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Re: How to tell that you're talking to an Aspie...
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2017, 07:24:29 AM »
Watch the person light up like a Christmas tree as they launch into a monologue about some weird topic
they truly love.  My father was not the cheeriest person, but he beamed when discussing science.  :2thumbsup:
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Re: How to tell that you're talking to an Aspie...
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2017, 08:23:33 AM »
Light up like a christmass tree? was he an organometallic chem specialist? :P
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« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2017, 08:30:32 AM »
Light up like a christmass tree? was he an organometallic chem specialist? :P

  No, a physics professor.  He just loved to talk about certain subjects.  :)
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Re: How to tell that you're talking to an Aspie...
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2017, 08:31:38 AM »
It was a bit of a sarcastic joke. (plenty  of the organometallic reagents have a notorious nature for being pyrophoric and needing handling under high vacuum or else up they go)
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Re: How to tell that you're talking to an Aspie...
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2017, 06:04:17 PM »
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