12 Oct 2022, 3:35 am
12 Oct 2022, 8:41 am
Double Retired
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12 Oct 2022, 9:35 am
Welcome to WP! I hope you like it here.
And, regarding this:
Unless you need the diagnosis to formally seek special accommodations somewhere it has limited practical utility. The most useful thing I've tried to get with it has to do with my erratic memory. As I've gotten older I get to see doctors more often and due to that erratic memory I'd ask them to put anything nontrivial in writing. They seldom did. Now that I have the diagnosis I mention it to the medical folk when I ask for stuff in writing. I think it strengthens my case. Unfortunately, I still seldom get anything useful in writing.
I have found the diagnosis has a few uses:
/\/- Something to work into conversations (optional)
/\/- Wrong Planet!
/\/- When my bride bumps into one of my Autism traits I get to say: "I have a doctor's note for that!"
By the way, I enjoy that last one a lot more than she does.
12 Oct 2022, 12:50 pm
12 Oct 2022, 12:53 pm
And, regarding this:
Unless you need the diagnosis to formally seek special accommodations somewhere it has limited practical utility. The most useful thing I've tried to get with it has to do with my erratic memory. As I've gotten older I get to see doctors more often and due to that erratic memory I'd ask them to put anything nontrivial in writing. They seldom did. Now that I have the diagnosis I mention it to the medical folk when I ask for stuff in writing. I think it strengthens my case. Unfortunately, I still seldom get anything useful in writing.
I have found the diagnosis has a few uses:
/\/- Something to work into conversations (optional)
/\/- Wrong Planet!
/\/- When my bride bumps into one of my Autism traits I get to say: "I have a doctor's note for that!"
By the way, I enjoy that last one a lot more than she does.
Thank you for that insight. My specialist made sure I new this as well. I think one of the more useful things it all the information in the 50 page report plus recommendations she has made. She is also going to work with me on a couple of things.
She said out of probably 1000 males she has ever assessed, I scored higher on the masking portion than any of them and higher than most woman too. She wants me to work on that so I dont continually burn myself out. Also, my romantic relationships all seem to have a similar expiration date for similar reasons.
Basically, it gives me some things to work on and now I know a bit more on how my brain works. I also know that I am not just a broken person and there is a reason I am the way I am. On the flip side, I now know with 100% certainty that I am stuck living in a world that wasnt made for me. So, I have to figure out how to thrive anyway.
12 Oct 2022, 1:08 pm
12 Oct 2022, 5:05 pm
12 Oct 2022, 6:29 pm
Hello and welcome to Wrong Planet from North of the River 
. Glad to hear your masking skills are high enough to be able to Run a Auto Glass shop . You have a interesting Animal collection. My friend also has a rather large bearded dragon, that she has raised from tiny beardlet……Hope you find your visits here to be of good benefit to you . 
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Also have a personal interest in Criminal justice accountability of the legal authorities acting irresponsibly.
12 Oct 2022, 10:57 pm
. Glad to hear your masking skills are high enough to be able to Run a Auto Glass shop . You have a interesting Animal collection. My friend also has a rather large bearded dragon, that she has raised from tiny beardlet……Hope you find your visits here to be of good benefit to you . .Also have a personal interest in Criminal justice accountability of the legal authorities acting irresponsibly.
Are you a fellow Kansas Citian? I only ask because North of the River is a phrase we use for the section of KC I live in.
I also have a tiny beardlet. My nephew got her as a baby and then decided it was too much so I have her now. Her name is Miko.
The book I am reading right now is horrifying. In one area of Florida, public defenders get bonus' for getting their clients to plea guilty and they usually have 250 cases to handle a month. One other court in South Carolina has so many cases that they usually only spend 1 to 2 minutes on each one and press the accussed to make quick decisions which will alter their life including jail time. It is a horrible system.
12 Oct 2022, 11:24 pm
Lolzz , yes am aware of my writing North of the River saying … and yes that’s where I am from .
My friend raises Dubios cockroaches to feed her dragon. She is very protective of her dragon.
Named Miliour . She is a Halloweenie fiend , As I used to be …….. 
Yes it is atrocious how many many Public Prosecutors behave. It would be appropriate for them to spend time in jail, for making consistently poor judgement in the interest of so called expediency 
. Basically Railroading people into jail.
Or Anything at all they can do to cause innocent people to have a criminal record thereby ruining the rest of their functional lives in society , Even in the world. 
People with records are not usually allowed to emigrate. As far as other countries are concerned . Have seen this type of activity in Several States court systems . Here in the US. 
13 Oct 2022, 12:12 pm
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13 Oct 2022, 3:37 pm
Welcome to Wrong Planet!
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14 Oct 2022, 12:41 am
Willkomen 
14 Oct 2022, 6:20 am
welcome, glad you are with us. I have kin in Kansas 
14 Oct 2022, 10:51 am
Do you still live here? I grew up in Gladstone and went to Oak Park. I live in NKC now.
This isnt the oddest place I have ran into another Kansas Citian. When my ex-wife were on our Honeymoon in Key West, we walked into a bar where the tables were full. A couple invited us to sit. Once we got talking, we realized they were also from Kansas City, also on their honeymoon and all 4 of us worked in the same building downtown!
He..he..he…. In Key West ,, great coincidences .happen .
Yes still in the Gladstone area .
Nice to yet run into another Kansas City Person . Even here .. :…Hope you enjoy all your visits to WP
Glad you found WP …..
14 Oct 2022, 1:34 pm
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