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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Fluctuating sense of taste. Anyone else? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2022, 3:24 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 302
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| For quite some while I've noticed that my sense of taste fluctuates. It's especially noticeable with sweet tasting things. Anyone else here experience the same? |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Things I Don't Get |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2022, 11:46 pm
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Replies: 905
Views: 17,277
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| I don't get why it can be acceptable to be openly contemptuous of people you think aren't very intelligent , but posting an image of a good result you got, with no disdain for other people, is seen as a major faux pas |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Musk Buying Twitter.... For Real This Time |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 29 Oct 2022, 10:31 pm
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Replies: 95
Views: 3,195
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| So Twitter is going to go downhill very fast now. Oh well, I suppose it's inevitable. I expect Elon will introduce paid plans too. I'd found a nice community on Twitter full of genuine people who are now my friends. That community will probably not last now that 'free speech' i.e. racist, homophobi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is the Labour party 2 parties in one? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2022, 3:35 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 473
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| There's very little that's truly radical about the 1st lot. Their quixotic desire to enable the Tories until their version of an ideologically pure party can be achieved is regressive and not progressive. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Musk Buying Twitter.... For Real This Time |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2022, 1:02 am
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Replies: 95
Views: 3,195
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| For me it's whether he wants to do something constructive, intelligent, and positive with Twitter or about the avaricious desire to possess yet another thing. I suspect the latter, but hope I'm wrong. I would not be happy if it became subscription based, and even more geared towards the the affluent... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is the Labour party 2 parties in one? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2022, 12:44 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 473
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| An antisemitic,anti disabled, pseudo-socialist party that counts success as how much media coverage it's gets as a perpetual protest party , vs a radical but pragmatic party that is a 'broad church', and sees electability as the cornerstone of actually helping people? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The hype vs the reality. Same for any of you? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2022, 7:19 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 426
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Mountain Goat wrote: Not sure what the baseball numbers mean. Translate to train talk? 
I would if I could. Think of a high quality, well designed train vs one far from well designed. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The hype vs the reality. Same for any of you? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2022, 6:34 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 426
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| Simplistic declarative statements are seldom "true". They are often used to express or create emotional effects. It can be especially confusing if one has the expectation that language is supposed to express, if not truth, than at least accuracy. I firmly believe that to be a genius requi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The hype vs the reality. Same for any of you? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 10:51 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 426
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| I can relate to that, certainly. I'm about a .235 hitter in life, too. The difference is that I was under the Mendoza Line for most of my childhood and adolescence. The Mendoza line is .200. Are you a baseball fan? I'm less of a baseball fan than I used to be, re keeping up with what's happening. I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The hype vs the reality. Same for any of you? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 25 Oct 2022, 6:26 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 426
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The hype.
The reality. I'm like the baseball player that batted .310 in the minor leagues. Stepped up to the major leagues and ended up with a .235 average. Being online plays to my strengths. Offline it's the total opposite. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Accent mimicry |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2022, 10:21 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,391
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| My mum used to do that when we went to a Chinese or Indian restaurant. My brother, sister, and I could get embarrassed about her doing it. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: The dilemma |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 2:22 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 576
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| I think it's me. I'll have an exchange of emails with someone , but sooner or later it fizzles out. It doesn't help that not much of great interest happens in my life. I have a very limited lifestyle . |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Politics |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 11:06 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 350
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| There's no way I could control the women in my life. They're independent,intelligent and strong minded women. Exactly how they should be. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What are you eating?/Last thing you ate? |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 8:44 am
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Replies: 17,353
Views: 676,936
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| A bag of roast chicken flavoured crisps. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: The dilemma |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 8:07 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 576
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| The latter. Why? The bullying effect. Bullying related trauma, Low self confidence. Low self worth. Paranoia. Too boring.Socially inept. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: The dilemma |
| firemonkey |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2022, 6:59 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 576
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| When you don't want to upset people by rejecting friendship requests, but you're scared/worried that the more they get to know you the more they'll see a reason to reject you. |
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