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Recent content by OddGirl

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    Don't stand so close to me..

    I loathe shopping and malls with the intensity of a thousand supernovas. Even doing groceries is a giant pain in the ass, largely due to the social types stopping right smack in the middle of the aisle, usually in a big group complete with shopping carts and giant strollers full of annoying...
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    Which is worse...

    I'd far rather deal with a biological odour than a synthetic, chemically-based one like perfume or most personal care product scents. For some reason, the heavy, cloying floral scents in many perfumes (and to a somewhat lesser extent in shampoos, soaps, some deodorants, some laundry products...
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    Childhood friendships and the opposite sex

    Most of my friends in school were either boys or other girls who were considered tomboys. Like most of you, I didn't wear makeup or go in for stereotypically female interests like fashion and celebrities. I just didn't give a damn about clothes and hair or which celeb was screwing who. Still...
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    Are you afraid of the dark?

    The dark doesn't bother me. I'm not afraid of being alone in it. I work nights, and am often found patrolling empty, unlit buildings at night. Doesn't bother me. What I am afraid of is people. At work, I've been physically attacked twice and had a gun pulled on me by a methamphetamine...
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    Do you care that you've had no 'personal' or social life?

    I'm not very socially driven. It doesn't really bother me to be alone most of the time. I was more social as a kid, but it was so much easier to be so.. We were practically segregated by age in school, so it was much easier to find friends with common interests. It is much harder to make...
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    Fine Motor Skills

    When I was a kid, my handwriting was atrocious. I was diagnosed with dysgraphia in grade 4, but other than getting Occupational Therapy in grade 5, I got no real help for it through the educational system. My grandmother helped me a lot though. She had a lovely italic handwriting, the kind...
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    Do you have different kind of friends and how many friends?

    Thanks. But really, we protected each other, just in different ways. He was always much more socially skilled than I was and he ran interference when my lack of social ability bumped up against someone else's attitude. He smoothed things over between myself and many of the other girls in our...
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    Do you have different kind of friends and how many friends?

    Sorry about that! I've been online for so long that the online slang has changed a few times and I just haven't kept up! IRL is an old online chat acronym for 'In Real Life', ie: not online. The real world, not the Internet world. It was a lot more common in the days of text-only online chat...
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    Employment Tips

    Here's another Canadian resource. Home - Job Bank This is a link to the Canadian Job Bank website. I've found both temporary and permanent work through this site before. Many employers post all sorts of job openings here - from manual labour and factory jobs to skilled trades to white...
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    What age were you when you started walking and what age for talking?

    I said my first word (gorgeous) at 4 months old. I took my first steps at 9 months. I never crawled before my first steps, but after eye surgery at 11 months old I crawled for a couple of months while I got used to my new visual world. I'd been seeing double all the time before the surgery...
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    What Are Your Triggers?

    Bullying, or things that have led to my being bullied or otherwise attacked in the past (large groups of teenaged NT males approaching me, 'class clown'-type people who attack others to get laughs, being followed when walking home at night). This is an instinctive fear response in me. I...
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    What Music Do You Listen To When Working?

    I love audiobooks, narrated short stories, and old radio plays from the 30's to the 60's. I listen to the Relic Radio podcast, Anything Ghost, the Campfire, and Old Time Horror Radio. I only listen to music at home alone where I can sing horribly without offending others :)
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    Terrible language

    I have a bad temper and am prone to ranting when something doesn't live up to my often too idealistic ideals. I tend to be a little black/white about things, and when things don't work out that way, I can get frustrated. I have a very low frustration tolerance, so frustration can easily lead...
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    Do you have different kind of friends and how many friends?

    I don't really have many IRL friends. I work nights, and that is a death knell to a social life. Also, it gets tougher to make friends once you're out of school and working, especially if you have not decided to follow the socially expected path of marriage and kids. For me, I'm the only...
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    Hunger and thirst survey

    Cant get the link to work, but still willing to answer. I routinely go for over 12 hours/and sometimes more than 24 without eating. I just don't get reliable signals for hunger. The only real cue I have that I'm hungry is getting slightly blurry vision and a headache, and that is only due to...
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