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Recent content by DavidS

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    Analogy: autism and hounds

    He’ll be gone for 15 minutes and I’ll blast a note and he’ll barrel through the trees to say hi and then dart right back out into the woods again.
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    Analogy: autism and hounds

    But what kind of horse?
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    Analogy: autism and hounds

    I’ve been watching Townsend for years! He’s got great stuff.
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    Analogy: autism and hounds

    A follow up. After my breakup I desperately needed solace in companionship. A friend of mine had been trying to re-home his beautiful Bluetick Coonhound since last august. I pulled the trigger a month ago. I’d always loved hounds and studied how they behaved but this has been my opportunity to...
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    Hypersexual vs Asexual

    Hypersexual here, which no doubt ruined my first relationship. She previously had been involved with a domestic abuser who would frequently try to take advantage of her. I was not in any way abusive, but she feared the obsessiveness was rooted in the same tree. Honestly I think us aspies...
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    Thoughts on ''you must be happy with yourself first'' in relationships?

    I was twenty last year, I got involved with the person I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. She loved me because I projected the stereotypical awkward, silent, caring man. She is 25 years my senior and had had some very dark patches in her life. Neither of us expected we’d fall in...
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    What’s your job and why

    You sound a lot like me! I’ve gotten position offers for site interpreter from the Texas Historical Commission but my electrician pay scale is much better.
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    Analogy: autism and hounds

    Theie focus is highly akin to obsession, think crossing a busy intersection at rush hour just so they can continue the scent trail. People who hunt with hounds either have to use a gps collar or have to figure out in advance where they are going and head them off, otherwise they’d just keep...
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    Analogy: autism and hounds

    I’ve always loved hounds, I think I’ve read “Where The Red Fern Grows”at least 40 times and the weird part is it’s always something different that makes me sad. Alright, so, here’s the analogy. A hound is not sick nor has a disease, a hound is a hound. They’re affectionate animals and will love...
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    Do you try to make friends by "buying" them?

    I would make things for people. Embroidered braintan bags with beads or quillwork, holsters, just general nicknacks. I made a beautiful pair of beaded moccasins for my girlfriend’s birthday. Right now I’m commissioned to make a complete American Revolution uniform for material price only. With...
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    Anyone else got poetry skill?

    These are some good ones!
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    Anyone else get perceived as being on drugs?

    I’ve had a handful tell me I’m stoned because of my flat effect and monotonous voice. Never done a single drug.
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    So you think you can dance?

    It can make cloth tapes for any size and purpose. Someone like me would take the finished piece, fold the width and sew to the border of a garment for fringing.
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    A poem in progress “The Sixth of June”

    June 6 would have been our anniversary and the catalyst for my diagnosis.
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    A poem in progress “The Sixth of June”

    I started this poem yesterday about my last year of life. I hope y’all like it. Still needs so much more. The Sixth of June In chains my mind is bound Such curious things wrought from birth. In the midst of first love was the malady found. Oh, how quickly thoughts and heart are abased to...
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