sex a cure for ocd (and does having an orgasm make you less of an aspie?)

pretty funny post over at bigsockgrrrl where she references a study… oh hell, just go read it, basically correlations between autism, oxytocin, ocd, orgasms, being obsessed about a new crush as compared to perseverating, etc. i don’t see the post as being intended to be scientific or widely drawn out or anything, just [...]

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aspergers socks

i am absolutely rolling in my chair laughing. the search terms people use that bring up your site, it can range the gamut. but this is the first one that made me laugh out loud and not be able to stop in quite a long time:
aspergers socks
i mean, seriously, i know if i [...]

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diagnosing the mental health of your coworkers

i continue to struggle with the concept of labels (i am aware of their usefulness, but it somehow constricts the human into a tiny box, you forgot who you could be otherwise). however, this post, over at a librarian’s guide to etiquette, is short but funny:
With your idle time at the reference desk, [...]

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verisimilitude, she said, and i smiled

a friend of mine used the word “verisimilitude” in casual conversation the other night, as we were driving across the bay bridge. what an absolute turn on. man, the geekier you are, the more i’m gonna like you. =) here’s what it means, in the context of art and theatre, though [...]

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“yes, you ARE touching them.”

i had an incredibly autistic episode earlier today.
i’m not a morning person; it takes me quite a while to wake up. i get to work at 10am, but before 12pm i’m pretty much useless as far as conversation is concerned, though i’m good via email, and can get work done.
this morning, one of the [...]

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specifically, what i mean when i say “late afternoon”

an autism spectrum friend and i are making tentative plans for saturday.
first i emailed her asking if she’d like to hang out in the near future. she responds, true to form, in a rather specific fashion, saying that she is available either saturday during the day, monday evening, or wednesday evening.
i responded, “saturday afternoon [...]

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was amelia bedelia an aspie?

this is cracking me up. a reader today emailed me to say that my description of being asked to clean the living room in my last post reminded her of amelia bedelia. i’d never even heard the name, so i had to look it up.
The books usually deal with Amelia, who is a [...]

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