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    Do you talk with yourself outloud?

    My normal thought processes involve an inner dialogue, since I have aphantasia and my only way of "thinking" requires me to talk with myself. Often, I do this silently and purely internally, but sometimes when I'm alone I just turn up the volume and speak my thinking process out loud.
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    does this offend you?

    This is very true, I think. It is liable to produce a kind of "offence fatigue," where ordinary, decent people are driven to a feeling of exasperation with "yet another damned whine from the 'easily offended' brigade." The accusation of something's "being offensive" should be reserved for...
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    What Matters, to You, in a Conversation?

    I would like the other people in a conversation to be prepared to let me speak occasionally, without interrupting me, when I feel I have something to contribute. I don't usually try to say very much in a conversation, but I really would like to be allowed to say my short piece without being cut...
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    Autism & Empathy

    Indeed, one should not lump empathy and sympathy together as if they were interchangeable words for the same thing. I came across the following summary a while ago, and as far as I know, it is reasonably accurate: Empathy is about theory of mind. Figuring out what others are thinking and...
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    aromas, odors, smells (favorites?)

    Likes: Diesel, hot engines, fresh cigarette and cigar smoke, wood fires, alcohol, acetone, coffee being roasted, fresh-ground coffee, skunk at a (large) distance, freshly-baked bread, frankincense and "old church" smells,the smell of new books and the smell of old books,... Dislikes: Gasoline...
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    Literal thinking and the news

    Agreed about that one. I first noticed the replacement of "I couldn't care less" by "I could care less" when I moved to the US from the UK, and I put it down to a cultural thing. But presumably the expression began life as "I couldn't care less" in the US also. Maybe some sort of laziness...
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    Literal thinking and the news

    Yes, I puzzled over exactly the same thing, until someone explained it to me. It seems a bit strange to call it "stealing" the signs, in fact. Normally I would expect that if someone steals something from you, it would mean you don't have it any more. In this case, it is more like copying...
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    2020 - another decade is ending

    Yes. After 1BC came 1AD, so the first decade AD began January 1, 1 AD, ended December 31, 10 AD, and so on. Same with centuries, and milenia.
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    Refrigerator Mother

    I had parents who seemed quite cold and made very little emotional connection with me. While I don't think that that could in any way be said to have been the cause of my having asd, I suppose nevertheless there could be some degree of correlation between parents having a rather cold relation...
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    Does anyone wear the same clothes over and over?

    I suppose what one person calls dysfunctional behaviour, another may call functional. To me, it makes perfect sense to maximise the utility one gets from clothes, or any other purchases, and keep using them for as long as possible. From that standpoint, discarding perfectly usable clothing and...
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    Does anyone wear the same clothes over and over?

    I also have a very limited wardrobe of clothes that I wear for years, until they are falling apart. Once they have become too ragged even for me to wear in public, I reassign them as house clothes only, and then for DIY jobs around the house or garden. Some eventually become car repair...
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    The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale - Problematic Questions

    I've always felt that the phrasing of the possible answers is rather strange in this test. The options seem to be only black or white, in the sense that the allowed answers require a response of true or false. The focus on whether it was true always, versus only before 16 or only now, seems...
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    *Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

    I've noticed a growing trend for this kind of drama in the UK in recent years. In the old days we just had Weather. Sometimes it was wet, sometimes it was dry, sometimes cold, sometimes hot. These days they have taken up the US style of having storms with names, and generally trying to whip...
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    *Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

    I can relate to this! My schooldays were decades ago, and now I am on "the other side," and teach at a university. I still get the feelings of dread and impending doom that the slogan "back to school" used to give me all those years ago when I was attending school myself. And, much like in my...
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    The internal narrative.

    I am just like that. In my case I have no mental imagery (I have aphantasia), and so all my thought processes involve an internal dialogue with myself.
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