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  1. Gritches

    Excessive Risk-Taking: Adult Danger Blindness?

    I hear a lot about danger blindness is ASD children, specifically. I don't hear a lot about the forms that danger blindness may take as an adult, when there's many more pieces on the board and much more at stake. I don't believe a behavior like danger blindness, or any behavior for that matter...
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    Non-Functional Eye Contact

    I was once made aware of something called "Non-Functional Eye Contact", which is apparently the kind of eye contact someone who cannot read faces would make. I was told that "non-functional eye contact would always put people off". Unfortunately, it's a bit late for follow-up questions, but it...
  3. Gritches

    Stacking Memory Foam Mattress Pads - Good Idea or Dumb Idea?

    So, I did my research on what kind of bedding is best for people with lower back pain. I found that a memory foam mattress would be my best option (feel free to dispute that; I don't care if I sleep on a mattress, a hammock, a pile of blankets, whatever keeps my back healthy). Memory foam...
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    Hail to the cellular phone

    First off, I hate cell phones, for the stereotypical reasons someone might hate cell phones: they rule people's lives. But I say, a cell phone properly wielded can be an Aspie's best friend. Sometimes, we can catch trouble if we're just standing around. People get creeped out, or they think...
  5. Gritches

    People being nice wrong - an unique problem/blessing

    I'm sort of facing a unique sort of problem, unique in that it's one I've never faced before: At the place where I work, everyone knows I'm autistic. I don't really talk about it and neither do they (at least not directly to me), but it's the opposite of a secret at this point in time. Thing...
  6. Gritches

    Fear of an entire gender - how do you beat that?

    Hello everyone, I had a breakout therapy session yesterday. My therapist, who is truly a guru, helped me resolve one problem (years of paranoia apparently caused by latent guilt) but she helped me identify another. Let me explain: My workplace is strictly first-name basis. That's kind of a...
  7. Gritches

    AS + Impulsivity

    My understanding of how impulses are experienced by NTs is that they get an "impulse" and they immediately get up and go do whatever their impulse tells them to do. I find that I'm very impulsive, but I'll never just get up and go do something. No, I'll feel like doing something, often...
  8. Gritches

    Are you a fan of fans?

    I'm curious to know what others think of fans, and by fans I mean the personal-cooling/air circulating types of fans. Box fans, stand fans, desk fans, those fans that sit in your window; I am personally a fan of fans. I love fans, and own many of them. I can't sleep without a fan on. After I...
  9. Gritches

    Inducing dreams/nightmares

    So relatively recently, circumstances led me to sleep for about 3 days straight. During this time, I had such incredible dreams that tapped the purest of my intellect and insight, revealed personal truths, and taught me a lot about myself. The dreams were so realistic and so vivid, it took me...
  10. Gritches

    7-Day Work Week (with shorter days)

    If you could choose to work a 7-day work week, 365 minus 8 paid holidays, 5.5 hours per day, would you? This is as opposed to either the traditional 5 days a week/8 hours a day, or 4 days/10 hours, or I guess any arrangement where you have something akin to a "weekend".' I ask because this is...
  11. Gritches

    Cognitive enchancement - an ethical imperative?

    There's something I've been chewing on for quite a long time and I find myself agreeing with it fully. I don't remember who said it, but someone who has some business making such claims said that it was not only unethical to deny cognitive enhancing medications to those who need it, but wholly...
  12. Gritches

    The Value of Wondering

    If there's one thing technology has made obsolete, it's the need to wonder. There's a search bar in the top-right corner of this here demon box that I'm typing into that contains much of humanity's knowledge. Any question I could possibly have could be answered in seconds. My phone can do the...
  13. Gritches

    What original Xbox games have aged well?

    I'm thinking about buying an original Xbox (my first one got stolen) so I can play through some of the games that defined my childhood. Games like KOTOR made me the person I am today. There are like 3 games I want to play again, but there were hundreds of games for Xbox that were considered...
  14. Gritches

    Would you pay extra for premium toilet paper?

    I hate having to use public restrooms. It's not just the filth, or the creepy guy who wants to talk to you while you're trying to do your business. It's the toilet paper. Toilet paper in public restrooms always sucks. Aside from the fact that you need to use a mile-and-a-half of it to get...
  15. Gritches

    The Rat Race - What's the Point?

    Now, before I begin, I'm not implying that there isn't a point. In fact, I'm sure there is a point, and that's what I'm trying to ascertain; because I find that if something seems pointless, I'm probably just missing the point. But really, what's the point? Work to make money to pay bills that...
  16. Gritches

    An Upsetting Machine

    So, today at work I was working on some paperwork for a machine called an "Upsetter". It shakes boxes to settle their contents to the bottom, but that's besides the point. Being literal-minded as I am, I started to wonder: what if there was a machine called an "Upsetter" whose sole purpose it...
  17. Gritches

    The Art of the Compliment and the Social Rules Governing them

    I work on one thing at a time in my general quest to be a better, nicer, more likable person, and this week I feel like working on my complimenting skills. I feel like I'm still a bit awkward when I try to pay someone a compliment. I'm not very good at giving compliments because I don't have...
  18. Gritches

    Worsening of hypervigilance with sleep depivation

    I'd say "fatigue", but that has other implications, so I'll just ask: For those with PTSD especially (most of us? all of us?), do you find that your hypervigilance gets...more pronounced the more tired you get? I ask because I absolutely have to get at least 5 hours of sleep per night. If I...
  19. Gritches

    Using other peoples' names in conversation

    I heard a quote once that goes something like: "Using someone else's name is the sweetest music you can play to their ears." What it was referring to was using other peoples' names in conversation with them, as in "You're right, Stacy" as opposed to just saying "You're right." Now, I know...
  20. Gritches

    Depressive personality: how do you live with it?

    How do you live with a depressive personality? My therapist told me the other day that I'm probably always going to be suicidal, depressed, and generally miserable. Quite a prognosis to get from someone I've known for several years, who isn't just making flippant observations. But I think she's...
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