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

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Still out of work......

Just popped in to bring some cream cheese for the bagels. Missed you guys. Hope you find work...if not, maybe you could become an artist, it is more fun.

more like a kippered herring pond

Hope,
I got an appointment with a forensic psychologist and asked for a complete psychiatric evaluation. I went in twice for battery after battery of tests (one with 800 questions) and the same Aspie test that was on Wired Magazine. I got my eval and yup, was I ever Aspie along with a lot of other baggage from trying to cope with it all my life.

being 'observed' only got me a "Borderline Personality disorder" moniker which means in Psych ese "this is one smart cookie and your regular smoke and mirrors won't work with this one". Try to avoid that, if at all possible.

But get an assessment. By the way, I said that the test would have been so easy to fake and why there were so many of the same questions asked in different ways on the test with 800 questions, I mean, wouldn't people just remember what they answered last time and just put down the same answer again?
The doc looked at me for a long time and said "people don't remember how they answered before" and I just sorta scoffed at it to myself. I did some research on the test and found that most people really don't remember what they answered before when it was asked in a different way.
sheesh, they must not have had to memorize how to do things all their lives, but just operated on instinct or something.

Merle

hanging out with Occupy Wall Street crowd at the Capitol Building in Oregon, lately

Um, no, Borderline Personality Disorder does not mean a smart cookie, it means a thoroughly nasty person who delights in inflicting pain but maybe not a psychopath. After reading a book about it, I realized that my former DIL fit the profile perfectly. She seemed to delight in finding ways to hurt me and my son.

Thanks for all the imput! I am working on trying to get my daughters services straightened out at school before I go on to my own dx. Also I have to find someone to do it. One question on the last post though. What is a DIL?

I am new here, and would love to join in the convo, but after reading a few pages I feel a bit at sea here. Any suggestions or tips on how to navigate this thread? I just turned 40 (aaaahhhhhh!! !! !) and would love to connect with some like-minded people. I have a son currently engaged in early 'intervention' therapy, and have self-diagnosed (a few months of thinking maybe I could be on the spectrum....to realizing that I really must be on the spectrum just in the last week or two). So....please let me know what I should do to get a refresher course on this thread....members, posts, etc.

TIA <3

Hi Miraxes: What? You don't want to start on post one? This is a cafe and people drift in and out start new conversations all the time.
Hope8 sorry about the acronym. DIL means daughter-in-law. She was a verbally abusive person. Maybe she is better now. I hope as the years pass that I become a better person.

Sinsboldly, I admire you so much. I'm still hoping we can meet in real life sometime.

Hi! I am new and I just jumped in and started writing. =) I finally have some peeps like me to talk to...

Thanks for the DIL info... I'm a little slow sometimes lol

moi? jesting surely! if you could see the disaster area I call my laundry these days! . . .

But I would love to meet you, too, Lelia

Merle

BUMP

I am working on my "Halloween Costume" put in quotation marks because one of the supervisors at work is offended by a celebration of a religious nature in the office - since we don't or can't have Christmas parties - so we are having a costume celebration and contest with the 'theme' they had chosen for our busy fourth quarter season.
Now, had I been invited to a young person's party with this 'theme' I would have been a good sport and attended the party in a nicely turned out costume and enter in to the spirit of the celebration. However, I would have left after an hour or so and gone home, take off my makeup and costume and after a bubbly shower watch a little Stewart and Colbert and hit the hay.

However, this 'theme' is going on for not one evening's diversion but for week after week of October and the whole month of November and into December! Every day walking into the 'theme' with our different teams divided up into different colors of STRIPES. Red and white, Green and white, Blue and White and Black and White. My team is the Black and White Stripes.

I am not amused !

(edited a long rant here about how put upon I am and how I am reacting to being back to work after breaking my arm, the oxycontin they supplied me with then gave me the business for wanting more. The realization I am going to soon get my fondest wish (shuffling off this mortal coil) much sooner than later if I keep eating lovely cheeses and red meat. . . sigh)

I had a conversation with my supervisor at work about what Lady Gaga wore when meeting with Barbara Walters and the ladies of the View.

Lady Gaga going to The View

This supervisor was my biggest competition last year when I won the actual Halloween Costume contest at work as Wednesday Addams. I even had the 'official' Wednesday Wig, a black straight dress and puritan while cuffs and collar. I am sorry to say the best pics were on my cell phone I lost somewhere last year. ( I still have the necklace I made of wire strung Barbie heads I wore with such relish because it was just sooooo creepy it was more than just being camp about it !)

So this year, in homage of Lady Gaga in Houndstooth, and because it is always good politics to join in the social - ness that is so damned important to NTs and because I can use the clever witticism that the theme of the season has driven me 'GAGA', I am entering into the spirit of costume competition by going over board on the black and white stripes motif.

So far, it is going awesomely! no, that's not snark, that is an actual assessment of the situation. I need to get back to working on my hat for the piece.

Merle

Hope it is o.k. I stopped by. I know my communication can be a fail at times. Just wanted to say I am impressed sinsboldly: sounds like a lot of fun to make, and I bet you win.
Your mention of barbie heads brought back a fond memory of a morning spent in the mountains with a niece and nephew and my two kids. The five of us came upon a cupboard in the old house with my sister's very old barbie collection. Seeing as they'd been abandoned we had a blast devising various ways to kill them.

dear mntn13 and everyone else on this thread,

This is what separates us from the NTs in a nutshell. We rarely change and are amazed and confounded when we check back in with people we haven't seen or heard from in years. They have had all sorts of changes in their lives - kids, deaths, marriages- but they are stuck forever as we knew them in the sticky amber of our memories and have crystallized into static images.

My communication is a fail most of the time. too.

Merle

Alas not much of it gets better with age......

richie
that's funny, except it's not, except it is if I look at it the right way.
wow I am really hyper today.
Anybody see the auroras last night? I missed them.