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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

My childhood, in a nutshell.https://t.co/WgjwkfxHVF https://t.co/TUNDY0siGD

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4/22/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I just realized why I was so obsessed with folding paper.https://t.co/OLRH8K8Xfm

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

@vgr I don't have a word for my main approch: putting ideas in a bottle and see what ends up in it downstream? Network echos? Riding waves? https://t.co/YaQYm2O0Sp

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I ended up taking higher grade math classes in middle-school. This meant I had a free period. I spent time obsessed with ripping paper.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I'd got so bored in my classes; could fold a certain paper plane perfectly, w/ my eyes closed. Could predict how it'd fly by paper texture.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I just finished @johnrobison's "Be Different". He described his obsession with bikes the same way I'd describe my love affair with paper.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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If you think you might be autistic but undiagnosed, I recommend his book. It's full of wonderful ways to capitalize on your weirdness.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I ended up being able to make a particular design that most people would throw and it would boomerang back and hit them in the face...

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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But with a soft wind, the right humidity, and right paper, I could make the same plane fly for minutes. Hover in place like a hummingbird.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Used to make kids laugh by banking it just behind the the teacher while they were writing on the whiteboard.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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They'd catch me and tell me to throw it away. I'd land it perfectly in the waste bin.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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God, teaches must have hated me.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I got so sick of carrying my science textbook around and getting in trouble for forgetting it at home, so I read the damn thing. All of it.

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3/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Teacher didn't believe me, so I asked them to quiz me: That's the story of why they let me skip my science class and take fun maths.

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3/7/2017