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    I am starting up an 8 gallon aquarium to keep Bettas in

    as of now I have added a few different types of plants including floating plants and some that look like grass
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    I am starting up an 8 gallon aquarium to keep Bettas in

    I saw these tiny Bettas at my local fish store and they were super cute and so beautiful I am not sure if they are babies or adults
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    I am starting up an 8 gallon aquarium to keep Bettas in

    This is my tank after adding sand anubias plants and microsorum plants and I just added some fish food to get the cycle started which will take a while maybe a few weeks until it's fish safe
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    I am starting up an 8 gallon aquarium to keep Bettas in

    . This is my recently purchased 8 gallon aquarium that I bought used but it does not have any leaks and I got the tank itself for 50 dollars with the entire setup going at approximately 100 dollars in total. I did not have much in terms of cable length so I had to use an extension cord for the...
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    Anybody else that is at a short term accomodation waiting for a more permanent solution

    So for a few months now I have been at a short term accomodation for those struggling at life and for me it was because of me not being able to live on my own anymore not only because of my autism but also poverty and landing myself in a ton of credit card debt some of which have caused me to...
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    Autism and unhealthy coping mechanisms

    Well you are certainly not alone because I too have a big problem with seriously unhealthy eating habits as a coping mechanism because for years I was emotionally and verbally abused by my ableist father that and I also went through some horrible traumatic events both during my childhood such as...
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    Being on the autism spectrum and being gay but really struggling to find any friends or relationships

    I do have one hobby which is malware analysis but it leads to me becoming stuck in front of my laptop because analysing malware can be time consuming depending on the task especially reverse engineering malicious executables like information stealers or banking trojans that have a ton of anti...
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    Being on the autism spectrum and being gay but really struggling to find any friends or relationships

    Hello what I am going to talk about is something that I pretty much never hear people talk about on places like youtube nor have I heard anything about it being represented in things like movies or video games and it's the representation of gays on the autism spectrum. So for some time now I...
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    getting my life in order,the challenges of dealing with living on my own and dealing with traumatic events

    Good thing to know I am not alone. I have been on the forums since some time during high school although I don't post nearly as often as I used to do.
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    getting my life in order,the challenges of dealing with living on my own and dealing with traumatic events

    So I am not sure if anybody else can relate to the challenges I am dealing with right now which I am trying to overcome both with the help of my highly supportive mom but also from a type of service in my country known as "boendestöd" where I can get help with planning out things like routines...
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    Experiencing too much empathy and sensory overload around babies/children or animals

    Sadly my rabbit had now passed away as well very recently possibly because of an unknown illness as everything looked completely normal and he showed no signs of sickness when I saw him alive for the last time the days before and I am now heartbroken and will probably not get one ever again most...
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    Experiencing too much empathy and sensory overload around babies/children or animals

    There is something I have so far not shared with the people on this forum but it's something I have experienced several times during my daily life because of the fact I just experience too much empathy especially over cartoons/animated movies especially movies such as An american tail because...
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    A summary and history of my problems with growing overweight and a description of underlying issues

    First of all I would like to say I have been fairly inactive on these forums for the past few months mainly because I have gotten busy with other tasks like trying out video games I have never beat before, doing stuff like analysing malware and even just taking care of my pet bunny I have had...
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    I want to improve my drawing skills so I can work with animation

    So a while ago I got my hands on a Wacom S drawing tablet because I really wanted to start drawing digitally so that maybe I can develop the needed art skills for animation but what sucks is that I am barely even using the thing and I dislike drawing on paper. I know there are a lot skills I...
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    Autism discrimination

    As somebody with high functioning ASD I can understand if that neighbor is finding the screaming/loud noises annoying especially because that kid happens to be on the autism spectrum and is non verbal and obviously that is not an excuse for bad behaviour from the child but the neighbor telling...
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