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Recent content by zozie

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    When being social ruins your special interest

    Thank you for this.
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    It's a good question. I tend to feel sick after the social situation is over. The fervor on the astrology forum is dying down, which I'm thankful for, because honestly I'm so strapped with summer term schooling that I'm having panic attacks trying to complete my assignments on time. How did...
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    For a good introduction, this seems to be a translation most people like. There are other copies that include commentary, but this seems to be a basic intro. https://www.amazon.com/Timaeus-Critias-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-ebook/dp/B006NTMD16#customerReviews
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    West Coast / Pacific NW Heat Wave

    We're just getting over our heat wave in the southwest US. Utah had record highs for June, at 104'F. Now the highs are just in the 90s, which is still record for this time of year. Stay safe, everyone.
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    We read Plato's Timaeus to get a feel for the distinctions between primary motion (that of the sun and the stars) and secondary motion (that of the planets) and their symbolic associations with spirit and matter respectively. But Plato also makes value judgments about those two, so I'm trying to...
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    I think I have a leg up in some ways with my philosophy background, but not in other ways, like being familiar specific astrological texts.
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    I'm not sure I will present a theory of autistic astrology at school, but I hope to eventually share it with the more scholastically-minded astrology community when or if I manage to develop one. I'm not impatient, just determined. There are several global astrology conferences held each year...
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    This made me laugh out loud. I remember once, way back in 2014 when I was young and naive to the ways of neurodivergence, I presented a final project in my Propaganda and Persuasion class with this introduction: "The professor has not provided us with a sufficiently workable definition of...
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    I'm not sure how to tactfully do it, I just know that when I try, misunderstandings happen so these days I mostly avoid disagreeing with a teacher unless I know I can get them alone in private, and that's not possible, I think there are around 500 students, if not more. The forum is open to all...
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    I sometimes feel like a wet blanket, you know? Here's this group, and everyone is sharing their Sun, Moon and Rising signs, and talking about how they wish love and light on everyone, and all I want to say is, "So, when we learned that Plato has true respect for matter over spirit, how does that...
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    When being social ruins your special interest

    Hi all, it's been a long time. I hope everyone here is well and I apologize for my absence. When I started school in January things were really great until I got overwhelmed with assignments. I did well that semester, though I cut out a lot of stuff in order to do so. This summer term has been a...
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    How Long Do You Last At a Social Gathering?

    An optimistic guess is 30 minutes in a group, provided I don't have to speak or listen to anyone. One-on-one is longer, potentially a lot longer depending on the environment and the subject. If I need to hold a conversation while other conversations are happening, then maybe 10 minutes. I'd...
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    Do you ever worry people will think you're hitting on them when you're not?

    All. The. Time. Back when I used to make Eye Contact™ it was the kind that was extended and intense. "Staring," they call it. I thought I was just showing that I was an interested listener. Everyone else thought I wanted to ...let's say "take it a lot further." Being misunderstood in this way...
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    Autism Assessment

    Also, it wasn't that long ago that autism was blamed on the "Refrigerator Mother" syndrome, which blamed a distant parent for a child's "abnormal" development. This was the accepted theory for a long time. It might be what your parents learned, and how they feel. In the 90s, my mother was blamed...
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    Autism IS a Disability

    I read the other day that the US doesn't consider autism as meeting the federal criteria for disability. On the one hand, maybe that's nice for those who struggle less, but on the other hand, there are so many of us who are just on welfare and struggling, going through voc rehab multiple...
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