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

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The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University . Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!

1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fart cat
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down and I betcha' you cannot resist passing it on .

Really clever and is it true that people over forty cannot be accurate on the first question?

Quoting Blessed:

Oh

I am always embarrassing myself on here by not understanding things in some areas.

I took it literally, I suppose I would really wouldn't I

I should have kept my old sig: OMG I am such an Aspie!

I'm going to see my cousin "R" tomorrow after my appointment with my shrink. I'll be taking the train and I'll probably spend the night. Her sister "M" is still there at her apartment and she brings R home everyday and cooks for her. R now refers to her eventual passing as "when I do my thing." I hope I can get my sister to go with me. I don't know what will be dredged up in therapy (my mind has been working overtime), and then going to see my cousin afterward, it's going to be a very intense day. I hope I can manage to get through it without a panic attack.

Two pieces of wisdom I'll take with me tomorrow - both from Simone Weil

1. To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
2. I think, therefore I can.

Kaleido said:

Hello and welcome, Pinhead. I know how you feel when you say you feel like an older person in a young body. I was soooo happy to turn 40 this year because I am now "older" and I feel like my age finally fits my body.

@ Cosmiccat: The weather here is still cold enough at night that we can get snow. In the daytime it reaches about 50F and the sun is shining. I got out and raked the side yard and pulled some old weeds so I can prepare my flower beds but we don't get to plant anything until the 3rd week in May.

Hi Kaleido! I'm the resident NT here, good at getting jokes though I am not quick enough to join in when the Cafe becomes playful ... and having a poor memory don't get many of the references.

I took the mental age test literally too. I don't do literal. I am beconing one of you!! !! !

When I was a little kid I can remember how much I looked forward to turning 45.
Twenty years ago my oldest son in the car exclaimed, "Mom, you've got a white hair!" I pulled into the driveway and started looking in the mirror. "Where? Where is it? Oh, look! There it is. And I've got another one beside it! Are there any more? Oh, I can't wait until it all turns white." I looked up to see my son shaking his head in astonishment. "Mom, you're different."

Kaleido's been around longer than I have, CC! I only joined in May 2007!

Good morning/afternoon/evening, as the case may be.