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    Intro - Late Diagnosis, Interests, etc.

    Hi and welcome to the forum. That's the most comprehensive introduction post I've seen so far. You sound like so many of us here. Welcome home. I'm an irreverent Aussie diagnosed at age 55.
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    This was the side of things that I was taught, and that early races were actually clandestine meets between different grog runners. They'd get together to discuss different tactics and strategies to avoid detection and show off their cars while they were at it. Car racing in Australia didn't...
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    Do any of you not bother going to autism groups? I used to in the past but I haven't had tons of progress making friends.

    Those two points were very much my experience as well. Add to that a 30 to 40 year age difference and I was the only straight man in the room and it was just an incredibly uncomfortable experience for me. The whole time I was there I spent wishing I'd gone to the pub instead. When they announced...
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    That's also the case with what these days is called the Australian Supercar Championship. But here our racing started out as a production model touring car race and a lot of that heritage has stuck. Nascars aren't real cars, they're just a very thin shell over the top of the chasis for the sake...
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    More than 100 species are venomous, more than 130 if you count our sea snakes too. We have 40...

    More than 100 species are venomous, more than 130 if you count our sea snakes too. We have 40 species that aren't venomous. As far as I know none of them are poisonous though, they're a common food to the traditional people.
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    It's a sign of maturity, being able to focus on the things that are important to you instead of...

    It's a sign of maturity, being able to focus on the things that are important to you instead of worrying about what your peer group might think.
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    This is a short documentary about Australia's most famous road race - Bathurst. The commentator is Mark Larkham, a previous champion race driver. When I was growing up the race was for production model cars only and any car that was seen on that track was also available for people to buy in...
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    Today I learned...

    That whole situation seems very strange to Aussies, we don't worship celebrities the way you do and we don't know what any of their political stances are. None of them would dare to declare what their stance is as doing so would spell instant death for that party. But in Australia we don't even...
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    New to this, figuring out and accepting who I am

    Hi and welcome to the forum. There's a lot of us here that didn't find out about autism until midlife or later, me included. Diagnosed at 55.
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    Forensic Psychology Dissertation Study - Participants Wanted

    Having a much more autism aware society is having an impact on our legal system too, people no longer get away with saying "It's not my fault, I'm autistic.". In fact trying to make excuses for themselves like that affects the sentencing policy and gives them a longer term inside if they're...
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    Forensic Psychology Dissertation Study - Participants Wanted

    I only got asked to be a juror once and I wrote back and told them that my previous criminal record should preclude me from jury duty. I didn't mention that my only criminal offence was drink driving 20 years previously. :) I simply didn't want to do it.
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    Advice about recruiting participants with autism

    Did you not get many responders to your survey? Or is this to do with getting live responders in your local region? Australia seems to be a lot more advanced than many other countries when it comes to autism, and our health, welfare, legal and political systems are all very similar to...
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    The Game Development Thread!

    OldCoder wasn't exactly the easiest person in the world to work with either, he had a lot of trauma and struggle in his life and was easily triggered by many things, but he was worth working with because he was more focused on achieving a goal than being the lord of his own mini fiefdom.
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    I Think It's a Horrible Time to be a Young Autistic (Bed Thoughts)

    And her peanut of a boyfriend. He's an Aussie, I wonder how long before he's game to show his face here again.
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    Youtube Habit

    Did it upset Donald? :)
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    Youtube Habit

    When I made that statement I was talking about all AI, not just youtube's. Here's a classic example for you: The entirety of that AI statement is completely false. They're not real adverts, they're comedy skits. There is no such company as Schaeffers and there are no such products. As such...
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    I Think It's a Horrible Time to be a Young Autistic (Bed Thoughts)

    Only time will tell if we're getting things right or not, but at least we're having a go at it. I did find it interesting how many other countries took notice of our social media ban for kids and are now working towards doing the same. Major media companies are now seriously worried that in the...
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    I Think It's a Horrible Time to be a Young Autistic (Bed Thoughts)

    I have no idea who the "major channels" are, I never followed celebrities and always struggled to remember their names. That's not just me by the way, most Aussies pay little attention to media personalities and we don't worship them like I see happening in some other countries. Mostly what I...
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    The Game Development Thread!

    I only really ever got very involved with one project - Minetest. Essentially it's an open source equivalent of Minecraft. The very first release was in 2010 and I didn't come along until 2014, by then the dev team had turned in to one of the most toxic work environments I've ever come across...
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    I Think It's a Horrible Time to be a Young Autistic (Bed Thoughts)

    In Australia we recently banned kids under 16 from social media access and I think it'll end up having positive effects on our society - kids not being exposed to things like right wing extremism until they're old enough to have started developing their own ideas. These bans have been put in...
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