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Recent content by SUM1

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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    Well, if you'd noticed, many of the people who supposedly "agreed" with me have upvoted posts in total disagreement with me, including those emotionally charged/ad hominem, and including yourself @Fino. It's clear to me that users like Autistamatic were quite affected by what I had to say, given...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    I probably won't be posting in any more topics. Fair enough, I'll answer: I've never understood self-harm personally, but I've totally understood suicide, the main reason being one causes pain to the person while the other ends the pain permanently. I would be lying if I said I'd never had...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    Also, it seems like everyone's the exact opposite to me at this point. So don't feel too special lol.
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    Do you like fiction?

    I should point out that, although I was almost the best in my school before age 11, I quite rapidly declined in performance up to age 18, almost entirely down to my severe bullying and becoming more and more disillusioned confused with the curricula and marking criteria. My rapid learning began...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    I appreciate your long description a lot, but unfortunately almost all the replies have only added to my confusion. What they've shown me is that either people are involved in crazy social situations from an early age, like your party, that I could never involve myself in (one reason being this...
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    Do you like fiction?

    I played PC games from age 4 until about age 13, but they were never anything like RPG or FPS games. A lot of them were physics games, or games that incorporated gravity and realistic physics. I consider myself to have played those as a mode of learning, learning physics and ballistics...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    Self-righteousness? Excuse me? I was only trying to express my view and understand more about why it's done. There was no need for personal attacks.
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    Do you like fiction?

    I wasn't saying it's a waste of time for other people. I said I found it to be a waste of time, myself. That was just my own experience speaking. So I don't think that saying things I do are a waste of time was necessarily warranted, but no, I try to make everything I do as valuable as it...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    Yes, but as I said, that brings us back to how on earth they found those "pros", why the felt they could trust them, what they'd seen of people taking drugs before, all their exposures to the concept in childhood. I've tried to relate my rejection of drugs to my autism/Asperger's, because not...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    The issue isn't with the pros for taking alcohol and drugs. The pros are downright obvious. The issue is with all the huge risks and harm that come with it. That would turn any reasonable person off of such a thing, the same way someone wouldn't try to eat a doughnut that was covered in insects...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    Thank you for the more helpful post. But it then comes down to how such people learn about those substances as children and how they convince themselves that it's a good idea without the serious downsides. They must be seeing something I never did, but I like to think I had the same pressures...
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    Alcohol/Smoking/Et Cetera

    And don't consider the downsides? Because that's what I said in my post. You don't do things just because of a positive. You consider the positives and negatives. But apparently people don't.
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    Do you like fiction?

    Won't make the mistake of posting on this forum again.
  14. SUM1

    EQ test

    I scored 6. I for one, support most of Baron-Cohen's research. I'm diagnosed with ASD and do not relate to the feeling of empathy whatsoever, except with a significant other. I've never understood this manic backlash among autists against the notion of them not having empathy. It was never meant...
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    A little bit confused

    I have an extremely confusing sexuality, one I've not come across once before elsewhere. I posted about it on an asexuality forum (even though it's probably not asexuality), and no one could offer anything helpful. I don't think I'll be posting about it here for the same reason, but I can relate...
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