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    Odd question from another autistic

    Occam's Razor makes a perfect example of this. How many people preferred to believe that pyramids had magic power rather than wondering if the man was a cheat and a liar?
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    Moving my safe space …. I’m terrified.

    Look at it as an adventure - something exciting. I was homeless for 12 years and getting my own home was one hell of a trip. For the first couple of years I struggled with the feeling of being trapped inside a box, I kept all my doors propped wide open so I could walk in and out with ease. A...
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    Odd question from another autistic

    Sadly some people don't want evidence. They don't want complex answers that would upset their world view regardless of how compelling and based in fact those answers may be. It's just easier for them to believe: Electricity works by magic fairies and autistic people have been cursed by a witch...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    We have a lot of publicly accessible web cams in Australia but I don't know if we have any watching wildlife. We've used them for many years now to check on the conditions of different places before travelling there. Beach cams so surfies can see what the swell looks like before getting in the...
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    I certainly don't believe in UFOs or any similar nonsense, but I do have a rudimentary understanding of basic physics and how life forms. It's statistically impossible for there not to be intelligent life out there, but also statistically impossible that we will ever meet any of them. What...
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    Stress Management

    Age does play a role, but the effects are subtle and we tend to not notice them creeping in over the years. You are now a Middle Age man, 39 is still fairly young in a lot of people's eyes but your priorities in life have shifted. When we're young we're driven to achieve many things, a career...
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    Insane Memory and stories to match.

    When I was living in the bush up north I woke up in the middle of the night needing a wee. While I stood in the yard relieving myself I looked up at the stars. A fruit bat flew overhead and crapped on me. All over my face and even in my mouth. :(
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    Missing parts, old obsolete coins, and the Uniteu States

    When my youngest niece was little Mum opened a bank account for her and bought her a money box to teach her how to save. The first time they took a full money box to the bank the bank charged her for counting the coins. Mum got a bit stroppy about that and told them exactly what she thought of...
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    Buying hearing aids for APD

    Don't explain it to students. Never make excuses for yourself, especially if you're supposed to be in control of a class. I think you know that already. If you carry on as if nothing's out of the ordinary it's highly likely the students won't say a word about it. If one specifically asks about...
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    Odd question from another autistic

    Another case - You can lead the ignorant to knowledge, but you can't make it think. :)
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    Post something Weird or Random

    This is revenge for rabbits and foxes. :) They breed like rats and have no natural predators in Britain, they're going to cause so much front end damage to cars.
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    World Spinning Weirdly

    We vote just 5 days later, we always vote on a Saturday.
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    Geek or nerd?

    Aussie pubs were quite different from what a lot of people in other countries associate with that word. Our pubs were all round entertainment centres. Most had pool and billiard tables as well as dart boards and "sporting clubs" would base themselves in different pubs so they regularly had...
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    World Spinning Weirdly

    That's an important fact to remember when reading the news. It's almost impossible for people to write without leaning towards their own opinions but if a news service's overall stock of stories appears to have more than 10% opinion in it's stories then it's not truly a news service, it's just a...
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    Missing parts, old obsolete coins, and the Uniteu States

    We dumped our copper coins back in the 80s, the copper in the coins was far more valuable than the face value of the coins. I knew people that used to regularly buy coins from the bank and melt them down, throwing a few scraps of copper wire and copper pipe in in to the slag as it cooled to make...
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