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| 42441 | Last Movie You Watched | <div>Bicentennial Man</div><div><br></div><div>Remarkable film. Simply a winner. It's a long movie, but that's okay. IMO, sometimes the long ones are the best ones. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Life is beautiful and this film proves that! Robin Williams and Chris Columbus made a great team!<br></div><div><br></div><div>1,000,000 stars!<br></div> | Mr Magic | Mar 28, 2019 |  |
| 42440 | Asperger's | Thanks guys for your support and for sharing some of your own experiences!<br><br>One of the (many) reasons why I like Retro-Daze is because I feel like I can be myself. I read once that many of the traits of autism can appear to vanish when somebody is in their element. <br><br>It can be tough to diagnose since it is criteria-based meaning that people on the spectrum can have different "quirks" that can also range in severity. It seems like the field is undergoing a bit of a Renaissance, breaking away from myths about lack of empathy and so on. <div><br></div><div>Personally, I struggle with communication, executive functioning (planning, decision-making), and organization. Creativity is definitely my asperger "superpower," my mind easily wanders off into like a trance-state about Indiana Jones sequels and so on. The biggest issue I have is multi-tasking or if my train of thought gets interrupted which is pretty common in family dynamics. </div><div><br></div><div>The statistics are pretty scary- that 80% of Asperger and NT (Neurotypical) marriages end in divorce, but I'm never gonna give up. <br><br>I'm glad to hear that life seems to be getting better for most of you guys. I always enjoy your celebrity interviews Caps, they are very entertaining and respectfully done. </div> | echidna64 | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 42439 | Asperger's | <p>It makes you wonder just how precise the process of coming up with an Asperger or Autism diagnosis really is. I have a feeling there are some misdiagnosed folks out there</p> | Vaporman87 | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 42438 | Asperger's | There has been some speculation that I have it. Since I became a teenager my parents have believed I have it. I've even had some friends tell me they think I have it.<div><br></div><div>Personally, I don't think I do. I don't really match up that well with the symptoms. I have even been to therapy before and have brought this subject up to the person I was seeing. She didn't diagnose me with it.</div> | Rick Ace Rhodes | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 42437 | Asperger's | Was diagnosed with Asperger's in the 4th grade. Life was hard for a long time, but with jobs, regular social interaction, and mindfulness exercises (especially meditation) I like to think I've improved a lot. Like Caps, I struggled in school and like Benjamine, I sometimes have memory lapses, but I'm working on that.<div><br></div><div>The biggest challenge I have is communication. Sometimes it's hard for me to explain my thoughts and ideas to other people so I end up condensing and simplifying to the point where it's not want I wanted to say at all. Some lights and noises bug me, but isn't that true for most folks anyway?</div> | jkatz | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 42436 | Asperger's | <p>Thanks for the incite into the struggles you’ve had in the past as well as present day, Caps. I wonder how the difficulty in distinguishing between sarcasm and seriousness, as well as the other communication problems you mentioned, are improved or worsened when it is done online with text communication?</p> | Vaporman87 | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 42435 | Asperger's | I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 1996 during time I spent in a mental hospital. It's been both a blessing and a curse at times.<div><br></div><div>The curse part comes from things like, among others, taking language literally and having trouble understanding things like irony, teasing and sarcasm. Sometimes I'll be ringing up a customer at work and they'll say something that sounds like a compliment, but it turns out to be a joke and an insult. To my ear, it's all the same. My speaking is often verbose, oftentimes too formal, and has certain tics, most notably starting many of my sentences in my interviews with words like "alright", "okay" and "cool". Those tics were attacked by a user on here when it came to their negative feedback for my Adam F. Goldberg interview, and led me to a brief relapse into the self-abusive behaviors of my teens and 20s, including hitting myself in the head and screaming profanities and hateful things to myself at the top of my lungs.</div><div><br></div><div>Physically, it's mixed. I wasn't able to ride a two-wheel bike until I was almost 10 years old, and physical education was my worst subject out of all the subjects I was bad at in my school days. I exercise these days, but my preferred form of exercise is walking around my neighborhood. I try and keep clean, but it isn't easy, and I've often been complained about at work for my hygiene and the condition of my clothing.</div><div><br></div><div>When it comes to friendships and relating to people, I have quite a few friends, but most of them are older than I am. Of the friends I had in my childhood, the Monti family have been the only friends I've really kept in touch with as an adult. Other than that, I've only been able to get along with people my own age once I became an adult, but especially in my 30s.</div><div><br></div><div>I would often discuss life with Asperger's Syndrome on RetroJunk, and I, along with the other users who dealt with it, was often attacked and made fun of for having it. We all revealed a lot about ourselves on that forum and came to know each other very well. I was called things on RetroJunk like "Mongoloid" and "Ignorant Aspie F-Bomb", and those words hurt. My mother had no sympathy for me, though. She said they were just words on a page written by people I would never meet, and I couldn't tell what the intent behind words were just by reading them. She would say it's a beautiful day in several different tones of voice to indicate that you can't tell what a person is feeling by their words, but when you're called a retard or a liar, you know what's behind those words, and it isn't respect or friendliness.</div><div><br></div><div>I was not a good student, preferring to concentrate on pop culture in my high school years as opposed to what we were supposed to be studying. The concentration on pop culture turned out to be a blessing, and this is related to Asperger's. One of the aspects of Asperger's is an intense focus on a particular subject. For me, it was the pop culture of the 1980s, which I turned to in the 1990s and 2000s as a form of escape from the problems I was dealing with in that decade, not only with my AS diagnosis, but with things like extensive bullying, the death of my father when I was 12, and the codependent, toxic and abusive relationship my mother and I had in the last 15 years of her life.</div><div><br></div><div>I turned to the pop culture of the 1980s because I saw in that decade what I aspired to the most, things like maturity, calm, and being happy with life. The pop culture of the 80s helped me through some of the darkest times of my life, and has stayed with me as my life has improved in my 30s. As a result of that, I've been able to do scores of interviews with talents who were active in the 1980s, many of whom are my Facebook friends, and several of whom, like Kimmy Robertson of "The Last American Virgin", Jennifer Rubin of "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors", and Debra Lamb of 80s cult classics like "Deathrow Gameshow", have become dear friends whom I regularly exchange texts with and get advice from.</div><div><br></div><div>That's life with Asperger's Syndrome for me, and thankfully, things have been better for me in my 30s than they were in my teens and 20s, and life just keeps getting better for me.</div> | Caps 2.0 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42434 | Asperger's | From my years on RJ I developed the crude ability to kind of pick up on when people might have been on the spectrum, just by their posting habits - But you never even were a blip on the radar. I'm somewhat on the fence about labels, since everyone is so different. <div><br></div><div>Besides knowing the minute details of things, what else makes life hard? Has it had an adverse affect on your marriage? I have this inkling my wife might have some issues - she's sensitive to light and loud noises, freaks if her "routine" is changed, etc - But she's pretty normal socially.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> | vkimo | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42433 | Corrupt-A-Wish: Retro Daze Edition | <p>@jkatz: Wish granted. You are now able to conjure air sandwiches.</p><p><br></p><p>I wish my Walt Disney corpse came to life and made me CEO of his company</p> | Vaporman87 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42432 | Asperger's | <p>Thanks for being open about your new journey in life echidna. I bet there are a few here who appreciate it. It’s odd to me how drawn to nostalgic things those on the spectrum are. I wonder why that is? </p> | Vaporman87 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
