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First, a clarification. I think autists can exhibit obsessive or compulsive behaviour without it meeting all the criteria for an OCD diagnosis. Maybe ...
June 02, 2018 at 13:14
My favourites are not as erudite as most of those listed here. :wink: I have lived my life gathering (stealing :grin:) interesting ideas as I come acr...
May 31, 2018 at 17:43
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Me too! She was, until recently :cry:, our greatest living author, in my not-very-humble opinion. I describe myself, in religious terms, as a Gaian Da...
May 31, 2018 at 17:15
No easy questions, then? :wink: Diabetes (setting aside the possibility of a cure) is a degenerative condition that is just there, a sort of part of t...
May 31, 2018 at 17:08
If it was a test, I think you passed! :up:
May 31, 2018 at 16:36
I vaguely resemble "patient X", and I think OCD is not quite as simple as you imagine. I carry out many obsessive routines and habits, and they can be...
May 31, 2018 at 16:16
Yes, I think this is the best approach to this issue. My hand starts moving a quarter of a second before I consciously will it, because my non-conscio...
May 31, 2018 at 15:55
In a Newtonian universe, I'm sure this is so. But these days, even scientists don't think things are quite that simple. :wink: The most obvious and pe...
May 31, 2018 at 15:36
Oh, I do hope so! You have the right aims, I think, and I hope this forum supports and nurtures them. I'm optimistic that it does. Time will tell, for...
May 31, 2018 at 14:54
Wow! I envy you! :smile: I would have loved to include Philosophy as a minor, versus the Electronics that was my major. It wasn't possible then (1975-...
May 31, 2018 at 14:50
I have encountered the same difficulties with the non-physical as other respondents. I finally realised that, when I want to use the term non-physical...
May 31, 2018 at 14:43
Hello. I just arrived here, and would like to learn all about this forum. I am 63, cis male, a retired firmware architect, an autist, a father, a husb...
May 31, 2018 at 13:13
When you refer to "the world", do you mean to include human socio-cultural stuff, or do you refer to the physical space-time world that science descri...
May 31, 2018 at 12:09