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Recent content by musicalman

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    Trolling: Am I weird for not getting it?

    Hi everyone, As a person who tries to understand different perspectives, I like to get a sense of why people do what they do. I'm not always successful, but I enjoy trying to work out other people's points of view, since it is therapeutic for me sometimes. But one thing I have never understood...
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    Am I being a perfectionist, having anxiety or both?

    Hi everyone, I'm going to try and explain something which has bothered me for quite a while. I'm wondering how relateable this is I guess. Over the past few years I have been doing a fair amount of music work. I don't want to come off as arrogant or anything, but I know I have lots of talent...
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    Is there a name for the imaginary internal worlds we tend to retreat into?

    Interesting topic! Most of my internal world consists of friends who know how I work and think. They give me a safe space to explore my thoughts, feelings, scripts, desires and the like. When I talk to them, I feel like I am talking to my best friends who can sense more than anyone else. We...
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    Response I received on another site

    Ehh, I don't know what to think of this honestly. A wall of text incoming with my own personal opinions, so read at your own risk. I've considered that I'm autistic, but I really don't know. But one thing which I definitely have is blindness. I was born with very limited vision and lost it by...
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    Are you a literal?

    Personally I tend to be literal, but early on I understood sarcasm as well. Metaphors I'm pretty good with if I'm familiar with context, and irony is a bit trickier sometimes. I only get it if I've had time to process the preceding situation and work out why it's ironic. I think my sarcasm is...
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    A special interest in something you only partially like?

    Yay, looks like I'm not alone. Thanks for your responses! @Thinx I can relate to that, especially to your point about validation. Most people I know don't relate so well to my fits of fascination. They seem to take a "What the heck is the point of that?" approach. I understand why they'd think...
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    A special interest in something you only partially like?

    Hi everyone, So a curious question has come to me. Do you have a special interest in something you never really liked all that much, but something still intrigues you enough to keep you coming back to it? I guess people go through that often with bands or TV shows. I dunno. I often develop...
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    I feel like I always need to prove myself

    @Sherlock77 I'm not sure if I'm directly relating to your feelings, but I have my own interpretation which may provide some insight? As a musician who's special interest is music technology (synthesizers mainly), I get these weird ideas where I want to try something new. Let's see if I can make...
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    Can someone with Aspergers be good at reading people?

    Haven't read all the posts on this thread yet but thought I'd chime in while I had the impulse to write this down :) It's kinda hard for me to decide if I'm good at reading people or not. I am a blind person and thus am not able to do much with facial expressions. I'm quite sensitive to tone of...
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    Numbers...

    Thought I'd chime in here. Besides I haven't posted here in a long while :) I can fully relate to that with history. I could never understand the context of historical events. The worst is when I'm asked to synthesize information. "If this historical figure were in this situation, what would he...
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    I'm remembering my dreams a lot more than I used to. Could this mean something?

    Interesting responses guys. I can't recall changing my diet though I have switched meds around a bit to treat Chrohns disease. Nothing involving vitamin changes though as far as I'm aware. I do like to snack at night and I've been told that affects dreams, but I've been doing that for a while...
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    I'm remembering my dreams a lot more than I used to. Could this mean something?

    Hi everyone, sorry for the length of the post but this is hard for me to explain well. Over the past few years, I've noticed that I remember my dreams way more than I used to. I haven't taken any stats but I have a funny feeling that I am remembering more dreams than I forget. The other night I...
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    special interests which were relevant at one time but not so much now

    Misery I can totally relate to those interests and concepts. I'm not as much into tech/games, but I am interested enough to understand where you're coming from. There's something nice about old technology that does what it is directed to do, and doesn't have all the power in the world to do a...
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    special interests which were relevant at one time but not so much now

    Hi everyone, A few days ago this idea came to me. Who has a special interest in something which, due to the passing of time, is hardly relevant today? I'll give you mine. Being a musician, I've always been interested in synthesizers. The one branch that I found most interesting since I was a...
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    Literally?!

    Meh, I think this confusion surrounding the word literally is more of a wish to make something literal or a feeling that something may somehow be literal, rather than a deliberate move to misuse or confuse it with something figurative. Here's an example: Just today I was trying to sort out a...
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