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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 07:16:40 AM »
It's a salamander. A blind, legless, lungless salamander. It is also known as a Trouser Snake.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 07:12:13 AM »
It's a salamander. A blind, legless, lungless salamander.
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Off The Wall / Re: "What's Upsetting You Right Now?"
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:57:42 AM »
I'm too poor to follow the tech scene. Be like me. :B
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:38:59 AM »
Ah, I see you have yours set up proper.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:31:43 AM »13631
Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:27:25 AM »
It's still hideous.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:24:28 AM »"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Doesn't change the fact that Windows 8 is not user-friendly and therefore useless to businesses who rely on a Start menu, which Windows 8 does not have. Finding the Control Panel, I was told, was an aggravating pain in the ass. The interface is hideous and counter-intuitive. Thus, I judge equally on looks and character and what I see is Microsoft dumping money into a pile of [parasitic bomb].
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General / Re: Change my nickname, please
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:20:48 AM »
I have a Wikipedia account and a few edits to my name. I do mostly minor clean-up.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:00:53 AM »
Eeew... Windows 8 looks utterly horrible. I'll stick with XP or 7. Well, I'll stick with XP until I finally upgrade to 7. And then, I'll stick with 7 until they come out with something better and I eventually upgrade to that.
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Forum Games / Re: CTRL+V
« on: October 26, 2012, 05:57:40 AM »
I know more hacks with Google than I do with Bing. None of my Google hacks work with Bing. Anywho...
[nothing]
I don't have anything on my clipboard, currently.
[nothing]
I don't have anything on my clipboard, currently.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 26, 2012, 05:31:02 AM »
Those stupid tealight LED fake candles... My cacolantern may be heading to the garbage, soon.
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General / Re: Change my nickname, please
« on: October 26, 2012, 05:21:08 AM »
In my experience, I've found Ladd's opinion to be rather truthful. I look at the Wikipedia article's sources, then pursue those for more information.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 25, 2012, 11:33:58 AM »
People are jerks.
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Forum Games / Re: CTRL+V
« on: October 25, 2012, 11:31:59 AM »So it takes input on my part in order for it to regurgitate anything of the sort? What a let down.
I'll just stick with Google's Google.
TrakNar !bing
Nuku-Nuku Google is better.
Our IRC bot speaks the truth.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 25, 2012, 10:33:53 AM »
What do you call a TARDIS that can only go to where you had already been?
The Re-TARDIS.
The Re-TARDIS.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 25, 2012, 09:12:45 AM »
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 25, 2012, 08:22:32 AM »
It's a musical note.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 25, 2012, 07:47:50 AM »
I follow routine. Routine and constants is one of the hallmarks of autism. It is order, and I adhere to a very strict routine of my own devising. I do everything the same way every day, the same time each day, and I put things away in the same place every day, the same time each day, and in the same order. My current morning routine is such: Get up, get a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, take meds, go check the mail. Every day, I do exactly that. If someone calls me and disrupts that routine, my whole day is out of synch.
Each night, I have the following routine: Take off shoes, get a shower, get into pajamas, turn on router, get online. After my alarm goes off to tell me to go to sleep, I shut down the computer, turn off the router, put my stuff away, take my meds, do my exercise, and go to bed. The same thing every day. I keep my shoes in the same spot at the foot end of my bed, in the same order. My phone and glasses go on my windowsill in the same order.
Intense focus on one or a few particular subjects is also a trait of autism. For example, I am a HUGE Star Wars nerd and I also love bugs. My cousin who was diagnosed with Asperger's has an interest in vending machines. I've varied up my focuses over the years, but each time, they were very obsessive and I could rattle off all sorts of needless facts. Now I have a head full of trivia knowledge, which comes in handy for Armchair Jeopardy.
As for the talking... I didn't start talking until I was around two or three, and when I did, it was in complete sentences. I also had trouble with S's and with Th sounds. My S's sound like a Ts sound, and my Th's will vary between replacing the syllable with a D or a T at times for a soft Th, and my hard Th just sounds garbled. But, that's just a speech impediment, and not really related to autism.
Growing up, my social skills were in the toilet. The Internet, oddly enough, improved them. They're still bad, but they're not as bad. I mean, hey—I ran a booth at Celebration 6!
Each night, I have the following routine: Take off shoes, get a shower, get into pajamas, turn on router, get online. After my alarm goes off to tell me to go to sleep, I shut down the computer, turn off the router, put my stuff away, take my meds, do my exercise, and go to bed. The same thing every day. I keep my shoes in the same spot at the foot end of my bed, in the same order. My phone and glasses go on my windowsill in the same order.
Intense focus on one or a few particular subjects is also a trait of autism. For example, I am a HUGE Star Wars nerd and I also love bugs. My cousin who was diagnosed with Asperger's has an interest in vending machines. I've varied up my focuses over the years, but each time, they were very obsessive and I could rattle off all sorts of needless facts. Now I have a head full of trivia knowledge, which comes in handy for Armchair Jeopardy.
As for the talking... I didn't start talking until I was around two or three, and when I did, it was in complete sentences. I also had trouble with S's and with Th sounds. My S's sound like a Ts sound, and my Th's will vary between replacing the syllable with a D or a T at times for a soft Th, and my hard Th just sounds garbled. But, that's just a speech impediment, and not really related to autism.
Growing up, my social skills were in the toilet. The Internet, oddly enough, improved them. They're still bad, but they're not as bad. I mean, hey—I ran a booth at Celebration 6!
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 25, 2012, 07:12:28 AM »... *crawls out of his hole and hugs both of you* Yes! T_T That's exactly, exactly, what my rant was going to say! But um... maybe not as nice as you guys put it. But seriously, I'm extremely relieved you guys understand completely what I meant. Seriously... Thank you for understanding...
Eh, don't worry about it. I actually find it annoying that it is being over-diagnosed. It's like letting the common folk into an exclusive club; you let in too many people and the club is no longer special.
I was diagnosed when I was sixteen, by a doctor down at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. I don't exhibit every single trait, as most of them I had grown out of, but I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism. I wasn't in any support programs, so I had to learn to function like a normal person by myself. It's not as if I didn't qualify, it was just that I didn't know that such programs around here even existed, so I fell right through the cracks.
There have been a couple people in my friend's art class (she teaches art) who were diagnosed with Asperger's and she has no idea why. She said that they don't display any of the symptoms. None whatsoever. I have no idea who misdiagnosed these kids, but I hope they see a different doctor who can tell them and their parents that the diagnosis was bull. I hazard that parents will even push for a diagnosis in some cases.
Yeah I mean 1 out of 150 is way too big of odds, for gods sake my cousin once thought her second son may have had autism because her first is really advanced for a almost 4 year old, but he's just a normal 2 year old. I understand it's a concern, but people need to get their facts strait with these things.
As for your cousin's kids... Autism would only be remotely considered if that kid had some serious developmental delays. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder; it develops over time. Usually around age three is when some symptoms would begin to show, and they could progress from there, until the child begins to grow out of it. It's mainly a disorder of childhood for most people, though there are symptoms and behaviors that can stick around well into adulthood.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 25, 2012, 06:54:17 AM »
It is certainly being over-diagnosed. Asperger's is this decade's ADHD, in terms of pop psychology.
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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)
« on: October 25, 2012, 05:03:22 AM »
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: October 25, 2012, 04:28:53 AM »
Naivety isn't necessarily a symptom of autism, either. I know several people with autism, and they're not naive. I have autism and I'm not naive. I know people who don't have autism, and they are seriously naive.
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Forum Games / Re: The post count thread AKA THAT NUMBER BELOW MY NAME
« on: October 24, 2012, 11:44:50 AM »
6291 (4.351 per day)
Getting there...
Getting there...
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General / Re: Change my nickname, please
« on: October 24, 2012, 11:11:56 AM »
He must be one of the innumerable spawn of Azathoth.