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lasati
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24 Feb 2007, 11:51 pm

I'm not really diagnosed with anything. But let me put it this way, and see if it resonates with anyone:

I used to be terrified of ordering fast-food because I didn't know what would happen if I got thrown a curve-ball. I mean, I 'got' the basic transaction. I ordered off the menu. They asked for money. I paid. They said thank you. I moved on. But "how was your day?" I wouldn't have an answer for that. I didn't know the correct response.

Most of the time, I function. I have to. I'm not bad at figuring out the rules. But what I don't have is something instinctual that tells me what the rules are. I have to go learn them. Sometimes it feels like I'm some interloper, walking around. Ordering oranges when really it's a highly offensive thing to do on Tuesdays, and everybody else seems to magically know.



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25 Feb 2007, 12:12 am

lasati wrote:
I'm not really diagnosed with anything. But let me put it this way, and see if it resonates with anyone:

I used to be terrified of ordering fast-food because I didn't know what would happen if I got thrown a curve-ball. I mean, I 'got' the basic transaction. I ordered off the menu. They asked for money. I paid. They said thank you. I moved on. But "how was your day?" I wouldn't have an answer for that. I didn't know the correct response.

Most of the time, I function. I have to. I'm not bad at figuring out the rules. But what I don't have is something instinctual that tells me what the rules are. I have to go learn them. Sometimes it feels like I'm some interloper, walking around. Ordering oranges when really it's a highly offensive thing to do on Tuesdays, and everybody else seems to magically know.


Iknow the feeling, I'm cautious when going out with friends so I don't embarrass them, and I always keep to myself when I go to the movies by myself.

Either way, afterwards I am exhausted and moody.



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25 Feb 2007, 3:31 am

I hear ya, like i know what i'm supposed to say or am expected to say, but i ahve to think about it first, the first things that come to me are never appropriate or unconnected, sometimes i just have no response.



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25 Feb 2007, 5:57 am

Welcome to WP!

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25 Feb 2007, 11:59 am

Welcome,

You can go out? Order fast food? Please take us with you. You are one of those high functioning types I have heard of, but not much of that around here.



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25 Feb 2007, 5:28 pm

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You can go out? Order fast food? Please take us with you. You are one of those high functioning types I have heard of, but not much of that around here.


Sometimes I wonder how I function at all, but I guess i's all relative. Like anything, it's how much effort I want to put into it.

In a lot of respects I'm lucky because I'm one of those "math & science" types. Society puts up with atypical behavior a lot more if someone has skills that society deems useful.



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26 Feb 2007, 11:54 am

So true, all of that important stuff vanishes when their computer stops working. My usual troubleshooting starts with a laying on of hands, I have a chicken bone with feathers tied on with hair, and some Star Trek props, made of a laser pointer. I chant files be gone, defragment, defragment, while waving the chicken bone.

I run through the setup, recite the major demonia, shut down while chanting , Die! Die!, and when all is blackness, one more wave of the bone and Arise! Reborn!

For this I get $75 an hour.



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26 Feb 2007, 1:47 pm

Hi!

Welcome!

I hope you enjoy posting!


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