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Recent content by alex0103

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    Epoxy Daggers, Just Sharing

    Amazing!
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    Employment

    Wow those are almost Celtic in design. Very talented
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    Employment

    Unfortunately I only ever made one piece and I no longer have it. It was beginning to warp anyways due to the lead cane.
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    Employment

    Hello What kind of arts and crafts do you specialise in?
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    Employment

    I will write about myself. Maybe it will help someone or someone can relate. I am 49 and never had a skill or a career or studied. Never been to university. I did do a forestry course once for a year in Inverness, Scotland but never took it further. I was crap at tree felling with a chainsaw. I...
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    Employment

    Thanks
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    Employment

    Me too. I wanted some ideas of what to try for jobs.
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    Employment

    No, not useless. Interesting to know what people do for a living. No one seems to want to say except for yourself. Thanks for replying
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    Tasks taking a lot longer because of attention to detail

    Everything takes me longer because a) I have to think about what I am doing b) I am often clumsy and don't have good general eye/hand coordination c) I can often be in my own thoughts rather than concentrating on the job. d) I can get focused in on the little details and be slower than...
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    Are you "noticeably autistic"?

    People have often remarked on how I am weird. I don't think people generally like me once they get to know me.
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    Employment

    Just got back from a holiday (of sorts anyways, it was hard work sometimes) on the wild and rugged West Highlands of Scotland. Got away from society for awhile. Just got back to society and already hating it. One of the things I hate is my job. I know that is common among both NT and ND people...
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    Clumsiness

    Thank you for all the replies
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    Clumsiness

    Not sure, I think 1988-89 was a golden age for me and that was also the time I had discovered and listened to Hendrix a lot. Also Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and The Beatles. I guess when I had a breakdown and everything went weird and horrible in 1990, I lost interest in that music. Maybe...
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    Noise

    My son is on the spectrum too so his speech is not that great, he mixes words up and says things out of context. It's very hard to understand what is wrong or what his needs are so it makes it worse when he is having a meltdown or screaming.
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    Noise

    Kids and dogs, both noisy. My son can be bad sometimes, screaming and whining. I have to go upstairs out of the way if his mum is here with him.
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