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    I Wish I Was Helped

    How I wish I could get some help from people:sob:. Not m I bet, or material gifts, but making connections/transportation. And knowledge:cry:. I know next to nothing about computers - in 20 years of so of using them, I've only learned the barest posting ability. I can't do what other people...
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    Difficulty With Social Codes

    The whole thing of Aspergers/AS being described as " difficulty with social codes " seems to cover so much about me:( and appears to help explain why I've been so alone so much of my life:coldsweat:. I just had such difficulty with it, combined with the circumstances of my life meaning I...
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    Film school

    In 2016, IIRC, I returned to San Francisco from Santa Cruz with TBE thought of starting returning to college by going to City College of San Francisco, which was super cheap and furthermore offered extra things to homeless/in danger of students!:D One thing I thought I would rake was Film. I...
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    I need a wheelchair

    I think I do need a wheelchair, an electric wheelchair/cart with some kind of basket/carrying space and do much, though not all, of my walking with it. Of course, I'd really have to have a place to do so:relaxed:. I just walk so painfully slow at times, so crippled am I:(. It can take me...
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    I have no Aspie ftiends

    I gave no Aspie friends. I don't think I've ever had any real face-to-face relationship with someone I knew to be Aspie/AS. (There is a close Aspie friend of mine whom I've never met) I've never gone, with regularity and gratification, to any AS social/support groups. When I have gone I...
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    My brother whom...

    ...I talked about once on the chat boards about my late brother (he died in July-August 2017). He was " classically autistic ", as some put it. Diagnosed as mildly retarded and mildly autistic. I will call him Great Wahoo. He is interred with my parents here in Westchester County, NY, in a...
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    Being silent

    I have always fantasized about living a life of being completely silent - not talking at all. For a year or a while. Live a normal life, but don't talk. Stay completely silent. I might do transactions with writing things down or pointing to a board. I would carry some sort of...
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars TV show is tonight. I may watch, if I can. In the past I watched every year (If I could). My father, who grew up in the pre-TV " Golden Age Of Hollywood " era, watched it every year. If anybody else here wants to watch it, too, that could encourage me along in watching it. One of...
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    My Life Never Started

    :( Just to sum things up from the beginning, it's a like my life never really started:cryingcat:. My life never really took off:cry:. And now I'm old:pensive:. I have practically no money, no possessions, I don't know how I can get a decent situation with a place securely of my own set up, even...
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    My Life Experience

    I am still in Good Sam, in the same situation, on this Friday morning I brought up wanting to see the social worker on Wednesday and issues We'd.to. doctor, repeating it later to the nurses. I never saw a social worker. I repeated all of the above on Thursday and the SW never appearing also...
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    My lousy eyesight

    I have not had prescription glasses for many, many, years, just drugstore generic glasses:coldsweat:. My eyesight is now having a pretty difficult time reading the articles on my phone even:cry:. It's a fairly strong strain to read them. Now you might think, " " Oh, Social Services will get...
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    Harry & Meghan - what went wrong?

    The publicity aboutOrince Harry and Meghan withdrawing from their regular salried work as members of the Royal Family, making public appearances, and withdrawing from using their " HRH " titles - How is it exactly that H&M''s professional lifeasRoyals is considered to have gone so wrong that...
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    " JERRY HERMAN. R.I.P. "

    The songwriter JERRY HERMAN died as real days ago at 88. He was the writer of the vastly successful Broadway musical. " HELLO, DOLLY! "...and, therefore, scored a #1 Hot 100 BILLBOARD " regular " pop hit as a songwriter right in the middle of American Beatlemania and the Motown sound breaking...
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    I moved. And my id's been stolen.

    I have moved from Santa Cruz, CA to Portland, OR, effective today. I just can't take having to walk around for 9-10 hours every day in SC,:cry:lacking sleep, lacking rest and time to think to myself, and straining my CHF-afflicted aging body:tired: - and it's now cold and rainy season in SC...
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    Karaoke?

    Has anyone here done karaoke? I never have:( Briefly, my life+long never quite taking off into a " full " independent life:coldsweat: stopped me - Now, too, my homeless status:disappointed: (in a shelter with an early curfew) and being crippled, and money for hanging around a bar/restaraunt...
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    On music forum

    On the Steve Hoffman Forums, which is a classic rock/oldies/stereo equipment forumz a member called twelvepitch has posted about his bring AD and SD in general. The thread is in General Discussion. I can't link:eek:. He inspired me to frclodey myself about bring AS there. I don't know how that...
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    Me II

    I am going to follow up the introductory thread about me and the " Me " (I think it was) thread - since the ' Me " thread was picked to be spotlighted, this will go deeper into details of me, as a spotlighted thread would be seen by a lot of people - Actually, this is a prelude to what I had...
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    MAD and MRR, RIP

    Two magazines that were widely distributed during the 20th Century have mostly discontinued their appearance as new paper magazines, MAD MAGAZINE, the home of Alfred E. Neuman, that large-sized comic book/magazine...and MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL, the newsprint-printed punk rock fanzine...professional...
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    Not having gone to college

    I didn't truly " go to college "/University , and it's a very large sad thing for me:cry:. To be absolutely precise, I went to comunnuty college for a while when Inwasn19)29, under bad circumstances and flunked out, with a HORRIBLE!:frowning: aftermath:sweat:!...and attempts I made to go back...
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    " PEANUTS " thread.

    Let's discuss Charles M. Schulz's " Peanuts " and all versions of it:)! I decided to benpurist,:and put this in " Visual Arts " - though this seems to be maybe more for would-be animators!!!!! (BTW, where would discussion of books/writing go? Since you use your eyes to read (besides audiobooks...
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