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van Gogh

I also find Monet's life story fascinating (OCD).

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Efficiency: yes, but I often find I have a different notion of what constitutes efficiency it comes up
Precision: let’s just say I edge lawns on my hands and knees with scissors.
Vagueness: Accursed are they who lack clarity!
(clears throat)
Yes: I usually end up being the quiet patient one with it though.

Yes: I had a phase of them, I also owned a pipe at one point.
I quite liked hiding in my cloud of blue smoke. (Sighs)

Painter? Hmmm...
I’m not really sure.
I find likeable things in every painter I can think of without a sense of favourite, with the exception of Lucian Freud.
His work repulses me: something about his use of colour, makes me feel cheap and used when I look at it.

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Van Gogh's personal story and personality always moved me deeply, as well as his art (just went back to his museum in Amsterdam last year), always a joy.

Probably Bosch.

Do you enjoy Natural Science museums?

Had to look him up - from what I see on Google, I find his manner rather distressing/disturbing and not in a good way.

Are you familiar with William Blake's works?

^I had a big Bosch phase, and a big Van Gogh phase, I went through various phases when I was trying to emulate “hero” painters before I discovered the joys of geometrically laying out abstract patterns & motifs with architects drawing tools

I’ve enjoyed the few I’ve been too: I tend to beeline for the art in a museum-finding situation though.

Blake: brilliant poet, but I find very few of his engravings likeable. I get this odd sensation looking at the way he portrays flesh that I don’t enjoy but can’t name.

Which are your top picks of the museums you’ve been too?

A three-year-old will draw anything better than I but I'm very good at technical drawing.

Uh, that's an unfair question as it depends on so many factors (what you're interested in or your state of mind at the time). I remember walking into the Prado straight into the Velasques room: it took my breath away and I stood there mesmerised for God knows how long and then just walked out: I couldn't' take in anything else for a while. Berlin and Amsterdam are probably my favourite cities for a "bit of everything"

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I had the same thing with the Turner room at the Tate: I’d never liked his work in print, but being surrounded by the real paintings was mind-blowing, in a good way.
Well, I enjoyed it at the time, the rest of the day was a blur of nonsense I shambled quietly through.

Think the one I’ve enjoyed the most recently is the Horniman Museum: lots of musical instruments and biological specimens
There’s an interesting museum in the house Columbus stayed in in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: the huge cellar full of South American items is the best bit.

It is a bit of an unfair question isn’t it?

How about least favourite museum?

LOL I really couldn't say, I'm evil like that and only go to places I know I will like

Do you have any co-morbids? Other diagnoses? Tendencies towards or traits of one thing or another?

Hmmm.....
I’m currently restarting diagnostic process (I was referred eight years ago, but moved house very soon thereafter and didn’t think to tell the GPs: so never got the letter for first appointment with specialist ).
Don’t think I have any co-morbidities.
I did have a tendency for paranoid lines of thinking from mid teens through to late twenties, but that’s vanished so I put it down to puberty and it’s after effects.
Did also worry I might be a sociopath on and off for a while... although that might have been a dim awareness that I taken Nietzsche too much to heart.

How about you?

ASD report, April 2018:

-Autism Spectrum Disorder, Level 2 (Moderate severity / Significant support needed)
-Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) Also diagnosed in 2009
-Major Depressive Disorder MDD >99th percentile
-General Anxiety Disorder GAD >99th percentile
-Agoraphobia
-Alexithymia
-Selective Mutism Also diagnosed 2009

ADHD report, March 2020:
- ADHD combined type, but primarily Inattentive

CVA Cerebrovascular Accident, 2015:
- Cerebellar stroke from a blood clot

I'm just a bag of laughs.

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Any mental anomalies during teenage years don't count, particularly the Nietzsche-induced type

I was officially diagnosed at one point with CPTSD, dysthymia and insomnia; that was based on the very limited information they managed to squeeze out of me . I have some OCD tendencies I guess but mostly in a beneficial way.

Was was the thing(s) that as a person on the spectrum helped you the most in dealing with people and/or the world?

I'm willing to go to the Argument Clinic with you over this one

Oh I forgot sleep!

Sleep Disorders, 2015:
- Parasomnias (acting out nightmares)
- Insomnia
- Sleep Apnea
- Hypnopompia and Hypnagogia
- Abnormal sleep patterns (no restorative Delta Wave sleep)

EEG Tests, 2015:
- Abnormal slow waves in my temporal lobes (??)

Raleigh helped me the most at everything to do with people and the world.

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Not an easy question lol: dealing with people, I guess learning body-language (as a foreign language), it really made a huge difference for me.

With the world... maybe building a small world inside the huge one while still managing to stay in contact with it, if that makes sense?

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I don't know any autistic people in real life except for a few family members. I haven't learned from anyone directly for that reason. The main things I've learned online were general understandings of autism and ableism.

Do you have anything polka dotted?

Yeah, I've only known two diagnosed adults in my life.

No polka dots

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