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Recent content by Oblio

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    Taste Changes

    Caesar salad in restaurants sometimes taste like metal to me. I think it is from the dressing being left in a metal bowl. Left over stirfries...the flavors blend badly over night Potatoes in stew or soup, the texture is unacceptable Texture can be more offensive than flavour.
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    Introducing an alien

    I was in 4th grade. My classmates didn't get it.
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    Introducing an alien

    I haven't read any of those books. I've read lots of clinical stuff about autism, but no practical school survival guides, which would probably be more useful.
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    Introducing an alien

    I read the book Bright, Not Broken, which compares diagnostic criteria of Autism, Giftedness, and ADHD. The main idea was that the criteria are words that mean the same things, but with different connotations. My biological father was also a seriously detached individual. I always thought I was...
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    Introducing an alien

    Yes! That is what I want for my kid. To own her geekdom and stand proud, in a way I wasn't always brave enough to. I don't want her to be socially trained and de-geeked, but to live in a world where people other than her mother realize how cool she is.
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    Introducing an alien

    Hello, I am 43 years old, live in British Columbia. I go by the name Oblio here. Have you ever heard the story? It is about a child born with a round head, in a pointed world. When I was small, I would reach a point in the story and sob, and turn it off. In the story, Oblio discovers that...
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