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Recent content by arithmetic

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    Guess the Joke

    1) The rabbit is goaded by the ape, steps out, and cuts the rope on himself. 2) The ape uses the rope to pull the cliffs together, grabs the scissors, and cuts the rabbit out of the storyboard. 3) The ape steps out on the tightrope. The rabbit goes to cut the rope but his scissors have turned to...
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    Japanese domestic market AM radio

    The plastic on the ancient 7 transistor radio I had deteriorated and became very brittle... I guess the plasticisers all migrated off into the bloodstream of some transgender polar bear somewhere. Maybe I'll make a super-duper crystal set with all sorts of wonderful aerials and filters (that's a...
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    Does your physical appearance match your inner view of yourself?

    I take my appearance very seriously, but for my own reasons. I'll explain ~ ... I'm weird, right? I am simply not going to make friends very easily. However a discovery I made a few years ago helps. As an infant I used to cross dress, borrowing my sister' clothes until the day she informed me...
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    Does your physical appearance match your inner view of yourself?

    :) I don't have any particular image of myself that I refer to at all. I just walk around in this meat puppet and I can make it into whatever I want. It's quite good fun sometimes.
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    What's (not) Your Real Name?

    Adam Reith
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    What's (not) Your Real Name?

    Rumpelstiltskin
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    Far North Queensland calling... ?

    Ohh! I saw a reply :) and you know what I hoped to find. Silly me, I guess. I lost my trust of the people I'd tried to be friends with on Facebook, and closed my account. I'm afraid to start again, especially with the idea of making new friends... "The Nasties" might find out I'm back, after...
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    Far North Queensland calling... ?

    Hi :) There are about 200 thousand people on Cape York. If there are 25 autists in every thousand, there are about 5000 autists in this wider area. I asked at "Autism Connect" what facilities there are in my area and heard there is a group in Townsville just 4 hours drive away... ? The lady I...
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    LGBT people here on the spectrum, let's unite!

    I'm a fashionista transgender woman I live far, far from any Michigan tho'
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    CBT experiences

    @Wizardry makes good sense to me, too. My experience has been therapy followed by more therapy and more misfit unhappiness, and loneliness all the way. I had to accidentally discover my autism for myself, only 8 weeks ago (I'm 69!) and then see a clinical psychologist for her meaningful rubber...
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    Friends and connections

    Thanks @Hypnalis Game Theory as a guide for human relationships: There is no place for love; caring is beside the point - the idea is to get ahead the idea is to be the winner "Those who can't be winners can always make sure that some others do worse than they might! Those who evince kindness...
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    Friends and connections

    Hi :) I find it hard when people aren't consistent with their ideals and behaviour - especially when they pretend they are nice but then go do some horrid thing out of spite... that's my family, siblings, parents and all. Unfortunately the wider world hasn't shown me that it's any better - Meh
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    Schadenfreude

    It still looks like a joke to me; I can hardly believe that people (a neurologist I know!) take it seriously. Wooh!
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    Strangest Animal

    An aquatic stick insect? Please say more - how much did it have to do with the water? Was it walking on the water?
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    Strangest Animal

    Thar be weirdness in Aotearoa (New Zealand), too - and not just on the political scene. We have a 3 eyed "lizard" from the time of the dinosaurs! (We have a baldy white prime minister too!)
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