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dtgreene: They portray autism as this horrible thing that needs to be cured, when autism is really just a difference that should be celebrated. Also, they focus on the parents of autistic children, and do little to help autistic adults. Further, it seems that most of their budget goes into research to try and "cure" autism.
Of course it should be celebrated when a person can't speak or understand speech or dress or feed themselves or notice pain. Hooray for diversity!

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dtgreene: They portray autism as this horrible thing that needs to be cured, when autism is really just a difference that should be celebrated. Also, they focus on the parents of autistic children, and do little to help autistic adults. Further, it seems that most of their budget goes into research to try and "cure" autism.
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Starmaker: Of course it should be celebrated when a person can't speak or understand speech or dress or feed themselves or notice pain. Hooray for diversity!
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I can see both your points. I have an autistic brother and a real life experience. He is best, most honest person I have ever met, an angel in human form, but he is almost totally isolated from world and living in his own mind. Few things that can get him outside of his bubble are walks in park during sunny day, relaxing on a beach and eating a walnut roll called orahnjača in Croatian. Our late grandmother liked to bake this delicious pastry and it probably brings him childhood memories. Luckily orahnjača is sold in bakeries, it is not same as homemade grandma's but will do and he can eat a lot of it.

Researching to find therapy that will help autistic people to integrate and communicate better in society, especially for severe cases is great cause. Lack of basic communication skills prevents my brother to tell when he is in pain, afraid or has to go to toilet. They can notice pain, be sure of it, just some of them cannot complain about it verbally. Not every case is same, there is whole autistic spectrum, and in some people autistic traits are barely noticeable. In some forms of autism like my brother has you need to read him non-verbally. Sometimes it can be confusing and hard to guess what he wants to say. He is in forties, and I see very often that children get more attention than adult people with autism. Many approaches are necessary to help autistic people and ease their life. So everything that can help is good.
Post edited March 24, 2018 by xalegra
I'm in. I have donated 20 € to this medical fundraising campaign https://www.gofundme.com/qm22792c
Post edited March 26, 2018 by Kaesemeister
I'm in

I'm donating blood on Wednesday and on Saturday we will bring some Easter gifts to a local orphanage
NOT in as I am too evil for this as I have poured a bucketful of water on a cat, tripped an old lady and stabbed a man to death during the last few days.








(Needed to rinse dirt of the already soaked cat. My mum stumbled over my foot when she walked too close to me. I drew my sword through a lot of people in a game: Mount & Blade.)
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Themken: *snip*
For forgot to mention defrauding the government when you didn't report any of your ill gotten gains in M&B. :)
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Themken: NOT in as I am too evil for this as I have poured a bucketful of water on a cat, tripped an old lady and stabbed a man to death during the last few days.

(Needed to rinse dirt of the already soaked cat. My mum stumbled over my foot when she walked too close to me. I drew my sword through a lot of people in a game: Mount & Blade.)
you so need to play Evil Genius. :D
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drmike: For forgot to mention defrauding the government when you didn't report any of your ill gotten gains in M&B. :)
Hushhhhh! The king is too greedy. I need to hide away a good chunk of the loot or I cannot afford the expensive equipment.
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tinyE: you so need to play Evil Genius. :D
Not in my library nor wishlist nor in my plans but Overlord is in my library. Maybe I should try that one now.
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drmike: For forgot to mention defrauding the government when you didn't report any of your ill gotten gains in M&B. :)
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Themken: Hushhhhh! The king is too greedy. I need to hide away a good chunk of the loot or I cannot afford the expensive equipment.
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tinyE: you so need to play Evil Genius. :D
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Themken: Not in my library nor wishlist nor in my plans but Overlord is in my library. Maybe I should try that one now.
Overlord doesn't let you build super secret labs inside of volcanoes and then use lasers to torture and interrogate super spies.
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Themken: Not in my library nor wishlist nor in my plans but Overlord is in my library. Maybe I should try that one now.
Whole Overlord game essence can be explained by one simple motto: "Sometimes it is necessary to do good deeds for the greater evil"! So maybe you should do good deed in real life and have some "sinister" (evil laughter) plan behind it. Perhaps you can donate blood and hope that it spreads your evil essence to some unlucky soul/s. :)
I'm in. I struggled with entering this giveaway. It pretty much requires me to toot my own horn, which isn't something I like to do.

Yesterday, I plowed my neighbours driveway. She was parking at the end of the driveway, and walking the 200 yards to her house. Through 2-3 feet of snow. With two kids.

Today I did a fire safety presentation at the local pre-schoool (I'm a volunteer firefighter). I'm not sure the kids get much in the way of fire safety, but they always really enjoy sitting in the trucks, and hitting the sirens.
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hummer010: Yesterday, I plowed my neighbours driveway.
I'm from a small town about about 600 in Maine where I was a volunteer EMT. We had a lot of retired folks.

Every time it snowed, we would get a slew of chest pain calls. The husband would go out to shovel their driveway and start having pains. We'd show up and have to take them in, usually with the wife standing in the doorway yelling at him reminding that this same thing happened last time.

It got to the point that we had so many of these calls and it was the same folks over and over again, the town just hired a dozen+ of us and we plowed the entire town. Every driveway and parking lot. The town trucks took the streets but quite often, we would do them as we went. The town for some silly legal reason would not plow dirt roads and we had about a dozen miles of them, mostly out to the lakes where the summer folks stayed in their cabins.

Of course then we had to deal with the husbands yelling at us telling us that they didn't need our help and that they could do their own driveways, etc.

We carried carrots for any deer and moose we saw.

Some of the town folks had coffee, cocoa and cookies for us and would come out to greet us One of the restaurants always made us a meal for free although we always gave the money that would have covered the meal to the staff as a tip. (They had to be there during the storm anyway.)

Here in Charlotte? A couple weeks ago I got stopped by a police officer. I have a habit of picking up trash as I walk along the sidewalks. Someone called and complained that I had entered their property and stolen something.

I was thinking about this a few days ago which is why it;s a bit detailed.
Post edited March 27, 2018 by drmike
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hummer010: Yesterday, I plowed my neighbours driveway.
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drmike: I'm from a small town about about 600 in Maine where I was a volunteer EMT. We had a lot of retired folks.

Every time it snowed, we would get a slew of chest pain calls. The husband would go out to shovel their driveway and start having pains. We'd show up and have to take them in, usually with the wife standing in the doorway yelling at him reminding that this same thing happened last time.
You don't know shoveling. :P
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Post edited March 30, 2018 by xalegra