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Recent content by Shamar

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    I feel blank

    I bet you are also feeling directionless. Sounds like burnout to me. Follow Yeshuasdaughter's advice. Your mind wants to recover. You have been through a lot lately. Don't try to force things, just relax and let your mind do it's thing to relieve you. I once took over 3 months to recover...
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    Why does society view autistic people as mentally incompetent?

    I blame Hollywood to a great extent. Most movies in the past depict autistics as mentally retarded, mentally incompetent, or just plain weird. They are getting a little better now, but not by much.
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    Hello, a mom of a son with Asperger's

    From My Experience, your son is just entering a critical phase of growing up, that of increasing social awareness and needs. You need to support, encourage, and teach him in this. He needs to learn about himself, both the good and the bad. He has the advantage of having been diagnosed and...
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    pikmin bloom

    I have similar problems and do not have a cell, only a land line. When people ask for my cell number, I tell them, I tell them I am one of those perverted freaks who doesn't have a cell phone. When they invariably ask how I can function without one, I tell them, very peacefully and without...
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    First autistic Barbie doll launched with sensory-sensitive features

    This could be for real, and I sincerely hope it is, but my cynic alarm is going off, and it looks a lot to me like Pandering for Profit. Adjustable arms and wrists for hand flapping? I'm willing to bet the hands are moveable, but are too stiff to actually flap. Eyes painted to look averted...
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    My plan of action against pervasive discontent.

    Adelaide is my favorite Australian city (second, I think, is Townesville). The rest of the big cities seem like clones (Melbourne=New York, Sidney=Los Angeles, Perth=San Francisco, Brisbane=Miami), but Adelaide seemed unique in layout and attitude. You know all this but most of the people...
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    Image Copy/Paste to this site only not working

    Try taking a screen shot, then pasting it to Paint (or your preferred equivalent). Trim away the extraneous parts and save as a JPEG. Now the image is securely and independently in your computer, and it should now cut-and-paste or drag-and-drop properly.
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    AA sucks.

    It seems to me that happened long before you were an alcoholic, and was likely one of the causative factors. If you offended people while drunk, an apology is in order. Since this happened before you started drinking, they are the ones who should apologize (I know, it will never happen). You...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    I was wondering when you were going to show up in this thread. You are probably more knowledgeable than most of us on this subject.
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    How to get in a relationship when you do not like group events?

    It seems to me that is a form of masking. There is a difference in change because of a relationship and change to create a relationship. I think it was Scott Adams (Dilbert) who once said "Pretend to be someone else until she loves you for who she thinks you are."
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    If they portrayed history accurately, people would be bored and offended. I have come up with a basic rule: If it comes out of Hollywood, it is wrong. This rule almost never lets me down. What really gets me is "based on a true story," but the only thing associated with the actual events is...
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    An Autistic World

    We would need a minority of neurotypicals, maybe 5% or so, just for balance. We could let some of them grow up thinking they were autistic, wondering why they could never fit in, then diagnose them as neurotypical later in life to explain why their lives were such a mess. We could play...
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    Interesting Commentary On Microsoft Windows' Rise- And Fall

    I still sometimes use a DOS editor called PC Write from the 1980s. You can select a block of text (not just lines or paragraphs) from anywhere and move it around or swap blocks. EXTREMELY useful for some of the data I had to work with (OK, it CAN be done with Excel, but is extremely clumsy...
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    Something bad happened to me today

    Don't run away from it, own it. Some people have called me "Stark raving crackers," and I'm proud of it. When people say "You're crazy," I say "Thank you." Oftentimes, they get rather disconcerted by this. Great fun.
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    How to get in a relationship when you do not like group events?

    Seems to me like you are not interested in a relationship, just getting laid. A relationship means being interested in the person, not their genitals. Sex is the culmination of a relationship, not the reason for it (although far too many people think otherwise).
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