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Recent content by Shamar

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    I am a mess

    You will have a hard time finding more than a handful of people around here without a similar story. Welcome to your new home.
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    How Does One Deal With Social Burnout From Work?

    Translation: You are expected to know things you were never told about or trained to do. I suspect most of us have experienced that, I certainly have. What we need to do is learn to acquire knowledge spontaneously, as needed. Maybe that will satisfy them.
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    I am hosting an Autism Forums BBQ.

    I would bring some Red Lentil Balls (boiled red lentils, celery, parsley, onions, and some other bits). When I was dating my wife, she made these for me. That night, I asked her to marry me. Draw your own conclusions. Bored is better than depressed. It is much easier to do something about it.
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    What age did you guys realise how important socialising and social skills were?

    Similar. I was 5-6 when I realized other kids had friends and were NOT lonely. However, I think I beat you. I started thinking about suicide by age 9. Not to punish my parents or anyone, or because of depression (although it was obviously also there), but simply to end the pain of...
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    Beginning friendships - mutual initiation, or not??

    You appear to need a little context from me as well. I am social phobic (social anxiety on steroids). Also the part of the brain that handles bonding and connections to other people never developed in my brain. I cannot form any emotional relationship with another person. I have no friends...
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    Beginning friendships - mutual initiation, or not??

    Me!?! INITIATING a friendship? You mean like walking up to someone I never met before and starting a conversation? I will see unicorns grazing in my back yard before that happens.
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    Not sure if my appointment was actually finished

    Hi Jen. We all get a little confused when things are not clearly explained. I am amazed at you. When I first encountered you on this forum, you seemed unsure of things and almost helpless. Now, you have a job, you are handling medical appointments on your own, and even trying to understand...
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    Introducing myself, hello :)

    Welcome to your new home. I think most of us here were diagnosed well into adulthood (I was 60 at the time). Many of us, because we grew up without help, suffered learning to deal with it. Some of us (myself included) are still struggling with it. Accepting it and learning about it is a...
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    Loneliness still affects me

    Congratulations, you've grown a bit. You would never have said that a year or two ago. Loneliness is a reality for everybody at one time or another. I live it daily.
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    Title: Beyond the Number: What IQ Often Misses

    I once took an IQ test that was essentially pattern recognition. I failed. The answers I came up with absolutely fit the pattern, but were not the "correct" patterns. This test was obviously geared to test neurotypical intelligence. Just for the record, I took a Wechsler Adult Standard...
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    What Society Says About Being Alone

    I have the same culture. I have been alone my entire life, even when surrounded by people, including my family. I have never had a friend comment about this, mainly because I never had a friend. Like you, until I was diagnosed, this did take a toll on me, for which I am still paying.
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    Noise Cancelling technology

    This will work - - slightly. The problem is the difference between the distance from the sample point and the source point. This works well in headphones because the distance is so small. If you have a significant difference, the rate at which the noise lessens between the two becomes...
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    Legacy Computing, Anyone ? A blast from the past...

    Yes, it seems like they are thinking "WOW, we have all this available memory, let's fill it up." Not like the old days when every byte counted.
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    Legacy Computing, Anyone ? A blast from the past...

    And for my next trick, I used to load software and data into a PDP8 using a punched paper tape and make changes using registry address switches (I worked for a small company that couldn't afford anything better for a while).
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    Legacy Computing, Anyone ? A blast from the past...

    I remember those times. I still have my Commodore 64 and accessories.
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