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    Generation X

    I was born in 65 so I'm sort of both. When my mother tried to suggest there was something different about me my father replied "Rubbish. He does it deliberately just to give me the shits.". At that time I had no idea what it was that I did differently that upset people.
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    Cultural configuration of autism

    It's all data, useful as a comparative if not actually what she's looking for.
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    Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas all. My mother always said it was bad luck to still have christmas decorations up when hanging the new year's calendar.
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    Autistic Burnout--what was it like?

    I ended up with Ross River Fever not long after I moved to Dundee. I'm someone that doesn't normally notice when they're sick but ross river flattened me for months, and it kept coming back again in a milder form every year for about 10 years.
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    Strange and weird films from long ago

    Perhaps short films could provide some entertainment.
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    Actually, it's an Austro-anthropic view taught to me by people who are still partly living their paleolithic lifestyle today.
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    Switching social modes is a pain

    Friends will understand what's going on and probably be pleased that you're finally showing a bit of character. Coming off a bit too strong as you put it is nowhere near as bad a mistake as what you have been doing. The setting of boundaries is something most people understand and they will...
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    Cultural configuration of autism

    That was a well thought out questionaire, I hope you get enough good responses to satisfy your studies.
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    I didn't know you were in an RV, buy a cheap tarp to tie over the top of it and save yourself a...

    I didn't know you were in an RV, buy a cheap tarp to tie over the top of it and save yourself a lot of stress.
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    A pig fence is still only DC, just 10x the normal voltage. My brother got too close to one with...

    A pig fence is still only DC, just 10x the normal voltage. My brother got too close to one with the whipper snipper one day, it blackened the palm of one hand and the soles of both feet and he couldn't walk for over a week.
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    I took it at face value, then not long after that came the new 586 with the first pentium processors. [Edit] just a thought, perhaps 128 bit refers to the chip itself and not the software running on it. My graphics card has 256 bit chips.
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    Back in the 90s was when I first got in to computers, and gaming. And of course gaming meant I started upgrading my computer bit by bit to accommodate newer games. More ram, better graphics, one of them new fangled CD burners, etc. And the advertising for new motherboards back then all declared...
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    Autistic Burnout--what was it like?

    You did describe everything very well. All of that ^^ describes me perfectly. I started passing out for no fathomable reason. No warning, pass out and drop to the ground like a felled tree. Broke a few smaller bones and lost some teeth that way. Doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    It's important to remember what the human animal actually is because that affects the way our societies work, or don't. Our ancestors are carnivorous apes and apex predators. That is the basis of our social hierarchies, and later on the feudal system of government. The toughest ape rules the...
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    Autistic Burnout--what was it like?

    What I didn't know back then was that my burnout was a social/emotional issue. I always had an extremely active social life and that was what kept burning me out. I pride myself on my ability to spot patterns but it took me more than 40 years to pick up on that one. When I moved down to...
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    Pigs are also very vengeful. Here many farmers use an electric fence to keep feral pigs out of...

    Pigs are also very vengeful. Here many farmers use an electric fence to keep feral pigs out of their property but if you only use the same lame 80,000 volts used for a cattle fence then the pigs will get angry and destroy the fence. A pig fence runs enough voltage to cause harm - 800,000 volts.
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    Post a Furball (an animal, not a coughed up ball of hair)

    Australia is the same size as mainland USA. You also have Alaska but we also have the Antarctic Territories so we're still about the same size. Australia has a smaller population than Texas, spread mainly around the coasts with vast areas in the centre having the lowest population density on...
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    Autistic Burnout--what was it like?

    https://www.autismforums.com/threads/autistic-burnout.41208/ I just realised the page I linked to is in the Members Only area, here's a copy of my first post in that thread: Autistic Burnout. I didn’t know what it was at the time, I had suspicions that I was autistic but I knew very little...
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    The Good Student?

    An interesting phenomena I noticed - the studious student tends to be a lot more successful in their later occupations where as many of us geniuses end up either burnt out or drop out for other reasons. If I'd been allowed to have my own way and study at my own pace I could have finished high...
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    Post a Furball (an animal, not a coughed up ball of hair)

    Yes, we hunt. Both recreational and professional hunting are valid reasons for owning a gun but there's still conditions about where and when you can carry a gun. Those conditions usually only come in to play if police happen to notice they've got a gun for some reason, then the cops will want...
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