The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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How do you associate a gender with nouns as you learn them? I've tried associating masculine or feminine attributes to items or thinking of them as being pink or blue but neither of these ways seems very successful. Can it be done from sound - e.g. remembering Le x or La x?

Thanks for the link postie. I find having my white-noise(train setting)on at night helps me with the ringing. The $5.000 MP3 plyer that plays elivator muzac.....?I think I prefer the ringing, or my own music on my MP3.

As with most links this one got me lost in ....what else is on this site of use.



PLEA FOR HELP....... So I decided to look for info about post nasal drip which I belief is the root cause of my cough drop addiction(the root canals and caps are eating all my savings and I have put on 30lbs in the past 2 years of addiction....and all because I can not stand the taste of my own "throat" due to the "drip".

Here's how it works....(I know you are all rivited)...Mucus runs down my throat and gets stuck there,it makes me feel like I am gagging/choking and can't get a a full breath...it creates a mucus "trampolin" that covers my throat every time I swallow..can you visualize that?...My throat hurts all the time but because I smoke....it's my fault and the DRs just tell me to quit...OK.So, this mucus holds the smoke,coffee and anything I eat in it and every time I exhale...I taste it(so it seems like I am tasting my own throat...make any sense?)

I have tried gums,mouth wash and they only work for a brief tie masking the taste but don't get rid of the mucus. So, I tuck a couple of cough drops in my mouth at all times and it slowly trickles down my throat....as long as I have one in...it seems to flush the mucus down my throat(a little)so I an breath and the eucyliptus masks the taste because it is very strong and also numbs the throat pain.It's the most effective thing I have found to meet all the problems but...comes with it's own set f problems(weight,money,teeth).

SO,I bought several pounds(still with me)of this "fake suger" called Xylitol. All the other fake sugers give me very bad gas and diaria(TMI is my middle name)The label on the Xylitol says it can do the same thing but I'm going to try it and see.Even if I could cut the suger in half,it would help some and the interesting thing about Xylitol is that it is supposed to help fight tooth decay but nutralizing the bacteria created by suger...not sure if all the science is in on this but the Dentist recommended it and it is in my mouth wash.There is a company that sells Xylitol mints and gum but they are very expenssive and the mints are to small to create the "goo run down" to flush out the mucus...(it would take a handful at a time..they are like tic-tac size.

soooo....I have been trynig to find a recipe to make my wn cough drops using this stuff and "some" eucylitus oil because that is the ingredient in the cough drops that seems to cut the mucus and dull the pain....but it is toxic in high doses(it's also reported to lower blod suger and I am wondering how this effects me now as I eat about 80 of these a days..but with real suger.hummmm?


Soooo. If anyone has made it this far...what I need is a link to a web-site of a chemist/health professional/candy maker that might be able to hep me design these. If they wanted to "patent" them I would ask for non of the profit...just a life time supply of a prduct that doesn't currently exist but I think others might like???Cough drops that don't cause diaria,are good for your teeth.

Any thoughts?

Ahh, damn does this mean I can't start a flame war? I mean we went zipping by the offensive remarks so fast. Hardly more than a page to it. And it was handled so politely, I damn near threw up. Life in the Cafe, what ya gonna do?

So'k, it's all written out and saved. They almost always show themselves again.

The good side is, I had to use a dictionary for a phrase and not just any ordinary dictionary but a dialect dictionary. I'm just so proud of myself. I was pretty sure I knew what it meant, but I had no idea it was from where it was. Live and learn. It turned out to be way more offensive than I could have ever hoped for. Maybe there is a god.

Ouinon - We've been living in France for nearly three years now. Typical English buying a wreck of a house and slowly doing it up while trying to earn a living and pick up the language.

I love the slower pace of life here in France - except for the shops shutting for two hours every lunch time - that is really annoying. It is like a time warp going back to the past. People are much friendlier here and more courteous (generally) than in England. In England everyone is rushing around madly except when they get in their cars then it is a stop start race through congested traffic, road rage etc.

We watch French TV (via TNT) which helps with hearing the language somewhat. Lots of Brits don't make the effort though and just get UK Sky and watch English television and make no effort to integrate or learn the language. I think it is important to try to integrate. I'm sure that if an Aspie can integrate then NT's could!

Talk to you again... We're off to bed now, it's late.

I love Musac. Yeah, well 5 grand is more than steep. Someone will bust the patent on it, backwards engineer it and pretty soon it will be affordable. I have no idea what mine is from, guns, rock music, machine noise, all of the above? Maybe teachers yelling for me to pay attention in class? But my hearing loose isn't enough to warrant hearing aides. My wife would probably disagree. I have more trouble with doing my Aspie zoning into my thoughts than anything the noise blocks out.

Post nasal drip. Yeah I have some thoughts. I think it's the only reason I'm alive today and not dead from alcohol poisoning. It almost always gagged me at some point before I reached toxic levels. Which was as often as I could afford it. And I lived only to afford it. Interesting way to survive is it not? It's still a pain in the butt and I sure don't look at it as a life saver (ooo good one, well I liked it). I ignore it, just like the ringing in my ears. Well, I was ignoring it till now.

Postie...I am lost. What are you talking about...the comments about how we are NT chit chatters?

Onion...Thanks for no help. Your logic is flawed. The problem did not start with cough drops, cough drops were a rememdy to a problem I have had since I was a kid. Yes, smoking has made it worse and no, I can't seem to quit though I have tried multiple times every method I know about. I don't consume dairy and haven't since I was 16 and had no one around make me drink milk, because it agrivates my IBS.

I don't know what is causing the post nasal drip but I have had it all myl ife so I am assuming I am alergic to life. I have investigated alergy information(after having a particularly bad reaction to some medication that was supposed to help me quit smoking) and found that most of the tests are considered inconclussive or would require me to eliminate so many triggers I would have to live in a bubble, or worse, get rid of my cats.


Quit finger wagging at me <---and that does't help.