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My apt tends to run about 20 degrees hotter than outside in hot weather. I turned to an old remedy for this problem called Okie air conditioners. They are easy to make. They do not take long to make and they work especially well in small spaces, and are cheap to run. They are also easier on the...
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I have been working on development of better social skills most of my life, so I have more of them in some ways, than an average Aspie or Autie. I plan to share some of the little steps that helped me to do this, so other interested Autism Spectrum folks can do the same. As I mentioned in my...
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I only recently knew a name for something that I had some awareness of for a while. Experts call this, "microexpressions". They are fleeting expressions that appear on a person's face. They are difficult, if not impossible to fake, so they reveal true feelings to anyone who is able to read them...
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If you are not officially diagnosed as being on the Autism Spectrum, or were diagnosed later in life, you probably did not get training to compensate for some of our disadvantages. I think lack of social skills is our worst disadvantage. I do not think we have to just accept our fate helplessly...
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I noticed that I had a problem with social matters long before I had any idea that it might be connected with Aspergers. Since I started reading my way through entire sets of encyclopedias at a young age, i found out about body language early too. As soon as I got a chance to go to a library and...
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People are prejudiced against Aspies and other people on the Autism spectrum. You do not have to be paying much attention to notice that. It is a little harder to notice that Aspies are not the only ones dealing with prejudice. The world has turned into a nastier, meaner place where people are...
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I am sorry to say that my preliminary search for a good cat sun block is not going well. Titanium Dioxide seems to be the best active ingredient that I have found so far, but I am not really satisfied that it is safe enough or effective enough. I will have to look more to be prepared to use it...
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Because of the thinner ozone layer, animals are also getting more skin cancer. Animals with light-colored ears and noses are at highest risk for this problem. If you have pets, it is especially important for you to protect them from skin cancer. Unless your pet is light colored, especially on...
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The rest of the world should follow the example of the Australians to protect children from skin cancer. They require that children wear sunglasses, hats, and long sleeves and cover their legs when they come to school. They have more reason to do this than the rest of the world, since the...
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Your skin cancer risk has increased because of climate change. Your children are even more likely than you are to get skin cancer because they have been under a thinner ozone layer for their entire lives. Your grandchildren are almost certain to get multiple skin cancers. I am not telling you...
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Your chances of getting skin cancer are much higher than for your parents. Your children are even more likely have skin cancer than you are. Your grandchildren will almost certainly have skin cancer. This is because of the decrease of our ozone layer due to climate change. The ozone layer is...
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I have been looking for patterns in my life that I would like to stop from repeating. It is easy to get used to the way things go in your life and to stop paying attention to what is really happening. I thought it might be good to pay attention and make a big effort to stop repeating patterns...
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If Antartica melts down, half of the human race will have to move or drown. I already gave links about that in another post, so you can go look at that or pass on the links if you need them to get others to pay attention and help out. Here is a picture of other people who are taking action to...
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It was not fun combing through Hero's poop, looking for bits of Nylabone. I never did find the Nylabone. No idea what happened to them. They could not have been digested, according to the vet and the makers. They were all amazed that Hero had managed to actually chew it it to pieces. Among...
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Hero was the name of my last dog. He showed up wandering around the grounds of a nearby church, making a nuisance of himself. They were serving food outdoors, so he helped himself to food too. He was not polite about it and people were trying to shoo him away. He had gotten a little shy...
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The current scarcity of people who are even aware of their own spiritual gifts, let alone people who are making good use of them, can't be good for us as individuals or for the human race as whole. I think there is a connection between the dearth of people who are aware of, and also making good...
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My hypothesis about spiritual gifts undergoes constant changes as I get new information about them. I find the subject fascinating and like to keep learning more about them. Helping other people discover and learn about their own spiritual gifts is probably my main spiritual gift, so that...
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During a recent chat I mentioned an old scary movie I saw and nobody had heard of it. Others in the chat said something to the effect that it must have been before they had horror movies or something like that. They even had horror movies in silent film. It might be that what people think is...
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Having enough to eat is getting harder to manage because of climate change. More than half of all of the food producing land in the USA was in drought at the same time recently. We can expect more disruption of our normal food growing as climate change gets worse. This will be exacerbated by...
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Sorry for being slow on posts lately. I am working on writing something for a local paper about why drastic cuts in the bus system coverage in my city are a bad idea. This may slow down my posts here a little longer, but I am still doing research for good links for you. Here is one about some...
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