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    Help, I feel like I'm becoming more and more like a child.

    "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C.S. Lewis If those two things are required to be an adult, I didn't get there until 25 or so. Maybe you are discovering that you weren't quite as mature as your ego used to...
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    Driver license

    I had a lot of trouble with this, but just got my license, at 26. My biggest problem was interest. Never had enough interest in driving to pay attention when doing it. Used to get road hypnotized even in short urban trips. My lessons at 15 were mostly the instructor prodding me to be lucid. One...
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    Sense of taste

    Does anyone here experience altered/abnormal sense of taste? My pallate has been a source of contension with my wife, family, and co-workers. In my experience, most people prefer foods rich in fats and protein as these are considered more flavorful. To me, though, an increased fat content is...
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    Spiritual Experience

    The responses have been good whether it was what I asked for or not. Thank you for sharing. I think I will simply have to re-accept that I have no spiritual aspect to my personality and that most others have a side to themselves that I will just never grasp.
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    Spiritual Experience

    Why not? This is an interesting thing to assert to me. How can you be sure? I'm deffinately one who who does not equate agnosticism as being the mid point between theism and atheism. I am an athiest, in that I don't believe in divine beings, but I am also agnostic in the sense that I would...
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    Spiritual Experience

    So the entire basis of your faith is cogito ergo sum? I just don't see the connection between that and the supernatural. You believe in God, yes? What makes you believe in him and do you ever have feelings of transcendence pretaining to your faith/belief? I hope very much that this thread stays...
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    Spiritual Experience

    Have you ever had a spiritual experience? I am trying to understand what causes people to turn to religion and spirituality. I have read the Wikipedia article on spiritual experience, and it may as well have not existed for what I could glean from it! I am an atheist, and until a recent...
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    good sounds.

    Rocks rubbing together. Pink noise. A ticking watch. Rainstorms. The creaks and rubs from the pages of a book. Hard drives spinning up/down. Mostly things I heard a lot when I was little, when everything was 'okay'.
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    As an Aspie, do you drive?

    I don't drive. I run into stuff often enough just walking. Being aware enough of thousands of pounds of steel projecting out from my body with tremendous forces and energy involved and lives on the line is just asking for trouble. It takes 110% of my focus to try to be safe, even then I make...
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    Honesty and masking

    When I was young, because of the differences in perception and affect between me and my mother, every time I tried to genuinely express myself and my needs I was shut down as being confrontational. This led to a cycle of learning to mask my true self off and not letting people see the real me...
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    Can you stomach meat or other more "carnal" foods?

    Since I was young, I've had a hard time eating meat. The textures, the tastes, pondering the process of the mastication and digestion of the flesh of another creature while it is still in my mouth... I have to disguise the meat in my diet so I don't think about it or notice it much. My favorite...
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    NT people who do half a job!

    I can't stand when people think they can use a workstation without returning it back to a condition ready for the next job before leaving. It's just apathy and laziness. I don't think they'd get out of bed in the morning if they didn't know they'd get hungry. They should have had to do...
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    You don't like anything

    I hate it when people ask me what my 'favorites' are. Some things are better or worse in different circumstances or moods. That is all. When it comes to people, I think I know what love is, but I try not to use language that strong to refer to anything replaceable, allthough I do tend to become...
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    Did you understand the concept of "grades" as a kid?

    I probably started to understand grades around fifth grade. I started school a year late, and math was always my best subject. Except for the ability to do division without a calculator. I don't know how people do that unless it's an obvious whole number you can work backward from. I would also...
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    Doctor says I need 'exposure therapy'

    Not sure I can add anything more, but I agree with most everything that has been said. Comfort zones have to be broadened slowly over time, by going to your limit and seeing what's there, and how long you can tolerate it. For those of us on the spectrum it can take a lifetime, but it is well...
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