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

Post Reply New Topic

oh how fun, a frog bog! wish i had one...

THAT'S funny.

Its cool to see an over 40 thread! Do we get discounts on coffee??

In that I'm such a noob I can't post URLs yet, here is my introduction post from my thread as such:

"Hi...my name is Todd.

After 44 years on this ride we call life I have learned (self-diagnosed) that I have what can best be described as high functioning Asperger's. I came to this realization via what I now know is a common way that many adults do - thru learning about AS (assuming that is the correct abbreviation...this is all very new to me) in that our one son has it. After reading about it, taking multiple self-diagnostic online exams, reviewing my life history behaviors, etc. and the honest opinion of the person who knows me best (my wife) its been quite a ride of "aha" moments....

I have only very recently become comfortable with admitting this, so I am still in the infancy stages of learning more about it, how adults handle & approach this self-admission, what they do to empower their self-healing, etc.

I hope this Forum will allow me to begin my journey into myself, to allow me to finally become the person I have always wanted to be, and also be much better prepared as a father of a AS boy to assist him as he grows.

PS - the screen name is an old college nickname in that my one leg would bounce/thump when I sat "

to the Dino-Aspie Café

The coffee's free - we make the losses up in volume. Beware the evul muffins, though...

Hi Todd Thumper (I thump too.) Don't forget about being a better husband too. I became a better wife when I realized that I really do need to listen to my husband because he can see what I cannot. Darn it. And look, it's not that hard to avoid the evil muffins. Unless Post Paleo is in the cafe throwing them around.

Oh, yeah, definitely watch out for Postie. Especially if he has duck tape with him.

All this talk of muffins (a weakness of mine) reminds me of one of my favorite truisms:

"There is no manly way to order a pumpkin muffin"

Free coffee? Is it the good stuff? I'm pretty easy going but an admitted coffee (and beer) snob.....

What makes an order manly? Do you have to end it with a belch or the emission of other bodily gases? Do you have to shout? Intimidate? What is it about pumpkins that interferes with the manliness? I am deeply concerned about manliness, and I have to order muffins about every day. It comes with the job as drill sergeant. I don't see that I can exclude the pumpkin variety from discipline (it would be fruitist, or are they vegetables, anyway, it is against regulations in this muffin's army), but I don't want to be unmanly. What shall I do?

Delegate the task.

Of course. Will you do it? You raised a kid, a bird and a cat, muffin discipline should be peanuts in comparison.

Sorry, I'm on the "disabled list" at present....

Best I could do was an "official sounding" memo....

That might do. Awaken the fear of paperwork.

I must make a correction. The Sergeant-Major just told me I am a muppet. This is a muppet's army. Muffins are what we throw at the enemy. Pull off the paper cup and throw before a count of three.

The latest intelligence report says the weapon doesn't work quite like we thought. It appears the only reason why the enemy hasn't overrun our position is because they don't want to interrupt the supply of muffins. They have even stopped shooting at us. Works for us. Muffins are cheaper than conventional ordnance anyway. Now we hope that the steady supply of rich food makes them unfit for fighting. Who wants to waddle into battle? We are thinking of drilling a pipe into their trenches and pumping in a steady supply of Irish Coffee with Cornish cream. That should makes their arteries clang shut. We still have to work out a delivery system for bacon rashers. But plum puddings fit quite neatly into large calibre mortars. No problem there.

Has anyone heard from Sinsboldly?