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Who's ready for christmas?
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Ah, they're all probably out buying last minute Christmas presents...or watching the football game
Happy Holidays Nebulous!
Ah, they're all probably out buying last minute Christmas presents...or watching the football game Happy Holidays Nebulous!
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Locked, loaded and ready to eat! I mean, enjoy the festive season with my friends and loved ones. 
Actually, that's not true as I started pigging out on Saturday.
Actually, that's not true as I started pigging out on Saturday.
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I keep remembering the Andy Williams & Perry Como Christmas specials... and then I see the current specials advertised on TV...
Nothing says "Christmas" more than stage pyro-technics, twerking, rap songs with bleeps over the sexual abuse references, face tattoos and nose rings!
Nothing says "Christmas" more than stage pyro-technics, twerking, rap songs with bleeps over the sexual abuse references, face tattoos and nose rings!
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I keep remembering the Andy Williams & Perry Como Christmas specials... and then I see the current specials advertised on TV...
Nothing says "Christmas" more than stage pyro-technics, twerking, rap songs with bleeps over the sexual abuse references, face tattoos and nose rings!
Nothing says "Christmas" more than stage pyro-technics, twerking, rap songs with bleeps over the sexual abuse references, face tattoos and nose rings!
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Merry Christmas, MoFo!
Can anyone explain why the 1994 documentary Crumb is ‘presented’ by David Lynch (literally says so on the cover) if he had nothing to do with it?
Can anyone explain why the 1994 documentary Crumb is ‘presented’ by David Lynch (literally says so on the cover) if he had nothing to do with it?
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A word to the "disabled:"
Anything can be overcome. I refused to use that word.
Anything can be overcome. I refused to use that word.
I'm gonna capitalize on this.
Some of you might have guessed this, and frankly I wouldn't dare be offende,d but I do have multiple diagnoses concerning the spectrum and other related topics. Autism, ADD, ADHD, mild OCD, yadda yadda.
And you know what? I LIKE IT.
It made me an excellent math student. My fixation made me the top geometry student in high school, and I was one-to-two grades below everyone else. I tutored other students, and even met an official in a company that runs tests for advanced students.
I might have my bad habits, but overcoming a bad habit is no different to me than growing up. I believe anyone can overcome anything, and I'm positive I had it lightweight. Think about people who can't speak or who've lost their legs either by birth defence or in the army.
I won't give up on ANYONE with a "disability." Anything your diagnosed with shouldn't be your permanent dead end. I want to use my autism to help prove that autistic people can be among the best people, and overcome whatever behavioral negatives they have as much as any normal human being. Because if no one's perfect, then only the better ones are the ones who keep trying to be better. And that's what I want to do, even if- no, ESPECIALLY SINCE the road might be harder for me.
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Merry Christmas, MoFo!
Can anyone explain why the 1994 documentary Crumb is ‘presented’ by David Lynch (literally says so on the cover) if he had nothing to do with it?
Can anyone explain why the 1994 documentary Crumb is ‘presented’ by David Lynch (literally says so on the cover) if he had nothing to do with it?
As for Crumb, here's what I found on Wikipedia:
The film is "presented" by David Lynch, though he had no actual involvement in its making. In the commentary Zwigoff did with Ebert, he says that Lynch did not respond to a request for funds until after the film was already finished, but they agreed to include Lynch's name in the advertising and credits to attract more viewers.
I'm gonna capitalize on this.
Some of you might have guessed this, and frankly I wouldn't dare be offende,d but I do have multiple diagnoses concerning the spectrum and other related topics. Autism, ADD, ADHD, mild OCD, yadda yadda.
And you know what? I LIKE IT.
It made me an excellent math student. My fixation made me the top geometry student in high school, and I was one-to-two grades below everyone else. I tutored other students, and even met an official in a company that runs tests for advanced students.
I might have my bad habits, but overcoming a bad habit is no different to me than growing up. I believe anyone can overcome anything, and I'm positive I had it lightweight. Think about people who can't speak or who've lost their legs either by birth defence or in the army.
I won't give up on ANYONE with a "disability." Anything your diagnosed with shouldn't be your permanent dead end. I want to use my autism to help prove that autistic people can be among the best people, and overcome whatever behavioral negatives they have as much as any normal human being. Because if no one's perfect, then only the better ones are the ones who keep trying to be better. And that's what I want to do, even if- no, ESPECIALLY SINCE the road might be harder for me.
Some of you might have guessed this, and frankly I wouldn't dare be offende,d but I do have multiple diagnoses concerning the spectrum and other related topics. Autism, ADD, ADHD, mild OCD, yadda yadda.
And you know what? I LIKE IT.
It made me an excellent math student. My fixation made me the top geometry student in high school, and I was one-to-two grades below everyone else. I tutored other students, and even met an official in a company that runs tests for advanced students.
I might have my bad habits, but overcoming a bad habit is no different to me than growing up. I believe anyone can overcome anything, and I'm positive I had it lightweight. Think about people who can't speak or who've lost their legs either by birth defence or in the army.
I won't give up on ANYONE with a "disability." Anything your diagnosed with shouldn't be your permanent dead end. I want to use my autism to help prove that autistic people can be among the best people, and overcome whatever behavioral negatives they have as much as any normal human being. Because if no one's perfect, then only the better ones are the ones who keep trying to be better. And that's what I want to do, even if- no, ESPECIALLY SINCE the road might be harder for me.
My 90-year old mother-in-law fell down the stairs almost two years ago. When she was in rehab, we were told that she would never walk again, and she was also diagnosed with dementia because she had very bad memory problems. (We think that she hit her head when she fell down the stairs.)
We knew that she needed more help than we could give her, so we moved her into an assisted living facility. But we never gave up on her. We got her a very good physical therapist who worked with her for months, and now she walks great, (with a walker).
We visit her every day, and we take her out with us every weekend when we run errands and do our shopping, and then we all go out to dinner before we bring her back to the assisted living. We talk to her about things that happened in the past to try to help her remember things. Her memory has gotten so good that sometimes she even reminds us of things that we forget.
Everyone at the assisted living tells us that she's so much better now than she was when she first got there, and they say that it's because we never gave up on her.
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My 90-year old mother-in-law fell down the stairs almost two years ago. When she was in rehab, we were told that she would never walk again, and she was also diagnosed with dementia because she had very bad memory problems. (We think that she hit her head when she fell down the stairs.)
We knew that she needed more help than we could give her, so we moved her into an assisted living facility. But we never gave up on her. We got her a very good physical therapist who worked with her for months, and now she walks great, (with a walker).
We visit her every day, and we take her out with us every weekend when we run errands and do our shopping, and then we all go out to dinner before we bring her back to the assisted living. We talk to her about things that happened in the past to try to help her remember things. Her memory has gotten so good that sometimes she even reminds us of things that we forget.
Everyone at the assisted living tells us that she's so much better now than she was when she first got there, and they say that it's because we never gave up on her.
We knew that she needed more help than we could give her, so we moved her into an assisted living facility. But we never gave up on her. We got her a very good physical therapist who worked with her for months, and now she walks great, (with a walker).
We visit her every day, and we take her out with us every weekend when we run errands and do our shopping, and then we all go out to dinner before we bring her back to the assisted living. We talk to her about things that happened in the past to try to help her remember things. Her memory has gotten so good that sometimes she even reminds us of things that we forget.
Everyone at the assisted living tells us that she's so much better now than she was when she first got there, and they say that it's because we never gave up on her.
That is a very touching story, I hope your mother-in-law continues to get better!
Thank you.
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That seems crazy. But fair enough.
Christmas morning shift at Dunkin. Wish me luck.
The one on my block was super-busy this morning. I even bought someone’s dog a puppachino, which he loved.
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I'm gonna capitalize on this.
Some of you might have guessed this, and frankly I wouldn't dare be offende,d but I do have multiple diagnoses concerning the spectrum and other related topics. Autism, ADD, ADHD, mild OCD, yadda yadda.
And you know what? I LIKE IT.
It made me an excellent math student. My fixation made me the top geometry student in high school, and I was one-to-two grades below everyone else. I tutored other students, and even met an official in a company that runs tests for advanced students.
I might have my bad habits, but overcoming a bad habit is no different to me than growing up. I believe anyone can overcome anything, and I'm positive I had it lightweight. Think about people who can't speak or who've lost their legs either by birth defence or in the army.
I won't give up on ANYONE with a "disability." Anything your diagnosed with shouldn't be your permanent dead end. I want to use my autism to help prove that autistic people can be among the best people, and overcome whatever behavioral negatives they have as much as any normal human being. Because if no one's perfect, then only the better ones are the ones who keep trying to be better. And that's what I want to do, even if- no, ESPECIALLY SINCE the road might be harder for me.
Some of you might have guessed this, and frankly I wouldn't dare be offende,d but I do have multiple diagnoses concerning the spectrum and other related topics. Autism, ADD, ADHD, mild OCD, yadda yadda.
And you know what? I LIKE IT.
It made me an excellent math student. My fixation made me the top geometry student in high school, and I was one-to-two grades below everyone else. I tutored other students, and even met an official in a company that runs tests for advanced students.
I might have my bad habits, but overcoming a bad habit is no different to me than growing up. I believe anyone can overcome anything, and I'm positive I had it lightweight. Think about people who can't speak or who've lost their legs either by birth defence or in the army.
I won't give up on ANYONE with a "disability." Anything your diagnosed with shouldn't be your permanent dead end. I want to use my autism to help prove that autistic people can be among the best people, and overcome whatever behavioral negatives they have as much as any normal human being. Because if no one's perfect, then only the better ones are the ones who keep trying to be better. And that's what I want to do, even if- no, ESPECIALLY SINCE the road might be harder for me.
I've suffered from "misophonia" (hatred of certain sounds), but for me it involves the lower & upper ranges of human hearing. Low noises (such as the bass on car stereos) and high noises (such as ultra-sonics emitted from certain electronic devices) drive me crazy.
I've actually been tested and found to be able to hear beyond the normal ranges (I can tell when a sonic device used to keep mice away is going off and when it stops emitting frequency - humans aren't supposed to be aware of it at all).
I'm also susceptible to sensory overload: in the summertime, if two neighbors put on different radio stations outdoors I begin to break down. This goes for light too. Any conflicting or inconsistent sounds or lights cause me to be unable to think straight. (I could never read if there was music playing with lyrics - only to symphony music.) Just people talking at the same time causes me to withdraw.
As a child I suffered from social phobia (shyness) so severely that I was virtually non-communicable in social situations. I was easily mistaken for emotionally or mentally challenged due to my desire to be alone and have my solitude remain uninterrupted.
I still suffer from a phobia of crowds (if "phobia" is even the right word). Just this past Monday I was in the supermarket and it was so crowded I had to fight back the urge to just abandon shopping and leave - but people were counting on me so I fought off my feelings of near-panic.
I went through stages of creativity. Not that I was ever a savant, but it seemed that as my intelligence evolved, my creative abilities decreased.
I can sing very well (even opera), but I don't because I'm afraid someone might hear me. (Does that make any sense?)
So what does this all mean? Do these various sensitives and triggers mean I'm just eccentric or neurotic? Or am I autistic at some level?
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