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Cairns, Queensland... New discovery

Hello & welcome @arithmetic!
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One thing that I've already learnt here is that I'm not alone.

Another thing I now have that I didn't have last week is an explanation of why things went so wrong. Wooh that's been a long time coming and a lot of pain.

But the best thing is that I now feel much more hope. It's been a big help for me to get this new understanding of myself, and to find others at least somewhat like me :).
Thanks people (Y)
 
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This is a picture of Brutus, a large croc popular with tourists on the Adelaide River in the top end. If he grabbed a human around the middle I don't fancy their chances.

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I love it when you post that picture. Reminds me there are idiots the world round.

Welcome arithmetic. I found out I was autistic when I was 64. I just turned 72. My life now makes sense whereas before it was a grand mystery. It has connected me with this group. I have found people who I can actually "talk" to. Makes all the difference.
 
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Many years ago a couple of young German girls asked me about camping sites around Kunnanurra. I described a spot to them almost in the town on the banks of the Ord River, a beautiful spot, but I warned them not to swim there because of the crocs. One of the girls said "Don't be silly, they just put those signs up for the tourists.".

"Oh, alright then. Enjoy your trip.". There's no point trying to explain anything to some people.
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Did you receive a thank-you card from the crocks? lol
 
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Crocodiles...
Someone consulted me on the bus one day... "Ask the old fellah"
So this beautiful young European woman explains to me that if a crocodile comes she will just "poke it in the eye"... question mark.
Comments, anyone?

I said to her that I have an ambition - I never want to meet a crocodile in the wild.
I explained that these 3 or 4 meter creatures weigh perhaps half a ton.
I explained that they get up on their hind legs and run at you with their half meter jaws open, making as much as 40km/hour.

I think she might almost have wet herself.
Good.
Job done.
Life saved!
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Running on hind legs... lol
 
arithmetic said:
One thing that I've already learnt here is that I'm not alone.

Another thing I now have that I didn't have last week is an explanation of why things went so wrong. Wooh that's been a long time coming and a lot of pain.

But the best thing is that I now feel much more hope. It's been a big help for me to get this new understanding of myself, and to find others at least somewhat like me :).
Thanks people (Y)
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"Misery loves company." ;)
 
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Many years ago a couple of young German girls asked me about camping sites around Kunnanurra. I described a spot to them almost in the town on the banks of the Ord River, a beautiful spot, but I warned them not to swim there because of the crocs. One of the girls said "Don't be silly, they just put those signs up for the tourists.".

"Oh, alright then. Enjoy your trip.". There's no point trying to explain anything to some people.
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Don’t quote me on this because it’s been a few years, but I think it was Laura, out west from Cooktown, that was without a publican for quite a while, at least the pub was closed when I went through. The previous publican was a local, who reckoned he knew which way was up and, against all advice to the contrary, went fishing at the same spot on, it would’ve been the Kennedy River, the same arvo every weekend. They never did find him but the general wisdom was that an old man croc had watched him for months, always coming to the same spot at the same time. One weekend, he met him. So it’s not just the tourists who think they know better. Silly galah!
 
I just now asked a Yidinji Yelengi lady about that publican and crocodile story and she agreed on those details.
She continued that there was a known big croc on that river, that almost took another man, but his 60 year old wife jumped on the croc and saved him.
 
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I warned them not to swim there because of the crocs. One of the girls said "Don't be silly, they just put those signs up for the tourists.".
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There is a concept that I believe to be a good for the humanity at philosophical and practical level even thought it is a grim and insensitive way to put it... The concept is The Darwin Awards.
 
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