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Is he suppose to be autistic? I thought he was suppose to be run of the mill teen that just wasn't terribly smart.
I did like Solar opposites. especially the little human trap wall.
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Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
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Is he suppose to be autistic? I thought he was suppose to be run of the mill teen that just wasn't terribly smart.
I did like Solar opposites. especially the little human trap wall. ** spoiler omitted **
No, his parents say he's in remedial classes at school because he's "special" in the first episode.
Either way, I'm not watching a show about an old man taking advantage of some kid because he's not as smart.
That's not fun to watch.
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No, that's his mom and dad using a euphemism to spare Morty's feelings. Rick even admits to being autistic casually when playing Minecraft. Morty meanwhile is far more social than Rick.
Either way he is a total jackass to his grandson, but he's apparently trying to broaden his horizons and educate him, feeling life experience far outweighs education.
It takes a few seasons to realize he cares a LOT but is terrible at expressing it to Morty. The collar episode where he sacrifices his existence for him proves it.
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Is he suppose to be autistic? I thought he was suppose to be run of the mill teen that just wasn't terribly smart.
I did like Solar opposites. especially the little human trap wall. ** spoiler omitted **
No, his parents say he's in remedial classes at school because he's "special" in the first episode.
Either way, I'm not watching a show about an old man taking advantage of some kid because he's not as smart.
That's not fun to watch.
Oh huh I forgot about that I guess they didn't bring it up again. aside from like references to him needing to do better in school Which I took more as a awkward teen years thing. Hmm maybe that was their intent in the pilot and they changed their minds or I'm oblivious. I agree with Vagrant that Rick seems more autistic in the very very high functioning level.
For sure though Rick definetly takes advantage of Morty and really everyone around him. like all the time. It's like his main character trait.
Not trying to talk you into watching it or anything just was thinking in type.
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Sorry. Not stated to talk you into watching it.
Just...
Hard not to correct that one fact.
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Sorry. Not stated to talk you into watching it.
Just...
Hard not to correct that one fact.
Uh sort of Jinx.
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Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
You know it's kind of amazing how proliferate miss-diagnosis is in the Psi field. My favorite psych professor said a lot of the problems come from not having a single unifying theory.
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I should've figured it out about my own damn self in high school.
I even remember losing my s*&@ about being asked sports questions in a high school quiz about the news we watched earlier, because I zoned out during that part of the news, saying we were in political science and not basketball club.
...the basketball coach taught that class, and I even already got a (slightly lower because of the sports questions) A on said quiz, but I was grumpy about the principle of it - in a class full of people who were MUCH more interested in the score of the game than who was appointed ambassador where.
Holy s*&+ I'm a jackass.
I swear it isn't on purpose.
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I should've figured it out about my own damn self in high school.
I even remember losing my s~$+ about being asked sports questions in a high school quiz about the news we watched earlier, because I zoned out during that part of the news, saying we were in political science and not basketball club.
...the basketball coach taught that class, and I even already got a (slightly lower because of the sports questions) A on said quiz, but I was grumpy about the principle of it - in a class full of people who were MUCH more interested in the score of the game than who was appointed ambassador where.
Holy s*%$ I'm a jackass.
I swear it isn't on purpose.
Probably put the sports question on the test to help the players. Sounds like something they would of done at my school. The one that bugged me was giving the teachers daughter better grades so she would have a easier time getting into the college she wanted while I had to work for mine.
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You know it's kind of amazing how proliferate miss-diagnosis is in the Psi field. My favorite psych professor said a lot of the problems come from not having a single unifying theory.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
The worst part is so few people try to actually diagnose. They just accept the diagnoses of previous doctors. I was originally diagnosed by a med student in the student health center of FSU, because I couldn't afford a real doctor, and - I mean, hey, they still were able to give you medications, and stuff, and I WAS very depressed, and my father did have bipolar disorder, so you know, they took it and ran with it.
But it's only recently, when I moved to Ohio two years ago and they were like "yeah, Florida is s++& when it comes to mental health - let's try and make sure this all is correct" that it came up.
And maybe once or twice in Florida, but then I was like, super sarcastic, and they were like "yeah,probably don't have Asperger's", and THEN, I learned more, and I was like,wait, there's HFA that isn't Asperger's?" and you know...continuing evolution on what is or isn't spectrum, and...blah blah blah.
But the point is, yes, you are 100% correct...
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You know it's kind of amazing how proliferate miss-diagnosis is in the Psi field. My favorite psych professor said a lot of the problems come from not having a single unifying theory.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
The worst part is so few people try to actually diagnose. They just accept the diagnoses of previous doctors. I was originally diagnosed by a med student in the student health center of FSU, because I couldn't afford a real doctor, and - I mean, hey, they still were able to give you medications, and stuff, and I WAS very depressed, and my father did have bipolar disorder, so you know, they took it and ran with it.
But it's only recently, when I moved to Ohio two years ago and they were like "yeah, Florida is s!%$ when it comes to mental health - let's try and make sure this all is correct" that it came up.
And maybe once or twice in Florida, but then I was like, super sarcastic, and they were like "yeah,probably don't have Asperger's", and THEN, I learned more, and I was like,wait, there's HFA that isn't Asperger's?" and you know...continuing evolution on what is or isn't spectrum, and...blah blah blah.
But the point is, yes, you are 100% correct...
One of my pet peeves is when medical doctors prescribe psychological medication without also some sort of therapy or specialist to go with it. It shouldn't be treated like a disease. Also some of that medication is like using a sledge hammer when often a chisel is needed. then of course misdiagnosis like the medicine for depression which can help with Bi-polar but not as well in a lot of cases.
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Yeah.
Ohio wouldn't even give me meds until after I had a few months of therapy. Florida shoved pills at me.
Considering the elderly population....
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Yeah.
Ohio wouldn't even give me meds until after I had a few months of therapy. Florida shoved pills at me.
Considering the elderly population....
So you were in Ohio but your in Florida now right?
I used to live in Ohio. Got to feel like that is a huge shift. I know going from their to TN was for me.
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Changing diagnoses over your lifetime
New research based on four decades of longitudinal data indicates that it is rare for a person to receive and keep a single mental disorder diagnosis. Rather, experiencing different successive mental disorders appears to be the norm.
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FYIF!
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FaWtL rules (amended):
No politics (unless spoiled, apparently)
No sports (pleasantly surprised this outlasted politics)
No religion (usually)
Top poster is nekked
Freehold controls the weather
No men that aren't Freehold in the abscondicave
No shirts allowed in the abscondicaveAnd finally
NH works for Pornhub as "curriculum director", which sounds like he plans the featured videos.
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...cut the stepincest crap. The growth rate in that category is disturbing and gross. Family is family. You're killing my boner. Keep this up an I'm switching to a competitor. Like a curvy piece of driftwood.
oh no, shirts are allowed in the abscondi-cave! I don't just abscond with married women to take them to some weird cave to take their tops off! That's just crazy. I abscond with married women to take them to some weird cave so they can relax and get Netflix/play video games and have characters from their favorite TV shows gyrate for them and serve them drinks(some alcoholic, some not).
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Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
Insane Rick and Morty fans killed my interest in the show.
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You know it's kind of amazing how proliferate miss-diagnosis is in the Psi field. My favorite psych professor said a lot of the problems come from not having a single unifying theory.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
mmm.
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Yeah.
Ohio wouldn't even give me meds until after I had a few months of therapy. Florida shoved pills at me.
Considering the elderly population....
that mental health treatment varies by state bothers me.
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New research based on four decades of longitudinal data indicates that it is rare for a person to receive and keep a single mental disorder diagnosis. Rather, experiencing different successive mental disorders appears to be the norm.
indeed.
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Well, here we go: The Bay Area has high temperature warnings that are "extremely unusual" because:
(1) They're going to last an entire week, with 100˚F temps inland for a week solid
(2) They're coming with extra-high humidity so it'll be even more unpleasant.
Being right on the bay in the wind tunnel formed by the Golden Gate (wind blows directly off the ocean through the Golden Gate and into Berkeley and Albany) we're going to be spared most of it (highs in the 80s for us), but sounds like it's going to be a heck of a week for most of the Bay Area.
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Well, here we go: The Bay Area has high temperature warnings that are "extremely unusual" because:
(1) They're going to last an entire week, with 100˚F temps inland for a week solid
(2) They're coming with extra-high humidity so it'll be even more unpleasant.Being right on the bay in the wind tunnel formed by the Golden Gate (wind blows directly off the ocean through the Golden Gate and into Berkeley and Albany) we're going to be spared most of it (highs in the 80s for us), but sounds like it's going to be a heck of a week for most of the Bay Area.
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Insane Rick and Morty fans killed my interest in the show.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
No that's fair. like no sarcasm. I get that.
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They're coming to take me away!
OMG, my dad used to sing that when he was manic.
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Yeah.
Ohio wouldn't even give me meds until after I had a few months of therapy. Florida shoved pills at me.
Considering the elderly population....
So you were in Ohio but your in Florida now right?
I used to live in Ohio. Got to feel like that is a huge shift. I know going from their to TN was for me.
Grew up in Florida, left for Ohio 2 years ago, came back recently to my own regret.
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For obvious reasons, a lot of unofficial Democratic party campaign slogans tend to pop up on my FB feed. My favorite so far is
"Biden: He won't teargas your Mom."
Just... wow.
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Insane Rick and Morty fans killed my interest in the show.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
That's understandable. Such happened to me with religion during my formative years. I'm glad eventually I didn't allow fans of the product to destroy my opinion of the product itself.
While I hope you change your mind, because I like sharing good stuff, I would understand if you didn't.
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FYIF!Frumpkin Yelps Inevitable Fluffernutters?
You know, once we established that NH works at PornHub...
I remembered that his cat is called Fluffernutters...
I hope that either the calling it a cat is an euphemism, or if it is an actual cat, it's just merely an occupational joke...
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Plus side to Covid 19 - s*%*ty parents are no longer allowed to send their kids to school sick to infect the other kids and the teacher because they don't wanna take the day off work to watch their kids.
Back me up on this, teachers. The worst? The worst!
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The only downside is that children have learned that the quickest way to get sent home if they're just feeling like spending the day at home with Mom is to say, "Miss LM, my throat feels funny when I swallow and I feel hot."
Kids are a******s.
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No that's fair. like no sarcasm. I get that.Insane Rick and Morty fans killed my interest in the show.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
going to conventions regularly-and watching conventions change over the years into what they are today- gives me a strange perspective. I both dread and can't wait to go to a gaming convention, which is the only one I haven't gone to yet.
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They're coming to take me away!OMG, my dad used to sing that when he was manic.
that must have been difficult.
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Insane Rick and Morty fans killed my interest in the show.Yeah, Rick is super duper high functioning. Maybe that's why I like him so much. Birds of a feather and all.
But if you don't like it that's OK. I'm not one of THOSE fans.
That's understandable. Such happened to me with religion during my formative years. I'm glad eventually I didn't allow fans of the product to destroy my opinion of the product itself.
While I hope you change your mind, because I like sharing good stuff, I would understand if you didn't.
I still enjoy bits and pieces but I don't find the show as amazing as I once did. Also, after meeting one of the creators(I forget which one) it became painfully obvious that he did not expect this level of success and is now being made to watch his creation get stretched out and turned into something other than what he originally wanted, probably.
That said, there is the occasionally funny joke, and some of the comics are awesome. The Rick and Marty dungeons and dragons is quite good if you like 5e. And the storyline is surprisingly wholesome/hit home for me at the end.
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I swear, is there anything as frustrating as friends or relatives who won't listen to you?
I'm 1152 days sober now. On my 50th birthday my mother-in-law gave me a $1500 bottle of scotch that I proceeded to share with others because I wouldn't drink it. We've talked about the story multiple times, and I've told her multiple times I don't drink any more.
So she came over last night, and gifted me a bottle of scotch, and kept asking me why I wouldn't drink any champagne.
It's beyond frustrating.
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{montage of suiting up in tactical rogue gear, plotting over blueprints of NH's house} We're coming for you, Bottle O'Scotch!
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However, I remember what it's like to not have kids, and not want kids, and have everyone trying to talk you out of it, and say you're wrong, and I wanted to reassure Orthos, Scint, and anyone else who has the unusual opinions that I had - you're not wrong. You're not entirely right, but don't you ever let those people tell you otherwise.At this point it's more that we'd be terrible parents and we know it.
And we're happy enough to get a dog instead anyway.
If you can get lucky enough to have a sibling spawn out a few, being an uncle/aunt is about 85% as good as being a parent, but with only about 5% of the responsibility. (Before any parents freak out, yes, that last 15% is heroin-level good, but it's also heroin-level exhausting.)
Even if you spoil the s&!@ out of them every time you see them, you only spend about 1/100th the amount of a parent, but to the kid it looks like you're a baller every time you show up, and so they LOVE you. It's also great prep for if you ever actually decide to be a parent. Is it even near the responsibility? No. But it's a good warm up.
Already there! Orthos' nieces are 8 and 3.
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I swear, is there anything as frustrating as friends or relatives who won't listen to you?
I'm 1152 days sober now. On my 50th birthday my mother-in-law gave me a $1500 bottle of scotch that I proceeded to share with others because I wouldn't drink it. We've talked about the story multiple times, and I've told her multiple times I don't drink any more.
So she came over last night, and gifted me a bottle of scotch, and kept asking me why I wouldn't drink any champagne.
It's beyond frustrating.
I have to remember to not bring you wine/mead when I see you.
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{montage of suiting up in tactical rogue gear, plotting over blueprints of NH's house} We're coming for you, Bottle O'Scotch!
save some for me.
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Well, it's a running frustration with her. She's been told that I no longer want to receive physical presents of any sort. So every birthday/Christmas/other event she gives me a card and 3-4 books because, "They're just books!"
They get dumped straight into the donation bin unread.
Then she keeps trying to buy me liquor, which I accept because GothBard enjoys scotch.
But the sheer chutzpah to continue to foist crap on a man who has repeatedly said, "PLEASE stop! Do not give me ANYTHING physical! EVER! For any reason!" is just frustrating as all heck...
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Already there! Orthos' nieces are 8 and 3.However, I remember what it's like to not have kids, and not want kids, and have everyone trying to talk you out of it, and say you're wrong, and I wanted to reassure Orthos, Scint, and anyone else who has the unusual opinions that I had - you're not wrong. You're not entirely right, but don't you ever let those people tell you otherwise.At this point it's more that we'd be terrible parents and we know it.
And we're happy enough to get a dog instead anyway.
If you can get lucky enough to have a sibling spawn out a few, being an uncle/aunt is about 85% as good as being a parent, but with only about 5% of the responsibility. (Before any parents freak out, yes, that last 15% is heroin-level good, but it's also heroin-level exhausting.)
Even if you spoil the s&!@ out of them every time you see them, you only spend about 1/100th the amount of a parent, but to the kid it looks like you're a baller every time you show up, and so they LOVE you. It's also great prep for if you ever actually decide to be a parent. Is it even near the responsibility? No. But it's a good warm up.
And there have already been,conversations about "why did you give the child X thing???".
One of these for example revolves around a batch of stuffed toys and such I gave the 3-year-old, mostly things I'd gotten from LootCrate or Kickstarter rewards. One of these is a plush maggot from the game Nuclear Throne. The kiddo loves it. The parents having a stuffed toy of a toothy worm drooling green goop shoved in their faces whole the child shrieks "rawr!" happily, not so much. ^_^
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** spoiler omitted **
You obviously haven't been watching Fox News.
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Well, it's a running frustration with her. She's been told that I no longer want to receive physical presents of any sort. So every birthday/Christmas/other event she gives me a card and 3-4 books because, "They're just books!"
They get dumped straight into the donation bin unread.
Then she keeps trying to buy me liquor, which I accept because GothBard enjoys scotch.
But the sheer chutzpah to continue to foist crap on a man who has repeatedly said, "PLEASE stop! Do not give me ANYTHING physical! EVER! For any reason!" is just frustrating as all heck...
should she send you audibles instead?
The books being thrown out hurts me, but I am glad they are donated.
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Well, it's a running frustration with her. She's been told that I no longer want to receive physical presents of any sort. So every birthday/Christmas/other event she gives me a card and 3-4 books because, "They're just books!"
They get dumped straight into the donation bin unread.
Then she keeps trying to buy me liquor, which I accept because GothBard enjoys scotch.
But the sheer chutzpah to continue to foist crap on a man who has repeatedly said, "PLEASE stop! Do not give me ANYTHING physical! EVER! For any reason!" is just frustrating as all heck...
should she send you audibles instead?
The books being thrown out hurts me, but I am glad they are donated.
That's where we have the disconnect. I don't want her to send me anything.
If she wants to celebrate special days with me she can call. She can visit. She can buy me dinner. We can go see a movie or a play together.
But she cannot give me any sort of physical object. I am done accumulating crap in my lifetime.
And for her, if it's not a physical gift, it doesn't count.
We are at an impasse.
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Well, it's a running frustration with her. She's been told that I no longer want to receive physical presents of any sort. So every birthday/Christmas/other event she gives me a card and 3-4 books because, "They're just books!"
They get dumped straight into the donation bin unread.
Then she keeps trying to buy me liquor, which I accept because GothBard enjoys scotch.
But the sheer chutzpah to continue to foist crap on a man who has repeatedly said, "PLEASE stop! Do not give me ANYTHING physical! EVER! For any reason!" is just frustrating as all heck...
Now I wonder what the mail rates are for packages from Poland to Cali...
Probably too insane to consider sending you a present.
Maybe instead I should call?
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Actually... The courier-based services are costly, but the regular post office package is suspiciously cheap, less than $20 for 1 kg... Thouh it increases with weight.
Fun fact, our post office groups North America in the same price category as Africa and... Montenegro.