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LiberalArkie

(18,986 posts)
24. Something I did not figure out until about a year ago, A lot of us can not say NO.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 04:14 PM
Saturday

Someone asks "Can I use your car?" Yea sir

"Can I borrow $500?" Oh. all I have is $450, but here ya go.

The big one... Neighbor asks me to leave my house to him in my will. I told him that I do not have a will as I do not have anything worth anything but my little house and the banks would put a lean on it for credit card debt anyway.
Well you can just let us have it and we will take care of it..
Never thought that my neighbor would charge me rent on something that cost them nothing..

Yea, if he is inclined to be a friendly and giving person, this is a very big deal..

In my 20's a guy at work asked me to co-sign a note for a new 69 Corvette.. Yep, skipped out

I hope kids these days are taught that us on the spectrum are VERY EASY marks. People do not have to work very hard even to con us.

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leucovorin-I have no doubt that some Republicans are making a ton of money off this stuff Walleye Saturday #1
You didn't see them generations ago bc they were warehoused in insane asylums. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #2
Exactly. Timeflyer Saturday #6
Or the family attic Hekate Saturday #29
Or died. RedArkGuy Saturday #38
it wasn't REPORTED as much generations ago Skittles Saturday #3
Yes and just lived out their lives "Hermits" and 'Non-social" or "Anti-social" or "Non-conformists" LiberalArkie Saturday #5
wow, another post worth of its own thread Skittles Saturday #22
Something I did not figure out until about a year ago, A lot of us can not say NO. LiberalArkie Saturday #24
had never thought of that Skittles Saturday #26
You must tell him as most guys do not know or realize it. I wondered most of my life why I could not keep anything LiberalArkie Saturday #30
alas my brother passed in 2021 Skittles Saturday #33
I am so sorry to hear that. LiberalArkie 16 hrs ago #41
Why? Cirsium Saturday #28
For personal reasons............... Lovie777 Saturday #4
same Skittles Saturday #23
What?! yardwork Saturday #7
Apparently he has never heard of science or history. mwmisses4289 Saturday #8
Good Lord. yardwork Saturday #9
It's not in their "world" (that they are willing to admit to) BumRushDaShow Saturday #10
Dr. Malarky Marthe48 Saturday #11
There is definitely a strong genetic component. High-functioning autism runs in our family across 4 generations Martin68 Saturday #12
It's definitely a continuum. yardwork Saturday #16
"I don't believe" PSPS Saturday #13
Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, BootinUp Saturday #14
Quack back at ya. twodogsbarking Saturday #15
The modern-day phenomenon liberalgunwilltravel Saturday #17
I think there is a genetic component NH Ethylene Saturday #18
Autism is not new. ananda Saturday #19
But recognition and diagnosis have changed drastically over the years. eppur_se_muova Saturday #31
I don't exactly consider autism a defect. ananda Saturday #32
Call it a 'condition', then. Whatever you call it, it is something which only slowly came to be recognized. eppur_se_muova Saturday #34
Of course it exists. ananda Saturday #35
This message was self-deleted by its author valleyrogue Saturday #37
What I don't understand is why a high functioning and low functioning autism are both autism womanofthehills Saturday #36
He is shockingly uninformed. Tanuki Saturday #20
I would have been 14. I remember that article vividly. 3catwoman3 Saturday #21
I don't think he knows what he's talking about struggle4progress Saturday #25
Rosemary Kennedy was given a frontal chelsea0011 Saturday #27
We are different. Aussie105 22 hrs ago #39
Sigh lonely bird 16 hrs ago #40
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