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Recent content by David Larson

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    People with autism having children

    What an awful thing to say to your child. Have kids if you damn well want to. Just a bit of life advice though, don't do it til you can afford it. I may have passed Autism to my now 3-year-old daughter, and I have mixed feelings about that. Her life's going to be hard, but we are a sort of...
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    Got a story to tell?

    I killed a spider the other day. I hate spiders, yet I can't help but feel bad about it. I mean, it's just a spider. It didn't ask to be a spider, it can't be anything but a spider, and it doesn't even know it's a spider. Yet I summarily executed it for the crime of simply being a spider. I feel...
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    Autism/Anxiety-Specific Habits/Strange Behaviors

    I shake my leg pretty violently when I'm anxious or stressed. I also chew my bottom lip and peel off the patches of dead lip. I guess those count as stims. If I'm having a particularly bad week, my lips make me look like a crackhead. I also wear pretty much the same thing every day. Not the...
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    "50 Cent donates $100,000 to Autism Speaks After Mocking Allegedly Autistic Airport Employee"

    Also, 50 Cent sucks in general. Anyone who knows anything about rap knows 50 Cent and two quarters don't add up to a dollar. Oh yes I di-id.
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    Weighted blankets!

    I just dropped $300 on a 25-pound blanket. I feel physically ill from spending that much money on myself. But as it stands it takes a cocktail of 18 sleeping pills and 1mg of Clonazepam to put me to sleep, so hopefully this can get me off that. Between autism, ADHD, PTSD, bipolar, and general...
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    "50 Cent donates $100,000 to Autism Speaks After Mocking Allegedly Autistic Airport Employee"

    The fact that it was a donation to Autism Speaks in particular tells me he just told his PR people, "hey throw some money at the most prominent autism organization". Anyone who so much as dips their toe into the actual autism community knows that as a whole we generally have no love for that...
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    The Eye Contact Issue...

    When I don't feel like putting forth the effort I cheat and wear sunglasses. As long as you're looking at the NTs head they have no idea if you're making eye contact or not but they assume that you are. It's a handy little cheat, almost like wearing a literal mask.
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    Hypersensitivity to sound

    You have two options and two options only: 1. Eliminate the source of the sound before it's even made. This is impractical if not impossible. 2. Block off the sounds on your end. Noise cancelling headphones/earbuds or even earplugs if this problem is frequent and severe enough to warrant such...
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    Growing out of autism

    Oh look, the people who aren't okay with us and want us to go away have proven that they can do just that. Did you catch that sarcasm? If you did, you must not be autistic. Go on, live your neurotypical lives, you're free of the dreaded curse! Idiotic. Even if there were a cure I wouldn't want...
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    Overwhelmed

    It sounds like you've already figured out where things stand. That job doesn't sound like it would be a good fit for you, and you don't sound too excited about the nature of the work even if you learned everything in orientation perfectly. It just doesn't sound like a good fit, and if it's not a...
  11. David Larson

    Caffeine and Meltdowns - is there a link?

    Has anyone made a connection between the consumption of copious amounts of caffeine (possibly including other central nervous stimulants) and the experience of meltdowns? I consume dangerous amounts of caffeine every day so I can keep firing on all cylinders at all times at work; I have to...
  12. David Larson

    Advice

    You would be astounded at the effort and resources a company will invest to put into place and keep in place the mechanisms by which they can screw their lower-level workers out of a few bucks, if they are so inclined to do so, which it sounds like your company is. They've almost certainly got...
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    Routines vs. Schedules

    I find that routines and schedules often clash. With a schedule, certain things need to happen at a certain time. With a routine, certain things must happen in a certain order, without omission, and without regard to time. If the time scheduled doesn't incorporate enough time to accomplish your...
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    A crumbling hut with your family or adoption by a rich family?

    As much as I love money, fear poverty, and recoil at the thought of living in Mexico for ANY reason, I still gotta pick the hut. Originally, I was sure adoption would be my choice. But the thing is, my dad's in the last years of his life, his health is deteriorating, and the thought of his...
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    Passing

    I pass very well, and I view passing as a sort of kindness I'm doing for the benefit of the neurotypical. Being Aspie in a NT world is much like being a foreigner living in a foreign land. In such a situation, you're faced with two choices: assimilate to the dominant culture, or stubbornly...
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