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    Autistic “bluntness”

    I used to be blunt as a child/teen. But I got in trouble so many times for being blunt that I just resorted to sugar coating everything to keep people happy. Or to put it another way, I used to be honest as a child and teen. But I got in trouble so many times for being honest that I just...
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    Are you treated differently

    Yes, I've noticed patterns and consistencies over many years that I'm treated differently. I've never thought of it as discrimination, bigotry or prejudice, though. I feel more like I'm being treated as an inconvenience or an annoyance.
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    Front page of a Libyan newspaper from 1943

    I found this photo of the front page of a Libyan newspaper from 1943 in an old photo album with pictures from my grandfather when he served in North Africa during WWII. I'm not sure of the exact history, but my grandfather always had it on display in a frame in his living room. The photo itself...
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    I Talk Round The World And Back...

    No worries, loads of us love to infodump, it's a common autism trait, so long replies and posts are always very welcome on here! :)
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    Book recommendation: Bully in Sight

    Sadly I see many, many posts on here about workplace bullying, so I would like to recommend a book that greatly helped me when I was on the receiving end of such behaviours at my first job and also other walks of life: Bully in Sight by Tim Field. Although first published in 1996, the...
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    What can you do with a special interest?

    I managed to turn my special interests into a way to earn an income and also to help people. I turned my special interest in tech into self-employment and also into helping people by donating old tech, setting it up, teaching them how to use it. I also turned my special interest in scams into...
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    Resident Evil IX

    I also miss the good old zombies, static pre-rendered backgrounds and old atmosphere. I still play the old classics from time to time, the PC versions with mods. I even enjoyed Resident Evil Gaiden on Game Boy and the light gun games on PS1 and PS2, but I'll get in trouble with the fanbase for...
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    How Long Was It Before You Were Diagnosed?

    12 years from discovering I might be on the spectrum until I asked to be assessed. I first discovered the term Asperger's Syndrome in 2011 when I was looking into what was "wrong" with me. In 2021 I realised I was going to have to come out at some point. It wasn't until last year I finally made...
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    Most stupid internet trends?

    In Bristol there was the Bristol pusher, rumours about a guy who pushed people in the canal. It became a meme on YouTube, there is a gaming channel where one of the members jokingly claims to be the Bristol pusher and others make references to it.
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    Most stupid internet trends?

    Many years ago in the UK there was "happy slapping" where people would literally slap random strangers on the street while others filmed it, or filmed themselves doing it. There was a more recent trend of walking into random people's houses just to film their reactions, but luckily the police...
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    Feeling like other people know more than you do.

    Yes, I think I know exactly what you mean. It was this exact feeling that lead me down the road of discovering autism. I started to notice a pattern, maybe around age 22. I kept getting this same feeling over and over again and I've managed to put it into words as simple as I can: Whenever I...
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    Tell Me Your Good Sensory Stimulations

    Olives are a win win win for me, the smell, the taste and the texture/mouth feel as well. In a way. I don't think I would call myself an artist, I'm more of a techy. I suppose I do wood art/wood burning/pyrography and do stuff with light metals and plastics to make gifts for people. Properly...
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    Tell Me Your Good Sensory Stimulations

    Right now I have the following positive sensory inputs on the go consistently: Touch: I find myself consistently handing and rubbing my fingers on ultra smooth, polished, shiny black plastic surfaces, be it acrylic off cuts from projects or just spinning a cassette tape around with my fingers...
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    SPACE IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Speaking of Venus, here are 2 rare pictures of the surface from the Soviet Venera 13 probe from 1982 (but you probably know all about the Venera program anyway :))
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    SPACE IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Interestingly, NASA has a (somewhat joking) unit of measurement for motion sickness: The Garn, or Garn scale, named after US senator Jake Garn, the person who apparently suffered the most space sickness of any astronaut. https://commonplacefacts.com/2021/05/02/garn-scale-space-sickness/
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