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see you later Blessedmom


hi amanda,welcome in the café!
i'm the silent one, who is often reading and posting occasionally.

ok. thanks. but... how do i know YOU are not trying to just gain my trust so you can slip me a duct tape filled muffin?

hi back.
so. if you are lemon, and your picture is yellow... those gaping red wounds look kind of bad. i mean, i am all for lemons and NOT for making lemonade, but strawberry lemonade or strawberry gashes are not so good either.

naw, hon, i'm in charge of the koolaid.
care for a nice frosty glass?

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not everyone can apply lipstick professionally.

like, with koolaid?

yah. exactly.

an aside. if this is happening: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt44671.html

then wp is going to be flooded shortly thereafter, if it gets much press. he's supposed to be cover-boy on some magazine in the near future, too. with spiffy yellow shoes.
server will likely have issues.
and the lurking will be intense.
bummer.

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never done the razorblade lip liner myself, but i am sure it is very... fetching

Hi Amanda I'm sorta new here also, but lurked for WEEKS before I finally jumped in. Back from SSI, (hated going there, some lady kept trying to have a conversation w/ me, tried to look throughly engrossed in my book, but alas, it was to no avail. I finally just moved, ) Have started lifting weights again (can't ride my bike now, winter is upon us) to "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel, good beat, easy to lift to. Also excellent "House-cleaning" music, (tons of percussion of course) but does ANYONE know what the song itself is about? I'm curious as to what it all means. The business people are like lab monkeys? what????Any ideas anyone.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70RNjLsuSk[/youtube]
I used to go out w/ a guy in the Air Force (who I later found out was"Mr. Hot Shi-" in the AF) had certificates for "Red, Green beret, Navy Seal, you name it he had it.)Also had letters of Reccomendation from President Carter for going over and picking up the bodies of the purple kool-aid victims.(Can't spell Guana) you know what I mean, We broke up cause he was emotionally dead but I understood, you'd have to be to do the things he'd done. (He told me how the bodies had bloated after laying in the sun for 2 weeks and the little kids just broke him I think) I always hope hes o.k. and remember him fondly, Was a cop in Reno and had to quit the force cause he refused to "go dirty" I respected his intergity most of all. Maybe I'll try and track him down someday.

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wiki saith:

"Interpretation

Due to its title and the content of the video, the song is frequently assumed to be either an animal rights song or a reference to the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram described in his book Obedience to Authority.[2] It is neither, although another Gabriel song, "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)", from his 1986 album So, does deal directly with Milgram. Gabriel himself has described "Shock the Monkey" as "a love song" that examines how jealousy can release one's baser instincts; the monkey is not a literal monkey, but a metaphor for one's feelings of jealousy.[3]"

A last one:

"Why Women Worry So Much

Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Fri Sep 28, 12:15 PM ET

Scientists have known that on the whole, females of all ages tend to worry more and have more intense worries than males. Women also tend to perceive more risk in situations and grow more anxious than men.

Now we know why.

Women are more likely than men to believe that past experiences accurately forecast the future, according to two new studies.

The research, involving both 3- to 6-year-olds and adults of both genders, tested the extent to which participants' thought that worry can be caused by thinking that a bad event that happened in the past could happen again in the future. (This skill, in its simplest form, is critical to social understanding as it is important to making decisions and assessing risk.)

For the first study, subjects listened to six stories that featured characters harmed by another person or animal in the story. Many days later, the character felt worried or changed their behavior when confronted with the same wrongdoer who had hurt them before. (For example, if one little boy stole a toy from another, the child might be worried when he saw that boy again and hide the new toy he was playing with.)

The second study was the same, except that the person or animal the character ran across later only looked similar to the one that had harmed them before.

At the end of each story, the participants were asked to explain why the character was worried or changed their behavior.

Females, both children and adults, were more likely to use uncertainty to explain the character's reaction, that is, they tended to explain the reaction in terms of events that might happen versus those that will happen, the researcher reported. They also tended, more than males, to predict that the characters who encountered the new character who looked similar to the wrongdoer would feel worried because they thought the new character would also do them harm.

The studies, detailed in the Sept./Oct. issue of the journal Child Development, also found that children increasingly made these kinds of past-to-future connections as they got older, which yields insight into their cognitive development.

"These results are significant because they reveal that knowledge about the impact of past-to-future thinking on emotions and behaviors develops during the preschool years," said study author Kristin Lagattuta of the University of California, Davis. " The article link, with a reference to the actual study, is below.

From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... orrysomuch


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I am SO flipping bored today.
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I don't think you would need to conduct a research project or need a phd to figure that out.
Seems pretty obvious to me that if a monkey bit you on the ass when you were three years old, you would want to keep your distance from future monkeys. And if the monkey happened to be wearing a red shirt and was smoking a cigar, you would be more wary of a red shirted, cigar smoking monkey than and ordinary run of the mill monkey. I don't think it would matter if you were male or female, monkeys would always have a "special" meaning for you after the original incident, If you enjoyed being bitten on the ass, you would seek out the company of monkeys no matter what your gender. Especially red shirted, cigar smoking monkeys. Much like Jung's theory of Anima and Animus.

I just got back from my psychiatrist's office. (5:00pm) I went in for a routine renewal of my ADD Focalin. I was scheduled to see him at 1:00pm, and arrived at 12:30pm. In the half hour before 1:00pm 3 other patients arrived - due to an error, all 4 of us were scheduled for the same 1:00pm slot. Because I am working so many shifts until November, I could not reschedule until after then, so I decided to wait. I let the other 3 people who needed to be somewhere soon go first. I sat and happily massaged the doc's Weimaraner Sasha while I waited for my turn. It was a three hour wait.

After everyone else is gone, he calls me into his office.

I smile and we talk a bit. The doc asks me how things are going and I tell him everything is going well with the Focalin. I tried a trial run of the Daytrana patches for him and reported back that I did not like those - the adhesive made me itch. (I don't like itchy clothes or clothes tags - they irritate me and so did the patches).

The Doc asks me if I am angry. (?) I say no... ? I say, "I just don't want any more Daytrana, the Focalin is working fine, thank you." He tells me he wants to switch me to Vyvance, the new ADD medication. I tell him I don't want to take a stonger medication, the Focalin is doing fine. He tells me that it isn't stronger. (?)

I say, "OK, if you want me to give this a trial run I will. But according to the research I've done on Vyvance, it's really not much different than the Adderall that the Shire company also makes - it merely extends their patent rights another ten years and fights off generic competition. And Adderall is a lot stronger than Focalin."

He puts the ear piece of his glasses in his mouth, leans back in his chair and stares at me. He asks me how things are at work. I tell him that things are the same as the past 23 years - I'm in a job I'm ill suited for, but retirement is on the horizon, and I'm biding my time until then, at which time I'm switching to something I enjoy. (In the meantime, it's dawning on me that Daytrana is also made by Shire).

He stops to write a bit, then says,"I'm not renewing your Focalin until you give Vyvance at least a one month try. I'm sure you will like it much better, and it lasts 12 hours instead of Focalin's 9 hours."

I remind him that I have Asperger's, which he diagnosed this past January, and that the Focalin actually lasts longer in me - 14 to 15 hours. (That's why we tried the Daytrana patch - I could pull it off and stop the medication when I wanted it to stop. (People with Autism often need lower ADD medication dosages. He had been trying to push me to move up to Adderall, but backed off immediately when he diagnosed me with Asperger's).

He writes me a script for Vyvance, writes "Diagnosis: ADD and Dysthmia" (which means depression , or bad mood - neither of which I had) and crosses off the Asperger's diagnosis.

I asked if he no longer thinks I have Asperger's. He said that I certainly had many of the traits of Asperger's, and left it at that. (Apparently I am the first known "cured patient"). Then he told me that he may need to add Tenex or Abilify to my drug regimen next time if I needed help controlling my aggressiveness. (?) I asked him if he thought I was angry, and reminded him that I just have a strange dysphonic voice. He just smiled and said nothing.

I don't know why he thought I was mad!(?) I wasn't even mad about having to wait. I rarely get mad!

Anyhoo, I think it is time for me to find a new psychiatrist, and at least get a second opinion on everything, including my Asperger diagnosis. This session left me wondering what the heck was up, but I was afraid to ask anything more - I didn't want any hidden buttons pushed and people in white jackets arriving. I smiled, thanked him for his time, paid him and left.

What an odd day. (?)

That's downright scary, Chuck. How condescending. You had every right to be pissed, and yet you weren't. And you get that kind of treatment. I'm pissed just hearing about it. Yes, don't go back to that psycho.

There are times when I think the mental health establishment has a vested interest in pushing all kinds of crap on us.
When I was in foster care I was sent to a whole bunch of Freudian hacks who did nothing but take notes and collect
Medic-aid payments. If I had been put in Willowbrook they would have had one less patient to make career out of.

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