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Recent content by Darkkin

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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

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    What pets do you have? Why? How did you choose them?

    Rats are highly intelligent and easy to train. In Africa they actually have programs that have trained giant rats how to find undetinated landmines in the war ravaged areas. (The rats are light enough not to trigger them, but also sensitive enough to find them before they can be triggered.)
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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

    Snowy days, looking for white pelicans, sharing snacks, and too many books.
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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

    The random goofiness of my boys. We have our PA practice work with Marlowe at Home Depot later this afternoon.
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    What do you wish your parents had done differently?

    Having seen how far our understanding about the complexities of ASD and other divergences has come in the last thirty years, I'm going to be a red herring and not be too judgemental on my mom. She raised three of us on her own, two known divergent (my brother ADHD, and myself, AuADHD). My...
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    Doing things you're not interested in

    Doing something you don't particularly like to please another person is a form of compromise that is essential in a healthy relationship. If they can't do that, it is a serious caution marker that maybe: 1.) The individual isn't emotionally mature enough to handle a relationship 2.) It is an...
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    What can you do with a special interest?

    It has been years since I've pulled out my dog work skills (major deep dive when I was younger), I trained my Shiba Inus in both obedience and agility using my own dialect of elvish. With Marlowe, I've jumped back in with both feet. At 9 months he has cleared his Canine Good Citizen Test and...
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    What are you reading now?

    Marlowe came with when I picked these titles up today. One is a total brain rot read (romance) and the other is a book is one I definitely need to read because (Self-care for Autistic People) I don't know how to do that...
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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

    Awesome weather, we've had the windows open and the sound from the local bird species, (cardinals chief among them), is amazing. Last week we somehow lost Marlowe's ID tag and license while on a walk. Multiple searches turned up nothing, but they were returned a few days later.
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    What traits would you put you off dating someone

    The doormat mentality is a big one. We may not be able to control our circumstances, but we do have the ability to actively work toward changing them. In short: Have brain, does function, so why aren't you using it? The emotional immaturity of chronic validation seekers and the imbalances...
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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

    Obedience skills, task drills/games, agility work, longline, and PA skill drills. Progress isn't always a linear metric. Often it is a culmination of little wins that are easy to miss if you aren't paying attention. Zwi has been gone six months today, we've had Marlowe those same six months...
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    What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

    Months of practice, routine, and effort have paid off. Marlowe has passed both his public access assessment and Canine Good Citizens test. He has gone from the reticent oddball puppy no one wanted into a well rounded, still slightly aloof, young dog (8 months old). He still has lightyears to...
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    I messed up again

    Realistically speaking from the aspect of frontside retail having people flirt or try to elicit contact information can leave an individual feeling very uncomfortable. Being on the clock and in a public space it puts a lot of unfair pressure and attention on said individual. It isn't usually...
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