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Recent content by Cyrano

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    Your opinion on fanfiction?

    I feel that fanfic has a place for those who are trying to learn how to plot and write. I worked out a plot for an alternate universe when I was in junior high school, but I could not figure out how to translate my alterverse into a format anyone would want to read. Frustrating. Later, I wrote...
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    My family is bullying me

    Unless you have some valid reason to maintain a connection with these clowns (like a major inheritance and you have seen the will), I strongly urge you to sever all ties with them. Life for folks on the spectrum is hard enough without that kind of negativity. You are better off without it -- and...
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    Autistic boy 'punched in the head and strangled with tie for having special needs'...

    In the town I grew up in, whether or not you took the bus to school was determined by how far you lived from the school. I lived just inside the bus radius for elementary, junior high, and high schools, so I had to walk, no matter what the weather, carrying a trumpet case and a gym bag of books...
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    What do you collect?

    I collect antique swords and daggers. Not replicas, the real thing. The two oldest pieces I have date back to 1400 and 1600. It's not an inexpensive hobby. Neither is collecting firearms. The pieces that are of greatest interest to me are military firearms. They have that in common with the...
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    Bah Humbug!

    I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. I feel like my heart is a burned out cinder with no Christmas spirit at all. And the SAD I also suffer from is not helping. First, my MIL is coming to town. This is usually not a problem, but both she and my wife are going berserk because Sick Hillary lost...
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    How do you deal with overwhelming noises?

    I avoid them as much as possible. Loud noises like machinery don't bother me. It's loud rock with heavy bass (any pop music using amps pushing the signal into woofers, including rap) that feels like someone is hitting me with a bat. As you might guess, I don't go to many parties or bars, which...
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    Rules oriented

    I play the game by the rules, but what I've discovered in my life is that even when I play by the rules, dot all the I's and cross all the T's, I don't get the reward that the rules say I am entitled to. It seems as if there is a hidden rule everyone else can see but me that reads, "... except...
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    Using fictional characters for help with transitions/soothing/skills?

    Not animated characters, but Mister Spock and Captain Kirk were positive role models, particularly Spock. I practiced maintaining my emotional equilibrium from lessons gleaned from watching him interact with humans. It worked well enough that I was told by a girl who was in the band with me that...
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    Odd things

    Back in the early 1980s, my ex-wife (one reason she is an EX-wife) and I decided that it might be nice to go see the country while we were young enough to appreciate it. We (mostly me) did a school bus conversion into an RV. It took awhile, and I had some of the work (mostly to do with the...
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    Odd things

    BIMOG, guns can be collected just as stamps, coins, cars, books, and anything else can be. It's as legitimate a hobby as any other hobby involving collecting. And as with any hobby that involves things you can use, gun collectors have "shootin' guns" and "collectin' guns." Here is an example. I...
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    Odd things

    There is no such thing as too many firearms. When I was a kid and it was still cool to play Combat, Cowboys & Indians, Cops & Robbers, anything like that, I had a collection of toy guns that was remarkable. I had enough toy guns to outfit an infantry platoon, up to and including a couple of...
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    Ghost people of the internet

    As Tom correctly says, "They are the version of themselves they wish to show you." The schtick that anyone can be whatever they purport to be online is so hackneyed, it's even been used in cop shows on TV. Sometimes I think it is like everyone is an attenuated character from some online game...
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    anyone into the automobile

    Even in my love for cars I'm not normal. I've always had a thing for Mercedes Benzes. My especial pet was the 350SDL. MB only built 2,425 of them in 1990 and 1991; in ten words or less, they are the diesel version of the 420SEL. When we came into a windfall a couple of years ago, Her Imperial...
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    Did you understand the concept of ASD at first?

    I understood about autism, there having been an autistic kid in special ed. a year behind me in high school. He was about as high functioning as Rain Man, but without the idiot savant aspect. Some cruel kids in my class compared me to him, which I found insulting. I knew that I was "different,"...
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    Age of Diagnosis

    My son from my first marriage was diagnosed in 1993. When I was informed of this, I read what was available in the library where I lived -- not a whole lot -- and asked a friend of mine who worked in the medical field if she could find out more. (Research on esoteric subjects was a lot harder 20...
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