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Recent content by stevens

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    Hello. I’m Jay, and I’ve been diagnosed multiple times on the Spectrum since 1989.

    Age 3 in 1989? Wow, you really got in on the ground floor. I had a daughter at about that time and autism or, at the time, Aspergers was something we were just starting to hear about in the US. Welcome.
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    Mom of 15 year old boy with autism, anxiety, adhd,ocd who is struggling socially

    Well, like Grommet, I was your son, too. I wonder if my mother sometimes had the same thoughts you have. She's one person in the world who never stopped believing in me. I miss her. I sure hope I didn't let her down too much. Without her support, I don't know what I would have done. It's been...
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    The insidious "Sunk Cost" fallacy

    For sure that's the example to end all examples, almost nothing else would come close.
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    Seeking your input. Would you work 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, for 45 days straight at high pay?

    I worked in the power industry for many years. This flowed from the happy accident of getting into the industry in a union job. I did these kinds of schedules on a regular basis. The hourly pay was high, and I received double time for every overtime hour, plus there were many other rules and...
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    From Independence To Moving Back In With Family. Should I Be Ashamed?

    Your predicament has brought back uncomfortable memories of 1992 for me. I'd spent seven years finishing a bachelors degree and a couple of graduate degrees, and the employment situation was a complete disaster. In time (~on the order of six years), the employment situation smoothed out. Things...
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    The future of Political Discussions on AF

    Normally we do not have a political environment wherein high profile individuals are using autism as a subject for political gain. No doubt that has caused problems. This site is remarkably non-political. I read political subjects elsewhere, but I'd never argue that politics is separable from...
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    Autism meet-up

    I have been to several. It is the greatest thing. Hard to find in many places, but a great idea.
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    The Hidden Downsides of Doorbell Cameras

    I've been building cameras from Raspberry Pi single board computers. They run Linux and are Wall Street free. Those other internet camera "privacy policies," well I simply assume they either are full of lies, or that they can be changed on a moment's notice without my knowledge.
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    Bird Flu

    I think you are wise to think of this. Avian flu is pandemic in birds and, now, in other species. If I were to clean out a bird bath I would first titrate the water in it with enough bleach to reach at least 100 parts per million chlorine, and then let it sit for 30 minutes or so. That much...
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    Alcohol and Me

    Now that's the spirit. I relate to this.
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    Career Advice Please

    From an Aspie point of view, my employment with a (local) government agency for many years was a lifesaver. I was unionized, and paid well. I never would have negotiated better terms, with poor social skills. Also when it inevitably came to pass that coworkers wanted to get rid of me, they...
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    Task initiation

    Once I get started, many pleasant hours of focus follow whenever I work on a project. When I was younger, isolated in the middle grades of school, all of the special interests were a refuge. Over the decades of life since, I have been canceled or ridiculed because of some of those interests...
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    Anyone suffers from GERD/Acid Reflex?

    Besides being a treatment for hernia, in the old days before the drugs fundoplication was used quite often for reflux. Anecdotes from people I know who have had it suggest that it can work quite well. These days drugs are the usual treatment. Health insurance these days seems to like pharmacists...
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    Doing Dishes

    The general principle is that I tend to convert any project that might be simple into something much more complex. Around half the time, this produces results of very high quality. It's a good thing I'm not trying to sell stuff, because I'd go broke.
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    How much do you understand this math question?

    Now that's exactly the way my autism kicks in. Somebody would present me the problem, and then I'd hold forth for 15 minutes about the statistical unlikelihood of the transaction being possible citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the St. Louis Federal Reserve. I'd have to stop...
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