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Recent content by Plant13

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    Advice on starting a Conversation first hand

    Coincidentally I was invited just yesterday to bid on a very high profile contract, and I'll be in a VAN with my competition, viewing the sites. I was a MORON, a complete grinning moron with a loud voice last time it rolled around, and I really want this 5 year contract. I have to be at ease...
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    Advice on starting a Conversation first hand

    In corporate sales one has to go into huge rooms filled with potential clients and your competition, walk up to strangers with your hand out and put that mask on, and WIN. I might pretend, if I had to introduce myself now, to be in that room full of potential income. Money as a social lubricant.
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    Everyone gets angry as a response to confusion. Anger is a great cover and a modest defense. Any social interaction is confusing to me. Best to shut down, confusion is also embarrassing.
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    Sorry about hating people, that takes energy. Sorry my style of expression doesn't match your style of reparte'. Sorry I have to defend the way I express myself here.
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    : (
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    I should add that in certain bars I worked behind, those tosses of wit are well received. Know your audience?
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    people really hate it when I toss French or Yiddish into a sentence, its obnoxious, I know they don't understand it. My brother put a French phrase on my father's stone. In a Jewish cemetery. We're obnoxious. I think you're funny.
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    Writing an Article and need one more interviewee, please help!

    I was married 16 years, have a 30 year old daughter, a business that sustains me. Sex is a big problem, since its so easily obtained and so helpful in directing focus. I can write for das after a good solid romp. For me its eye contact, sex, conversation by text, a second romp, less verbal...
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    outmaneuvered. well played.
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    I am SO FUNNY after the fact. I call it sitcom banter. I'm very good at it after the fact. : ). a side note I believe sitcom banter has reduced the interaction between people to a short and unpleasant war of the minds. Thank you, Archie Bunker. Fine when I was bartending and could write...
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    !!! I do that but with people who've already offended me. I took it out on the gym but as with everything else, I over did it and nobody liked me at 95 pounds of muscle except me. Try shopping for a 5' woman 95 pounds age appropriate in business. Too tall for Short Person clothing ( too...
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    Writing an Article and need one more interviewee, please help!

    I'd like to answer all those questions for you. Being 57, single and actively dating, newly aware of my condition, this looks interesting to me. I'd be glad to work with you on it.
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    Anger with Aspergers?

    All the time! I mirror behavior and emotion, so if for instance I think the lady behind me at the grocery store is impatient with the size of my order I get impatient to be finished for her. If she gets angry, I feel angry. Since I don't read faces very well for clues, this can be very messy...
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    Late diagnosis and family denial

    Benefit everyone? I've been 1000 miles away and a secret since 1992 and its time to benefit ME. Factor in my age, 57. Mother is 80-whatever she's lying about, and I've been isolated for 3 decades. I'm not real concerned about anyone but myself any more. Selfless is what my friends would...
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    Late diagnosis and family denial

    Hit a nerve. No, I just got hold of it, I'm not letting it go. I cleaned house, metaphorically, and cleaned out my head. My brother, I don't even send his checks back. Under my carpet. I don't have his voice in my head any more. He's never going to forgive Dad but he never understood. My...
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