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Recent content by Grondhammar

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    Any great social skills resources?

    Two classics for conflict management are Crucial Conversations (Greeney & others), and Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg). Most libraries have both, or can inter-library loan them. They aren't going to solve every problem... some situations are endemic. But I've found these to be helpful...
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Speaking of cookies, did you pick up some Stutter Butters at the store?
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    Advent calendars

    Yes please! Would love to see.
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    i can do it and i will!

    Seconded. Having grown up in Montana, and having dealt with goats that eat all the wrong stuff (goat joke: "when did a goat ever eat the right stuff?") and gates that don't shut and fence that always, always, always needs fixing, and a lot of other livestock issues... Got on a roll there...
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    Advent calendars

    We either buy or make one every year, Swedish thing maybe. Anyway, is your SO an autist? There's a term, pebbling, used for the thoughtful but tiny gifts autistics give to people dear to them. These can be anything - a pretty rock, a little flower, a little note, an eraser, washi tape... I...
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    Don't Be Shy To Introduce Yourself

    Welcome @Jake Blank! I hope you enjoy your time here.🎉
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    Introductions

    I don't want to hijack the thread, but did want to express that this is really beautiful. It's something I aspire to say, and have it be received as a truth and a blessing by both my wife and I. Someday.
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    Introductions

    Or, ramble away. IME we're a pretty accepting bunch here. One thought: AI gets used by neurotypicals as a mask all the time. Think of all the job applications and essays no one actually wrote, because they wanted to present an "acceptable" version of themselves or their knowledge or whatever...
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Did Apple spin off from Kraft when someone realised they weren't actually working on a new flavour of mac n cheese?
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    So Felicity Loudon was right when she called Kraft the plastic cheese company?
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    How do you relate to patterns?

    Gah, I hadn't realised how common creating patterns was for me until the question got asked. I just got done with a conversation, during which I had somehow subconsciously scraped the side of the old wooden chair I was sitting on, identical mirrored patterns on both sides of the seat. I hope no...
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    Exercising While Waiting

    I tried doing small interspersed exercise like this, but it was always a struggle. So I tend to cram it all in one 45 min session in the early morning. Low-equipment-need "push/pull against my own body weight" sort of core exercises, except we do have a treadmill. I find very regular exercise...
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    Granny was a Punk Rocker and Every Day was Halloween - Photo Thread

    I was never part of a group... always an outlier. I went to a high school of 800 kids, and didn't know a single one I shared musical taste with. Ozzy/Black Sabbath, Slayer, Megadeath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, later very heavily into The Cure, Radiohead, The Smiths, Wire, XTC. My parents were...
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    Moving to different department, dreading a 'going away' with colleagues

    That's a big win🎉
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    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Do bats have good or bad attitudes?
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