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#758983
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Random Thoughts
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Count me as among those on the spectrum.  I was evaluated as having tendencies that lean towards aspergers, but not enough to properly place me there.  Funnily enough, it's not in the DSM anymore - it's a perfectly cromulent term IMO.  I even went to a school designed to facilitate learning for people like me for a little while (I was in my last year there when I registered here).

DrCrow, Danfun, know that I will probably never truly empathize with the degree of your issues as I am pretty high-functioning.  However, I will also support you as much as possible here and certainly attempt to be more understanding of certain annoyances. 

Sarcasm can be the bane of my existence as well, even though I love it.  What generally hurts me the most is my lack of social awareness.  I do tend to go on tangents in conversations, and sometimes even have difficulty focusing when discussing something important to others if it's not immediately pressing to me.  Then I get anxious and often internally freak out for a few minutes, quieting down or (if I'm lucky) making sure I can get away from everyone without having a pity party.  It sucks and I imagine you two can relate on that one.

I, too, have trouble with change.  My parents are selling my childhood home, and I've been in denial.  It's only now when I go home and see all the boxes piled up that I realize this is actually happening.  

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#758963
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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Jetrell Fo said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Which F-word are you referring to? The one that rhymes with "duck" or the one that rhymes with "maggot"?

OR ..... the one that rhymes with "stink"?

;)

 Why do you think you're so damned funny?  Frink's punchlines miss a lot of the time, but going after him over and over has no point whatsoever. 

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#758951
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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I gotta agree with DE on this one. I might have chosen a different word for the analogy, hell I might even have just used the n-word euphemism, but there's no need to jump on Possessed that way.  

I do however disagree with Ender's further defense of the word.  One relationship where you had (as I once, myself, heard it described to me in high school) "n-word permission" does  not universally devalue a word or take away the connotation.

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#756836
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Journey to The Force Awakens
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^Nope!  They were mostly odd, peripheral stories - like expansions on Anakin's history with podracing or a journal chronicling the movie from the POV of Padme.  Really silly, inoffensive stuff.

The exception being Jedi Apprentice, which told stories of Obi-Wan training under Qui-Gon.  I just gave those off to goodwill but I recall them holding up into adulthood.  Anything that makes Liam Neeson's character interesting is good by me to this day.

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#756823
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Journey to The Force Awakens
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timdiggerm said:

I do think this part is important

from novels for adults and teens to storybooks and stickerbooks for younger kids

Agreed.  In the grand scheme, this isn't going to matter much if it's about as many possible tie-ins as they can get.  I don't think I need to remind you all how many kids' books came out related to TPM that are technically canon, but have long been forgotten.

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#753936
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Any Star Wars TV stuff coming up?
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Fang Zei said:

The interview clips with Ford were interesting. I don't think I'd ever heard about him telling George "move your lips as you type, it might make it easier for us somewhere down the line." Unless that was just his cleaned-up-for-tv version of the "you can write this shit, George, but you can't say it" story.

 Ha!  Even if that's the case, it sure as hell sounds funnier that way to me.