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"As an intelligent, geeky, lives-in-her-own-head girl, I'd have to say ... being a wallflower (so to speak) doesn't really hurt that much.
A while back (7 years) I went to a computer meetup, back in the day. From that meetup, I have so far..." [
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"You know, maybe this is just me ... but if I was your girlfriend, I would be amazingly angry at you right now, for daring to judge what I do with my body in my time.
You were potentially-more-than-friends, yes: but only in potential. If nothing..." [
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"I have been obese. So obese I couldn't walk for more than a minute or two at a time, because after that the joint pain was so bad I couldn't stand.
That was in 2002. I weighed 95kgs, on a 160cm frame. Nothing compared to some, I know, but it was..." [
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"I know a lot of people like you.
Fresh out of undergrad, convinced that they're great designers, and that their bad programming is just well .. y'know ... bad luck.
Sitting from my oh-so-lofty viewpoint of a few years in the trenches ... you..." [
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"I'm about a hair's width into being aspergers from the high-functioning autism end of the spectrum. I'm as aspergers as they come.
My husband and I are happily married, though. Our relationship has its challenges, sure. I suck at being empathetic,..." [
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"I have an anxiety disorder (PTSD) and fairly extreme aspergers (the actual diagnosis was high-functioning autism).
He doesn't sound all that aspie to me, personally. Anxious, yes; slightly obsessive, yes.
Admittedly, most people wouldn't pick..." [
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"LIke that time a bunch of level 2 characters killed 40 orcs in a single round with a bottle of greek fire oil, a web spell, and a flare arrow ....
... like that time one of the characters didn't speak to the rest of the party for the first two..." [
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"This is something I've had to argue with my in-laws. Yes, I am, in fact, a Christain. Yes, I have read the Bible. No, I don't worship Mary. No, rolling in the aisles frothing at the mouth is not theologically sound, according to your Bible. No, I..." [
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"On tenure - I have a vague idea of what that probably is, from reading some autobiographical comments asimov made during forwards for short stories in various collections. He references 'getting tenure' at a university somewhere - I presume,..." [
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"I am not a clumsy person. I do, however, have a low pain threshold, and I'm very pain-avoidant as a result.
After a while, I flinch from people I know are clumsy when they come close. I have removed people from the I-want-to-date-them list because..." [
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"On talking about feelings - consider keeping a diary, or a (private) blog. Practice trying to articulate how you feel, and why, about what, with no audience but yourself. Once you can write stuff down about how you feel, and think you can represent..." [
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"I'm going to jump in here, because I have been in a similar situation.
I discovered, one day, a few months after I started dating my then-bf that he'd been talking pretty much daily to his ex. I didn't particularly like this person, because she..." [
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"Eh.
I'm a geek, I married a geek, and I hang around geeks.
I also work in the computer industry; yes, there are times when I will spend every waking moment on a project for a couple of weeks. And no, I won't respond to IM or similar, except if..." [
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"I have been to the sing-and-dance church services.
It scared the living hell out of me - these people were willingly abrogating sense of self - participating in a mob hysteria that was occasionally directed against the enemies of the faith.
I,..." [
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