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

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I'm thinkin' maybe I wasn't that balanced in the first place.

Have FUN at your staff meeting!

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I hate phones. When they ring it's almost instant panic attack. I have to use a land line when I do use them. For some reason I get horrible feed back in the things, like in high pitched sounds that others can hear across a small room. They cut out on me too. Some kind of body chemistry thing at work or something, I just don't know. So if they were to ban them I wouldn't care to much. We do have one, I rest easier if The Wife has one with her when in the car alone. She can use the cordless in the house just fine, too.

Lately been having a hard time driving and talking at the same time, which I guess is sorta cell phone related. I don't see red lights very well or stop signs when I'm running my mouth. Which is way to often.

Thanks to all offering sympathy yesterday,it was appriciated but I wasnt doing words well,so thanks.


Sleepydragon.Good to see you and I love your art.Would you care to "donate" the "passing4human" as a magazine title and graphic logo?Or perhaps you could draw us a logo of a set of "scales of justice" with that cute avatar critter on one side and a bird on the other.....(For the magazine that will likely,never happen)Oh,I never give up.Reality has nothing on me,when it comes to obsessions.

Nan....I get nausias just reading your words...."staff meeting".(DangerDanger,Will Robinson)It is the exact same feeling as when my parents would say..."Denise,can you come into the living room.We need to have a family meeting."The very last one of these I recall was when I was 16 and the whole family was there(my older brothers,home from college).The meeting was to discuss how ashamed they ALL were in seeing me get out of a car(coming home from my job at Hardees)that had a "black person" in the backseat by me.Oh my god...what will the neighbors say!! !!!I s**t you not,this was actually the first time I even suspected that my family were racists...they had never mentioned it before and I had led a sheltered life in white suburbia and had no exposure to other cultures prior to this.My highschool of 1500,only had 2 African Americans and they were both adopted into white familys.This was in 1981....not in the south(Duluth MN).Meetings=bad(except for the dounuts)

j'aime les fleurs
ça fait drôle d'écrire en français, un peu
comme je fais une bétise
maintenant le caméléon est tout simplement génial ! !

nonono, no panic, this is not a habit,
we're no spies



goodnight everyone

Spies?? Every child in Canada has to take French in elementary school. I took it through to gr. 12. I can read what you're saying I just don't remember how to write anything.

Goodnight, Lemon!

Must be nice. The kids in California have trouble with the English class they have to take. (Not talking about the immigrants here.)

All this talk of freak flags. I can't show you the actual one we made. Probably couldn't get a picture, it was so smokey in the barracks room we did it in. *snicker* But this was the main part of it, we all added our little art to fill it out. Yeah there really were freak flags.

There is a proper time and place for everything..... Driving a car is not the time to have one hand off the steering wheel
and more than half of your mind off of your driving. Using cell phones while driving has already been banned in other states.It has been almost ten years since I last drove a car. I don't have a land line so I'm not bothered by tele-marketers.

Postie I cant even look at that with out getting a headache...does it help if you "smoke a little" before looking at it?Cause...ouch.

ah-huh...uhuh...... hahuh...grrr...yup
smoke a lot and the mouth will do it too.

(how the f**k do you spell that? never mind I won't remember)

Question for Chuck.....that I thought others might find interesting..

I saw a show on CNN about the increase in products contiaining Soybean oils,which I think???he said was an omega 3 oil?He had an "expert" on,that theorized that this was causing health problems for people because the increase in Omega 3 was putting everyones Omega oils out of balance.He explained this as the extra omega 3 was "plugging up" the omega 6 receptors and causing them to not be absorbed????Is any of this scientific and what do you think would be the result,if it is.He seemed to link it with some mood issues and cogntive function problems.(more true for those who consume a lot of processed foods a they all seem to comtain some soybean oil as do many fried fast foods.

How do you weigh in with this concern.I thought it might have more inpact on people with AS or even ADD,as the omegas are related to more healthful function for us.What would be the best "treatment" to rebalance.....he seemd to suggest you could just take more omega 6 or cut out some of the process foods(It does appear to be in most of them and I like processed foods )





Completely unrelated........I was wondering how other people who do(or think they might)have dyslexia,type.Do you have problems reversing your letters when your typing?This seems to be a problem for me but I'm nt sure if my fingers are getting confused or what is causing this....anyone?If I bother to scan for typos,I do usually catch these,but sometimes miss them..ie..my brai says everything is fine.(I do actually watc y fingers a lot of times hen I'm typing and these actually cuts down on it but if I'm typing blind...it's more of a problem for me.I d type pretty fast...love the way typing feels...anyone else?

Ok...just reread that in it is pathetic.I think I am also having a problem knowing how hard to press on the keys and that is causing all the missing letters...that I know I typed.

Really. I can't look at it either. It is really discomforting visually.

And coming from a cyclist, you know what of you speak. You've got to be very good, very quick, and very alert to ride a bike or a motorcycle on the roads these days, and I couldn't agree with you more about both hands on the wheel and the mind and eyes on the road.

Krexie I don't think I'm dyslexic, but I can offer this:

I love the keyboard. My thoughts go straight from my brain onto the keyboard and into text at an extremely rapid rate. When I'm really on a roll - a lot of caffeine and in my groove - I can do 75-85wmp from a dictation tape, faster when it's coming from my head. I don't typically reverse letters in typing, unless I'm very tired or partially distracted by noise in the room or something like that. I do not watch the keyboard when I type. But I've had a LOT of practice typing - many, many years.

On the flip side, when I try to handwrite things it's an entirely different scenario. I have to labor over each word, and constantly switch letters around. Quite often I'll be writing one word and a letter from a word further down in the sentence I intend to write pops in there. Sometimes I can't get the letters to form correctly (check my handwriting in the thingy I scanned for Postie earlier in this thread - that's my best writing and it took me several tries). Sometimes the pen or pencil literally just flies out of my fingers in the middle of a letter and pops down on to the floor. It's extremely aggravating! I usually go through three or four post-it notes before I have one that's legible enough to put on a document to forward to another desk.

Thank gawds for email and word processors! (I remember school with fountain pens and ruled notebooks, and no erasures allowed. It was absolute hell.)

I thought I was seeing double with PP's freak flag. Had to open my eyes real wide and pull my head back a distance. Neat though. Very neat.

Krex, my husband saw that same show about the soy causing problems cause it's in so much processed foods now. We really don't eat that much processed foods, so it's not really a concern for us personally, but it does seem like one more thing to worry about. Just don't know what to believe anymore.

Nan (the hand) wrote:

It wasn't me, it was "the hand".