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27 Jan 2010, 1:15 am

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Messr Moony would like to declare that the OP has the least logical ideas of anyone he has ever seen.

But hopefully washes his hair and never astonished anyone by becomming a professor.



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27 Jan 2010, 1:37 am

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Pandd, you've got to love a forum where the members actually care about spelling. :D

Yes, although it's a conundrum to care about these things when you have dyslexia. I sometimes have to reword whole posts to get around an inability to spell a word if a dictionary is not handy. :oops:


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ is always available.

You can also install dictionaries in firefox and other web browsers. I use a lot of words that are not built in to the browser dictionaries, but you can add them in.


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27 Jan 2010, 2:29 am

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ is always available.

You can also install dictionaries in firefox and other web browsers. I use a lot of words that are not built in to the browser dictionaries, but you can add them in.

I had a spell check add-on (for firefox) on my last computer (Babycakes). It kept underlining things that were not spelled incorrectly and I often found it very difficult to post because I was very upset and distracted by the red underlining. I think one problem is that the spelling seemed to be American and I live in a Commonwealth country.

I do not really like online dictionaries; to me dictionaries are books. Besides which, I find that online dictionaries are mostly American spelling as well.

LOL, I am not always the easiest person to help.... :oops:

But thanks for the link, I will look at the dictionary your link points to. Maybe I'll like it.



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27 Jan 2010, 2:55 am

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Messr Moony would like to declare that the OP has the least logical ideas of anyone he has ever seen.


Why thank you, Messr Moony! :D



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27 Jan 2010, 2:59 am

pandd wrote:
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Messr Moony would like to declare that the OP has the least logical ideas of anyone he has ever seen.

But hopefully washes his hair and never astonished anyone by becomming a professor.


You're right, Pandd. I wash my hair every day (I'm a she, by the way) and am happily employed as a mental health professional. :D



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27 Jan 2010, 3:29 am

pandd wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ is always available.

You can also install dictionaries in firefox and other web browsers. I use a lot of words that are not built in to the browser dictionaries, but you can add them in.

I had a spell check add-on (for firefox) on my last computer (Babycakes). It kept underlining things that were not spelled incorrectly and I often found it very difficult to post because I was very upset and distracted by the red underlining. I think one problem is that the spelling seemed to be American and I live in a Commonwealth country.


I am Canadian and I set my browser spell checker to UK as it is closer to how I spell.


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27 Jan 2010, 4:30 am

FinallyMakingSense wrote:
pandd wrote:
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Messr Moony would like to declare that the OP has the least logical ideas of anyone he has ever seen.

But hopefully washes his hair and never astonished anyone by becomming a professor.


You're right, Pandd. I wash my hair every day (I'm a she, by the way) and am happily employed as a mental health professional. :D

Er, you are not the OP, (OP = either Opening Post or Opening Poster)....sorry for any confusion caused by obscure internet acronyms.



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27 Jan 2010, 11:26 am

I just noticed that this thread is over two years old. The threads on WP have longevity, don't they?

Thanks for the clarification, Pandd!



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27 Jan 2010, 11:58 am

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I just noticed that this thread is over two years old. The threads on WP have longevity, don't they?

Thanks for the clarification, Pandd!


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27 Jan 2010, 12:29 pm

Messr Moony read the rest of the thread, and would like to correct himself by stating that bdhkhsfgk from a few pages back is the least logical poster.


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27 Jan 2010, 5:34 pm

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27 Jan 2010, 5:36 pm

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Mssr Moony read the rest of the thread, and would like to correct himself by stating that bdhkhsfgk from a few pages back is the least logical poster.


Whew! Glad it wasn't me you were referring to. For a moment there, I thought my "F" was showing (my MBTI = INFJ).



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29 Jan 2010, 10:42 pm

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I've been here for less than a week and looking around the forum it seems like many people are self diagnosed. They hear about aspergers and think they have it because they are kind of shy and have a hobby they are obsessed with. They take the online test and tell themselves that all their inabilities in life are from aspergers. Self diagnosed should just be undiagnosed. Aspergers is such a complicated disorder that only a doctor can tell you if you have it or not.


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31 Jan 2010, 5:43 pm

I will probably piss a lot of people off with this, but I COMPLETELY AGREE with the topic starter. Although I diagnosed myself my psychiater thought that I was an aspie 1 year earlier already, he is a specialist in asperger. BUT still he wanted to have a 2nd opinion, although he is a specialist and was completely sure. The 2nd opinion to A YEAR, a year of being tested and then finally they knew 100% sure that I have AS. Someone self-diagnosed shouldn't put 'Diagnosed' on this forum BEFORE they have been diagnosed by a specialist AND had a 2nd opinion.

Asperger is such a hype nowadays, everyone f*cking think they have AS while in reality at most 2 out of 1000 ppl have AS, probably a lot less. AS is a serious condition and if everyone just diagnoses themselves AS won't be taken seriously anymore by the community because everybody has it, Just don't say you have AS until you are 100% sure of it,



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31 Jan 2010, 5:59 pm

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I've been here for less than a week and looking around the forum it seems like many people are self diagnosed. They hear about aspergers and think they have it because they are kind of shy and have a hobby they are obsessed with. They take the online test and tell themselves that all their inabilities in life are from aspergers. Self diagnosed should just be undiagnosed. Aspergers is such a complicated disorder that only a doctor can tell you if you have it or not.


In the end-state of things it does not matter, and even an official diagnoses is not the final authority.

It is what you make OUT of it, undiagnosed, self-diagnosed, diagnosed, or Nuerotypical.... this does not matter. We have come here to learn-and learn is what we shall do.

You are able to point out all of the problems in the world... but this is moot. Instead search for the solutions.

It is not just because I am 'kind of shy'.

It was to my detriment in high school. The few people that did know me thought I was an alien (hilarious now, confusing then). I do not appear in my highschool yearbook anywhere.

I was a ghost then, untouchable and translucent.

A little more corporeal now.



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31 Jan 2010, 7:27 pm

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I will probably piss a lot of people off with this, but I COMPLETELY AGREE with the topic starter. Although I diagnosed myself my psychiater thought that I was an aspie 1 year earlier already, he is a specialist in asperger. BUT still he wanted to have a 2nd opinion, although he is a specialist and was completely sure. The 2nd opinion to A YEAR, a year of being tested and then finally they knew 100% sure that I have AS. Someone self-diagnosed shouldn't put 'Diagnosed' on this forum BEFORE they have been diagnosed by a specialist AND had a 2nd opinion.

Asperger is such a hype nowadays, everyone f*cking think they have AS while in reality at most 2 out of 1000 ppl have AS, probably a lot less. AS is a serious condition and if everyone just diagnoses themselves AS won't be taken seriously anymore by the community because everybody has it, Just don't say you have AS until you are 100% sure of it,


now we are disqualifying people who didn't get a 2nd opinion? LOL>

I was on a political website where people used to go on and on about the public perception this and that and the other and the truth is the 'public' are thinking about a cheeseburger or porn or their underwear crawling up their crack...they don't care, it's just people being a bit particular about their status that worry about it.