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Recent content by AuAL

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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Wasn’t there some cake Marie Antoinette had that’s had a very long history?
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    Eye Contact

    In the illustration you showed, the punching eye was above. “Punching down” refers to the practice of acting against people who are, in some sense, disadvantaged relative to the person acting. For example, in comedy, it is generally understood that it is unacceptable to make jokes about...
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Will there be eggs in that, too?
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    Eye Contact

    Never punch down. (I tried to find an emoticon to go here but nothing seemed appropriate.) I did not mean to criticise, but felt the relative level only applied to a subset of interactions. (Did you explicitly mean the gendered interpretation?) I think I do take your meaning.
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    Eye Contact

    This sounds just like my interactions with people in the street. You have described it quite well. Here, in Australia, people seem to diffuse this by saying “hello”. It is not necessarily friendly but nor is it hostile. This is a technique I taught my university students - quick eye contact...
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    Eye Contact

    I can do eye contact with family, and maybe some close friends, though usually fleetingly. Otherwise it’s confronting/uncomfortable. A sense of somewhat physical discomfort. (I also have a form of aichmophobia, which manifests as an “itching” in my eyes. It’s a bit like this.) Please don’t try...
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    Do you own an outdoor grill?

    I have a small Weber gas barbecue that I use frequently, a large, wood-fired, brick barbecue that was here when I bought the house (and haven’t used in years) and an outdoor, wood-fired pizza oven that I scavenged from a local kerb-side collection. I haven’t used that one yet, but it looks...
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Wouldn’t it depend on which desert you were talking about?
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    She LOOKS happy...

    Bluey, the Aussie revenge. ;)
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    A-Z Places

    Exeter Cathedral, UK
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Is “too loud” when you turn the amp up to 11? (Did the Romans even have amps?)
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    My Username

    @FayetheAspie, I am 2e, too (externally validated on at least one of the e’s, self diagnosed on ASD.) If this site is of value to you (and, just to let you know, your presence here is of value to us) where’s the problem? Usernames? Meh, they’re just identifiers so we don’t mix up who we’re...
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    A-Z Places

    Cancún, Mexico This was not the view from my room. I had a whole suite to myself, but it was in accommodation adjacent to the golf course a couple of kilometres away from the hotel where the conference was being held. (It was also cheaper than a single room in the hotel, overlooking the...
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    A-Z Places

    Zytglogge, Bern, Switzerland A medieval clock in the city centre. Sorry, some of my photos are not “well-framed”. Sometimes i just had a chance to look up and shoot.
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    So Happy To Have Found You :)

    @CurlyGirl, we are autistic here, and (many of us) answer questions. I hope you get the answers you’re looking for.
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