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    To those of you with a smaller battery - how do you feel about it?

    I have never bothered comparing myself to others, that's a quick track to a sad life. I miss the drive and enthusiasm that I used to have and the energy that went with that.
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    Sleep routines

    The worst part is it's my own stupid fault. The doctor was a quack with the glassy eyes of the religiously demented - "There's no such thing as autism, you're just depressed." and prescribed escotalorpram. I had already written the doctor off as just a useless appendage and I had no depression...
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    Starlink vs. Fiber Optics

    I wouldn't put it past him to threaten individual states within the US, that seems to be the way politics is played over there in the last few terms.
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    Sleep routines

    I only took the SSRIs for less than 6 months and will never go anywhere near any such drug ever again. Yes, it's now 3 years later and I'm still trying to recover my sleep patterns. I'm so tired of being tired all the time. I'll manage to sleep for 8 hours straight about 4 or 5 nights a week...
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    Sleep routines

    This is just an idea that popped in to my head, from someone else's comment about staying in bed all day. I was always a good sleeper, right up until 3 years ago when a doctor prescribed me some SSRIs. That completely destroyed more than 50 years of good sleep habits and for a very long time I...
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    Why Men Are Walking Away From Dating

    I've never stepped foot outside of Australia but I've gone out with a couple of European women, one Suisse, one French. I have no idea what dating is like in Europe. I also have no idea what dating is like in Australia because I have never in my life been on a date. I've seen it on TV shows and...
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    Starlink vs. Fiber Optics

    Australia laid out the majority of it's optic fibre network in the 80s, but then it sat there not connected to anything for 25 years. It's only in the last decade or so that homes and businesses in cities have been getting optic fibre connections. Now the government is desperately expanding...
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    GTA Survey!

    I still have a copy of GTA San Andreas but I hardly ever played it, it's not really my sort of game. Sometimes I'd load a few cheats and then run through part of it as a bit of light entertainment but it just never really grabbed me. I never even looked at any of the others.
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    Is it normal to not have sensory issues as an autistic person?

    No, I never did. Most clubs here are sports venues for team sports and strangely enough, I'm autistic and don't do very well in team situations. I was very active and sporty when I was young but only ever solo sports. Aussie pubs are in a way similar to an old English pub but built on a much...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    South Australia has been having a problem with a large algal bloom on our coast for the past 6 months. The bloom has now expanded up in to the gulf and has people worried that it has now become a mass extinction event. They never stop to wonder if it's caused by the salmon farm on the coast of...
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    I was 11 years old when they banned fireworks here, so my friend and I learnt how to make our...

    I was 11 years old when they banned fireworks here, so my friend and I learnt how to make our own explosives out of household chemicals and had a lot of fun exploding meat ant's nests. :)
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    Why Men Are Walking Away From Dating

    Aussie pubs are very different to "bars" like in the US and Europe, but yes. Many.
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    Nut guru

    For my mother it was the physical properties of nuts that she couldn't cope with, or anything small hard and sharp. The pips in tomatoes were another problem for her. Other than that I can't remember her being terribly different in her diet to what she always ate which was pretty much anything...
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    Nut guru

    I use Rice Bran oil, very popular throughout South East Asia. And I bought an air fryer, a much healthier way to cook. [Edit] I'm not sure that the air fryer really is that much healthier though. It's definitely a healthier option than deep frying, but I now find myself eating Chicken Nuggets...
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    Is it normal to not have sensory issues as an autistic person?

    I can't wear anything nylon or polyester, it itches and makes my skin go red. Labels inside clothes do the same thing. I get funny looks from people when I go clothes shopping because I shop by feel, touching everything to see what it feels like. If something's pure harsh nylon I'll snap my hand...
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    Is it normal to not have sensory issues as an autistic person?

    Sorry, I didn't notice this question until just now. It wasn't until after school that I started making friends and learning how to socialise, and for most of my life I always ended up with far more friends than I could really deal with. This is actually a common autistic trait, most of us...
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    Weirdest Thing You've Ever Eaten

    I'm not that adventurous. I've had Goanna and Crocodile but I turned my nose up at Turtle when I was offered it. Literally turned my nose, it smells terrible. Horse meat is really nice. And of course Kangaroo meat is common here, you can even buy it in the supermarkets, but I prefer Wallaby's...
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    Is it normal to not have sensory issues as an autistic person?

    It has always been there and it always will be, but the style and the attitude has changed. When I was growing up fist fights were commonly quite bad, even to the point of kicking someone's ribs in when they were down, but these days it's a lot more common for kids and young men to be carrying...
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    Why Men Are Walking Away From Dating

    My word they are! I only ever joined one, and it didn't last for long. It was for people over 50. I quickly realised there was nothing in there for me and dropped my membership. That same day I got contacted by a scammer, all good, never lost anything there, and ever since then I've been...
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    Is it normal to not have sensory issues as an autistic person?

    Interesting side note - also about political correctness. That's a quote from a popular cartoon when I was a kid - Daffy Duck. It was one of his common catch phrases. Those cartoons are banned worlwide these days because they "encourage violence" yet the world is far more violent and dangerous...
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