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

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Things I been thinking.....

why doesnt WP have a hub or link to other AS sites like most other AS sites offer?

You might be aspie if....?

You often say the following...."50% of it is______,20% is_____,30% is______"I notice I tend to do this when talking about anything.
"but that isn't even logical"...(followed by the expression of some one who has just been slapped)
"Just because B follows A does not mean that B is "caused" by A"(actually saying A and B),then explain
that the exception with this might be if someone is refering to a particular sequencing pattern in which
B always follows A and there for stating A AND an assumed desire to complete the sequence,A would,
in this particular situation,be the "cause" of B following.(At which point you get a few blank stares and
someone says to someone else......."Did you see Ellen crying on her show?What a whinner"


Also thinking....

should I open an on-line store on Moli called "Thrift Score",showing some of the things I have found and selling them and offering a shopping service where people can list the items they would be interested in buying and a pic. of said object(and who actually says...."said object",is that aspie?)and then I could keep my eyes open when I am "thrifting" and take a pic if I find something similiar and of they like it,I can buy it for them with a small commission....but what if they change their mind,and I would probably spend so much money buying other stuff I dont need,(and no one else would want to buy,because my tastes are rather "odd")..so,maybe not such a good idea.But I have got to find something to do to make money so that I can quit this fricken job that I dread going to and think is causeing my allergies....at least I finally made the DRs appointment,lets hope that when I get there I dont just forget everything I wanted to talk to her about...I should probably write it down,but then it takes so much energy to give it to her because....I dont really know why,but it keeps happening that I mean to say something,like..."hey,did I mention I am an aspie?",but I never do.

So....Do I have ADD?or is this how "normal"minds work?I thought it was very funny(in a sad way)when during the AS DX the DR would ask me things relaited to traits of AS,like I could somehow get out-side myself and judge if my behavior,thoughts,actions were normal...what the hell do I know about "normal",I hardly even talk to people.What would I have to compare my experience with.Do you ask a blind person if they see the same "blue" that a sighted person does?Is that really such a difficult concept for the DXer to understand....seems pretty obvious to me.

Maybe lighten up on the coffee,you think?

Yeah, what she said. There aren't too many countries, if any, that don't have that kind of history to them, in one way or another.
Yours might just be a little fresher on peoples minds is all.

She lies, a lot. Can't be trusted. Never give her the keys to a car if she says she's just going to the corner for bread and milk. She's really trying to escape.

Roadrunners. Yup, they really do run.

Yup, it gets really cold. Especially when the winds come. But in the summer it's an oven. Except at night. I loved the summer nights, as a kid/teen. At night the breeze kicked up and brought in the scents from outside the town. Sage, mesquite, other things. Warm, but not hot. In the summer we never really went out of the house for the evening before 7 or 8pm, just because of the heat. My folks never quite got with the flow (they spent their first 50 years back east). I remember them forbidding me to be leaving the house at 9pm with my friends, saying it was too late to go out, even though I was going to be back by midnight. If I'd gone out at 7pm and stayed out until midnight, that was ok with them. If I'd gone out when it was 115F at 5pm and had a heatstroke and they got called to the hospital I'd have gotten yelled at for having a heatstroke.

That "too late to go out" has never, to this day, made any sense. It must have been some weird, 1930s yankee custom or set of rules they worked off of but that I'd never heard of. Nor had anyone else I knew at that time.

Yep, you can smell the rain coming. Feel it, too. And you can get up in the morning and walk outside at 6am and know if it's going to be a scorcher that day or not, too. Dry heat, wet heat. I told them they could put "but it's DRY heat" on my tombstone when I dropped from heatstroke.

Coyotes. They live on frogs, toads, snakes, small animals, yorkies, poodles, and housecats... Very opportunistic, very adaptable. Leave trash outside, they'll be in it. But they keep the mouse and rat population down, so unless they become unafraid of people they're no problem. We've had a few here that people who lived by the canyons were stupid enough to start leaving food out for, and that were almost hand fed (as much as one can). They get quite bold sometimes, then. Every couple of years animal control has to hunt one down and kill it for coming out and biting a toddler in its yard.... sad.

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Quitting the coffee never worked for me. But doubling up on it gets me through a lot more filing and housework.

Hmmmm, Texicanism coming to mind..... "Postie, ah thank yer lah'in lahk a yaller dawg."

I'll pm Swamps to ask her, shall I?

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Yes, absolutely the tests are hard to do. Everytime I go to the Doc, I feel like I'm doing another test. I needed help to do the on line one, serious as a dead fish. It's like I had and have done the traits so long, I didn't even know I did them or they were out of the ordinary. Then they test you and think that you have all the things going at once, excuse me? I mean at what point in my life are we speaking of? You want the now? OK, how about the drug I'm doing, how the hell do I weed that out of the mix. The criteria has comorbids up the ying yang and then you're raised by humans and get thrust into a society that seems to want to eat their young at times. You know what? Screw it. Until they have some kind of real test, I just don't care. I could wade through this stuff for the rest of my life and never fully figure it out. I think the way I'm approaching it or am trying to, is just treat the bad parts, what ever and from what ever they come from. If I'm not sleeping well, fix it. If I'm into a long depression and it seems be a bother, fix it. Go on for long hours thinking and forget to eat? Not a problem leave it alone. Pace? Not a problem leave it alone. Same music for a week or more? Leave it alone (well I would if I could get the volume high enough). Can't take certian kinds of light? Wear sunglasses. People bother you? Stay a way from them. Rage at the TV news? Not a problem leave it alone. Rage at a person, it's a problem fix it. The list is endless, it seems, for the traits. I guess it's kind of like looking from the outside. I can get seriously lost if I do it from the inside. I'm just into smoothing out the rough spots.

It was refreshing to do the test and see it in black and white and then walk in the door and meet people that I share an awful lot with. Big breath of fresh air. Things fell into place. I just don't really care what the rest of the world thinks about it. It's my life leave me the hell alone. Go run or ruin your own.

Normal mind thinking? I wouldn't know it if I tripped over it. Not a problem, leave it alone.

Lighten up the coffee? No thanks, can't you tell I just did?

Geeze Louise..... Put your shoes on Lucy, don't ya know you're in the city? It's bad enough I have 15 translators sitting next to me and then you bring those Texicanism's in here? I mean, it isn't like I'm fluent in it. All I could say was, "where is the bathroom and do I need a key". Some how they always wanted me to buy a damn key of grass, I never understood that. All I wanted was to go to the bathroom.

You leave SwampBlossom alone, she's busy. She's cutting her way out of the Mad Duck Tape(TM). She wanted to go get milk and cookies at the local store.

Sounds much like York county south of the city, A half hour ride on the Rail-Trail will take me from the inner city to 'cow-country'.
I ride that trail just about every weekend in the summer.

What would a real test be, Prof C? Something physical, you mean, like a bran scan? Or a signed form from our partners? I know mine was the one going "yeah, thats you" when he read some of the descriptions, and sitting alongside me when I was doing the online quiz and filling in the answers for me while I was still debating the nuances of the questions. Left alone, I doubt I would be able to agree with myself for long enough to reach a consensus.

Brilliant description.

I first did the RDOS test just shortly after first being asked "Have you heard of Asperger's Syndrome?" I scored quite high. I tried it again, somewhat later, and scored considerably higher.

The reasons for the change were several.

For various questions, I had changed my answer because I...

1. hadn't understood what the question was.
2. had not read the question correctly.
3. had given the answer I knew was correct.
4. hadn't understood the question.
5. had guessed what I thought the answer should be.
6. hadn't understood the question.
7. hadn't understood the question.

Funny you should mention that. I've been revisiting my collection of 80s techno and industrial grunge, and mirabile dictu, many of those fine tunes are up on YouTube.

Ministry - Every Day is Halloween

Back in the day, I did not own a television set, so it's been fascinating to watch the original artists' videos. And also "homemade" creations like this one.

Hmmm, well, Lau left off a couple on his list............. 8. Which answer would you like...... followed by 9. Hadn't understood the question and I'm in a panic now.

I have kind of an interesting family. See there were two families and they had brothers and sisters in each, they all got married as in no incest (well no one admited any), but it was one big unhappy family after they got done pairing off. That would be on my fathers side, his parents. I not only think my dad was an aspie, but his brother and I would only say their sister, my Aunt is a little strange but not an aspie. She had kids, 2 are aspies or sure do look like it to me, 2 are not. I'm an only child and my other Uncle never had children. That is just one side of the dynamic. Then you have the others with the original meetings of the brothers and sisters. Now I don't know them all that well, but lets' just say the strangeness does seem to be there. But that I can say with any kind of insight they might be on the spectrum, no. But they have an odd way of walking through life. Then I have a distant cousin that is a varified aspie, as in he passed the test in a place were they give you a degree in aspieness. Just exactly where that side of the family comes in, I just don't know. That side of the family confuses the s**t out of me.

I have heard it thought out loud here, that some seem to think there might be a genetic link to this. I tend to think that indeed maybe the case.

As far as I'm concerned a test was just done in the Cafe and it was about taking the test to begin with. I really don't need any other at this point. Just the pleasure of conversing with people on Skype has left me with little doubt about myself. That I could relate so easily, have things in common with a fervor that others just don't give a hoot about. My general wonderings around here and things that I can relate to so much. I just feel the shoe fits. I won't hold my breath waiting for some fail safe test. I'd rather hold my breath hoping The Wife will buy me candy. She gets nervous when I hold it till I'm blue in the face and ready to pass out. NT's are just so easy.

And that is why I don't need an Aspie test! I'd watch and time you to see how long it took and what shade of blue you'd end up and then wait to see how long it took for you to wake up, while writing down my observations. Then maybe I'd give you candy!

I scored high on that test when I was being honest and even higher when I tried to sway it to the NT side. As you said, I've learned everything I need to know by hanging out with the people here. Here fits me.

(Been nursing a nasty infection and the antibiotics and painkillers are messing me up big time. Going back into lurky mode now! Have a good evening!)

Cranberry Juice, Mom. Just keep slurping it down. Hope you feel better soon!

It's that time again... courtesy of the *nix "fortune" system:

• economist, n: Someone who's good with figures, but doesn't have enough personality to become an accountant.
• egotism, n: Doing the Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
• Ehrman's Commentary: 1) Things will get worse before they get better. 2) Who said things would get better?
• electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
• elephant, n.: A mouse built to government specifications.
• enhance, v.: To tamper with an image, usually to its detriment.
• envy, n.: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage, instead of having to try and acquire one.
• Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
• experience, n.: Something you don't get until just after you need it. -- Olivier
• expert, n.: Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides.

Every Horse has an Infinite Number of Legs (proof by intimidation):

Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs. Now to show this for the general case, suppose that somewhere, there is a horse that has a finite number of legs. But that is a horse of another colour, and by the lemma ["All horses are the same colour"], that does not exist.