. Not surprisingly, he wasn't too thrilled with it. Neither am I, for that matter, but there is very little I can do about it. We may call ourselves a...
1. A little background info: I seldom use Facebook. My son made an account for me without me knowing it & I began receiving message alerts. Fortunately, most of them were from my 6 yr old niece (though her parents' account). Almost 35yrs ago, an Inuit exchange student from the far north came to...
I have been very busy & away a lot. & I was really anticipating returning home (to AC) to catch up with everyone's adventures. When I got here, everything had changed & I mean EVERYTHING! Big changes are a trigger for me & I cannot stand them. Now, instead of feeling like I'm at my 'home away...
I was browsing on Google and out of boredom of course, I decided to search my username and actually came across one of my old WordPress blogs and of course, what I see just reading that old blogs is clearly nothing but a depressed and clearly confused me. Still of course, I suffer from both...
We do have the potentials to make better best use of talents to build up our society together.
We want to expand our societal potentials, don't we? We want to have more friends and more wisdom in our lives, isn't it? We want to exert our wills independently without prejudice to the furthest...
I read somewhere where someone said "Black men, we are America's pit bulls, labelled vicious...left to die on the street" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/fruitvale-station-michael-b-jordan_n_4462009.html
And around the same time I read about a cop who showed the kind of good sense in...
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How does asperger syndrome effect you on day day backsand how cope with it
It seems I can’t even attend a party without discussing autism… but I guess for good reason and food for thought.
Last week I was at a party. An aspie friend of mine recently moved out from his parents’ house and decided to rent a place with his girlfriend. So at some point I suppose there’s...
It has now been almost two months since Dr. Teleka Patrick, a resident of Western Michigan University's medical program, mysteriously disappeared. Her car was found abandoned nearly 100 miles west of Kalamazoo in a ditch along I-94 in Indiana and she hasn't been seen or heard from since. What...
I have just finished my second week of school and won't go back until the middle of this week as they are closed for Martin Luther King day. Which gives me an extra day of study and making up work, since I have to have 40 hours a week to keep my full-time benefit status.
Mr. Give Me An...
1. You have a right to make your wants known to others.
2. You deny your own importance when you do not ask for what you want.
3. Making a request assertively does not guarantee that you will get what you want, but it does open the way for more equal negotiation with others.
4. Indirect...
This is from "Speaking your mind in 101 difficult situations" by Don Gabor.
DO remain persistent even though you may feel like giving in.
DON'T respond immediately. Take a deep breath and count to ten.
DO listen for areas of agreement.
DON'T fight or get caught up in arguing over details...
The way you could fix this would be to ask, "Do you believe in any sort of God(s) or Goddess(es)?" It's still more confusing to the monotheistic mind, but that mind can still understand this sentence. Anyone who isn't monotheistic would have zero trouble, as would atheistic or agnostic...
Negative assertion is acceptance of the fact that an error has been made by you and that you acknowledge it without having to apologize or feel guilty.
Use negative assertion when you are being criticized for making a mistake that without doubt is 100% error and you are responsible for...
Negative Inquiry
Negative inquiry is active prompting of criticism in order to exhaust unproductive criticism enabling you to clarify the real issue.
Use it when you are being criticized for something which is not the real issue. This skill helps you uncover and deal with the hidden...
Fogging
Fogging is calmly admitting to your critic that there may be some truth in what he/she says while maintaining your right to be your own judge of what you say, do and believe.
Use fogging when someone is attempting to manipulate you through criticism and is using unfair tactics...
When I was young, there was a poem my mother used to recite whenever I asked to do something that she did not feel like granting. It went like this: "Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water."
When it comes to...
Refusing a Request - The Broken Record Technique
The broken record technique is calmly repeating a short simple statement over and over until the other person gets the message.
Use this when someone is trying to manipulate you by:
1. Asking off-topic questions
2. Attempting to provoke...