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Recent content by Shamar

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    Bogus Study? What Do You Think?

    Exactly. When in college, I did an informal poll on a current hot topic (airline security and cost). I was able to get an overwhelming response on one side of the topic, and an overwhelming response on the opposite side, depending on the way the question was asked. The funny thing was, the...
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    Bogus Study? What Do You Think?

    I came across this study, and was disturbed. Link below. Neurotypical and Autism Study In essence, they heard "reports" that neurotypicals are biased against people with autism. They studied reactions to neurotypical and autistic people. They were surprised to find a statistically...
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    Eye Contact

    Things like body language, facial expression, intonation, and subtleties of social language are meaningless to me. If you want to tell me something, use words in their standard meaning, and only words.
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    Eye Contact

    For me, eye contact ranges from uncomfortable to panic inducing, depending on the situation. Distance within about 30 feet does not seen to matter.
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    Do any of you have trouble making friends not online but in everywhere real life?

    I have no friends (as I understand the concept). The closest thing I have to friends is right her on this forum. For some reason the part of my brain that controls or allows for human bonding either is not there or never developed.
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    Is it mainly a boy thing?

    Outdated may have more to say on this. As near as I can tell, cricket can be thought of as a form of baseball, with two home plates and no bases. Scoring is made by running back and forth between the home plates, and you can bat from either one. A batter is out when the ball is caught on the...
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    Is it mainly a boy thing?

    I remember Australian Rules from when I was down there. Took me a while to figure out the rules from just watching. The main difference I can see is that the men are aggressive, the women are feisty. There is a difference.
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    Introducing myself

    Many of us were diagnosed late in life, including me. I don't want to bore everyone else by telling my story again, But I have made plenty of post about it. Actually, if you you look up posts, you will find many similar, almost identical life stories. You are in good company here. We also...
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    Forget my entire blood family.

    Congratulations!! Its time you did this. What took so long? We are all rooting for you. What Misery and Judge said.
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    Algorhithms

    Algorithm is a term more often misused than used properly, generally by persons attempting to make themselves appear smarter in front of other less than well informed people in order to not say anything actually useful; see algorithmic, algorithming, algorithmism, algorithmises, algorithmized...
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    I feel like buying a large bottle of whiskey for the upcoming weekend.

    I'm sure many of us here are concerned. Let us know how the weekend went.
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    4th of July booms

    I find them annoying, but the dog is half traumatized by morning. We also refer to them as "Boom-Booms."
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    Cross Referrencial Thinking

    I do this all the time. My ability to make associations between seemingly unrelated things has helped me considerably. At one time I realized there was a flaw in the way we were analyzing electrical data. I discussed it with my boss, who replied "You are probably right, but we won't look into...
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    Weirdest Thing You've Ever Eaten

    Some of you may remember a game called The Secret of Monkey Island. In one scene, the main character finds a very peculiar rump roast. I had one when I was in north Borneo. What made it peculiar was that it was the only rump roast I ever had with a prehensile tail. Not bad, really, but not...
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    For the US people here - how do you plan on spending the 4th of July this year?

    I will spend the day staying off the roads. I consider this the year's second National Drunk Driving Day. The evening I will spend comforting the dog in his safe hidey hole. He is terrified of boom-booms.
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